Veterans protest UMass budget cuts Joiner Institute forced to lay off staff - Karen Morales, Bay State Banner

Following a period of financial turmoil at UMass Boston, war veterans, staff members and supporters of the William Joiner Institute for the Study of War and Social Consequences gathered last week at the Dorchester Vietnam War Memorial to protest the school’s decision to cut funding. On National Vietnam War Veterans Day, March 29, the demonstrators said that within the last year, the institute has had to lay off all of its full-time staff members and cut programs such as the Veterans Upward Bound Program, which helped veterans matriculate from service into higher education. The cuts are part of a school-wide crisis of staff layoffs, program cancellations and increased tuition rates to offset UMass Boston’s $30 million budget deficit, linked to campus construction projects. http://baystatebanner.com/news/2018/apr/04/veterans-protest-umass-budget-cuts/