Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 16:22:49 -0500 From: Frank Borgers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: LABOR CENTER MASTER'S DEGREE PROGRAM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LABOR CENTER MASTER'S DEGREE PROGRAM (please respond to: Tom Juravich, Director - [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Over the past few years we have seen the emergence of a new and invigorated labor movement. Labor is back -- organizing, making connections with communities, building coalitions, and fighting for dignity and justice for American workers. We've also seen a growing interest in union democracy, membership participation, and an openness to new ideas and new approaches. With programs such as Union Summer and the Organizing Institute, links are being made to a whole new generation of union activists, organizers, and leaders. It is a truly exhilarating time to be part of the labor movement. The Labor Relations and Research Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is the premier graduate program in the country for those who want to work in the labor movement. Our Master of Science degree is a multi-disciplinary program which combines course work and an internship in a unique and exciting graduate program. Coursework toward the Master's Degree provides not only the skills necessary to work in the labor movement - expertise in organizing, collective bargaining, and union leadership - but also an opportunity to examine the larger theoretical and strategic issues confronting workers and their unions in the new millennium. A degree from the Labor Center guarantees a wide range of job opportunities within the labor movement. Our program provides broad-based training in labor research, economics, history, organizing, collective bargaining, and the law, coupled with elective courses on specific labor topics that equip our graduates for a variety of positions in labor. Our graduates have been in high demand among unions and related organizations and over the past five years our placement rate has been 100%. Our diverse student body comes from a variety of undergraduate programs in the social sciences and humanities. They bring with them different kinds and levels of experience, including campus organizing, organizing against sweatshops, labor community work, and direct work with the labor movement. We hope that you will consider applying to our program. For more information about the program, please contact: Tom Juravich, Director Labor Center 125 Draper Hall Box 32020 University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003 Phone: 413-545-5986 Fax: 413-545-0110 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or check out our web site at: http://www.umass.edu/lrrc
