Kate Robinson
Apr 5, 2021
MATTAPOISETT — Student leaders at UMass Dartmouth have published a letter this week calling for Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Dr. Shannon Finning — who is also a member of the Old Rochester Regional and Mattapoisett School Committees — to resign for failing to address the community’s concerns with systemic racism at the school.
In a letter sent to local media contacts and published in student newspaper The Torch, six student leaders — including Student Government Association President Liz Anusauskas and Class of 2021 President Pearl McCarthy — asked university officials for Dr. Finning’s immediate resignation, calling her “unfit to serve” in her current role.