The UMass Global Workforce Video Description and Transcript

Video Descriptions:

Text: Marty Meehan, UMass Lowell '78. President, University of Massachusetts. Montage of diverse alumni faces. Text: From the Chair of the President. UMass Logo: Text: University of Massachusetts. Text: Episode two, Educating a Global Workforce. Text: Bryony Bouyer, UMass Dartmouth '86 Senior Vice President, Diversity and Inclusion & Multi-Cultural Strategies, Hasbro. Text: Gray Milkowski, UMass Boston '18. Text: Lynn Le, UMass Lowell '14 Analyst for Private Markets, Manulife. Text: Eran Lobel, UMass Amherst '89, CEO & Executive Producer, ELEMENT Productions. Text: Sara Tariq, UMass Boston '19. Ends with Text: University of Massachusetts logo, Amherst, Boston, Dartmouth, Lowell, Medical School, UMass Law, UMass Online. 

Transcript:

I think that we're focused on excellence in everything that we do. Hiring the best faculty we get and then getting students in, helping get them focused on making a difference in the world.

We are now living in a global world, giving them the ability to interact with others who are from different countries is really critical, because that's exactly what they're going to face when they walk into the workforce. You get such a diverse set of views in such a diverse way of thinking about things, and that diversity from the outside coming in.

At the end of your experience, you're able to take that knowledge and put it out into the world again. My parents had immigrated here from Vietnam in the early 90s, but my dad actually went to UMass Amherst on a scholarship. So I was born in Israel and we landed in Brookline, Massachusetts and from Pakistan. I came here when I was 13.

I did my high school from here and decided to go to UMass Boston. I think there's a quarter million plus alumni nationwide and globally, and I think that UMass has such an incredible impact. If you're an international relations class or a political science classes, you're trying to answer questions that are so much bigger than one person's understanding of an issue or a topic, and you collaborate and you try and find an answer that really takes into account everything.

Boston is known to have great colleges worldwide. People are very aware of UMass, and they feel very proud when they found out that I go to UMass Boston. There isn't a CEO that I've talked to at any point in time in this job where CEOs don't tell me they want a more diverse workforce that reflects the Commonwealth, that reflects the diversity of the country and in the world.
That's exactly what UMass is providing.