Campus Compact, a national coalition of colleges and universities working to advance the public purposes of higher education, has named 173 student civic leaders who will make up the organization’s 2022-2023 cohort of Newman Civic Fellows.

UMass Dartmouth was recently awarded a $150,000 grant from the Massachusetts Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF) to create a Transformative Justice Practitioner’s Certificate Program to serve students from UMass Dartmouth, Massasoit Community College, and UMass Law. The grant also funds the process to begin establishing a Transformative Justice Center at UMass Dartmouth. This award follows an initial $150,000 grant in spring 2021 that funded research and data collection toward creating the inter-campus Transformative Justice Practitioner’s curriculum.

UMass Dartmouth Associate Professor of Psychology and Director of the Ora M.

Interior Architecture and Design Professor Stephanie McGoldrick has recently been awarded the Interior Design Educators Cou

In “Queer Sacrifice in Masterpiece Cakeshop,” published in the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism, UMass Law Associate Professor Jeremiah Ho explores the divisive case of a Colorado same-sex couple who was turned away from ordering a wedding cake by a baker whose religious beliefs did not support their marriage.