Center for Field Services & Studies

The Center for Field Services and Studies (CFSS), is located in O'Leary Library of UMass Lowell's South Campus. Now in its twentieth year of operation, the Center serves public elementary and secondary schools in the northeast region of Massachusetts, and increasingly throughout the state.

The Center, an initiative within the University of Massachusetts Graduate School of Education, reflects the University's commitment to excellence in public education, the key to sustained regional economic development. A direct outgrowth of the Lowell Model for Educational Excellence, a comprehensive study of a local public school system, the Center was formed in 1984 to improve P-12 education in local elementary and secondary schools and to create and foster viable educational partnerships among university faculty, professional groups, community agencies and the private sector to respond ton the needs of public schools.