Jane Fountain, along with seven other members of UMass’s faculty, received honors for outstanding accomplishments in “research and creative activity” at the sixth annual Faculty Convocation on October 1st.
Chancellor Robert Holub announced that faculty are key in order to continue the outlook of building a reputation as a large national research institution without sacrificing a focus on undergraduate education, offering new alternatives in student life, expanding access to faculty, tending to special undergraduate populations, building Commonwealth Honors College, strengthening diversity and access on the part of students from underserved communities, and bolstering mutually beneficial relationships with cities such as Springfield.
“I hold the following conviction,” he said. “We should worry less about being called the flagship campus and more about being the flagship campus. If we excel in the ways that flagship campuses excel, and in the way that great institutions of higher education excel, if we profile ourselves as the flagship campus, then the recognition will come naturally, and the entire question can be put to rest.”
Read the full story and watch a video of the Faculty Convocation of 2010 here.