Please join us for a film screening and discussion of the documentary Stolen School: What Desegregation Took and One Black Community’s 60-Year Fight to Get It Back. This event will take place Wednesday, April 29 from 5:30–7:30 PM in the UMB Campus Center (3rd Floor, Room 3540).
Are you interested in earning a Master's degree in educational leadership?
Please join our in-person information session on 3/31 for the Educational Leadership for Social Justice program. If you already have your Master's, please share with others who may be interested!
Please join us for the 2026 UELPS Night of Scholarship, cohosted by the Urban Education Leadership and Policy Studies Program and the Mauricio Gastón Institute for Latino Community Development and Public Policy!
Today we are happy to introduce you to one of our faculty members, Dr. Patricia Krueger-Henney. Dr. Krueger-Henney is an Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director for the Ph.D./Ed.D. Program.
The Urban Education Leadership & Policy Studies PhD/EdD program at the University of Massachusetts Boston is excited to launch its official Bluesky/Instagram account! Follow along as we highlight faculty, students, alumni, and program updates!
Today we are happy to introduce you to one of our faculty members, Dr. Abiola Farinde-Wu. Dr. Farinde-Wu is an Associate Professor in the Urban Education Leadership & Policy Studies program and Department Chair of the Leadership in Education department.
Today we are happy to introduce you to one of our faculty members, Casel Walker. Casel is the Graduate Program Director for the Educational Leadership for Social Justice M.Ed./CAGS Program.
Wrapping up a semester of research and teaching in community 🥳🎉
Thank you to @ledeptumb.bsky.social for bringing our students and faculty together at the end-of-the-semester social. There was delicious food and great conversations all around!
UMB Higher Ed Program takes #ASHE2025
Last week, our students and faculty attended the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) in Denver, CO.
Congratulations to Dr. Kandice Sumner, UELPS alumna, who is the new President and CEO of METCO!!!! metcoinc.org/dr-kandice-s...
The UMass Boston Higher Education Program welcomed back two of the program's founders, Dr. Zelda (Zee) Gamson and Dr. Linda Eisenmann, for a conversation about Dr. Gamson's recent memoir, Don't Play Like a Girl: A Midcentury Woman Leaps into Life. It was a special afternoon.
Faculty Spotlight! Jay Dee is a Professor in the HE Program. His research focuses on org. theory, HE leadership, and faculty careers and development. When he is not teaching, he can be found playing in a recreational flag football league or enjoying a hike in the mountains of New England.
Welcome everyone! We are now live on Bluesky! 🙌