Finding Your Classroom Location- Harbor Campus

Campus Map example

If you are trying to determine the location of where your class will be meeting, good news! We’re here to de-code the coding on your class schedule from Wiser.

The first thing to do is log into Wiser, and then look under the heading “My Schedule” – it should be in the center of the landing page when you log in.

Remember, Wiser is the official record system for your classes, so you should start here to verify your class schedule and enrollment. Unless you are enrolled in an online only class, consider Blackboard to be a supplementary tool which some professors may use for their classes.

Blackboard does not ‘go-live’ until the first week of classes, so until then it may look blank for you when logging in there. If you are in an online-class, Blackboard will be your main point of contact for that specific class.

Second, you can use the Campus Map navigate to the Building that your class is in.

Finding Your Classroom Location
In Wiser, you will notice codes such as the following:

Example –  Room: Wheatley W01-0044wheately example

This will be held in the Wheatley Building, on the 1-st floor, in Room # 44. You can find the Wheatley Building and the rest of the campus buildings on the campus map. Wheately is noted as location #12 on the map.

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Campus map marked to illustrate the examples above.

 

Graduate Program Offices Open During Construction

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Area Under Construction image.V1 The Graduate Program Office is currently undergoing space renovations in our McCormack offices.

Fortunately, the work has been in progress over the winter session, and completion is expected sometime over the next few weeks of Spring 2016 semester.

During this time, the Graduate Program Office does remain open.The GPO staff, (Tara, Jeff and Steve), have been temporarily relocated.

Interim Office Locations

  • Tara is located in McCormack-5th floor, Room 5-254.
    She can best be reached via email: Tara.Norton@umb.edu
  • Steve is located in McCormack-5th floor Room 5-207, (the office directly across from the GPO renovations).
    He can be best reached at Steve.Sze@umb.edu
  • Jeff is located at the Bayside campus, lower level office.
    He can be best reached via email: Jeffrey.Masse@umb.ed

We will remain available as always by email. To arrange an appointment, email Steve.Sze@umb.edu. You may also email Tara and Jeff directly at: Tara.Norton@umb.edu or Jeffrey.Masse@umb.edu.

Thank-you for your patience and flexibility as we undergo these renovations.

We will be continue to keep you updated as the project progresses, and share with you the grand re-opening of our offices.

Visit our Open House @ One Beacon on Dec 17

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You are
Welcome!

UMass Boston Entering BostonConnect with UMass Boston at our new location @ One Beacon.

COME TO THE OPEN HOUSE
Thursday, December 17, 2015
One Beacon Street, Boston
Refreshments will be served

The College of Management staff and faculty are looking forward to launching Spring 2016 semester classes at our new location. We hope you share in our excitement of having a UMB presence in downtown Boston, just footsteps away from the Financial district, Capitol Hill, Faneuil Hall, and City Hall.

Opportunity to enter you name in a raffle for a gift certificate to the UMass Club,
now located on the 32 floor @ One Beacon.

We encourage you to invite any co-worker, family or friend that may be considering an MBA to join you and us that day. We look forward to share with them the new opportunities that UMass Boston can offer at One Beacon.
Throughout the day interested students will be able to meet with graduate admissions representatives, advisors, and faculty from the College of Management. Transcript evaluation and course registration will be available throughout the day as well.

Open House Agenda – Thursday, December 17

12:00             –   Open House Begins
12:15 – 12:45 –  Brief Information Session
1:00 – 5:00   –  Tours, One-on-One Meetings, Transcript Evaluation and Course Registration
5:30 – 6:00   –  Brief Information Session
6:30               – Open House Concludes

Stop by anytime – Admission advisors and staff will be available throughout the day to meet with you. 

Let us know you will be joining us!~ RSVP today!

We look forward to seeing you,

College of Management Graduate Programs
University of Massachusetts Boston
We See the World in Boston, and Boston in the World.

College of Management Graduate Classes Now Offered in Downtown Boston Location!

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UMass Club / BostonThe College of Management is happy to announce that starting with the Spring 2016 semester, we will be offering courses right in downtown Boston at the new UMass Club building, located at One Beacon Street.

Spring 2016 courses offered:

MBA AF 620  Financial Management
Tuesdays 5:30pm-8:15pm (section 03, class #13834)
MBA MS 635  Operations Management
Thursdays 5:30pm-8:15pm (section 02, class #13833)
MBAMGT 650  Organizational Analysis & Skills for Managers
Mondays 5:30pm-8:15pm (section 03, class #13770)

These classes are open to students from all CM Graduate programs.

Register today to join us right in downtown Boston for Spring of 2016!

 

MBA Degree Requirements: Changes to the degree and what that means for MBA students.

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MBA Degree Requirements:
Changes to the degree and what that means for MBA students.

Starting Fall 2015, there are now 2 sets of degree requirements for MBA students, which are based on when a student matriculated (entered) into the MBA program.

  • If you entered the program before Fall 2015, then you are required to complete 8 electives.
  •  If you entered the program starting Fall 2015 or after, then you are required to complete 6 electives.

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Requirements for each program can be found on the Student Resource page, under Course Planning Guides. You can also view them below:

Course Planning Guides (linked below, MS-Word format)
MBA (Flex) Planning Guide (started Fall 2015 and after)
MBA Planning Guide (started prior to Fall 2015)
Professional MBA (P-MBA) Planning Guide
MSA Planning Guide
MSF Planning Guide
MSF with Investment Specialization Planning Guide
MSIM Planning Guide
MSIT Planning Guide

This is a change to the MBA program only, that takes effect for matriculated students starting Fall 2015. It is a University policy that program changes can only take effect for the student population that enters during the first semester the change is approved. This means that students already entered into the program are not eligible for the new requirements, and must complete the requirements for the degree that were in effect at the time that they matriculated into the program.

