Reflection from the Dean

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Reflection

The SMS intercampus program is unique in the fact that it unifies four diverse UMass campuses through faculty and student collaboration. Although the University of Massachusetts is a statewide system, each campus has its own distinct history and educational appeal. However, as different as the four campuses may be, each campus shares a common goal of academic excellence, which is reflected in the SMS program through its faculty and students.

The SMS program began with only a handful of students. Over the past eight years, the school has developed a reputation of excellence and its numbers have grown. Even in the past academic year, the school has added more faculty members and it has surpassed the eighty student mark. The Fall 2010 semester had one of the largest incoming classes in the school's history. Just like our faculty members, each student is hand selected by the admissions committee and the Dean to ensure that the SMS alumni are the best and the brightest in the field of marine science.

Our most recent scholastic report only displays SMS's academic activity from July 2007 to June 2009, but it serves as a testament of what is to come. It is the hope of the Dean, faculty, and UMass administration that SMS will continue to attract intellectually able students who will be educated by our world class professors who also share a passion for marine science, because it is our students after all who will continue to promote the legacy and represent the magnitude that our intercampus institution will have in the field of marine science and beyond.

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