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
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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
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 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
Prof. John R. Mullin, Dean of the Graduate School Prof. Jean Kim, Vice-Chancellor Student Affairs and Campus Life Prof. James V. Staros, Provost November 28th, 2011 Dear Colleagues, We, the Graduate Program Directors of 29 departments and programs, are writing to express our deep concerns about the recent and upcoming changes to student health services, particularly the changes to the Student Health Insurance Policy. Many … Continue reading