Colleges and Departments
- Dean's Innovation Fund at the College of Science and Mathematics
The Dean's Innovation Fund allows the dean to respond to creative opportunities as they arise and to seed promising initiatives.
Give Now - 21st Century Library Development Fund
The 21st Century Library Development Fund makes the library a state-of-the-art facility that meets the needs of the 21st-century researcher and student.
Give Now - Accounting and Finance Department
The Department of Accounting and Finance offers concentrations in accounting and finance to prepare students for a range of careers in public, private, and not-for-profit organizations. The department also offers students, regardless of their eventual concentrations, a solid grounding in accounting and finance that contributes to their professional preparation. At the upper levels, specialized concentration courses are designed to qualify students for specific professional careers. The department also offers sequences of courses that help students qualify for various professional certifications.
Give Now - Africana Studies Department
Africana studies documents and disseminates a specialized body of knowledge about Africa, the West Indies, and especially the United States. We focus on the experiences of the African diaspora – the global dispersion of peoples of African descent – its literature, culture, society, and contributions worldwide. Students are prepared for careers relevant to the development of the African world community and to the rectification of worldwide social ills created by individual and institutional racism.
Give Now - American Studies Department
American studies invites students to explore the rich diversity of the United States, its peoples and cultures. Students develop the kinds of broad historic and intercultural perspectives from which they can understand their own experiences, as well as those of Americans past and present, by studying literature and history; media, such as music, TV, and film; institutions, such as religion, family, politics, and government; and social and scientific thought and belief systems. Our interdisciplinary program prepares students for careers in teaching, law, government, communication, and business.
Give Now - Anthropology Department
Anthropology studies people, and is holistic and interdisciplinary in its approach. The field is located partly in the social sciences, partly in the natural sciences, and partly in the humanities. People are complex, and anthropology offers powerful analytic tools for understanding why humans behave the way they do, whether we are talking about today or about the past, about people here in Boston or people in other parts of the world. In our courses, we ask questions about why people do, think, and believe what they do, and try to explain and interpret them culturally and historically. We seek to find the order in the amazing cultural and social diversity that characterizes people all over the globe, and even in our own society.
Give Now - Applied Linguistics Department
The UMass Boston Applied Linguistics Department introduces students to the theoretical, empirical, and practical dimensions of applied linguistics. It offers courses in basic theoretical linguistics, applied linguistics, and the interdisciplinary areas of psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics. The program enables students to understand the diversity of issues inherent in the study of language so they are well prepared to teach and to do research.
Give Now - Art Department
The UMass Boston Art Department offers a general major in art leading to a BA, as well as a BA in studio art.
Give Now - Arthur and Beverley Mabbett Family Endowed Fund in Support of Faculty Development in the Environmental Sciences
The Arthur and Beverley Mabbett Family Endowed Fund in Support of Faculty Development in the Environmental Sciences encourages the broadening of knowledge in the environmental sciences by funding faculty initiatives in the field.
Give Now - Asian American Studies Program
UMass Boston's Asian American Studies Program offers culturally responsive instruction in the classroom with holistic practices of mentoring, community building, service-learning, and advocacy to address the social and academic needs of students as well as the critical capacity-building needs of local Asian American communities.
Give Now - Asian Studies Department
Asian Studies aims to give students a broad knowledge of specific regions of Asia, treating each area from a number of different academic perspectives (language, art, history, etc.). UMass Boston currently offers an extensive program--as well as a major and two minors--that covers the cultural region of East Asia (China, Korea, Japan, Vietnam).
Give Now - Biobehavioral Studies Program
The Biobehavioral Studies Program provides students with a broad understanding of the various approaches to the naturalistic study of the behavior of all animals, including humans.
Give Now - Biochemistry Program
Biochemistry is the study of the chemical processes in living organisms. It deals with the structures and functions of cellular components such as proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, nucleic acids, and other biomolecules. The Biochemistry Program offers opportunities to study the chemical processes in living organisms. It deals with the structures and functions of cellular components such as proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, nucleic acids, and other biomolecules.
