University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

Not to be confused with Dartmouth College.
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Type Public
Established 1895
Endowment $49 million (2015)[1]
Chancellor Peyton R. Helm (interim)[2][3]
President Marty Meehan
Academic staff
 520
Undergraduates 7,749
Postgraduates 1,683
Location Dartmouth, MA, U.S.
41°37′48″N 71°00′07″W / 41.630°N 71.002°W / 41.630; -71.002Coordinates: 41°37′48″N 71°00′07″W / 41.630°N 71.002°W / 41.630; -71.002[4]
Campus 710 acres (2.9 km2) Suburban with unique modern architectural design
Athletics Official site
Colors Blue and Gold          
Nickname Corsairs
Mascot Arnie the Corsair
Website www.umassd.edu
The UMass Dartmouth campus

The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (UMass Dartmouth, UMassD, or "UMD") is one of five campuses and operating subdivisions of the University of Massachusetts (UMass).[5] It is located in North Dartmouth, Massachusetts, United States, in the center of the South Coast region, between the cities of New Bedford to the east and Fall River to the west. It became a UMass campus in 1991 when Southeastern Massachusetts University was merged into the University of Massachusetts system.[6]

In 2011, UMass Dartmouth became the first university in the world to have a sustainability report that met the top level of the world's most comprehensive, credible, and widely-used standard (the GRI's G3.1 standard). In 2013, UMass Dartmouth became the first university in the world whose annual sustainability report achieved an A+ application level according to the GRI G3.1 standard (by having the sources of data used in its annual sustainability report verified by an independent third party).[7]

The campus has an overall student body of 9,155 students, including undergraduate, graduate students, and continuing education students. In Spring 2008, there were approximately 4,173 students living on campus. Approximately 61 undergraduate programs of study and 32 graduate programs are offered. There are more than 300 full-time faculty.

The school also hosts the University of Massachusetts School of Law, as the trustees of the state's university system voted during 2004 to purchase the nearby Southern New England School of Law, a private institution that is accredited regionally but not by the American Bar Association. This proposal was rejected at the time and lay dormant for several years, but was revived in October 2009 with an offer by SNESL to donate its campus and resources, valued at over $20 million, to the university. The proposal was approved unanimously by the state Board of Higher Education on February 2, 2010. UMass School of Law at Dartmouth opened its doors in September 2010, accepting all current SNESL students with a C or better average as transfer students, and achieved (provisional) ABA accreditation in June 2012.[8]

Rankings and recognition

University rankings
National
Forbes[9] N/A
U.S. News & World Report[10] N/A
Global
Times[11] 141
Regional
U.S. News & World Report[12] 83[13]
Master's University class
Washington Monthly[14] 24[15]

Source: [16]

History

The Dartmouth campus of the University of Massachusetts traces its roots to 1895, when the Massachusetts legislature chartered the New Bedford Textile School in New Bedford and the Bradford Durfee Textile School in Fall River. The New Bedford Textile School was renamed the New Bedford Institute of Textiles and Technology and the Bradford Durfee Textile School was renamed the Bradford Durfee College of Technology.

In 1962, the two schools were combined to create the Southeastern Massachusetts Technological Institute, expanding to become Southeastern Massachusetts University by 1969. In 1964, ground was broken on a unified campus not far from the Smith Mills section of Dartmouth, between the two cities. Group I was completed in 1966, with Group II in 1969 and the other original buildings being finished by 1971. The main campus has been expanded several times, including the Cedar Dell residences (begun 1987), the Dion Science & Engineering Building in 1989, the Charlton College of Business in 2004, the new apartment-style residence halls in 2005, and the Research Building in 2007.

SMU was merged into the UMass system and adopted its present name in 1991. In the past two decades, the university has expanded back into its original cities as well, with the Advanced Textiles & Manufacturing Center (2001, at the former Kerr Mill site in Fall River) and Professional and Continuing Education Center (2002, in the former Cherry & Webb building in Fall River), and the School for Marine Science and Technology (1996, adjacent to Fort Rodman in New Bedford), the Star Store visual arts building in New Bedford (2001) and a second Center for Professional and Continuing Education (2002, one block north on Purchase Street) in New Bedford.

