The interim chancellor of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Thomas W. Cole Jr., has agreed to weekly negotiations from now until February with students who organized a strike last week.
At a meeting on Tuesday, undergraduate and graduate-student leaders pressed Mr. Cole to schedule open hearings for students to voice their concerns. Several hundred participants in the two-day strike had stated four demands: a drop in student fees, more attention to diversity, the withdrawal of routine police patrols from dormitories, and a greater student say in the use of campus space.
But Mr. Cole agreed only to weekly meetings with 10 students, during a time span that includes final exams and winter break. They plan to draft together a proposal to address the students’ concerns. —Sara Lipka
