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A Spring Renewal

Spring is approaching (well, it’s already here in college-speak), so now’s the time to explore those spring awakenings. My course, Intro to Online Journalism, is offered through UMassOnline’s award-winning Certificate of Journalism program. Class begins Jan. 19, you can register through Jan. 31.

Do you support your alma mater?

For time immemorial or so it seems, UMass Amherst (nee UMass) has struggled with its alumni outreach. I think a lot of that has to do with a long-standing patriarchical view the campus and its inhabitants have toward Beacon Hill. We want Boston to pay for everything. And for a while, that formula had worked.