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Meehan Takes Charge Of UMass With Vow To Elevate University's Stature

University of Massachusetts President Martin Meehan spoke to students at the flagship Amherst campus shortly after his appointment in May.
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University of Massachusetts President Martin Meehan spoke to students at the flagship Amherst campus shortly after his appointment in May.
University of Massachusetts President Martin Meehan spoke to students at the flagship Amherst campus shortly after his appointment in May.
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University of Massachusetts President Martin Meehan spoke to students at the flagship Amherst campus shortly after his appointment in May.

Martin Meehan began his tenure as president of the University of Massachusetts Wednesday by a holding a roundtable discussion with students at UMass Boston.

Meehan said he intends to build UMass into “the best public university system in the nation.”  During an interview in May he talked about ways to elevate the university’s stature.

"It is looking at how to improve, achieve more excellence. You can always increase your research and continue to improve," he said.

Meehan, a former congressman, was chancellor at UMass Lowell for the last 8 years.  He succeeds Robert Caret who left after four years as president of Umass to head up the University of Maryland.

Meehan was the unanimous choice when the board of trustees met on May 1st to select a new leader.

He will be paid $769,500 in the first year of a five-year contract.  If Meehan leaves before the five year contract expires he will have to pay a financial penalty to the university.

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Paul Tuthill is WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief. He’s been covering news, everything from politics and government corruption to natural disasters and the arts, in western Massachusetts since 2007. Before joining WAMC, Paul was a reporter and anchor at WRKO in Boston. He was news director for more than a decade at WTAG in Worcester. Paul has won more than two dozen Associated Press Broadcast Awards. He won an Edward R. Murrow award for reporting on veterans’ healthcare for WAMC in 2011. Born and raised in western New York, Paul did his first radio reporting while he was a student at the University of Rochester.

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