The first-and-only student resident hall on UMass Boston’s Dorchester campus was re-named last week for the former chancellor, Dr. J. Keith Motley, and his wife Angela. The two-hour ceremony was a fitting and overdue tribute to the charismatic couple and drew luminaries from the world of academia, politics, and business to the tent, which was filled to overflow by a crowd that
Dr. Motley, the first Black chancellor in the history of UMass Boston, presided over unprecedented growth and rebuilding of the campus between 2007 and 2017