Give Now - Biology Department
The mission of the Department of Biology is to provide high-quality education in biological sciences to our students, to advance the body of scientific knowledge through scholarly research, and to provide technical and educational expertise locally, nationally, and internationally.
Give Now - Center for Clinical Education and Research (CCER)
The Center for Clinical Education and Research (CCER) supports and enhances the academic and clinical education of the students in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences. It integrates simulation, active learning strategies, and technology throughout the lab curriculum and participates in research activities that measure their effectiveness. CCER contributes to the development of knowledgeable, competent, compassionate registered nurses and health science professionals who are interested in lifelong learning and who will enrich their profession and thereby positively impact the health and well-being of their clients.
Give Now - Center for Collaborative Leadership
The Center for Collaborative Leadership is charged with nourishing “emerging” leadership in metropolitan Boston and with exploring and refining the collaborative leadership model. Through the Emerging Leaders Program, young adult professionals in Greater Boston enhance their individual leadership skills and ability to work effectively with others toward significant civic goals.
The program stresses collaboration and fosters leadership that is visionary, goal-oriented, and inclusive. Each fall, a new group of “Fellows” is chosen. Diverse in profession, race, ethnicity, and gender, and with five to ten years of experience, Fellows have already demonstrated leadership potential through work in corporations, nonprofits, and governmental organizations. Each has been identified by his or her sponsoring organization as an “emerging leader,” talent worth watching and developing.
Give Now - Center for Personalized Cancer Therapy (CPCT)
The Center for Personalized Cancer Therapy (CPCT) is improving tumor diagnostics in a way that will lead directly to more effective therapeutic regimens. The most significant outcome anticipated will benefit cancer patients and their families, because the proposed approach will help to flatten health disparities pertinent to cancer treatment. The CPCT will work to develop affordable clinical tests that can be performed in community hospital settings. The CPCT informatics (highly sophisticated relational databases) also help community physicians choose optimized therapy, thus enabling the broadest possible population of patients to benefit from cutting-edge cancer research.
Give Now - Chemistry Department
The Chemistry Department at UMass Boston offers the bachelor of arts, bachelor of science, and master of science degrees, in addition to a combined BS/MS degree, a minor in chemistry, and a joint major in biochemistry (coadministered with the Biology Department). A specialty of our department is the field of green chemistry, and we are proud to be the first school in the country to offer a doctoral degree in that discipline (via the PhD in chemistry/green chemistry track).
Give Now - Classics Department
Classics is concerned with all aspects of the civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome -- linguistic, literary, historical, religious, and archaeological. The Department of Classics offers several graduate degrees designed to prepare Latin teachers for secondary school teaching in Massachusetts. An undergraduate program leads to initial licensure and graduate tracks for Latin and Classical Humanities in the MEd are overseen by the Graduate College of Education and Human Development. In addition, UMass Boston offers a Latin track in the MA in Applied Linguistics with special focus on linguistics and language acquisition.
Give Now - Commonwealth Compact
The Commonwealth Compact was born in 2007 of twin convictions: that Massachusetts history demonstrates the economic and social benefits of diversity and that our state’s current reputation as an unwelcoming place for people of color must be turned around if we want to achieve our potential. To change both that negative reputation and the reality that too often still contributes to it, civic leaders created the Commonwealth Compact to encourage organizations to make significant progress by measuring themselves annually on a series of benchmarks. The Compact works with existing programs and will provide additional resources, including a talent database.
Give Now - Communication Studies Program
Communication Studies is a six-course program that offers students the opportunity to build their understanding and skills in several aspects of the communications field, including the history and theory of communication and mass media analysis and criticism; interpersonal communication; information technology; cultural aspects; politics; psychology; creative and professional writing; art; and theater.
Give Now - Computer Science Department
The Computer Science Department offers excellence in research, teaching, and technical skills. Our accredited bachelor's programs offer a wide variety of courses, such as database-backed web development and artificial intelligence. Our master's program prepares students for a career in the computer industry; it includes a year-long capstone project in which each student develops a large-scale software application for an outside client.