Campuses

A map of UMass Dartmouth's campus

Main campus

It is located about 60 miles (97 km) south of Downtown Boston

Satellite campuses and initiatives

North Dartmouth

New Bedford

Fall River

Charlton College of Business and MBA program

The Charlton College of Business at University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth offers seven undergraduate Bachelor of Science degrees, a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree, and several graduate certificates. It also offers a combined MBA/Juris Doctor (JD). Certificate programs are also offered in Accounting, Business Foundations, Environmental Policy, Finance, International Business, Marketing, Organizational Leadership, Supply Change Management and Information Systems, Sustainable Development.[17]

The college is the only AACSB-accredited (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business) public business school in the southern region of Massachusetts. AACSB-accredited institutions have a recognized level of quality, higher admission standards, and more research opportunities.

The Charlton College of Business houses multiple, nationally ranked degree programs. For the 2015–16 academic year, the part-time MBA program is ranked No. 182 in the nation according to U.S. News & World Report. The school's undergraduate program is also nationally ranked No. 184 by U.S. News.[18] In 2016 its online MBA program was listed as No. 62 in the nation by U.S. News.[19] The Princeton Review lists the Charlton College of Business as one of their best 296 business schools.[20]

Architecture

Entrance to the Campus Center
The benches and the stairs as seen from the catwalk between the Campus Center and the Liberal Arts Building

The buildings of the campus were designed by internationally renowned Modernist architect Paul Rudolph beginning in the early 1960s, to distinguish the campus from the outside world and provide what might be considered a Social Utopian environment. The building architecture is similar to that of the Boston Government Service Center. Rudolph made both the exterior and interior of each building of rough concrete (béton brut), an essential element of the style known as Brutalism, and he endowed buildings with large windows, with the intended effect of giving those inside the feeling of being connected to the outdoors. The stairs were made relatively short in height, ostensibly in order to slow people down and thus allow them to appreciate the campus more fully. Atriums were also placed in the Group 1 and Group 2 buildings to give people a place to socialize between sections of the halls. (The main academic buildings were known as Groups until 2007 because the first design concept for the campus had them as groups of individual buildings; the name was retained though the design concept was not. What was Group 1 is now the Liberal Arts building, and what was Group 2 is the Science/Engineering building.) These areas are also filled with hanging and potted indoor plants. The main door of each building faces towards the Robert Karam Campanile, keeping students within the Academic Life area, where buildings for classes are located. Large mounds of earth (berms) also stand between the parking lots, making the lots partially invisible from within the original Academic Life area (though not from within some recent additions to it, such as the Charlton College of Business building). More recent buildings, most notably the Woodland Commons residence halls to the south of the main campus, have been built to complement, but not to attempt to copy, Rudolph's Late Modernist aesthetic.

In October 2013 Travel and Leisure named the university as one of the ugliest campuses in the United States. It compared the library to a concrete spaceship, describing it as an icon of the Brutalist style of architecture that has been both beloved and derided since its construction in the 1960s.[21]

At the top of the campanile, many different antennas provide different services for the campus. It should be noted that if one looks between the two panels in the campanile, they can see that the campanile can only be climbed when accessed underground. This may seem to lead to an underground tunnel system, but there is an entrance to the campanile a short distance to the south of it.

Outdoors, the university is fortunate to have large areas of undeveloped green space, including extensive wooded areas, grasslands, wetlands, and ponds uncommon to many university campuses. Numerous footpaths make exploring these natural areas of the campus an enjoyable activity for students, faculty, and visitors alike.

