The University of Massachusetts Boston, also known as UMass Boston, is an urban public research university and the second-largest campus in the five-campus University of Massachusetts system.

UMass Boston is the only public university in Boston.

UMass / Boston is part of the Greater Boston Urban Education Collaborative, In 1982 it merged with Boston State College ( est.

The cancellation of two days of classes in order to create security for the debate resulted in a protest by UMB students, faculty, and staff members at the UMass President's office in downtown Boston.

On June 2, 2006, Barack Obama addressed his commencement speech at UMass Boston to the graduating students.

( from UMass Boston website, note that this also contains the history of Boston State College )

* 1982-Boston State joins UMass Boston.

The John F. Kennedy Library | John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum is located on Columbia Point ( Boston ) | Columbia Point next to UMass Boston.

UMass Boston is located off Interstate 93, sited within walking distance of the JFK / UMass MBTA stop on the Red Line.

The UMass Boston campus, viewed from Squantum Point Park in Quincy, Massachusetts | Quincy

There are eight colleges at UMass Boston: the College of Liberal Arts, College of Science and Mathematics, College of Management, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, College of Public and Community Service, College of Education and Human Development, John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies and Global Studies, and University College.

UMass Boston is fully accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges.

UMass Boston is a member of the Council of Graduate Schools and the Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools

Intercollegiate athletics, intramurals, and recreation for the students, staff, and faculty are the primary programs of the UMass Boston Department of Athletics.

UMass Boston, known by their nickname: the Beacons, has teams competing in the ECAC, the Little East Conference, and ECAC East Ice Hockey.

In the years 1999 through 2006 the National Consortium for Academics and Sports named the Department of Athletics at UMass Boston first in the country for community service.

UMass Boston's graduate student employees ( teaching assistants, research assistants, and administrative assistants ) are represented by the Graduate Employee Organization / UAW Local 1596 — UMass Boston Chapter.

* 1974-First classes at UMass Boston's Harbor Campus.

Located in the Merrimack Valley Region, UMass Lowell started in 1894 as the Lowell Normal School ( South Campus ) and in 1895 as the Lowell Textile School ( North Campus ).

At exactly 7: 00 PM on January 15, 1953 WLTI, 550 AM began broadcasting on carrier current over the electrical power wires ( not airwaves ) to the dorms of the Lowell Textile Institute ( now UMass Lowell ), specifically to Eames and Smith Hall, and the Alumni Library on the University's North Campus.

On April 1, 2006, Lowell held the 2006 World Curling Championships for the men's teams at the Tsongas Center at UMass Lowell.

* Tsongas Center at UMass Lowell-multi-use sports and concert venue ( 6500 seats hockey, 7800 concerts )- the University of Massachusetts Lowell River Hawks, and various arena shows

The Center is affiliated with UMass Medical Center as a teaching hospital.

While Wood served as president of the University of Massachusetts he led its expansion to include UMass Medical Center in Worcester and its Boston campus.

Its flagship hospital ( UMass Memorial Medical Center ) straddles two campuses along Route 9 in Worcester, Massachusetts and is designated by the American College of Surgeons as a Level I Trauma Center.

* Bayside Exposition Center ( sold to UMass Boston in 2010 for redevelopment )

They represent the arts, social services, education, environment, medicine, government, and business sectors, and include the American Red Cross, City of Worcester Executive Offices, Habitat for Humanity, Legal Assistance Corp., UMass Medical Center, and Worcester Art Museum.

The Lowell Devils were an ice hockey team in the American Hockey League playing in Lowell, Massachusetts at the Tsongas Center at UMass Lowell.

* UMass Family Business Center: Treat Your Family Like a Family and Your Business Like a Business

They patrol and respond to calls at the following Red Line subway stations: Broadway, Andrew, JFK / UMass, Savin Hill, Fields Corner, Shawmut, Ashmont, North Quincy, Wollaston, Quincy Center, Quincy Adams and Braintree.

The Paul E. Tsongas Center at UMass Lowell ( formerly the Paul E. Tsongas Arena ) is a multi-purpose facility, on the campus of the University of Massachusetts Lowell, in Lowell, Massachusetts.

