UMass Graduate Housing Tenants Association meeting

Dear Graduate Housing Residents, We’re writing on behalf of the Graduate Student Senate and the Graduate Employee Organization (GEO-UAW 2322) with the hope and intention of forming an association for the residents of Graduate and Family Housing. We know this is not a new effort, but feel a strong tenants group needs to be formed to play an important role in the evolution of graduate … Continue reading

Chancellor’s Update on UHS Steering Committee

To the Campus Community: I am writing today to provide an update on the university’s Student Health Insurance Plan (SHIP). At my request, a special committee is exploring possible modifications to SHIP as it develops competitive bid specifications for coverage in fiscal 2013. Associate Chancellor Susan Pearson is chairing this broad-based panel, which will review the current coverage and discuss different mixes of policy benefits … Continue reading

Chancellor’s Message on Changes to University Health Services

From: “UMass Chancellor’s Office” <official-chancellors@admin.umass.edu> Date: December 21, 2011 2:34:37 PM EST To: massmail-l@oit.umass.edu Subject: Special Committee to Study Proposed Changes at UHS To the Campus Community, In recent weeks, you may have heard about proposed changes at University Health Services (UHS). To respond to concerns raised by some staff, students, faculty and the community, I am creating a special committee that will undertake a … Continue reading

UMass Director of Housing and Residential Life Nominated for National Scrooge of the Year Award

Congratulations to newly-hired UMass Director of Housing & Residential Life, Eddie Hull, for his recent nomination of Scrooge of the Year Award by Jobs with Justice for latest plans to fire 73 undergraduate employees at UMass-Amherst prior to the December holidays and radically reconfigure Housing & Residential Life to include more over-paid administrative positions.  Mr. Hull chose to announce this two weeks before the end … Continue reading

Vote ResLife Director Eddie Hull for National Jobs with Justice’s “Scrooge of the Year”

Vote today for UMass Amherst ResLife Director Eddie Hull to be named Job with Justice’s national “Scrooge of the Year”: Students at the University of Massachusetts Amherst received an early Christmas gift from their esteemed Director of Housing and Residential Life, Eddie Hull… the loss of their jobs. In a move even the Scrooge would find wicked, Eddie sent an email to 73 undergraduate employees … Continue reading