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University of Massachusetts System: UTeach Turns STEM Majors Into Sought-After Teachers
July 14, 2021
BOSTON, Massachusetts, July 14 -- The University of Massachusetts System issued the following news release:

Whenever the chair of the Science Department at Lowell High School has an opening for a teacher, she calls up the director of UMass Lowell's UTeach program, Assoc. Clinical Prof. Sumudu Lewis.

Lowell High has hired at least a dozen UTeach graduates as science and math teachers since the first students completed the program in 2014, and most are still there.

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