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College of Nursing Collaborates with Boston Partners in Education, Inc., for Annual Career Visions Fair
For the past 13 years, the John W. McCormack Middle School and their business partner, BankBoston, with assistance from Boston Partners in Education, have coordinated an annual Career Visions Fair. Last year, this effort was expanded to include another six School-to-Career Middle Schools with the help of the Boston Private Industry Council. Professor Marion E. Winfrey, chair of the Department of Adult and Gerontological Nursing, and two graduating seniors from the College of Nursing, Charles Wheeler and Guina Jean, were asked this year to participate by presenting educational and career opportunities in nursing. Besides discussing nursing education and careers, they shared with the students their reasons for choosing nursing, and encouraged them to gain a solid grounding in high school science as a prerequisite for a nursing career. Of the fifty companies and agencies represented at the fair, UMass Boston was the only school or college of nursing in attendance
College of Management Holds Capital Raising Seminar for Environmental Technology Start-Up Companies
On February 22-23, 2000, the Environmental Business and Technology Center (EBTC) located in the College of Management, conducted a Raising Capital Seminar at the Copley Plaza Hotel in Boston. Capital seekers from across the Northeast attended.The Raising Capital Seminar was for companies interested in presenting their business plans at the Capital Forum to be held June 14-15, 2000 inBoston. The EBTC and the Environmental Capital Network (Ann Arbor, MI) are organizing that event. The Capital Forum will introduce investors and companies to other individual, professional and corporate investors, and to the management of promising early and expansion stage companies commercializing innovative technology with energy, industrial process and environmental applications. It will feature concise presentations by up to 14 selected companies chosen by a Business Selection Committee composed of leading investors in this industry. The EBTC assists entrepreneurs commercializing environmental technology to establish the relationships they need to succeed, whether it's to solve a technical problem, develop a business strategy, facilitate a corporate partnership, make a pitch to investors, or surmount a regulatory hurdle. Since 1997, the companies it has assisted have gone on to raise over $10 million in start-up financing.
Good News from WUMB 91.9 FM
In recognition of the great resource WUMB is for folk music in Massachusetts, The MA Office for Travel and Tourism (MOTT) has provided a grant of $50,076.00 to the station. As a venue for "Cultural Tourism" in the state, WUMB's folk music has surfaced as a leader. The monies will be used to fund new projects such as the creation of 15,000 compact discs of local folk musicians. Plans for a new"Discover Massachusetts Folk" web site are also underway. Results from the Arbiton Ratings Service indicate that WUMB's listeners has increased 15% over last year. This is not surprising considering the wide audience WUMB is now able to reach. In conjunction with Massachusetts, the station broadcasts throughout Rhode Island,New Hampshire and Connecticut. In addition, among local sites covering Boston, Worcester and Cape Cod, the fan base numbers 54,200 people on a weekly basis. Finally, in a highly successful Spring Membership Campaign, WUMB amassed over $90,000 in gifts. Thanks are extended to WUMB's committed fans and the hardworking radio personnel who have made this all possible!
A & F Welcomes New Assistant Vice Chancellor Neil Rosenberg
Neil Rosenberg, a UMass Boston graduate (BS in Sociology, 1982) was hired in March as assistant vice chancellor for Administration and Finance. Before coming to the University, Rosenberg held the dual positions of financial analyst and leasing program manager for the Massachusetts Health and Educational Facilities Authority (HEFA) which issues tax exempt municipal bonds for Massachusetts' not-for-profit colleges and universities, hospitals, human service agencies, museums, and research institutions. There, he analyzed hospital and higher education credits and assisted borrowers in completing lease financing. Before joining HEFA, Rosenberg pursued a masters degree in business administration at Northeastern University, which he completed in June of 1989, after working for several years as a human services provider, mainly with juveniles in court settings, with mentally ill young adults, and abused or neglected elders. He also earned a certificate in accounting from Bentley College in 1995. A resident of Cambridge, serves as a member of the board of directors of Somerville-Cambridge Elder Services, and a member of the board of trustees of both the Cambridge Health Alliance, parent corporation of Cambridge and Somerville Hospitals, and Neville Manor, a long-term care facility.
Center for Social Development and Education Hosts Mrs. Eunice Kennedy Shriver at Program Demonstration
Students and Teachers at the Plouffe and Davis Elementary Schools in Brockton welcomed a special guest when Mrs. Eunice Kennedy Shriver, executive vice president of the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation, came for a visit on February 29. Mrs. Shriver was there to observe the Promoting Social Success Program, in which 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students with special needs work in small groups with their teachers and CSDE program instructors Chris Bucco and Alfie Alschuler to develop social skills in order to work cooperatively, solve social problems, and form and keep friendships. This program was created by the Center for Social Development and Education which is directed by Dr. Gary Siperstein, and is supported by the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation. Presently five Brockton elementary schools are participating in the program. Mrs. Shriver was accompanied by Dr.Michael Hardman, education advisor to the Kennedy Foundation, and Emily Jackson, state director of the Best Buddies Program in Massachusetts, along with Siperstein and other staff members from the Center for Social Development and Education.
Cancer Researcher is College of Nursing's Distinguished Scholar Guest Speaker
The College of Nursing Ph.D. Program hosted a presentation by Kathleen Jennings-Dozier, PhD, as part of their Spring Distinguished Scholar Guest Speaker Series. Jennings-Dozier is a cancer prevention fellow at the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health. She presented an overview of her program of research on cervical cancer screening, "Cancer Control in the Underserved: Statistics, Logistics, and Lessons Learned." Her research focuses on identifying factors that motivate minority women to obtain yearly Pap smears, a test which remains the first and most effective line of defense against cervical cancer. Jennings-Dozier shared the creative strategies that led to her acceptance in an urban housing project to conduct a pilot nursing intervention program aimed at increasing the number of African American women who obtain Pap smears. Jennings-Dozier was presented with a College of Nursing PhD Program "Distinguished Scholar" certificate.
UMass Boston Selected for AACU's Boundaries and Borderlines III Project
UMass Boston has been selected as one of 40 universities to participate in the Association for American Colleges and Universities two-year Boundaries and Borderlands III Project. The selection was based on a proposal submitted by Professor Peter Kiang of the newly established intercollegiate Asian American Studies Program, along with faculty team members Madhulika Khandelwal (CPCS), Raymond Liu (Management), Rajini Srikanth (English), Zong-Guo Xia (Earth/Geographic Sciences), and Lin Zhan (Nursing). The project is designed to deepen the intellectual, curricular, and co-curricular frameworks faculty and staff are using at colleges and universities that have made a commitment to embed issues of diversity as elements of institutional mission, campus climate, and curricular focus. The Project will provide participants with opportunities to engage in sustained study of the latest scholarship on diversity, examine curricular models being developed at other institutions, and develop skills in fostering intergroup dialogue and learning.
McCormack Institute Senior Fellow Richard Manley Dies March 2
Richard Manley, the former director of the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation who joined the McCormack Institute in 1991, died at his home in Hingham on March 2. An expert in the areas of public finance and taxation, Manley held his position at the Mass Taxpayers Foundation from 1964 to 1992, and became a wellknown and respected political insider who operated mostly behind-the-scenes. He described the mission of the organization as providing the public with accurate, objective information about what the state does with the taxpayer's money. He developed a reputation as a dealmaker, and an expert in the legislative process. While at the McCormack Institute, he was director of the UMass Economic Project. Manley leaves his wife, three sons, and six grandchildren.