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Community Partnership Job Shadow Day |
Job Shadow Day allows students to visit a worksite and "shadow" an employee for several hours. This experience provides students with a preview of the world of work and the range of career opportunities available to them. UMass Boston has had an ongoing relationship with Brockton Area Private Industry Council for several years and have hosted several students for both shadow days and summer-long internships. |
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Shannon Seaver |
Academic Support Services and Undergraduate Studies |
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Health Careers Opportunity Program |
Located on the University of Massachusetts Boston campus, the Health Careers Opportunity Program (HCOP) is an educational program funded through the federal Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). The mission of the program is to create a “pipeline” that starts at the middle and high schools in Boston, continues through the undergraduate programs at Tufts University and UMass Boston, and culminates in the graduate-level public health and/or medical programs at Tufts University School of Medicine or other medical schools. |
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Kunthary Thai-Johnson |
Academic Support Services and Undergraduate Studies |
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The Office of Career Services & Internships - Pre-Collegiate Program Support |
The Office of Career Services and Internships at UMass Boston partners with several of the University’s Pre-Collegiate Programs as well as community-based organizations, providing a venue for students and local residents to gain on-the-job professional work experience. |
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Michael Gaskins |
Academic Support Services and Undergraduate Studies |
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Institute for Asian American Studies - Children of Immigrant Entrepreneurs |
This is a study of second generation Asian Americans and Latino adults in the Boston area who grew up in families engaged in business enterprises. The purpose is to examine the influence of an immigrant entrepreneurial experience on the children's educational performances, career and life choices. |
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Paul Watanabe |
Institute for Asian American Studies |
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Institute for Asian American Studies - Massachusetts Immigrants by the Numbers, Second Edition: Demographic Characteristics and Economic Footprint |
A 60-page report with detailed demographic and economic data on the economic footprint of the state's immigrant population. |
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Paul Watanabe |
Institute for Asian American Studies |
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Institute for Community Inclusion |
ICI offers training, clinical, and employment services, conducts research, and provides assistance to organizations to promote inclusion of people with disabilities in school, work, and community activities. |
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William E. Kiernan |
Institute for Community Inclusion |
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Institute for Community Inclusion -Access to Integrated Employment (AIE) Project |
For the past 20 years, this project has described the nature of day and employment services for individuals with intellectual/developmental disabilities, and contributed to a comprehensive understanding of the factors that influence employment outcomes at an individual, employment support practice, service provider, and state policy level. |
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Jaimie Timmons |
Institute for Community Inclusion |
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Institute for Community Inclusion - Employment-Focused Systems Change |
The Massachusetts Department of Developmental Services (MA-DDS) has been working to make its system of day services and supports more focused on competitive employment outcomes. This effort has involved a partnership among DDS, the Institute for Community Inclusion (ICI), the State Employment Leadership Network, and the Work Without Limits project. ICI has worked alongside DDS throughout this effort, providing consulting, technical assistance, training, and evaluation activities. |
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Cindy Thomas |
Institute for Community Inclusion |
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Institute for Community Inclusion - ICI Employment Services |
Staff members at ICI have helped metro Boston companies successfully hire, train, and retain employees since 1982. |
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Cindy Thomas |
Institute for Community Inclusion |
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Institute for Community Inclusion - New England TACE Center (Region 1) |
New England TACE Center (Region 1) (TACE) is the region's primary training and technical assistance resource for employment services providers. We offer online and in-person training to help staff succeed! The program is part of a national network funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Rehabilitation Services Administration. The New England TACE Center provides technical assistance (TA) & continuing education (CE) to the public vocational rehabilitation (VR) system and their partners. This center is part of a national network of 10 TACE Centers. |
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Cecilia Gandolfo |
Institute for Community Inclusion |
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Institute for Community Inclusion - Opening Doors Project |
According to the US Maternal and Child Health Bureau, about 10 million US children have special health care needs. Children and youth with disabilities and special health care needs from immigrant communities, linguistic minorities and poor urban areas often face great obstacles to obtaining needed health, education, recreation and vocational services. The Opening Doors Project brings together national experts in pediatrics, public policy, education, family advocacy, and rehabilitation to help children from birth through young adulthood to study how to improve the opportunities for these children and youth and their families. |
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Susan Foley |
Institute for Community Inclusion |
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Institute for Community Inclusion - Partnerships that Benefit State Systems |
