50th Anniversary Campaign

In connection with our department’s 50th Anniversary we are launching a 50th Anniversary campaign for the future of the department. To contribute, please go to this page: https://www.umass.edu/linguistics/give-linguistics. On that page, you will find the following description of the Endowment fund that we are targeting with this campaign (though donations directed in other ways are welcome!)

Support the Future
Linguistics Department Endowment
The Linguistics Department was founded in 1971 with the intention of creating an outstanding, accessible, and progressive academic program. Nearly 50 years later, it is one of the most highly regarded linguistics departments in the world and maintains its founders’ ethos. A gift to the endowment is an investment in the future and the founders’ legacy.

Whether or not you donate, another way you can help is by sharing the link above on your social media, with the information that on the occasion of our 50th anniversary we are fundraising for the future of the department by targeting the endowment.

50th anniversary UMOP

Earlier this year, we announced a 50th Anniversary UMOP. We are now reminding you about it, and setting the deadline for February 1. There will be both a scholarly works volume, and a volume for history and less formal recollections, and pictures. It would be great to have a broad representation of work by current and former residents of South College and the ILC in these volumes. On the scholarly side, this is a great chance to draw attention to new or older work (though make sure you have copyright or permission to republish any previously published work).

Submission links and other details can be found here:
https://websites.umass.edu/umassling50/50th-anniversary-umop/
As a teaser for the final product, see below for links to a few contributions to the history volume. 

Anne-Michelle Tessier’s “South College: A fond roast of a UMass Linguistics icon”
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Cz6KGzh115iYDaMSRTB6j-wqXR_NaR-a/view
Tim Austin’s “A Partial Early History of GLSA and UMOP”
https://drive.google.com/file/d/107YzUGS_T8yfGsPchruds-VMfbbmX-d1/view?usp=sharing
Don Freeman’s “Linguistics at UMass Amherst: Ends and Beginnings”
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KCM8R3nl5oZepf_5UJHgy5Ye10-Bw9Lm/view?usp=sharing