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UMass System Gets $50M Gift, Largest In School History UMass System Gets $50M Gift, Largest In School History
UMass System Gets $50M Gift, Largest In School History The University of Massachusetts received a windfall from a pair of alumni that represents the largest cash gift in the school’s history. UMass announced that Robert J. and Donna Manning have provided a $50 million gift that is “aimed at increasing access and opportunity across the five-campus university system.” Moving forward, the first $15 million will be used to endow the UMass Boston nursing program, which will be renamed as the Robert and Donna Manning College of Nursing and Health Sciences in honor of the pair. Donna Manning had a 35-year career as an oncology nurse at Boston Medical…

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Hartford University, Others, Could Go Extinct Due To COVID-19, Says Higher Education Critic Hartford University, Others, Could Go Extinct Due To COVID-19, Says Higher Education Critic
Hartford University, Others, Could Go Extinct Due To Covid-19, Says Higher Education Critic The University of Hartford is on a list of universities that are facing extinction, according to Scott Galloway, an influential higher education critic. Galloway, a New York University marketing professor, poured over data for hundreds of U.S. colleges and universities to see which ones will emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic and which ones won’t. Right now, higher education institutions across the country are making plans on how to re-open their campuses in the fall, if at all.  Hartford made Galloway's schools that may “perish” list because it has a “sodium pentothal cocktail of high …

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by Kristin Palpini