Our work assists states with building a comprehensive understanding of the factors that influence employment outcomes at all levels individuals and family, service providers, and state policy. The frame work employment, developed through extensive experience and research conducted within the state, is used to guide the much of the system improvement strategy work. The elements represent practices and outcomes known to be effective at enabling states to develop and sustain high-preforming integrated employment system. |
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Suzzanne Freeze |
Institute for Community Inclusion |
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Institute for Community Inclusion - Service Works |
Volunteering and engaging in community service are effective avenues for personal and professional development, service participants actively contribute and to strengthen their communities. For people with limited vocational experience, national service can be part if a long-range employment plan. Service can allow VR clients to develop vocational skills, gain work experience, engage in career exploration build professional networks. |
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Allison Hall |
Institute for Community Inclusion |
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Institute for Community Inclusion - Vocational Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (VR-RRTC) |
The VR-RRTC is a national center that builds the capacity of the public vocational rehabilitation (VR) program to improve employment outcomes for people with disabilities. This is achieved through providing state VR agencies and others working in this area with: 1) policy research, 2) training, and 3) technical assistance. The VR- RRTC also functions as a national hub for policy and operations data pertaining to public employment services for people with disabilities. |
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Ann-Elise Wright |
Institute for Community Inclusion |
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Institute for Community Inclusion - Workforce Development Excellence Initiative |
The College of Management with the Institute for Community Inclusion Announce UMass Boston Workforce Development Excellence Initiative Spring Seminars: Promoting workforce development excellence starts with knowledgeable and effective staff. To that end, UMass Boston's College of Management and Institute for Community Inclusion offer a three-session spring series aimed at the core concerns of the progressive workforce system. The sessions were: "Workforce Development and Economic Development": "Partners in Community Growth; Using Labor Market Information to Craft Effective Business Services"; and "Proactive Strategies in Business Services". |
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Jaimie Timmons |
Institute for Community Inclusion |
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Institute for Community Inclusion - National Service Inclusion Project (NSIP) |
The National Service Inclusion Project (NSIP) is a Corporation for National and Community Service training and technical assistance provider. NSIP builds connections between disability organizations and state commissions, offices, and service programs to increase the participation of people with disabilities in national service. Services include regional, state, and program training to AmeriCorps, Learn and Serve America, and National Senior Service Corps programs; personalized technical assistance; and resources on service/disability issues such as recruitment, ADA accommodations, and training. |
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Paula Sotnik |
Institute for Community Inclusion |
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Division of Athletics, Recreation, Special Projects & Programs |
Through our Department of Special Programs and Projects, the Division of Athletics, Recreation, Special Projects and Programs is in the forefront of providing athletics outreach to local neighborhoods, the state, and even overseas audiences. We provide complimentary use of the university's athletic facilities to community groups; we offer student athlete sports clinics for young people; we make holiday visits to hospitals; and offer many other similar services. |
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Marsha Florio |
Athletics and Recreation, Special Programs and Projects |
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Division of Athletics, Recreation, Special Projects & Programs - Harbor Point Partnership |
To enhance coordination of, and access to, university services and programs in relation to community needs and opportunities in our immediate urban neighborhood. The University of Massachusetts Boston and Harbor Point Apartments Company share a commitment to creating a high quality learning and living environment on the Columbia Point Peninsula (Peninsula); and a desire to improve the relationship and interaction between the students, faculty and administration of UMass Boston and the residents of Harbor Point. |
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Marsha Florio |
Athletics and Recreation, Special Programs and Projects |
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Division of Athletics, Recreation, Special Projects & Programs - YES (Youth Education and Sports) with Africa |
YES (Youth Education and Sports) with Africa is an innovative partnership that seeks to develop the athletic prowess of young people while expanding their educational and cultural horizons. The program gave youngsters aged 7 to 19 the opportunity to acquire basketball skills while learning about computers and other technology, health issues, and their own cultural heritage. |
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Marsh Florio |
Athletics and Recreation, Special Programs and Projects |
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Brazilian Immigrant Center Partnership |
Professor Sieber uses his expertise in urban and applied anthropology, the culture history of Amazonian, and immigrant and minority education in his work as a board member with the Brazilian Immigrant Center. |
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Tim Sieber |
College of Liberal Arts |
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Center for Collaborative Leadership - Emerging Leaders Program (ELP) |
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 (ELP), mid-level 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 summer, a new group of “Fellows” is chosen. Diverse in profession, race, ethnicity, and gender, and with five to ten years of experience, these Fellows have already demonstrated leadership potential through work in corporations, non-profits, and governmental organizations. |
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Lisa DeAngelis |