This has been discussed at the University and Registrar’s levels already, and the policy stands as stated above.

 

 

 

Bayside Campus Open House

This fall, the College of Management expanded its classrooms and many accounting courses and the Professional MBA courses are held at the Bayside Campus location.

We would like to invite you to visit the space on Monday, October 19th, 4:00pm-5:45pm. Bayside Campus is located at 150 Mount Vernon Street, the Open House will take place in the Lower Level- Suffolk Room (click here for an interactive map and directions).

We hope to see you there, light refreshments will be served.

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Join CM Tuesday October 6th for the BBJ Power Breakfast: Winning the Talent Race

Dear College of Management students –

 Please join the College of Management and the Boston Business Journal on October 6th for a conversation about how education, employers, and government/policy can help close the skills gap in Massachusetts. Student tickets are complimentary. Please enter the code UMASSSTUDENT when you register.

Register here.

Tuesday, October 6
7:00am-10:00am
Campus Center, 3rd floor
University of Massachusetts Boston
100 Morrissey Boulevard
Boston, MA 02125

 We hope to see you there.

Thank you,
Andrea Reardon

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Finding your classroom location: Bayside Campus

The Bayside campus is located adjacent to the Bayside parking lot, near the Double Tree hotel and very close to the JFK/UMass Red Line T stop.

Finding your classes

Example – Room: BCL – Hamp – Bayside, Hampden

Bayside example

This class will be held in the Bayside Building (sometimes also referred to as Mt. Vernon Street, or CAPS) in the Hampden room. You can find the Bayside building (noted on the map as location #20 – 150 Mt Vernon Street) on the map. Once you get to the building, there are signs pointing you down the stairs to the class rooms. You can also find GPS coordinates, and an interactive map with directions to the Bayside Building here.

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Directions to UMass Boston

 Bayside Campus / CAPS Building

Click here to view an interactive map of the location. 

Address on GPS: 246-252 Mt Vernon St, Boston, MA 02125 (Actual address is 150 Mount Vernon St.)
UMass Boston Bayside (CAPS Building – College of Advancing and Professional Studies)
Near Bayside parking lot, opposite entrance to Marketplace Café in the DoubleTree hotel.
Classes will be held in the lower level rooms, for example: Suffolk Room (V00-Suff).

 By car from the North

Take Interstate 93 South through Boston to Exit 15 (Columbia Road/JFK Library). Take a left at the end of the ramp onto Columbia Road. Go straight into the rotary. Take the second exit (a right) onto Day Blvd. Take your first left onto Mt. Vernon Street. The UMass Boston Bayside Lot is straight ahead, past the Double Tree Hotel, on your left.

 By car from the South    

Take Interstate 93 North; Take exit 15
Take a Right at the end of the ramp onto Columbia Road. Go straight into the rotary. Take the second exit (a right) onto Day Blvd. Take your first left onto Mt. Vernon Street. The UMass Boston Bayside Lot is straight ahead, past the Double Tree Hotel, on your left.

Walking directions, upon arrival to the parking lot:

Walk toward Double Tree hotel (towards Mt. Vernon Street,  near the Marketplace Café side) and enter the building on the right just across from the Marketplace Café. You will pass under a long awning overhead. Enter the building through black metal double door to the main lobby. There will be signs directing you once you enter the building.

Walking directions from JFK/UMass MBTA station:
Walk along Mount Vernon street after leaving the station. You will see a sign to enter the DoubleTree hotel, on the left. Use this entrance, walking along the left side of the building. Across from the Marketplace Café entrance, you will see a red awning indicating the entrance to the building where we are holding the information session.

To classes (once inside the building):

Once in the lobby, walk toward the reception desk and turn left.  Head down the stairs located on the left, walk past the glass room and turn right. Walk through the open double white doors. The rooms have their names above the doors along with sign holders for the meeting time.

There will be signs indicating the College of Management classrooms.

 

 

Grad Program Offices have moved!

We’ve Moved!

We are happy to share with our students, that the Graduate Program Office has moved down the hall, into our own suite of offices.

We are still on the 5th floor, you can now find us adjacent to the first set of elevators in McCormack, and there is a sign hanging in the hallway to mark our new location. The room numbers are McCormack 5/209-2011

Students are welcome to stop by and visit the new space, and of course as always, feel free to contact us to make an appointment to discuss any academic planning as needed.

 

GradCm@umb.edu for general inquires and to make an appointment

Jeffrey.Masse@umb.edu advising, last name A-M

Tara.Norton@umb.edu advising, last name N-Z

Masters Thesis Defense: Bjoern P Stengel

Title: Corporate responses to Rana Plaza: a comparative case study

Members of the defense committee

Professor Alessia Contu (Adviser/Chair, Dept. of Management and Marketing),

Professor  Atreya Chakraborty (Reader/MTO program director)

Friday, July 17, 2015 at 2 PM

McCormack Building – 5th floor – Room 614 Deans Conference Room

Abstract: The thesis deals with corporate responses to the Rana Plaza building collapse and compares the efforts that have been made within the two major frameworks that emerged after the event: the Bangladesh Accord on Fire and Building Safety and the Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety. It is designed as a comparative case study, which aims to provide a deeper understanding regarding what has been done by Western companies, local manufacturers, labor unions, and the Bangladeshi government until today and what still needs to be done in order to create sustainable change in working conditions in the clothing industry in this area.