Professional Opportunities
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The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth offers significant professional opportunities for professors, administrators, and others in the field of higher education. This public university is distinguished by its vision and vitality, signaled by impressive expansion in academic programs, enrollment and employment, research initiatives and funding, and community service. Our location in southeastern Massachusetts, among the state’s most liveable regions, serves to heighten the appeal of a career with UMass Dartmouth.
UMass Dartmouth: moving ahead
- Of our 359 tenured faculty, 130 have been hired in the last five years.
- Sponsored research has tripled in the last five years, now at $20 million-plus:
- New 22,000 square foot research building opened in 2007
- The university supports faculty through two internal funds dedicated to research and creative activities, and two grants for projects that address critical community needs
- Our location facilitates collaborations with Boston and Providence institutions, including Tufts, MIT, Brown, Harvard, and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
- The School for Marine Science and Technology is internationally recognized for its graduate programs, research endeavors, and innovative community partnerships.
- New graduate programs have been added in all colleges, in fields such as biomedical engineering, public policy, Portuguese Studies, computer engineering, and nursing.
- We offer new and updated undergraduate curricula in education, materials engineering, business, crime and justice as well as a partnership with Southern New England Law School.
- Classrooms, studios, lecture halls, and labs have been modernized and updated to reach and teach a technologically sophisticated generation of students.
Benefits at UMass Dartmouth
- University benefits include group health, dental, and life insurance; programs for disability income protection, retirement, flexible spending accounts, workers compensation, tax-sheltered annuities; employee-vendor discounts.
- Employees’ spouses, partners, and dependents are eligible for tuition waivers at state public colleges and universities.
- On-campus Children’s Center for Learning provides care for employees’ children aged two years and nine months to seven. Program includes an educational component, and staff have education degrees.
- Center for Teaching Excellence, staffed by faculty, sponsors range of programs focused on professional development.
- New Faculty Institute advises on university life and issues such as appointments and tenure.
Superior quality of life
By any measure, few regions match the quality of life within southeastern Massachusetts:
- a location rich in natural beauty and resources
- an economy that is growing
- distinctive communities with quality, affordable homes
- a wide range of social, cultural, and recreational activity
Living in this area offers:
- an unusual, appealing mix of urban, suburban, and rural, combining art galleries, historic districts, and ethnic restaurants with bike paths, working farms, and ocean beaches
- an environment that offers the best in recreation opportunities and serves as a research resource for fields such as marine science
- the ability to buy homes comparable to those in Greater Boston at far lower prices
- career opportunities for partners and spouses. The number of high tech, finance, and health care companies in the area is on the rise, with an expected 1 million-plus jobs by 2010 for those entering the job market
- good schools, public and private. You can review the results of the state’s standardized testing of public school systems at profiles.doe.mass.edu
- a thriving arts and entertainment scene that runs a wide gamut, from the folk concerts at the Narrows Center for the Arts, in Fall River, to plays at the Zeiterion Theater and exhibits at our arts campus as well as the Whaling Museum in New Bedford
- easy access to major highways, airports, and rail transportation
Statistics
- 8,756 undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education students
- 64 undergraduate fields of study
- 25 graduate programs
- 359 faculty, one-third hired in the past five years
- 91% of faculty have terminal degrees
- 21% of 313 tenured or tenure track professors are persons of color
- 33% women
- 1,028 university employees
All information based on 2006-2007 data
