Following up on last week's decision to postpone a vote, faculty at UMass-Boston issued a no-confidence measure against University president Jack Wilson, slapping down his proposal to restructure the five campuses that make up the University of Massachusetts. Members of the Faculty Council approved the measure during the Monday afternoon meeting, which was attended by about 70 professors. Votes were cast by the 29 faculty representatives that compose the council, according to the Globe. Precisely......

Governor Deval Patrick came out in support of UMass President Jack Wilson's reorganization plan yesterday. Well, at least he supported Wilson's authority to shake up the leadership of the university system. The state executive branch supporting the state's university system executive branch seems fitting. The biggest complaint from the faculty at the UMass campuses has been voiced as Wilson's lack of transparency and consultation with the university faculty. Essentially it is a "you should have......

Last week UMass-Amherst faculty and librarians got together and took a vote. 214 stood, one remained sitting. The resounding message was that the faculty of the flagship campus in the university system was none too pleased with the recently released plan by system president Jack Wilson. The hometown team, UMass-Boston faculty, had scheduled their at bat against Wilson and the Trustees for today – but that vote has been postponed. The Globe reports that after......

Academia never seemed like the kind of setting for straight-up catfights, but UMass appears to be the exception. Not everyone is happy with the shakeup of the state's education system, which involved UMB chancellor Michael Collins moving to U-Mass-Worcester to be interim medical school chancellor and Keith Motley taking his spot. Yesterday, at the UMass medical school, physiology professor John Walsh and deputy medical school chancellor Richard Stanton let off some steam. Walsh had said......

Boston’s major public university made history yesterday by appointing the first black chancellor to a UMass campus. J. Keith Motley was appointed by UMass President Jack Wilson to the post, as part of a flurry of announcements yesterday that sent the current chancellor, Michael Collins, to the UMass Medical School in Worcester, where he will direct health-sciences initiatives for the university. Well known as an inspirational and charismatic leader, the exiting Chancellor’s new appointment likely......

Yesterday, the Boston Globe reported on UMass President Jack Wilson getting heated about the state Board of Higher Education, New England School of Law and Suffolk Law School. UMass has proposed merging UMass-Dartmouth and Southern New England School of Law, the state board plans to vote on March 31. Wilson is irritated because the board has distributed negative reports about the proposal seemingly in cahoots with NESL and Suffolk. Suffolk University Law School and......