Give Now - Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance Department
The Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance encompasses graduate programs that address the interpersonal, organizational, political, and economic forces that shape societies, both locally and globally. Working at the intersection of theory and practice, our students develop the skills and insights needed to play an active role in that process.
Give Now - Counseling and School Psychology Department
The Department of Counseling and School Psychology prepares individuals to enter professional roles as family therapists, mental health counselors, rehabilitation counselors, school guidance counselors, and school psychologists.
Give Now - Creative Writing Program
The Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing is a selective program that admits approximately five applicants in fiction and five in poetry each academic year. It offers an intense and focused opportunity for students to further their commitment to writing as the center of their professional life.
Give Now - Criminal Justice Program
The criminal justice major provides a social scientific grounding in issues of crime and criminal justice. Through classes, internships, and special projects, students explore the nature of criminal behavior, its causes, and society’s responses.
Give Now - Curriculum and Instruction Department
The Department of Curriculum and Instruction houses four distinct programs: Teacher Education, Special Education, Critical and Creative Thinking, and Instructional Design. Critical and Creative Thinking is an interdisciplinary program that provides its students with the knowledge, tools, experience, and support needed to become constructive, reflective agents of change in education, work, social movements, science, and the creative arts.
Give Now - Dean's Innovation Fund at the College of Management
The Dean's Innovation Fund allows the dean to respond to creative opportunities as they arise and to seed promising initiatives. These flexible funds support the exploration of new trends and the testing of new ideas.
Give Now - Dean's Innovation Fund at the College of Nursing and Health Sciences
The Dean's Innovation Fund allows the dean to respond to creative opportunities as they arise and to seed promising initiatives.
Give Now - Dean's Innovation Fund at the College of Public and Community Service
The Dean's Innovation Fund allows the CPCS dean to respond to creative opportunities as they arise and to seed promising initiatives.
Give Now - Dean's Innovation Fund at the McCormack Graduate School
The Dean's Innovation Fund allows the dean to respond to creative opportunities as they arise and to seed promising initiatives.
Give Now - Dean’s Innovation Fund at the College of Liberal Arts
The Dean’s Innovation Fund supports the cutting-edge teaching and research efforts of our faculty, with a special emphasis on younger faculty.
Give Now - Donald Shephard College of Management Fund
The Donald Shephard College of Management Fund supports research in finance or the use of innovative instructional practices and related research.
Give Now - Economics Department
Economics as an academic discipline attempts to answer questions about individual and collective behavior related to the production, distribution, and exchange of goods and services. Courses in theoretical and quantitative analysis prepare students for careers in the financial world, law, and public service, or for graduate studies in economics.
Give Now - Engineering Program
The Engineering Program offers instruction in electrical, mechanical, civil, and industrial engineering.
Give Now - English Department
The study of English puts students in touch with works of power, beauty, and imagination that speak across the centuries, from the Middle Ages to the day before yesterday. In discussing and writing about the ways in which language and literature explore the human condition, expose social issues, shape our emotional life, and give expression to timeless problems, hopes, and desires, students in the English classroom deepen their skills in interpretation, communication, and critical perception. One of the most versatile liberal arts degrees, English enables students to pursue careers in law, publishing, broadcasting, writing, public relations, education, and many other fields.
Give Now - Environmental Studies Program (ESP)
The undergraduate Environmental Studies Program (ESP) at UMass Boston is an interdisciplinary program of study that helps students understand the underlying causes of environmental problems and encourages a search for solutions. In recognition of the complexity of environmental issues, the program is broadly based in the humanities, the social sciences, and the sciences.
Give Now - Friends of the Library Endowment Fund
The Friends of the Library Endowment Fund builds and enriches library collections and services.
Give Now - Gerontology Department
The Gerontology Department offers interdisciplinary graduate programs on aging processes and aging populations. It offers both graduate degrees and professional development programs in gerontology research and policy, as well as in the field of management of aging services.The department's programs bridge theories, concepts, and research methods drawn from the social, behavioral, and policy sciences. Together with the Gerontology Institute, the Gerontology Department is one of the country's leading centers for academic research in social gerontology.
