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What’s next for UMass Dartmouth arts? School isn’t saying
Administrators have not provided any answers about what shape the arts program will take next semester, including where students might expect classes to happen.
CVPA students bemoan loss of school they thought they attended
“You have baited my colleagues and I into moving across the country (and in many cases, across the world) under promise of certain educational and professional opportunities. By then freely electing to break this promise, you actively handicapped our educational and professional development.” — Student Matthew Napoli
Local officials admit CVPA not coming back to New Bedford
Everyone, it seems, except Mayor Jon Mitchell, is now publicly conceding that the College of Visual and Performing Arts will never come back to its longtime home in the Star Store in downtown New Bedford.
Fallon Navarro a fierce advocate … and an imaginative artist
UMass Dartmouth MFA candidate may be best known for her role as leader in the Star Store fight, but the very reason she came to the program was to make art and to display it publicly.
Loss of Star Store almost invisible at inauguration
Inaugurations in New Bedford are a homespun thing. The high school band plays “America the Beautiful” and the police and veterans march in with rifles, the firefighters with axes. The mayor, City Council, School Committee, etc., behind them. I love it, and it’s important. It sets the tone for the very vital area of our…
Fuller tries to checkmate the city on Star Store campus
If the university really wanted the New Bedford campus, the state agencies would be on board.
Some MFA students are back in New Bedford
“Basically, the Star Store was this program. The MFA program was the Star Store.” — Union leader Nick Gula of the university’s Maintainers, Local 6350
UMD arts alum to chancellor: ‘Oh, the damage you have done’
Former student: “Your administration has gravely injured the CVPA program and has demonstrated itself to be nothing but a bad-faith actor when it comes to fulfilling all that was promised to its students.”
‘Campus feels like it’s dying’: What closing an arts building could mean for UMass Dartmouth
Public universities can no longer afford to think about public impact more than their own bottom line, one expert says. This could spell trouble for UMass Dartmouth.
UMass Dartmouth leadership has lost all credibility
Chancellor Fuller and his team have squandered something he can’t get back with the people of the region he is supposed to serve — his trustworthiness
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