Claire T. Carney Library

The Claire T. Carney Library

Student life

Student organizations

General information

The Student Government Association, which is controlled by 49 seats, is a student-run group that handles all student activity fees and disperses them to the various clubs and organizations. The are over 113 student clubs & organizations, 10 intramural sports teams/organizations, and a full service public radio spectrum Campus Radio Station, WUMD 89.3 broadcasting at 9,600 watts. Through the Leduc Center for Civic engagement, and other on campus sources, the University amassed 192,133 community service hours over the past year.[22]

Fraternities

Sororities

Honor societies

Housing and residential education

General information

On-campus living provides three different residence options:[23]

Each hall is staffed by a professional Resident Director, and 8-14 student Resident Assistants. Each Hall also features a Hall Council which plans events, holds elections, engages with the larger residential population through Resident Student Association (a student-government organization for all residential students).

Dining services

There are 16 locations on campus where food may be purchased. Food services are provided by Chartwells.[24]

Athletics

UMass Dartmouth athletic teams, known by their nickname: the Corsairs, compete in a variety of sports. Men and women compete in Division III. The men's sports include baseball, basketball, cross country, golf, ice hockey, lacrosse, soccer, swimming and diving, tennis, and track and field. The women's sports are basketball, cross country, equestrian, field hockey, lacrosse, sailing, soccer, softball, swimming and diving, tennis, track and field, and volleyball. Most of the teams compete in the Little East Conference, while the men's football team competes in the Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference.

Notable alumni

References

  1. ↑ "2015 REPORT ON ANNUAL INDICATORS University Performance Measurement System July 2015" (PDF). University of Massachusetts.
  2. ↑ "Interim leader named for UMass Dartmouth - The Boston Globe". Retrieved 2016-03-28.
  3. ↑ "Office of the Chancellor - UMass Dartmouth". Retrieved 2016-03-28.
  4. ↑ "Southeastern Massachusetts University". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
  5. ↑ "Campus Profiles". University of Massachusetts.
  6. ↑ UMassD website, history.
  7. ↑ "University Sustainability Report: a report card on successes & efficiencies". Net Impact UMassD. University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth. Retrieved April 16, 2015.
  8. ↑ "UMass Law wins ABA accreditation after eight-year battle for respect". June 6, 2012.
  9. ↑ "America's Top Colleges". Forbes. Retrieved August 15, 2015.
  10. ↑ "Best Colleges". U.S. News & World Report LP. Retrieved September 10, 2015.
  11. ↑ "World University Rankings 2015-16". THE Education Ltd. Retrieved October 1, 2015.
  12. ↑ "Regional Universities Rankings". America's Best Colleges 2016. U.S. News & World Report. Retrieved February 23, 2016.
  13. ↑ "University of Massachusetts--Dartmouth". U.S. News & World Report. n.d. Retrieved January 11, 2016.
  14. ↑ "2015 Master's Universities Rankings". Washington Monthly. 2015. Retrieved February 23, 2016.
  15. ↑ "2015 Masters Universities Rankings". Washington Monthly. n.d. Retrieved May 28, 2015.
  16. ↑ "Points of Distinction". UMass Dartmouth.
  17. ↑ "Charlton College of Business". Peterson's.
  18. ↑ (subscription required)
  19. ↑ "University of Massachusetts--Dartmouth (Charlton)".
  20. ↑ "University of Massachusetts—Dartmouth - Charlton College of Business". The Princeton Review.
  21. ↑ "America's Ugliest College Campuses", Travel+Leisure, October 2013
  22. ↑ "About - UMass Dartmouth".
  23. ↑ "Housing & Residential Education - UMass Dartmouth".
  24. ↑ "Press Release: New dining services firm chosen for campus".
  25. ↑ http://www.umassd.edu/media/umassdartmouth/politicalscience/facultydocs/Political_Science_Department_newsletter.pdf
  26. ↑ "Joe Proctor UFC Bio". Retrieved 2014.
  27. ↑ Coffey, Sarah; Wen, Patricia (April 19, 2013). "Bombing Suspect Attended UMass Dartmouth, Prompting School Closure; College Friend Shocked by Charge He Is Boston Marathon Bomber". Boston.com. Retrieved May 15, 2015.

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