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- Gerontology Institute
The Gerontology Institute carries out basic and applied social and economic research on aging and engages in public education on aging policy issues, with an emphasis in four areas: income security, health (including long-term care), productive aging (including transportation), and basic social and demographic research on aging.
Give Now - Give Us Your Poor: Project to End Homelessness
Give Us Your Poor brings together the latest research, multimedia, celebrities, non-celebrities, homeless people, and partner organizations to help end homelessness.
Give Now - Global Policy Studies PhD Program
This program, scheduled to begin in fall 2011, will extend the reach of UMass Boston in preparing leaders who have skills in conflict resolution and the expertise to advance cooperation in the global policy arenas of development, traditional (war and peace) and human security, and global health. Approximately 10 students will be admitted to the program each year.
Give Now - GoKids Boston: Interdisciplinary Youth Fitness and Training Center
GoKids Boston improves the health, wellness, and overall outlook for pre-teens and teens. The center provides kids personalized instruction and support to become more physically active, improve fitness, eat nutritiously, and gain self-confidence.
Give Now - Healey Technology Fund
The Healey Technology Fund helps the Healey Library augment its online collections and improves library technology associated with the acquisition of intellectual property.
Give Now - Hispanic Studies Department
The field of Hispanic studies explores the rich and varied languages, literature, and histories of Spain, Portugal, and Latin America. Insight into these cultures trains students to think critically from different perspectives – an important skill in a world where communication and understanding across boundaries are essential. Hispanic studies graduates are prepared for careers in international affairs, government, education, and many other fields.
Give Now - History Department
Learning about people and cultures, and the debates and controversies of the past, helps us understand our world today. Courses in history teach us to think critically about complex issues, understand how history is constructed, and learn how to make a convincing argument. UMass Boston's History Department offers programs in archives, public history, and Asian and European Studies, along with a solid foundation in the history of our region and the world.
Give Now - Infant Parent Mental Health Program
Sponsored by the Department of Psychology and University College, the Infant Parent Mental Health Certificate Program (IPMHPCP)is a 10-month intensive interdisciplinary learning experience designed for licensed and/or credentialed professionals working with children birth to five and their families. The goal of the IPMHPCP is train professionals to understand relationship-oriented therapies and to focus therapeutic efforts on the child-parent relationship. The program’s past and future graduates are among a small group of providers in the U.S. who are formally trained in this important field.
Give Now - Institute for Learning and Teaching
The Institute for Learning and Teaching focuses on in-service education and fosters innovative approaches to educational change. It oversees Project ALERTA, TAG (Talented and Gifted), pre-collegiate programs, as well as the Massachusetts Studies Project, the Boston Writing Project, and Hispanic Writers Week.
Give Now - Kenya Heart and Sole
Kenya Heart and Sole is a partnership between UMass Boston College of Nursing and Health Sciences (CNHS), Health for Nations, the Tumutumu Hospital School of Nursing, the Kijabe Hospital School of Nursing, and the University of Nairobi School of Nursing Sciences. The project extends one of UMass Boston’s local projects, Roxbury Heart and Sole, which addresses cardiovascular and metabolic risk factors in an underserved African American community. Together, the Roxbury Heart and Sole and Kenya Heart and Sole projects imbue the UMass Boston health mission with both an urban and a global perspective.
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- Leadership in Education Department
The Department of Leadership in Education prepares professionals for leadership roles in colleges, universities, and related institutions.
Give Now - Management and Marketing Department
The Department of Management and Marketing offers three concentrations: international management; management; and marketing.
Give Now - Master of Arts in Conflict Resolution
The Master of Arts in Conflict Resolution prepares professionals to explore the practice, design, and evaluation of a variety of conflict management and resolution applications, and allows for in-depth investigation of conflict in specific settings. Concentrations are offered in organizational conflict and international conflict.
