Newswise — University of Massachusetts Boston Chancellor J. Keith Motley will host a gala event on November 7, 2008 to announce the Reverend Michael E. Haynes Distinguished Professorship in Urban Studies. The event will include a broad spectrum of local and national community leaders, family, and friends as they pay tribute to the Boston civil rights leader and former pastor of the Twelfth Baptist Church, and will kick off an effort to raise $2.5 million to fund the professorship.
The Reverend Michael E. Haynes Distinguished Professorship in Urban Studies, located within the John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies, will bring a distinguished scholar in the area of underserved urban youth development with special emphasis on education, healthcare, and other areas of public policy focused on strengthening urban communities. The Haynes professor will develop new research and explore opportunities to engage McCormack Graduate School students in addressing the multiple health, social, and academic challenges specific to the development of urban youth.
"The UMass Boston community embodies the dream that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Reverend Haynes shared, of a multi-ethnic and multi-cultural society," said Chancellor Motley. "I look forward to the Haynes professorship bringing a pioneer in the field of urban studies to strengthen and help carry out the university's urban mission."
Throughout his career, Reverend Haynes represented Roxbury and the South End of Boston as a state representative, was a member of numerous groups including the Attorney General's Committee on Drug Addiction and the Mayor's Committee on Violence. He was awarded honorary degrees from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Salem State College, Barrington College, Northeastern University, UMass Boston, and Boston University. Reverend Haynes is part of Boston's history, and one of its most admired and distinguished citizens.
The gala will be held on Friday, November 7, 2008, 6:00 p.m. at the World Trade Center, 164 Northern Ave, Boston. For more information visit www.umb.edu.
About the University of Massachusetts Boston: Established in 1964, UMass Boston prides itself on providing challenging teaching, distinguished research, and extensive public service to Boston and the Commonwealth. Through its six colleges—Liberal Arts, Science and Mathematics, Management, Nursing and Health Sciences, Public and Community Service, and Graduate College of Education—the McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies, and the Division of Corporate, Continuing, and Distance Education, UMass Boston offers undergraduate and graduate study to almost 14,000 students in more than 150 fields. For more information, please visit www.umb.edu.
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