College of Management |
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MGT470 - Social Innovations |
Dr. Benyamin B. Lichtenstein’s from the College of Management is currently engaging management and marketing students in a social innovations project with various public and private organizations throughout the Boston area. Students are co-creating and recommending innovative strategies and ideas for these organizations to meet a variety of social needs within the communities they serve. |
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Benyamin B. Lichtenstein |
College of Management |
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AmplifyMe |
Profeesor Marilyn Fankenstein assists with teaching media literacy and quantitative reasoning for Amplifyme, a nonprofit organization that engages people in positive change through the use of media arts. They use pop culture to inspire people to think differently about their power to create change in their lives and the lives of others through civic engagement. |
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Marilyn Frankenstein |
College of Public and Community Service |
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Commonwealth Compact - Commonwealth Diversity Fellows Program |
In partnerships with the Commonwealth's Office of Access & Opportunity & Office of Diversity & Equal Opportunity; and Commonwealth Compact, this is a historic fellows program to promote diversity in state government administration through focused internship opportunities. |
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Carroy U "Cuf" Ferguson |
College of Public and Community Service |
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CommUniversity |
CommUniversity is a partnership with Freedom House to pilot of project to eventually own a community house, where students will live and study--both in the community and on campus--and engage various community agencies to assist them in realizing with their community agendas. |
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Carroy U "Cuf" Ferguson |
College of Public and Community Service |
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YTHCTR 220 - Understanding Youth: Youth Identity, Growth, Development |
This service-learning class focuses on the skills and knowledge which are common to intervening with individuals and small groups. To be an effective human service worker, it is important to be able to apply skills with an understanding of relevant theories and models, and be able to choose appropriate intervention strategies and methods for particular situations. Since there is no substitute for actually working with individuals or groups, an important part of enhancing a worker's intervention skills is obtaining hands-on experience in the field through a practicum covering the length of semester. |
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Joan Arches |
College of Public and Community Service |
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YTHCTR 320 - Models of Practice in Youth Work: Models of Practice with Urban Youth |
This course requires students to explore and build on the literature about different practices in youth work. There is also strong emphasis on understanding the value of different practices in relation to culturally diverse populations and settings, and identifying models that encourage both youth and community development. Because this is a service-learning class, we focus on learning in context. Your community service experience, along with the readings, assignments, and class discussions, all promote learning. With the emphasis on reflection: what we did, why we did it, and what did we learn, this experience differs from work or a volunteer activity. |
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Joan Arches |
College of Public and Community Service |
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Geographic Information Systems Facilitate Youth Workers and Community Stakeholder Efforts |
A large population of under served students and residents in the City of Boston suffer from behavioral and/or discipline problems, as well as substance and/or alcohol abuse. A side effect of this behavior is the increasing instance of trash such as cigarette butts, condoms, syringes and packaging being discarded in public areas. The South Boston Youth Action Center (SBYAC) is tackling this problem by making the community aware of the locations and probable sources of this problem. The SBYAC is implementing an effort to rid South Boston parks, playgrounds and areas frequented by children of refuse associated with substance abuse. And, they are using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to do it. |
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Helenmary Hotz |
College of Science and Mathematics |
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Green Boston Harbor Project - Waquoit Bay |
A community-based participatory research (CBPR) project that involved listening to the needs of the various religious communities in the Upper Cape area (conversations, interviews, surveys, and as a participant observer at events and service) around the issues of coasts, climate change, and community stewardship. The project then implementing selected programs and events as suggested, including energy events and environmental education. |
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Anamarija Frankic |
College of Science and Mathematics |
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Department of Information Technology at UMass Boston |
YearUp is a national program, that aims to educate and train “disconnected” young adults between the ages of 18 and 24 to enter the workforce with skills in desktop support, help desk and other technical areas where the demand for skilled labor is always high. The Director and Manager for Client Services act as Mentors to the student from YearUp. This student in turn shadows the mentor and attends staff meetings and engages in all activities of the department. |
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Anne Agee |
Information Technology |
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Department of Information Technology at UMass Boston - @ Work Program |
The St. Mary’s Women @ Work program partners with the Department of IT at UMass Boston to provide young women with a path to self sufficiency. It does so by placing these youth for a 3 month period, in a real-work environment where they get paid and receive hands-on practical training |
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Eleanor Brown |
Information Technology |
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Center for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters |
Center for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters (CRSCAD) cultivates alliances with local, national, and international agencies, government and academic institutions, NGOs, and for-profit and not-for-profit bodies which share common interests in the area of post-disaster reconstruction globally. |
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Adenrele Awotona |
McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies |
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Center for Social Policy |
Center for Social Policy (CSP) provides expertise on policies and practices that reduce social and economic inequities. CSP engages in a critical analysis of the structural causes for low wages, barriers to housing affordability, the unequal distribution of resources and their impacts on families, communities and society as a whole. Our inclusive, people-centered research methodologies generate solid evidence for reshaping policies that effectively address the root causes of poverty. |
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Donna Haig Friedman |
McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies |
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Center for Social Policy - Alternative Staffing Organizations: Outcomes for Job Candidates and Customer Employers |
Alternative Staffing Organizations (ASOs), operated by community-based agencies, integrate the business goal of mainstream staffing services—connecting workers and employers—with the social mission of helping marginalized job seekers find and retain better jobs. Over the period 2008-11, the Center for Social Policy has studied the activities of four ASOs that are part of the Charles Stewart Mott Alternative Staffing Demonstration II. The study explores employment outcomes for workers as well as the motivations of customer businesses. ASOs participating in the research are First Source Staffing, Emerge Staffing, Goodwill Staffing Services-Austin and Goodwill Temporary Staffing- Suncoast. This study is funded by the C. S. Mott Foundation. (See also Brokering Up: The Role of Temporary Staffing in Overcoming Labor Market Barriers) |
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Françoise Carré |
McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies |
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Center for Social Policy - Evaluation of Northeastern University School of Law LSSC Program |
Center for Social Policy was commissioned to conduct a three-year, multi- method evaluation of the Legal Skills in Social Context (LSSC) Program, a required course in the first year curriculum of this law school. This innovative program provides students with the opportunity to conduct research and legal analysis on a specific issue for participating client organizations. Beginning in January, each LSSC “law office” participates in a closely supervised clinical experience, representing and assisting a nonprofit community-based or advocacy organization in solving a societal problem involving issues of diversity, the law and social justice. The CSP team is now concluding the final year of the evaluation. |
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Terry Saunders Lane |
McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies |
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Center for Social Policy - Healthcare Technologies Research and Technical Assistance |
The Center for Social Policy is providing technical assistance to DotWell, a Dorchester community-based organization, which is defined as creating a Healthcare Technology Workforce Development Educational Pathway. This pathway is aimed at adult learners who are interested in advancing their education through college credit courses in computer science and information management, and ultimately securing employment in Boston’s healthcare industry. The project is funded through a workforce development planning grant from the Black Ministerial Alliance of Greater Boston. |
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Brandynn Holgate |
McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies |
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Center for Social Policy - Informal Employment in Developed and Developing Countries |
As part of a collaboration with the global research and action network WIEGO (Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing) research director Françoise Carré is preparing research and analysis on informal (casual, temporary) employment in developed countries, as well as participating in field exposures with poor informal workers in India, Mexico, and South Africa. The research focuses on the relationships between informal employment and poverty. |
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Françoise Carré |
McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies |
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Center for Social Policy - One Family Scholars’ Documentation Project |
In 2000, the Paul and Phyllis Fireman Charitable Foundation founded the One Family Scholar’s Program as part of its campaign to end family homelessness in Massachusetts. Interested in learning about how the program has impacted Scholars’ lives over the long term, the Foundation has commissioned the Center for Social Policy to document changes in Scholars’ lives which they attribute to their participation in the One Family Scholar’s Program. |
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Donna Haig Friedman |
McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies |
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Center for Social Policy - Poverty in Massachusetts Project – Fact Sheets |
Using American Community Survey 5-year data recently released, the Center for Social Policy has created eight one-page fact sheets on poverty in the Massachusetts. Each one-pager discusses poverty among particular demographic groups by age, gender, race/ethnicity, education level, nativity, and family status. The data compare Massachusetts rates to that in the US, by analyzing the distribution of the whole population and the total poor population by the demographic category. Finally the fact sheets highlight the poverty rate in the 10 largest Massachusetts cities. |
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Randy Albelda |
McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies |
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Center for Social Policy - Project Hope Entry-Level Workforce Investment Feasibility Study. |
