<p>[Give</a> our public colleges a helping hand - The Boston Globe](<a href=“http://www.boston.com/news/education/articles/2010/10/31/give_our_public_colleges_a_helping_hand/]Give”>http://www.boston.com/news/education/articles/2010/10/31/give_our_public_colleges_a_helping_hand/)</p>
<p>Although not solely about UMass Amherst, some interesting insights to the Amherst campus and other state schools in Massachusetts. And unlike, the Boston Globe occasional series, which is a hatchet job on UMass Amherst, this offers constructive ideas of some of the problems facing the state college system in Massachusetts and ways to deal with them, and Freeland looks like the guy to deal with them</p>