its campus. Mount Ida students were given a guaranteed transfer to UMass Dartmouth, and the campus became part of UMass Amherst.
=== Springfield Satellite Center of UMass Amherst ===
The UMass Amherst Henry M. Thomas III Center at Springfield is a center for secondary instruction of the university located in Springfield to connect the university to the nearest metropolitan area, which is located 25 miles away.
=== Campus safety ===
Riots occurred after the Boston Red Sox lost the 1986 World Series, won in 2004 and 2007, after the Red Sox were eliminated in the 2003 and 2008 playoffs, after UMass' football team lost in the Division I-AA football championship game in 2006 and after the Patriots first Super Bowl victory over St. Louis in Super Bowl XXXVI. The majority of these riots have been non-violent on the side of the students, except for the 1986 riot in which an argument between hundreds of students intensified into racial altercations where a black student was attacked and beaten to unconsciousness by …
