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On August 4th, the University of Massachusetts Board of Trustees confirmed President Bulger's appointment of Deputy Chancellor and Vice Chancellor for Administration and Finance Jean F. MacCormack as Interim Chancellor at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. She will replace Chancellor Peter Cressy, who has accepted the position of Chief Executive Officer of the National Distilleries Council. This September, she will begin her work as the first woman chancellor in Dartmouth's history. News of her historic assignment has been met with both excitement and sadness on the Boston campus. Chancellor Sherry Penney stated, "This is a wonderful and well-deserved appointment for Jean, but she will be sorely missed at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She has devoted most of her professional life to our campus because she believes so very strongly in its mission." She added, "I know I speak for everyone when I say that it has been a pleasure working with Jean over the past years. " MacCormack has indeed been here for many years. She joined the University of Massachusetts Boston in 1980 as Director of the Institute for Learning and Teaching. She became Acting Dean of the Graduate College of Education in 1982, and in 1988, was appointed Vice Chancellor of Administration and Finance. From 1995 to 1996, she served as Interim Chancellor for the Boston campus, when Chancellor Penney left to serve as Interim President for the University of Massachusetts. MacCormack played a key leadership role in shepherding the 12,500 student campus through the state budget crisis of the early 1990s and managing its revitalization over the past few years. That revitalization has included the addition of new graduate programs, dramatic increases in private support, expanded research and public service initiatives, enhanced technology for faculty and students, the development of a $60 million campus center due to open in 2002, and planning for a new waterfront environmental center. "I witnessed firsthand the skill and determination that Dr. MacCormack brought to the task of keeping the Boston campus a vibrant community during an exceedingly difficult time," Board of Trustees Chairman Robert S. Karam said. "Now, thanks in large measure to the efforts she made then, the Boston campus not only survived but has become a thriving urban center of educational opportunity." President Bulger praised MacCormack's work on what he called "the front lines of public higher education." Bulger stated, "She is uniquely qualified by experience, education and personality to continue the momentum that Peter Cressy has built in attracting the best students and faculty to the campus, building partnerships with business and industry and engaging the University in the region's public school reform effort." Cressy, in turn praised the appointment, saying, "I have personally known Jean MacCormack for six years. She is the perfect choice to lead UMass Dartmouth." In the midst of the transition, MacCormack remembered the her time at UMass Boston fondly: "What means the most to me is the mission of UMass Boston and the people who dedicate themselves to making it come alive. I know whatever success I may have had in helping the campus to survive and thrive is a shared achievement with the many people who I have been fortunate to work with every day and who are always willing to go the extra mile This is a wonderful opportunity for me but UMB will always have a place in my heart." -- Anne Marie Kent
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