Give Now - Master of Science in Public Affairs Program
The Master of Science in Public Affairs Program educates students who aspire to a public service career in management. These degree programs develop the skills and techniques used by leaders and managers to implement policies, projects, and programs that resolve important societal problems while addressing organizational, human resource, and budgetary challenges.
Give Now - Modern Languages Department
The Department of Modern Languages is the home of eight different programs in language instruction. Its faculty consists of almost twenty members, who teach courses ranging from the introductory level to studies in literature, culture, and film. The department offers full programs leading to a major and a minor in French and in Italian; a minor in Chinese and, soon, one in Japanese; a variety of language and culture courses in German and Russian; and introductory language courses in Arabic and in Vietnamese.
Give Now - Office of International and Transnational Affairs
The Office of International and Transnational Affairs facilitates UMass Boston’s efforts to strategically integrate international (global), transnational (borderless), transcultural, intercultural, and national trends and policies into the curricular, teaching, research, community engagement, and service functions of the university.
Give Now - Outerbridge Endowment
The Outerbridge Endowment supports the Healey Library's purchase of new books in the fields of American history and American politics.
Give Now - Patricia C. Flaherty ’81 Endowed Fund
The Patricia C. Flaherty ’81 Endowed Fund supports the Mass Memories Roadshow, a cultural heritage collection housed in the University of Massachusetts Boston’s Joseph P. Healey Library. The funds are used to partner with historical societies, public libraries, schools, public access television, and other local groups to organize community events where family photographs and documents are scanned, indexed, incorporated into an online database, and then used as the basis of learning and research materials.
Give Now - Performing Arts Department
The performing arts, which include music, theatre arts, and dance, offer students the opportunity to acquire skills essential in any career path. For example, students of music learn to communicate, interpret, empathize, and be inquisitive, whereas theatre students develop creativity, confidence, spontaneity, and teamwork skills.
Give Now - PhD Program in Nursing
The PhD Program in Nursing at the University of Massachusetts Boston, with concentrations in population health and health policy, prepares students to be nurse leaders in addressing critical population health problems and conditions, and for leadership roles as policy analysts, researchers, and educators.
Give Now - Philosophy Department
The Philosophy Department helps students gain insight into, and a critical understanding of, persistent and fundamental philosophical problems; appreciate the ongoing importance of philosophical investigation and study; and become reflective, responsible citizens. Broadly stated, the department’s mission is to contribute to maximum human awareness, critical understanding, and rational action.
Give Now - Political Science Department
The study of political science touches on virtually every aspect of a person’s existence – from your local town hall to the United Nations. In political science we explore current affairs, historical studies, and theoretical approaches to formulate standards for judging the quality of political life and the performance of institutions.
Give Now - Project ALERTA
Project ALERTA was established in 1988 by the University of Massachusetts Boston. Its mission is to provide systematic early interventions in the form of out-of-school time-enrichment programming to help at-risk 3rd- through 5th-grade Boston Public School Latino and English Language Learner students achieve academic success in elementary school, high school, and beyond.
Give Now - Psychology Department
Psychology is a diverse field, united by the goals of understanding how people think and behave and how various environmental and biological forces shape behavior.
Give Now - Public Policy and Public Affairs Department
The Public Policy and Public Affairs Department educates students from a broad spectrum of backgrounds in policy making and the complex economic, social, and political issues that increasingly shape diverse urban communities.
Give Now - Richard F. Leahy '70 Endowed Science Faculty Development Fund in Honor of D. Drandon and Alice Leahy
The Richard F. Leahy '70 Endowed Science Faculty Development Fund in Honor of D. Drandon and Alice Leahy encourages faculty and students to work together on scientific research projects over a broad front.
Give Now - RN-BS Nursing Program
The College of Nursing and Health Sciences, in conjunction with University College, offers an online bachelor of science in nursing program for registered nurses. The program's online format maximizes accessibility and convenience for highly motivated, independent professionals.
Give Now - Sandra Kanter Remembrance Fund
This fund recognizes Professor Sandy Kanter, one of the founding faculty members of the Higher Education Doctoral Program at UMass Boston. With great humor and sharp intellect, Dr. Kanter served as program director and department chair. She was also a national leader in research on general education issues and curriculum change. Her approach to teaching was characterized by a deep dedication to enriching the professional lives of her students. The Kanter Fund provides support for doctoral student resources, including library materials, research software, and funding for guest speakers and events.
