University of Massachusetts
The University of Massachusetts (commonly referred to as UMass) is the five-campus public university system of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The five campuses are UMass Amherst, UMass Boston, UMass Dartmouth, UMass Lowell, and the
UMass Medical School. It also has an online school called UMassOnline.
UMass Amherst is part of the Five Colleges consortium in the Pioneer Valley area of central Massachusetts.
From 1996 to 2003, the President of the University was William Bulger, president of the Massachusetts State Senate for seventeen years, and prominent and influential Democratic politician with roots in South Boston. Bulger became involved in court testimony about his notorious brother, Whitey Bulger, testimony was forced to resign after a sustained campaign for his ouster by Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney.
