22 Facts About UMass Boston

University of Massachusetts Boston is a public research university in Boston, Massachusetts.

UMass Boston is the third most diverse university in the United States.

On June 16,1964, with a $200,000 appropriation, the legislation establishing the University of Massachusetts UMass Boston was passed by the 163rd Massachusetts General Court and was signed into law two days later by Massachusetts Governor Endicott Peabody.

UMass Boston reportedly had the largest population of Vietnam War veterans than any university in the United States, and the largest population of African American students of all universities in Massachusetts.

The proposal was deeply unpopular among the faculty and students; 1,500 of them subsequently organized a rally in November 1967 on UMass Boston Common demanding a downtown location in Copley Square.

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The construction had multiple delays: the UMass Boston Edison Company had not finished its electrical work, and because the site was a former landfill, a concrete and brick substructure undergirded by hundreds of driven piles needed to be constructed before the buildings, but pile driving released methane from the former landfill, requiring construction workers to halt production while each release of methane dispersed.

Many of Boston State College's undergraduate academic departments and programs that had equivalents at UMass Boston were disbanded, and as fewer of the Boston State faculty had PhDs than the UMass Boston faculty did, the Board of Regents decided to terminate the employment of 98 full-time faculty members, 275 part-time teachers, and 15 of the 35 administrators at Boston State College.

UMass Boston's tenure was initially marred by an economic downturn in Massachusetts.

UMass Boston was succeeded in the interim in 2000 by David MacKenzie, and permanently in May 2001 by Jo Ann M Gora, the provost of Old Dominion University.

Two days later, an article in The UMass Boston Globe summarized the deterioration of the facility:.

University of Massachusetts at UMass Boston has closed an underground parking garage that has been decaying for decades.

In 2014, UMass Boston celebrated its fiftieth anniversary, and in 2015, the University of Massachusetts Press published the school's first history about its founding and growth, entitled UMass Boston at 50.

The building cost $182 million to construct, was designed by the UMass Boston-based architectural firm Goody Clancy, and was constructed by Walsh Brothers.

The building cost $130 million to construct, was designed by the UMass Boston-based Wilson Architects, and was constructed by the Gilbane Building Company.

In January 2018, the UMass Boston Building Authority put the university's Bayside Expo Center property up for sale.

UMass Boston's Early Learning Center that is accredited by the National Association for the Education of Young Children is located at 2 Harbor Point Boulevard in the Harbor Point Apartments complex adjacent to the campus.

UMass Boston is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education.

UMass Boston is a member of the Council of Graduate Schools and the Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools.

UMass Boston is part of the Greater Boston Urban Education Collaborative.

UMass Boston, known by their nickname: the Beacons, has teams competing in the ECAC, the Little East Conference, and ECAC East Ice Hockey.

UMass Boston's undergraduates are represented by the Undergraduate Student Government, which consists of the Undergraduate Student Senate, the executive office of the USG President, and the office of the USG Chief Justice.

Full-time Umass Boston students are offered free sailing lessons and boat rentals, paddleboards, kayaks and harbor cruises.