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News release: A University of Massachusetts Board of Trustees committee has approved a borrowing plan that will pay for $546 million in construction projects on all five of the system’s campuses. Among the projects to be funded under the plan: 1,500 beds of new student housing at UMass Amherst, $182 million; a new academic building for UMass Boston, $100 million; a marine science building at UMass Dartmouth, $25 million; and a new campus garage for UMass Lowell, $20 million.
