Jeremy Korr Ph.D.

No matter where your career or educational interests lie, the School of Arts & Sciences provides the foundation for every student and the skills employers are seeking in their employees.

Instead of a generic approach to general education, we promote a competency based approach that allows students to demonstrate critical thinking or writing, or the development of an ethical framework by which to make decisions, through a variety of courses across the curriculum in subjects of interest and relevancy to the lived world. From music to food, from the sociology of the family to constitutional rights, there is a course that will stimulate your intellectual curiosity.

Many associate Arts and Sciences with biology, freshman composition and history 101, but that is only a small piece of what we offer. UMass Global's School of Arts & Sciences covers an array of subjects and disciplines including liberal studies, criminal justice, sociology, and psychology. We even offer a Bachelor's in Applied Studies that allows you to design your own curriculum based on your work experience, your interests and future goals.

As you consider your education options, keep in mind these words from Albert Einstein:

It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.

Let us help open your mind to new possibilities.

Sincerely,

Dr. Jeremy Korr
Interim Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost
University of Massachusetts Global

Biography

Dr. Jeremy Korr has served as dean of the School of Arts & Sciences since 2011. With master’s and doctoral degrees in American Studies from the University of Maryland, Dr. Korr has published, taught, and presented in the areas of urban and transportation history, food and culture, cultural geography, American Studies, and higher education. His prior appointments include associate dean of Arts & Sciences; associate director of the College Park Scholars Program in American Cultures at the University of Maryland, College Park; and visiting assistant professor of history in the Student Recommended Faculty Program at the University of California, Irvine. He joined University of Massachusetts Global as a full-time faculty member in 2005 and has worked at the Victorville, Ontario, Irvine, and Online campuses.

Dr. Korr serves as University of Massachusetts Global’s lead representative to the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) and the Council of Colleges of Arts & Sciences (CCAS). He is a member of the American Conference of Academic Deans, the Association for Continuing Higher Education, the American Studies Association, the Organization of American Historians, the Society for American City and Regional Planning History, the Online Learning Consortium, and the Association for the Study of Food and Society.  In addition to his academic work, Dr. Korr has led contra dance and folk dance programs for communities and schools since 1992.