• "Massachusetts’ profile as an innovator could reach new levels"  Boston Globe, Jan. 26, 2015.
  As a new governor enters office, it’s time to think boldly and differently about Massachusetts’ place in the world economy.
• "To ex-UMass chief, meeting Mandela was a life highlight;"   Telegram & Gazette Dec. 9, 2013. "Seven years after former University of Massachusetts President Jack M. Wilson met Nelson Mandela, Mr. Wilson still sounds in awe of the late South African leader."

• At Conference, Leaders of ‘Traditional’ Online Learning Meet Upstart Free Providers; Chronicle of Higher Education; October 11, 2012
  “If we had 10-percent completion rates at UMass Online, I’d be in the Massachusetts jail instead of the Massachusetts university,” he joked. He praised the new entrants for bringing attention to the value of online education, but said that “is not who has led online learning, or who is going to lead online learning.”
  

• UMass Prez Wilson chips in for $2.1M scholarship fund in his own name    Boston Business Journal:   

• Jack Wilson on Leaving a Legacy   Boston Business Journal -MassHighTech: Dr. Wilson established the Jack M. Wilson Presidential Scholarship Fund with a gift of an Insurance Policy worth $1,775,000 -funded with performance bonuses that he was to have received under his contracts over the years.  To that was added $230,000 from a dinner honoring his retirement as President and another $120,000 raised during his inauguration.  The total value of the Scholarship fund at his retirement as President in July of 2011 was over $2.1 million.
  

• Jack M. Wilson appointed as President and CEO of the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate.

• Mass Live: UMass President Helps Establish Scholarship

• "Univ, of Mass. to name scholarship fund recognizing public service in honor of President Jack Wilson" June 2, 2011.

• UMass leader to step down: Wilson reshaped 5 campuses as ‘one university’ Boston Globe March 1, 2010.
   http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2010/03/01/umass_president_jack_wilson_to_step_down_in_2011/

• UMass’  Jack Wilson on leaving a legacy; Mass High Tech The Journal of New England Technology;  August 4, 2010. 
   http://www.masshightech.com/stories/2010/08/02/weekly11-UMass-Jack-Wilson-on-leaving-a-legacy.html 

• Outgoing UMass President Jack Wilson wins praise for boosting university's stature;" Springfield Republican July 8, 2011.

• Boston Globe; "Revving up the state's economy with brain power." (Version on Boston.com); January 2, 2005. "I like to say the path to economic in Massachusetts goes through UMass."

• University of Massachusetts Honors Nelson Mandela With Honorary Degree; BusinessWire; Feb. 26, 2006. "President Wilson, who is visiting South Africa with a UMass academic delegation, was welcomed to the country by Nelson Mandela, who said he appreciated the University's long-standing commitment to the people of South Africa and their struggle for democracy. Mr. Mandela referred to the contribution made by UMass toward addressing South Africa's social challenges, especially in the fields of HIV/AIDS, youth education and technology. He also thanked the university for undertaking important historical work about the freedom struggle."

• UMass Pledges $130 Million in Financial Aid to Students; Boston Herald , Feb 14, 2011.

• UMass Research Funding Reaches Record; Boston Globe, Feb. 10, 2011.

• UMass Research Funding Breaks $500 Million; BostonBusJrnl;  Feb. 9, 2011.

• UMass Sets New Research Spending Record: MassHighTech; Feb. 7 2011.

• UMass Ranks Eight Among U.S. Universities for Tech Income;  MassHighTech; . 20, 2010. 

