
College classes cost less than half of what Mass pays to incarcerate people. So why aren’t we educating more prisoners?
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Written by JEAN TROUNSTINE Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS
College classes cost less than half of what Mass pays to incarcerate people. So why aren’t we educating more prisoners?
Written by CICI YU Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS
“A college degree is one of the best ways to help a student from a low-income background become economically stable.”
Written by JASON PRAMAS Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics
Now we need to debunk Republican propaganda claiming the opposite and move on to win real higher-education reform
Written by MG XIONG Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed
Welcome and nyob zoo*, fellow graduates of UMass Boston’s Class of 2022. Welcome and thank you, friends, family, faculty, staff, and community members for joining us today on this momentous occasion. As a first-generation ... read more
Written by JASON PRAMAS Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, COVID, NEWS+OPINIONS
Institutions with more wealth than many nations have no excuse for inaction during a pandemic
Written by JOE RAMSEY Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed
At this year’s UMass Boston Convocation ceremony, special guest Mayor Marty Walsh was greeted by a multimedia musical performance that captured both what is so precious about UMB and what is now under threat.
First came the music: The UMB Chamber ... read more
Written by JASON PRAMAS Filed Under: COLUMNS, Editorial
Regular readers will recall that my DigBoston colleagues, Chris Faraone and John Loftus, and I love to pull back the curtain on our operations now and again to give our ... read more
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“Somebody said at the protest, ‘Money has memory.’ And, we have to think about where our money comes from, because money is not given to MIT with no strings attached, right?"
Written by SAUL TANNENBAUM Filed Under: COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed
The 2018 Disobedience Award ceremony was a full MIT Media Lab spectacle. Carefully produced, lavishly ... read more
Written by JASON PRAMAS Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS
Recently, two scholars announced their plans to cut ties with the MIT Media Lab over its longstanding relationship with Jeffrey Epstein ... read more