Mandate

Upon joining the UMass Lowell system in 1991, the Lowell campus was given a special charge by the Trustees: “The mission and major purposes of the University of Massachusetts Lowell are to provide to students an affordable education of high
quality and to focus some of its scholarship and public service on assisting sustainable regional economic and social development.” This mandate grew indigenously from what we are and have been – an institution deeply engaged in the larger community: its industries, its schools, its hospitals, its culture and its democratic processes.