A fierce student advocate and accomplished scholar who is deeply engaged with the City of Lowell has been named the next dean of UMass Lowell’s College of Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.

In 1981, the young ethnographer Kim Hopper and his colleague Ellen Baxter published the first extensive documentation of modern-era homelessness in New York City–dubbed Private Lives/Public ...

Sue Kim, who joined UMass Lowell in 2011 and has served as associate dean of undergraduate studies in the college since 2018, has been appointed as the next dean of the College of Fine Arts, ...