J. Keith Motley

Dr. James Keith Motley, PhD (born January 28, 1956 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a leader in higher education and the eighth chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Boston, the only public research university in Greater Boston.

With 11 colleges and graduate schools and more than 17,000 students, it is the third-largest campus in the five-campus University of Massachusetts system. The waterfront campus is located approximately four miles south of downtown on the Columbia Point peninsula, in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston.

Motley was born to Cornelia Motley Williams and John Motley Jr. He attended Peabody High School in Pittsburgh and is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh’s Upward Bound Program.

Motley holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Northeastern University and a doctor of philosophy degree from Boston College. He also holds an honorary degree from Northeastern University.

Motley was first recruited by renowned basketball coach Mike Jarvis to play Division 1 basketball at Northeastern University in 1972 as the first prospect of legendary head coach Jim Calhoun. He earned the team’s “Unsung Hero” award following his final season, among the various accolades he garnered over his college athletic career. He was inducted into the Northeastern University Hall of Fame in 1999 for “his contribution as a player, coach and advocate of the basketball program.”

Motley is a member of Iota Phi Theta fraternity and Sigma Pi Phi fraternity Beta Beta Boulé. In college, he was president of his fraternity and earned the Director's Award from the African American Institute as the Most Outstanding Black Senior. Upon graduation from Northeastern University in 1978, he was hired as an admissions counselor by his mentor, Jack Curry, former Dean of Admissions and Senior Vice President of the university, and Philip McCabe, former Dean of Admissions. Calhoun also hired him as a part-time assistant coach.

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