The McNair Program is a federally funded research program. Including Boston College, there are 158 programs at colleges and universities in the U.S. and Puerto Rico. The goal of the program is to provide support to first-generation college students who aim to attend graduate school.
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University Implements Anonymous Ethics Reporting Hotline And Website
This year marks the first that Boston College has implemented an anonymous, third-party service for reporting University-related ethical concerns through the use of an Ethics Hotline and ethics reporting website, both of which are modeled around principles established through BC’s Professional Standards and Business Conduct policy guide.
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YouTube’s Kevin Allocca Downplays The Need for A Long-Term Career Plan
The BC alum recounted five important realizations to which he has come on his unconventional path from school to the social media industry, the first of which is that having a 10-year plan does not always make sense.
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Michelle Wu Recalls Impact of Race, Identity On Political Road To City Hall
Michelle Wu, the first Asian American woman to serve on the Boston City Council, shared her experiences regarding identity, race, and politics.
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Eagle EMS Changes Name To BCEMS
EEMS will officially change its name to BCEMS—a shift that EEMS president Kristen DiBlasi said marks a necessary update to the identity of BC’s student-volunteer emergency medical service.
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Department of Event Management Reverses Decision To Charge Student Groups Additional Fees
Recognized student groups will not be required to pay a surcharge fee to the Department of Event Management for use of EM services, according to two UGBC senators. EM had planned to implement a 10 to 20 percent charge by the start of 2015.
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Student Group Seeks Climate Justice At Boston College
Each week, a group of about 20 students quietly gathers into a room in Higgins Hall for their weekly meeting, addressing climate change on campus through the newly formed Climate Justice at Boston College movement.
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Rev. Michael Himes Talks Familial Love And Courage At Agape Latte
“Loving, not being loved, is the most central fundamental part of being human,” said Rev. Michael Himes at the latest installment of Agape Latte last Wednesday, Nov. 5. Himes, a professor within the theology department at Boston College, discussed the family construct and familial love to a full Hillside Cafe.
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Lowell Series Welcomes Prize-Winning Poet
“To be in the middle of a Laura Kasischke poem is to occupy the intersection between the physical and the unseen … the known and the imagined,” said Boston College professor Suzanne Matson in her introduction to the prize winning poet who spoke at the latest Lowell Humanities Series last night.
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Author Commemorates ‘Night Of The Broken Glass’
On the night of Nov. 9, 1938, a young Jewish boy watched Nazi soldiers torch a synagogue across the street from where he was studying in Dessau, Germany. He was forced to choose between alerting the fellow townspeople and riding his bike home to warn his mother. He chose the former and saved the lives of some 30 families.