• UMass President Jack Wilson announces 'substantial agreement' on Holyoke computer center; Springfield Republican; Thursday, October 01, 2009 http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/10/umass_president_jack_wilson_an.html
• Former site of Mastex Industries chosen as home for Holyoke's high performance computing center; Springfield Republican:  Published: Monday, August 09, 2010 <Local Copy> or http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2010/08/former_site_of_mastex_industri.html
• UMass Officials Hope To Pick New President Thursday;  WGBH Boston, January 13, 2011
• UMass President Jack Wilson tells Massachusetts legislators Deval Patrick's budget leaves university $54.5 million short; Springfield Republican February 22, 2011
• OP-EDS- Opinion and Editorials
• The Boston Herald:  Top of the class within reach; October 15, 2005; By Blenda Wilson and Jack M. Wilson; President Wilson and Blenda Wilson, CEO and President of the Nellie Mae Education Foundation, co-chair the Great Schools Campaign’s Higher Education Task Force on K-12 Math and Science.
  http://news.bostonherald.com/opinion/view.bg?articleid=107107&format=
• The Republican:  State could become math, science mecca;" October 16, 2005; By Blenda Wilson and Jack Wilson; Math and science achievement must be improved in our public schools to keep America competitive with the rest of the world.
  http://www.masslive.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/opinion-0/1129362456299070.xml?onvp
• The Boston Globe: "Beyond stem cells;" By Jack M. Wilson; January 29, 2005; The World is rushing toward a new era in biotechnology, and Massachusetts is among the leaders -- for the moment. Can we keep that leadership? While stem cell research has become the poster child for biotechnology, there is much other research on the horizon with exciting potential. http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/01/29/beyond_stem_cells/
• The Springfield Republican; Research, innovation can generate prosperity   ; (Sunday, 8/01/2004, ); by Jack M. Wilson

National Press Quoting Jack M. Wilson:

• Boston Globe: "UMass Lowell receives $1.6m in donations;"  June 3, 2016; "The third donor is Jack M. Wilson, president emeritus of the University of Massachusetts and UMass Lowell distinguished professor of higher education, emerging technologies, and innovation. Wilson and his wife, Judi, gifted $275,000 to underwrite the President Jack M. Wilson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Manning School of Business."
• Boston Globe: "UMass takes on the challenging online market; Dec. 30, 2017; "UMassOnline was launched in 2001 under the leadership of Jack M. Wilson, who was recruited from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to take up that task. Wilson became UMass president in 2003 and served in that job until 2011. "
• Boston Globe  "Massachusetts’ profile as an innovator could reach new levels;" Jack M. Wilson  January 26, 2015 "Making investments in building research centers across the state could generate an economic impact that would help boost local innovation outside of Boston and Cambridge. And there’s no question that successful research centers would attract additional investment from leading companies around the country and the world."
• USA Today: "Whenever he called, he had done his homework," Wilson said. "I really think that he helped (higher education institutions) survive and thrive. … That is our natural resource. We don't have oil, coal or good weather, but we do have great universities." on Edward M. Kennedy.
• MassHighTech Magazine; "Touting 2005's Top Life Science Luminaries;" MHT Text; Dyke Hendrickson; Dec 19-25, 2005.
• "High Tech All-Stars;" Dec 2005.
• "Medical school propels UMass atop state tech-transfer list;" Dec 5, 2005.
• "Biomed Rounds: A few thoughts about movers who make up the biospace ;" Nov 7, 2005.
• "UMass president says $1 million in seed funds leads to $7 million more;" September 13, 2005.
• "UMass to extend partnership with Natick Soldier Center; August 15, 2005.
• "Tufts prof named to lead UMass-Boston;" May 23, 2005.
• "UMass is transforming online learning experiences into lifetime opportunities;"April 25, 2005.
• "UMass makes it two years in row for $1M tech funding" February 21, 2005.
• Boston Globe; "Revving up the state's economy with brain power." (Version on Boston.com); January 2, 2005.
• Chronicle of Higher Education: Some Successes in Online-Learning Ventures ; Feb. 21, 2003.
• Chronicle of Higher Education: Alliance Backed by Oxford, Stanford, and Yale Offers Courses to the Public ; Sept. 6, 2003.
• Chronicle of Higher Education: "Distance-Education Alliance Backed by Oxford, Stanford, and Yale Will Offer Courses to the Public;" Chronicle of Higher Ed.; August 22, 2002.   Jack M. Wilson, the chief executive officer of UMassOnline, has his doubts about the strategy. Although AllLearn is trying to market its association with elite universities, that doesn't always work. "There is a misunderstanding about 'brand' -- it doesn't equate to prestige at all," he says, adding that the best-known food brands in the United States are McDonald's and Coca-Cola, and the most popular higher-education brand is the University of Phoenix. Developing a brand involves "consistently delivering what they say they are going to deliver." Mr. Wilson had heard rumors that the alliance was going to start offering courses to the public. "My initial response is that maybe they haven't had the success that they thought they would," he says. "They see this as a way to get people in the door with the hopes that there would be more business there."
• C-Net News.com: "Peterson's Teams with UMassOnline to Increase Student Access to Distance Learning Opportunities;" C-Net news.com; August 19, 2002.
• Collegiate Presswire: "University of Massachusetts Advances Distance Learning Programs with Live eLearning and Collaboration Platform from Centra;" Collegiate Presswire; July 29, 2002.
• Chronicle of Higher Education: "Prospects for "For-Profit" Distance Education Spin-offs." December 2001. Making a virtue of necessity, we began to see articles talking about why a model that had students typing at one another was superior to students talking to one another. Clearly the ALN model has been an enormous contribution to the community, but it is very likely that far richer models will emerge. The fundamental power of the internet arises from the ability for human beings to interact in very robust ways. These interactions may be with other human beings or with powerful interactive resources.
• Chronicle of Higher Education:  "Debating the Demise of NYUonline" Chronicle of Higher Education; December 14, 2001."What really failed at NYUOnline was the notion of doing this as a spinoff for-profit, separate from the university," he says. "I've been in the venture-capital business, and most investors don't want to be a partner with a big educational institution. It's just not the kind of investments they make."
• NY Times: The Virtual Classroom: Colleges face tough questions about using technology to teach more students. Can video lectures and E-mail offer the give-and-take of real learning? By Rosalie Stemer; The New York Times, Sunday, January 8, 1995, Education Life, pp. 39-41. In response to former NJ Governor Kean's comment about the student on one end of a log and the teacher on the other: "The log might have to be an electronic log. You could bring the students to the classroom electronically. I would argue the students meet the faculty every time they come to class."
• NY Times: "Rensselaer Institute Tries Innovations in Teaching;" By Karen Arenson; October 9, 1996. Many colleges talk about improving undergraduate education, but experts on academia say that few have done as much about it as Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, a science and engineering university near Albany. 
• Newsweek: "What to chop;" April 29, 1996. Besides cutting costs and raising fees, some schools are using the financial crisis to invent better ways of accomplishing old tasks. "Attendance was poor and attention was poorer."
• Business Week: "THE NEW UNIVERSITY A tough market is reshaping colleges;" Dec. 22, 1997.  Wilson quote: "We concluded that we were never going to compete on price, so we had to produce an experience of demonstrably higher quality."
• The Scientist: "Six Steps To More Effective Science Teaching;" By Ricki Lewis;  January 6, 1992. "A nonscience-majors' course has got to reflect the flavor of the science as it is being done, and how a scientist works, because this is the last opportunity these students will have to look at it."  "There is a tremendous gulf between what we tell students about and what is really happening in science. Students are 100 years behind the rest of science,"
• The Washington Post: "Physics Teachers' Association Is Moving to U-Md. Campus;" March 1, 1984.
• Business Today: "Officials release plan to boost state's economy;" BusinessToday.com; October 9, 2002. "It's infrastructure that creates the regional identity,"
• Smart Business: "Brain Gain;" By Nick Montfort; November 2000.
• The Christian Science Monitor: "The Freshman Year Reinvented;"  MAY 5, 1998. 
• The Christian Science Monitor: "The performing professor. Physics students pay attention when he walks over hot coals;" Nov. 17, 1986.
• The Christian Science Monitor: "College from the ground up;" Nov 23, 1999.
• PC Magazine, "Classroom Computing;" November 3, 1998.
• Chronicle of Higher Education: "Debating the Demise of NYUonline: Did the venture go under because of the changing economy or bad decisions?" December 14, 2001.
• Chronicle of Higher Education: "A Digest of Recent Corporate News in Distance Education: UMassOnline, the distance-education branch of the University of Massachusetts, will use software from Prometheus and IntraLearn to create a portal allowing students to manage their online courses." October 9, 2001.
• Chronicle of Higher Education: "New Head of UMassOnline Says the 'Student Experience' Can Be Preserved;" March 9, 2001.
• Chronicle of Higher Ed.: "Pew Grants to Focus on Classroom Technology;" July 2, 1999.
• Chronicle of Higher Ed.: "New Pew Grants to Encourage Technology in Courses With Large Enrollments;"  June 16, 1999.
• Chronicle of Higher Ed.: "'Studio' Classrooms: Rensselaer uses computers to replace large lectures in introductory courses;" By Thomas J. DeLoughry; March 31, 1995.
• Chronicle of Higher Ed.: "Freshman Physics Students Escape Lecture;" August 10, 1994.
• Chronicle of Higher Ed.: "Designing Tomorrow's High-Tech Classroom: Curricula and facilities are re-examined for best ways to take advantage of new tools;" By David L. Wilson; March 17, 1993.
• Chronicle of Higher Ed.: "New Computer Package Provides a Flexible Tool for Teaching Physics Concepts to Non-Majors: System being developed at University of Maryland allows professors to modify traditional courses" By David L. Wilson; September 25, 1991.
• Chronicle of Higher Ed.: "TEACHING WITH TECHNOLOGY Freshman Physics Students Escape Lecture;" By Jeremy Bogaisky; August 10, 1994.
• Entrepreneur Magazine: "Earning Curve: Entrepreneurship programs at universities nationwide have capital-hungry business owners heading back to school." December 1998.
• AAPT Announcer: "The Role, Education, and Qualifications of the High School Physics Teacher;" High School Physics - Views from AAPT; Published by American Association of Physics Teachers.
• Capital District Business Review; "RPI to revamp IT degree work;" Claire Hughes; January 5, 1998 print edition.
• IBM: Multimedia revs up educational process at Rensselaer.
• Capital District Business Review; "ILINC's new president aims to connect with largest firms;" January 19, 1998 print edition.
• Investors Business Daily: "Will a Computer with CD-ROM Replace your Anthropology 101 Prof?" Feb. 1, 1994.  Wilson quote: "A student has to construct his or her own understanding of the material.  The only way this happens is if they have to wrestle with it themselves."
• Science Magazine; "New Modes for Making Scientists;" Nov. 4, 1994.  Wilson Quote: "We pretended to teach them and they pretended to learn."

