UMass president lobbies to restore money to budget - Laura Krantz, Boston Globe

With one Beacon Hill victory under his belt, Martin T. Meehan, president of the University of Massachusetts, is going for another: lobbying state lawmakers to restore money the governor vetoed from the university budget and pay for collectively bargained raises to staff and professors that have gone unfunded for a year. Two weeks ago, Meehan succeeded in negotiating a historic change with the governor and lawmakers to improve the way the university bills families, a change all sides have hailed as a win for transparency. But in the same move, Governor Charlie Baker sliced $5.2 million from the university’s piece of the state pie to $526 million, saying it should find savings elsewhere. https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/07/26/meehan-fights-restore-million-umass-budget/sATknKTQCbJNnSdELKTjJJ/story.html