Lynch School Launches Transformative Education Lab To Promote Formative Education in K–12 Schools

Mei Dasgupta • September 21, 2025

The Lynch School of Education and Human Development will launch a new initiative this fall, the Transformative Education Lab, designed to promote holistic human development in education.

Conference Dissects Mounting Need for Four-Day Work Week After COVID-19 Pandemic

Anthony Yang • April 23, 2023

Boston College hosted a public conference on Friday that dissected findings from an expansive global trial exploring the effectiveness of the four-day work week after the COVID-19 pandemic.

BC Lynch Professor Offers Free Graduate Course to Afghan Evacuees

Amy Palmer and Claire Foley • October 30, 2022

Boston College’s Maria Brisk has joined a number of American university professors in offering graduate courses to female Afghan evacuees.

BC Center Renamed Mary E. Walsh Center for Thriving Children With $10 Million Donation

Amy Palmer • February 13, 2022

An anonymous donor gifted $10 million to Boston College’s Center for Optimized Student Support, renaming it the Mary E. Walsh Center for Thriving Children after its founder and executive director, according to a University release.

Lynch School, Others Create Study on State of Urban Catholic Schools

Erin Shannon • April 29, 2021

Lynch and Boston College’s Urban Catholic Teacher Corps (UCTC) are collaborating with the National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA) to conduct a national study about the current state of urban Catholic schools throughout the country.

Back to the ClassZoom: Lynch Students Return to Teaching

Emma Dawson • October 19, 2020

When Boston College moved courses online last semester, undergraduate students studying to become teachers in the Lynch School of Education and Human Development were faced with the task of adapting to online learning both for their BC courses and their own teaching responsibilities.

Lynch Launches New ‘Learning Engineering’ Master’s Program

Abby Hunt • January 22, 2019

The Lynch School of Education will begin offering a new master’s program in learning engineering this fall—the program is the first of its kind.

BC Partners With St. Joseph’s in ‘College Road’ Program

Abby Hunt • November 19, 2018

High school sophomores from St. Joseph’s Preparatory School shadowed Boston College students as part of the College Road program. College Road began because St. Joseph’s was looking for a partnership that would complement its college preparatory education.

Lynch School of Education to Undergo Name Change

Abby Hunt • November 5, 2018

The Lynch School of Education is changing its name to the Lynch School of Education and Human Development, effective this January.

‘If You Build It, They Will Come’: McCartney Rebuilds Communities

Simran Brar • October 22, 2018

“It was just the most shocking thing I had ever seen,” McCartney said as she recalled arriving in the devastated New Orleans. “To see that level of destruction and devastation ... helped me realize that this whole system of disaster recovery and response in our country, at the time, was really broken.”

Unions Announce National Campaign to Aid Grad Workers

Anthony Rein • March 15, 2018

“These workers are not going away, and we will stand with them for as long as it takes and and we will coordinate our resources to support them,” said Dennis Williams of the United Auto Workers.

Lynch Students Nominated for Prestigious National Scholarships

Abby Hunt • January 22, 2018

“There’s just a tremendous amount of incredibly strong undergraduate level scholarly work going on [in the Lynch School],” said Julia DeVoy, the school’s associate dean of undergraduate students.