• Mass High Tech magazine; Guest Commentary: Massachusetts science, tech strategy should include its public university system; 8/2/2004. By Jack Wilson

• The Springfield Republican; Research, innovation can generate prosperity   ; (Sunday, 8/01/2004, ); by Jack M. Wilson

• Chronicle of Higher Education; ; 4/2/2004; Wheaton College's New Leader Is Also a Cellist; Michigan Tech President Resigns Under Fire; Administrator Who Holds Fake Doctorate Keeps Deanship at College of the Ozarks
  By SHARON WALSH, JULIANNE BASINGER, ANDREA FOSTER, and JEFFREY SELINGO

• Chronicle of Higher Education; 6/18/2004; Sense and Censorship
  By ISOLDE RAFTERY, JOSHUA KARLIN-RESNICK and KENDRA NICHOLS

• CXO Monthly: Strategy, Operations & Results for Higher Education Published by Eduventures, Inc. July 2003 No. 3 www.eduventures.com

• WBZ-TV4 NewsConference Sunday; A debate on Higher Education Reorganization between Secretary of Education Designate, Peter Nessen, and Jack Wilson on Sunday March 16, 2003.

• Boston Globe "The UMass President's Office: Is it worth the $5.6 million cost?"   March 16, 2003 

• Mass High Tech Magazine:  Education without boundaries;  Feb 17, 2003.  “A campus program can draw students from a local geographic area, but an online program can draw students worldwide,”
• Mass High Tech Magazine:  Changing needs, access keep the market moving;  Feb 17, 2003. “The university continues to see positive growth and positive return on investment. In fact, in its second year of operation UMass Online has served more than 10,000 students and averaged a yearly growth rate of 56 percent. And students are clamoring for more courses and degree programs.