Project Hope is a multi-service agency at the forefront of efforts in Boston to move families beyond homelessness and poverty. It provides low-income women with children with access to education, jobs, housing, and emergency services; fosters their personal transformation; and works for broader systems change. The Center for Social Policy was asked by Project Hope to carry out collaborative action research to help them identify viable employment pathways, accessible in the neighborhood or through use of public transportation, for parents with children who have limited workforce experience and education. Together, the research involved: working with agency staff to survey families served by Project Hope regarding their workforce aspirations; analyzing employment and business data to identify business sectors likely to be seeking new entry-level workers; and consulting with the agency's workforce development leaders regarding strategies for developing new partnerships with employers seeking workers with skills and aspirations like those of families served by Project Hope. |
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Brandynn Holgate |
McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies |
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Center for Social Policy - Retail Work Around the Globe |
The retail industry is being transformed by dramatic market shifts and rapid technological change. To better understand the consequences of these changes for the entry level workforce, this project explores schedules, compensation, turnover and retention, training, service levels, and product knowledge in the front line workforce in the food and consumer electronics sectors. The project examines retail jobs and firm strategies in using cross-national perspective—US, Western Europe, Mexico— paying particular attention to differences in national institutional settings and how these impact job quality. |
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Françoise Carré |
McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies |
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Center for Social Policy - The Boston Foundation’s Fairmount Initiative |
The Fairmount Initiative is a comprehensive ”people and place” program being implemented in a distressed area of the city of Boston known as the Fairmount Corridor. With funding from The Boston Foundation, the Center for Social Policy serves as the strategic evaluator and analytical partner for this Initiative. The CSP’s work includes coordination with four program initiatives in the Fairmount Corridor: The Family Independence Initiative; Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership’s Family Self-Sufficiency Program; Boston’s LISC’s Resilient communities/Resilient Families Initiative, and the Fairmount /Indigo CDC Collaborative. |
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Michael Stone |
McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies |
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Center for Social Policy - Thrive in Five Initiative |
Led by the Center for Social Policy, a team of UMass Boston evaluators is undertaking for the United Way and the City of Boston the evaluation of a city-wide comprehensive plan, aligning families, educators, health care and human service providers, the private sector and city departments, to ensure that all children in Boston will be ready for sustained school success. |
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Alice Carter |
McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies |
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Commonwealth Compact |
Commonwealth Compact works to establish Massachusetts as a uniquely inclusive, honest and supportive community of -- and for -- diverse people. It does this by helping the state acknowledge our mixed history in this effort, and to face squarely the challenges that still need to be overcome, understanding that the rich promise of the region's growing diversity must be tapped fully if Boston and Massachusetts are to achieve their economic, civic, and social potential. |
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Georgianna Melendez |
McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies |
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Commonwealth Compact - Merrimac Valley Collaborative |
Given that excellence and diversity are synonymous as key contributors to the success of our democratic society and global economies, we, the members of the Merrimac Valley Commonwealth Compact, will work collaboratively to make our workplace more inclusive and culturally competent. Our joint efforts add value beyond our continued individual efforts by sharing information and pursuing strategies we can achieve together that we cannot do alone. Merrimac Valley has a unique demographic that deserves special attention. |
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Georgianna Melendez |
McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies |
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Commonwealth Compact - MA Business School Collaborative |
Given that excellence and diversity are synonymous as key contributors to the success of our democratic society and global economies, we, the members of the MA Business School Collaborative, will work collaboratively to make our faculties more inclusive and culturally competent. Our joint efforts add value beyond our continued individual efforts by sharing information and pursuing strategies we can achieve together that we cannot do alone, especially increasing the representation of faculty from under-served populations of color. |
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Georgianna Melendez |
McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies |
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Commonwealth Compact - Talent Network |
The overarching goal of Commonwealth Compact is to increase the visibility of and access to professionals of color in Massachusetts. The CC Talent Network was created to address the disconnect between available talent of color in MA and available opportunities. Too often employers and leaders took to their limited pond of candidates. The tool is about moving them from a pond to an ocean. |
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Georgianna Melendez |
McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies |
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Edward J. Collins, Jr. Center for Public Management - Municipal Finance |
The Collins Center convened a group of municipal finance officials from thirteen municipalities to discuss common and long‐term local fiscal challenges. |
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Stephen McGoldrick |
McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies |
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Edward J. Collins, Jr. Center for Public Management - Municipal FinanceEdward J. Collins, Jr. Center for Public Management - Organizational Assessment of the Brookline Planning and Community Development Department |
