Concrete Dreams & Rising Seas: How UMass Boston Became the World’s Favorite Metaphor for Higher Ed
Umass Boston: The Cinder-Block Campus That Became Global Schadenfreude’s Favorite Punchline By Dave’s Foreign Correspondent-at-Large, still jet-lagged from a layover in Doha Arrive at JFK, take the Silver Line, and twenty-three minutes after you’ve watched Bostonians argue about the correct pronunciation of “Harvard,” you’ll reach a concrete peninsula that looks like the Soviet Union hired…