Amherst, Mass. – Kalpen Trivedi, associate provost and director of the International Programs Office at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has been awarded a Presidential Fellowship by the Association of International Education Administration (AIEA).

The University of Massachusetts School of Law at UMass Dartmouth begins its academic year today with 113 new students, a 21.5 percent increase over last year, bringing total enrollment of the Commonwealth’s only public law school to 279 students.

For the second year in a row, UMass Law applications grew by more than 20 percent, far exceeding the national average of minus 1.5 percent this year and plus 8.6 percent in 2018. Only nine of the 200-plus law schools in the United States experienced a 20 percent increase in applications this year.