The immediate impetus for the organizational study of the Brookline Planning & Community Development Department (Department) was concern about the appropriate role for the Town in supporting the local business community, in particular whether the role performed by the Commercial Areas Coordinator position should continue. In addition, the Town needed advice about the appropriate strategy for the Town to maintain planning and development services and staffing in light of the long‐term decline in Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funding. |
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Stephen McGoldrick |
McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies |
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Edward J. Collins, Jr. Center for Public Management - Regionalization Opportunities Survey Instrument (ROSI) |
The Collins Center developed ROSI, which will help communities think strategically about long‐term regionalization and service‐sharing opportunities. |
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Stephen McGoldrick |
McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies |
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Gerontology Institute - Pension Action Center |
The Pension Action Center strives to improve retirees’ and workers’ standard of living in retirement through individual case advocacy; referrals to appropriate programs and professionals; and issue analysis and reform of public policy. |
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Michele Tolson |
McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies |
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Gerontology Institute - Pension Action Center Massachusetts Initiative to Expand Private Pension Coverage |
The Pension Action Center of the McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies at UMass Boston has embarked on an initiative to expand pension or work-place saving options in the private sector by looking at what individual states can do to encourage pension coverage. |
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Michele Tolson |
McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies |
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Gerontology Institute - Pension Action Center National Pension Lawyers Network |
NPLN is an ongoing referral service for people with pension problems throughout the country who are looking for attorneys to represent them. |
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Jeanne Medeiros |
McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies |
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Gerontology Institute - Pension Action Center New England Pension Assistance Project |
NEPAP is an ongoing service project that assists and educates individuals about their benefits and rights to retirement income. A secondary purpose is to identify issues affecting pension plan participants. |
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Ellen A. Bruce |
McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies |
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Teaching and Service Partnerships at the Center for Community Democracy and Democratic Literacy |
The initial work of this McCormack Graduate School center focuses on the seven major placed-based initiatives within Boston, creating a Community of Practice to extend and expand best practices throughout the city; and provides expert strategic, design, policy and program advice in the creation of the Boston Promise Initiative led by the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI), one of the initial twenty-one projects in the nation awarded by the Obama administration. |
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Judith Kurland |
McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies |
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PPOL-G 780 Practicum in Public Policy and PPOL-G 781 Practicum II in Public Policy |
Our commitment to social change is anchored in our applied policy curriculum which addresses inequities for under-served groups and vulnerable populations. This commitment stands out in the two-semester, practicum class in which doctoral students gain experience in professional-quality, applied research for a real-world client, leading to actionable policy recommendations and journal-quality publications. |
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Michael Johnson |
McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies |
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PAF-G 691 - Capstone/Case Study Seminar in Public Policy |
Students in the MS in Public Affairs Program have the opportunity to complete a final project under the supervision of a faculty adviser. The project may be a case study of a public policy or significant piece of legislation which involved tracing its history, analyzing the political, economic, and social context in which it developed, identifying and examining roles played by those who were instrumental in its development, and assessing its intended and actual impact. While completing their case study project, students participate in a weekly seminar that focuses both on the substantive issues under examination and on case study methodology. |
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Amy Smith and Michael Ahn |
McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies |
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Office of Student Leadership and Community Engagement - Beacon Voyages for Service |
Beacon Voyages for Service is a program that gives students the opportunity to take part in service trips all over the country and the world. Students also have the opportunity to be a student trip leader. All of the trips take place during school breaks. |
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Sherrod Williams |
Student Affairs |
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China Program Center |
The College of Advancing and Professional Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston seeks to advance scholarly and business collaborations between China and America through innovative programs including practical training, trade missions, government exchanges, and joint academic ventures. The center serves as an invaluable resource for entrepreneurs, political leaders, and academics by providing them with the specific tools needed to build successful American-Chinese joint ventures. It brings extensive business and cultural knowledge about the two countries to its audiences through innovative academic courses, training sessions, internships, workshops, and mentorships. |
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Wanli Hu |
College of Advancing and Professional Studies |