Give Now - School for Global Inclusion and Social Development (SGISD)
The School for Global Inclusion and Social Development is the first graduate school in the world to focus on wellness and economic development from an international perspective. The school’s emphasis is on groups of people who are excluded from communities here in the U.S. and abroad, due to disability or other conditions.
Give Now - School for the Environment (SFE)
The School for the Environment (SFE) integrates the natural and social sciences to generate and apply new knowledge about the quality of our environment and the sustainable use of its resources. It focuses on promoting integrated science, planning, policy, and education for understanding earth-system processes and managing the impacts of urbanization on linked watershed and coastal marine systems.
Give Now - Sociology Department
From its very beginning, the field of sociology has been concerned with urban life, with the forces of social change, and with understanding and addressing social problems. The Sociology Department at UMass Boston reflects these long-standing interests.
Give Now - Student Success Center at the College of Science and Mathematics
The College of Science and Mathematics Student Success Center promotes access to excellence in the academic home of CSM students. It offers comprehensive services for students in every phase of their academic career: academic counseling, professional development opportunities, and referral to additional student resources at UMass Boston.
Give Now - Talented and Gifted Program (TAG)
The Talented and Gifted Program (TAG) is a year-round program that has served the academic, personal, and social needs of Boston Public Schools (BPS) students since 1985. The mission of the TAG Program is to ensure that Boston Public School Latino students and English Language Learners (ELL) excel academically, socially, and personally, so as to improve their ability to succeed in high school and at the postsecondary levels. TAG works with a complete spectrum of Latino and ELL youth, from those who are high-achieving and college-bound, to those who have dropped out of school, for it is the philosophy of the TAG Program that every student is talented and gifted and it is the responsibility of adults and educators to help students discover, develop, and manifest their talents and gifts.
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TAG accomplishes its mission through the six program components, which provide comprehensive academic, personal, and social support to Latino and ELL youth. In each component, TAG integrates leadership development and community building, thereby creating the next generation of Latino leaders who will uplift the Boston community. - Teach Next Year Program
Teach Next Year is a a three-way partnership among UMass Boston’s Graduate College of Education and Human Development, the university’s successful precollegiate programs, and the Dorchester Education Complex (DEC). The Teach Next Year Program simultaneously improves teaching and learning at DEC and gives teacher preparation at UMass Boston a stronger urban focus.
Give Now - Wilcenski Endowment
The Wilcenski Endowment provides funds for the Healey Library to supplement the reference and general collection of the Graduate College of Education and Human Development. This includes, but is not limited to, the purchase of professional journals and books, teaching materials, and equipment.
Give Now - Women's Studies Department
Women’s studies is an interdisciplinary field that examines critically and in global perspective the role of women and gender in society. Students analyze the history and perspectives of women of different cultures and nationalities and investigate women’s artistic, intellectual, and political accomplishments.
Give Now - WUMB Radio Current Support Fund
WUMB Radio is the country's foremost radio station for folk and roots music, airing a mix of genres that includes singer-songwriter, blues, Celtic, Americana, bluegrass, and more. Weekends, the station is a cultural center for traditional folk and Celtic music, as well as blues and world music. Public affairs, public service, and news programs are blended throughout the entire schedule for a comprehensive educational experience. Listener support makes possible WUMB-FM's quality programming. In fact, more than 50% of the radio station's cash operating revenues come from individual contributors who enjoy our programming and who want it to keep going and growing.
Give Now - WUMB's 'Preserving the Past, Building the Future' Capital Campaign
Through its "Preserving the Past, Building the Future" capital campaign, launched in August 2010, WUMB Radio plans to raise $7 million over the next five years to rebuild and relocate to new facilities, expand and improve its signal across New England, broaden its educational initiatives, digitize the station's archive collection, and build an endowment that will support the station for years to come.
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