Campus Resources
The campus offers top-notch athletic facilities and state of the art equipment,
including a new indoor swimming pool, basketball courts, running track, tennis
courts and fitness center with weight room and aerobics room. Nearby, within
five to ten miles, are beautiful sandy beaches and recreational sites (www.umassd.edu/campus).
Historic New Bedford is a five-mile drive from the main campus. The city hosts
many festivals, ethnic foods, cultural events and activities. Please visit
our southcoast page for links
to local attractions.
Boston and Providence, Rhode Island are an hour drive from campus. The bridges
to Cape Cod can be reached within a half-hour drive from New Bedford. Participants
are encouraged to share rides, initiate weekend activities, indulge in long
walks and social talks, and relax together on the weekends. We will plan to
sponsor some special “Sunday Sunset Sessions” as optional events
to regroup with peers and connect as a community prior to each new week, just
for pleasure Please see our Syllabus for a schedule
of day by day activities.
There will be one required overnight trip to Maine in August during peak tourist
season to the city of Portland that has undergone a spectacular revitalization
in recent years. All participants are expected to pay for their own cost of
lodging and for food in Portland. For your convenience, we have bookd a block
of rooms at the Holiday Inn by The Bay in Old Town/Portland; and the approximate
cost is $210 for a single room per person, or $155 for a double room per person.
This price includes one dinner and one full breakfast at the hotel. There
will be time after dinner to visit sites in the city, which stays “open”
late in the summer. An optional early morning walking tour of Portland Harbor
and historic sites overlooking Casco Bay is included in this price. Good news:
All costs for participants’ coach travel and admission fees for all
field trips & museum visits during our Institute are covered by NEH.
You will be “free” on the weekends for readings, relaxing, recreation,
and touring. A few optional events, called “Sunday Sunsets”, are
now being developed as a way for everyone to re-group socially prior to the
start of the next week’s academic activities (for example, we’re
planning croquet tournaments, sand sculpting awards, choral and folk music,
storytelling, etc). Please visit our website for periodic updates on regional
attractions and cultural events, too.
Technical Concerns
There is no wireless Internet access in the apartment/dormitories; however,
there are Ethernet network ports in every dorm room and wireless access in
other campus buildings and outdoors. Participants must bring their own Ethernet
cables to access the ports in the dorms. This type of connection requires
the computer to be equipped with an Ethernet Adapter. If a participant desires
to have an active network connection in the dorm room the computer must meet
minimum configurations. More information is available on the CITS website:
www.umassd.edu/cits/network/guidelines.cfm
Upon arrival, participants will visit the Computer and Technology Services
office in the library and establish a temporary UMass Dartmouth email account
in order to obtain access to the Internet in the dormitories and to access
the wireless network on campus. The email account will also enable participants
to use extensive online research resources available through the library.
Participants also have access to the personal computing labs in the library
and at the Star Store campus in downtown New Bedford.
UMass Dartmouth Dormitories
UMass Dartmouth pine grove walkway
