The diversity education module has now gone through its second round of students after undergoing some changes based on student feedback.
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Administrators Share Vision for Schiller at Forum
Tom Chiles, vice provost for Research and Academic Planning explained that the key principle at the heart of Schiller is “integration across disciplines.”
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ResLife Begins Analyzing Survey Results
The Office of Residential Life has begun analyzing the executive summary from the Residential Life Assessment survey it conducted last spring—the first of its kind since 2008. Boston College plans to use the responses to compare its dorms to competitors universities’.
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School of Social Work Wins Grants from LEGO Foundation
The LEGO Foundation recently awarded a grant of $3.2 million to the Boston College School of Social Work’s Research Program on Children and Adversity (RPCA) as part of the foundation’s Playful Parenting initiative.
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First Circuit Hears Lawsuit Against BC’s Investigative Process
The heart of the complaint is that the plaintiff did not have an opportunity to ask questions of the other parties.
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BC Law Aims to Reform Legal System in Uzbekistan
Boston College Law School began a partnership with Tashkent State University of Law (TSUL), the largest law school in Uzbekistan, in 2017 as part of the University’s plan for increased global engagement. Despite recent shakeups at the top of TSUL’s administration, BC Law is poised to continue its collaboration with the school. BC Law began…
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BC Launches Prison Education Program
Boston College opened up its latest satellite campus this fall in a less-than-traditional location: the Massachusetts Correctional Institute, a men’s correctional institute in Shirley, Mass., (MCI-Shirley), where 16 men are currently taking classes through the University’s new Prison Education Program. The program is modeled on and supported by the Bard Prison Initiative, which has offered…
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Increasing Diversity Remains Focus of Office of the Provost
Boston College, led by Vice Provost for Faculties Billy Soo, is working to continue to diversify its faculty population through a variety of programs and initiatives. Forty-two percent of the current faculty is female and 20.4 percent is AHANA+, according to Soo. As with racial diversity, an obstacle to increased gender diversification at BC is…
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University Briefs New Employees on Capital Construction
The information session was the second of this year’s “BC 101” meetings, which are designed to get new employees up to speed on campus developments.
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University Adds Members to Board of Trustees
Boston College has added three new members to its Board of Trustees: Guido Barilla; Marc P. Seidner, BC ’88; and Elizabeth Eder Zobel, BC ’87.
