庆祝245灯塔
A night of festivities formally opens BC’s new integrated science building.
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Strides in Faculty Diversity
电子游戏软件 this semester welcomes the most racially diverse collection of faculty hires in University history. Of the sixty-three full-time, non-visiting faculty hired for the 2022–23 academic year, 49 percent are AHANA (people of African, 拉美裔, 亚洲, and Native American descent). 在这个群体中, 21%是黑人, and the number of full-time Black faculty members hired this year is more than triple the number recruited five years ago. “Our students look to faculty as role models and fonts of knowledge and inspiration—they need to be able to see a reflection of themselves in their faculty,比利·苏说, vice provost for faculties at BC. “As our students become increasingly diverse, so must our faculty.” —伊丽莎白·克莱门特
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The Connell School of Nursing 被授予1美元.06 million grant from the American Nurses Foundation for a project that aims to help nurse practitioner-led practices get financial reimbursement from the U.S. 医疗保健系统. The system is changing the way it pays for health care, rewarding value over volume—a shift that can pose financial risks for small, independent NP-led practices. The initiative will also support the design and implementation of tech-led interventions to improve nursing care.
电子游戏软件 Dining Services recently received the gold award in the National Association of College & University Food Services’ annual Sustainability Awards, given to institutions that implement sustainable practices in their dining facilities. BC was the winner in the waste management category, in recognition of its commitment to recycling and composting.
9名电子游戏软件校友, including three from the Class of 2022, have been selected to receive Fulbright grants. BC has consistently ranked among the nation’s top producers of student Fulbright winners, according to statistics compiled by The Chronicle of Higher Education, and was fifteenth among doctoral institutions in the most recent survey.
一个新的在线项目 launched by the School of Social Work will prepare students to work in the humanitarian aid and development sectors. The Interdisciplinary Certificate in Humanitarian Assistance program features eight learning modules, each related to specific social, 政治, or health challenges experienced by the world’s most vulnerable populations. The program is open to all undergraduate, graduate, and professional students in affiliated fields.
八十多岁 Boston Public School students participated in May’s inaugural 电子游戏软件 Conference for Young Women. Attendees of the daylong conference for seventh to twelfth graders sat in on sessions about leadership, 心理健康, 准备上大学.
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课程关注的焦点
Social Justice and the Third-World Left
2022年秋季
This new course examines how 政治 activism in developing nations has inspired American social justice movements of the last sixty years. Students study manifestos and newspapers created by Black, 亚裔美国人, 拉丁/ o, and women of color feminist activists, and create an independent research project. Assistant professor of history Eddie Bonilla hopes the work will allow students “to learn from people who are kept in the peripheries of United States history.”
96
The percentage of graduates of BC’s Class of 2021 working, 在电子游戏正规平台生院, or engaged in fellowship or volunteer experiences.
4,381
Total degrees awarded to the Class of 2022.
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严峻的周年纪念
The undefeated BC football team was heavily favored to win its final regular-season game on November 28, 1942, against unranked Holy Cross. 在令人震惊的混乱中, 然而, 老鹰队以55比12输了, costing themselves the chance to play for the national championship in the Sugar Bowl—but most likely saving their lives. 羞辱, the team canceled a planned victory party at Boston’s Cocoanut Grove nightclub, which tragically went up in flames that very night, 死亡492人. “We can then look up to God Almighty,” Ernie Santosuosso wrote in the 高度, “and render prayers of thanks that our boys were spared of such a death.” Sadly, though, BC equipment manager Larry Kenney and his wife, Marie, perished in the blaze. —考特尼荷兰制杜松子酒
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