Katherine Newman

Katherine S. Newman (born February 21, 1953) is the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs of The University of Massachusetts system in the Office of the President in Boston and American author. She previously served as Provost of UMass Amherst, a professor of sociology at Johns Hopkins University, Princeton University, and Harvard University. Newman received a Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for No Shame in My Game in 2000. She is also the author of Reskilling America: Learning to Labor in the Twenty-First Century (2016). On June 20, 2018, Newman was appointed interim chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Boston by the universitys board of trustees effective July 1, 2018.

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