The Mullins Center is the home of UMass Minutemen men's basketball, women's basketball, and men's ice hockey.

The main campus is situated along the Charles River in Boston's Fenway-Kenmore and Allston neighborhoods, while the Boston University Medical Campus is in Boston's South End neighborhood.

Equestrian statues of him can be found at Kosciuszko Park in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, across from the Polish Basilica of St. Josaphat, Chicago's Museum Campus on Solidarity Drive and in Detroit on Michigan Ave. Other statues can be found in Boston Public Garden ; Scranton, Pennsylvania ; a bust in the U. S. Capitol as well as a statue Lafayette Park in Washington, D. C .; the United States Military Academy at West Point ; Williams Park in St. Petersburg, Florida ; and Red Bud Springs Memorial Park in Kosciusko, Mississippi ; in Kosciuszko Park in East Chicago, Indiana ; and ( with Kazimierz Pułaski ) in Poland, Ohio, a township and village named in honor of the two heroes of the American Revolution.

Modern swing dance bands active in the U. S. during the 1990s and 2000s include many contemporary jazz big bands, swing revival bands with a national presence such as Lavay Smith and Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers ( based in San Francisco ), and local / regional jazz bands that specialize in 1930s-1940s swing / Lindy dance music, such as The Swingout Big Band, White Heat Swing Orchestra, and Beantown Swing Orchestra ( Boston ), The Boilermaker Jazz Band ( Pittsburgh ), the Southside Aces ( Minneapolis ), Gordon Webster Septet ( New York ), Jonathan Stout and His Campus Five ( Los Angeles ) and The Jonathan Stout Orchestra featuring Hilary Alexander ( Los Angeles ), The Flat Cats ( Chicago ), The Gina Knight Orchestra ( Chicago and Joliet, IL ), the Solomon Douglas Swingtet and the Tom Cunningham Orchestra ( Washington, D. C .), Sonoran Swing ( Arizona ), and The Bill Elliott Swing Orchestra ( Los Angeles ).

The new grounds are referred to as Brighton Campus, after Brighton, the area in Boston in which it is located, as the municipal border sits on the street intersection where the two properties meet.

In 2009 the city of Boston declared October 4 to be " Mission of Burma Day " in honor of the band's work in a ceremony held at the MIT East Campus Courtyard.

Boston College Newton Campus

Pope John Paul II Catholic Academy of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston operates the Columbia Campus, the Dorchester Central Campus, the Lower Mills Campus, and the Neponset Campus.

* University of Massachusetts Boston Harbor Campus

Opened in 1915 as " Alumni Field ," Boston College's first stadium was located just south of Gasson Quadrangle, on the site of the present " Campus Green ", better known as the " Dustbowl.

The Boston University Sydney Campus is also located on Regent Street in Chippendale.

Gordon College Fowler Campus is minutes away from picturesque beaches of Massachusetts's Northshore and 25 miles from Boston.

Park Street believes strongly in education integrated with faith, so it is associated with Park Street Kids, Park Street School, and Boston Trinity Academy, as well as partnering with Campus Crusade for Christ and InterVarsity Christian Fellowship for undergraduate and graduate ministries, and a long-time partnership with Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.

* Boston College Main Campus Historic District — 140 Commonwealth Ave. ( in Newton )

Pope John Paul II Catholic Academy of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston operates the Mattapan Square Campus.

Warren Towers is one of the three Boston University dormitories traditionally intended for underclassmen, the others being The Towers and West Campus.

Major off-campus locations include the Robert C. Wrenn Campus Without Walls, in Emporia ; Southern Virginia Higher Education Center, in South Boston ; Estes Community Center, in Chase City ; Lake Country Advanced Knowledge Center, South Hill ; and the SVCC Occupational / Technical Center in Blackstone.

Boston City Campus and Business College is a multi-city business college located in South Africa.

Boston City Campus was founded in 1991 by Ari Katz.

In 1997 Boston City Campus opened a new division called Boston Business College and, after opening 11 colleges in Gauteng, started franchising the concept nationwide.

In 2001 Boston City Campus and Boston Business College merged into one educational entity.