UMass Boston feels snubbed after Mount Ida deal
UMass Boston students and professors are livid after learning that UMass Amherst will buy a new campus in Newton for its students, while Boston is forced to keep cutting people and programs to make ends meet.
To them, the university system trustees’ approval of Amherst’s plan reinforces a longstanding belief on the Dorchester campus that the University of Massachusetts Boston is considered second-best.
“The board just really doesn’t care about Boston,’’ said Katie Mitrano, president of the UMass Boston undergraduate student body.
