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QLC and Trans* Collective are working to provide greater transparency surrounding housing policies for transgender students on Boston College’s website this year, said Maeve Yurcisin, QLC policy coordinator, at the UGBC Senate meeting on Tuesday night. “I think communication is going to be the main thing we’re going to work on this year, so figuring…
For many students, it may seem like emergency blue lights on campus are perpetually broken or even obsolete now that almost everyone has a cellphone.
When asked about recent off-campus break-ins and suspicious activity incidents, assistant dean for off-campus student life and community engagement Peter Kwiatek stressed that Brighton is among the safest neighborhoods in Boston, with low violent crime rates.
Boston College jumped two spots to No. 37 in the U.S. News and World Report’s 2025 rankings of the best national universities in a tie with Tufts University.
Student senators discussed potential downsides to the grading guidelines adapted by the Carroll School of Management (CSOM) at the UGBC Senate meeting on Tuesday night.
At Tuesday night’s UGBC meeting, KiKi Stoker, student-athlete representative, encouraged the BC community to do more to honor former BC hockey players Johnny and Matthew Gaudreau, who were killed by a suspected drunk driver last month.
The finance department will be renamed the Seidner Department of Finance following a major donation—the largest in the Carroll School of Management’s 86-year history—from Boston College trustee Marc Seidner, according to a University release.
Boston College students might not vote in the upcoming presidential election because they are apathetic or unsure of how to vote by mail, Mariame Diop, student senator and MCAS ’27, said at the first UGBC Senate meeting of the 2024–25 academic year on Tuesday night.
UGBC had a $377,500 budget for the 2023–24 academic year. Here’s how it’s been spent.
The UGBC Senate confirmed a slew of nominees for executive positions and Senate roles during its meeting Tuesday night.
