Boston College Chronicle

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AUGUST 30, 2018 VOL. 26 NO. 1

UNIVERSITY CONVOCATION

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Fr. Leahy: BC Can Withstand Challenges

3 First Year Convocation

Dave Evans, co-author of Designing Your Life, will be the guest speaker at the Sept. 6 First Year Convocation. more.

4-5 While You Were Away

Catching up with Boston College news from the summer of 2018.

BY SEAN SMITH CHRONICLE EDITOR

“Over his many years leading Undergraduate Admission in Devlin Hall, John Mahoney has earned respect among faculty and staff across campus and nationally among his admissions colleagues,” said Quigley. “He has helped lead Boston College to new heights by attracting generations of talented young men and women

Speaking at yesterday’s University Convocation, Boston College President William P. Leahy, S.J., outlined an array of academic, financial, social, political, and other challenges that represents a test for the future of the University, and higher education in general. But BC has long shown itself capable of overcoming such obstacles, he said, and has the institutional tools, structures, planning, and vision to do so again.

Boston College will endure, and thrive, on the strength of its distinctive Jesuit, Catholic heritage, he said, while drawing on innovative research, methodology, and technology to address the complex questions of an increasingly global society. Most of all, he said, the University will depend on faculty, administrators, and staff to continue their good works, whether on campus or beyond: “Such commitment and generosity are impressive and help countless individuals, not only on campus but also in greater Boston, our nation, and the world.”

Provost and Dean of Faculties David Quigley and Executive Vice President Michael Lochhead also offered remarks at Convocation, which was held in Robsham Theater.

BC, like other American colleges and universities, Fr. Leahy said, has had to respond to “an evolving, sometimes volatile, academic, financial, social, and political context” that includes declining enthusiasm for the liberal arts curriculum and uncertainty about the value of a college degree; concerns about college affordability and access; budget pressures driven by the costs of financial aid, salaries, and facilities, as evidenced by the recent closure of nearby Mt. Ida College; controversies in collegiate ath-

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Leah DeCosta appointed associate vice president for alumni relations; Campus Minister Michael Davidson, S.J., is new director of the Boston College Thea Bowman AHANA Intercultural Center.

World View BC undergrads fanned out across the globe during the summer Many Boston College undergraduates returned to campus this month having amassed stamps on their passports and gained valuable experience as global citizens, courtesy of the numerous summer study opportunities available through the Office of International Programs.

This summer, BC students studied local language, art, history, and a wide range of other subjects, while immersed in the rich cultures of a diverse roster of host countries.

Beyond enriching the participants’ Boston College experience through academic, internship, and service opportunities abroad, organizers say, the international programs also help students develop as well-rounded, interculturally competent, and globally conscious citizens.

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Greetings!

Conte Forum was bustling at last week’s Freshman Welcome Fair–a chance for the Class of 2022 to ineract with academic departments and campus student groups. photo by peter julian

Mahoney Is Named Vice Provost for Enrollment Management

BY SEAN SMITH CHRONICLE EDITOR

Dean of Undergraduate Admission and Financial Aid John Mahoney has been appointed as Boston College’s vice provost for enrollment management, Provost and Dean of Faculties David Quigley announced this week.

Mahoney, a 1979 alumnus, is nationally recognized as a leader in the field of undergraduate admission, having directed the University’s Office of Undergraduate Admission for 28 years until his appointment as dean this past spring.

In his new position, Mahoney will lead University strategies and policies on all enrollment-related matters, and oversee the offices of Enrollment Management, Undergraduate Admission, and Student Services (including the offices of Financial Aid, Bursar, and Academic Registration). He also will collaborate with key institutional stakeholders to develop and implement a comprehensive long-term enrollment strategy aligned with the University’s goals, priorities, and mission.

John Mahoney

photo by peter julian

Our hope is that the first-year students will be inspired to design and envision what their life might be like over the next four years, as well as their future well beyond Boston College.

– michael sacco, executive director, center for student formation and office of first year experience, page 3

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Around Campus

‘Authentic and Pure Expression’ The idea was first hatched last fall: Students, faculty, and staff inscribed more than 700 maroon-and-gold prayer ribbons that were then displayed on the railing in front of Bapst Library as part of “Espresso Your Faith Week” at Boston College—an annual weeklong celebration of faith in the University community through liturgical, artistic, musical, and other events, sponsored by the Church in the 21st Century Center and Campus Ministry.

It worked so well that organizers reprised the idea this spring for Commencement and Reunion weekends, and once again the results were impressive—more than 1,100 ribbons adorned the Bapst railing. But sheer numbers were only part of the story; it was Prayer ribbons adorned the fence in front of Bapst Library during Commencement and the messages left, especially those by family Reunion weekends earlier this year. photo by lee pellegrini members attending Commencement.

“Continue to dream big, master your craft and smile always while you care for “Bless this family at this time of loss.” bon displays offer an important insight others. Love, Dad,” read one. Another Still other messages were written in difinto Boston College. “Those ribbons proclaimed: “Monica, you’re doing God’s ferent languages. symbolize the spirit of BC and the Jesuit work. The future is yours.”

For Karen Kiefer, director of the Church ideals that form our community. It’s Others messages had a different intent: in the 21st Century Center, the prayer ribsuch an authentic and pure expression of

Cordy to Kick Off Rappaport Ctr. Fall Slate Retired Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Associate Justice Robert J. Cordy will kick off the Rappaport Center for Law and Public Policy’s fall Distinguished Public Policy Series—and his term as the fall Rappaport Distinguished Visiting Professor—at Boston College Law School this coming Wednesday with a talk, “Challenges to Constitutional Democracy” at 4 p.m. in East Wing Room 120.

Cordy, who served on the state’s highest court from 2001 to 2016, is an attorney with the Boston firm of McDermott Will & Emery. The topic of Cordy’s remarks is also the theme that connects lectures and discussions the Rappaport Center will host this semester on topics such as voting rights, impeachment, criminal justice reform, and higher education.

Associate Vice President for University Communications Jack Dunn Deputy Director for UniversIty Communications Patrice Delaney Editor Sean Smith

[Read a BC Law magazine cal Look at the Value of College article about Cordy’s appointment Completion,” on Oct 30. as Rappaport Professor at http:// For information on bit.ly/cordy-rappaport-professor.] times, participants and loca“Our essential commitment is tions for the center’s events, to enhance the quality of law and see orgsync.com/118161/ public policy,” said Rappaport events?view=upcoming.

Center Faculty Director ProfesThe Rappaport Center insor Daniel Kanstroom. “This Robert J. Cordy vites the region’s policy makers demands technical excellence, and thought leaders to engage in normative clarity, honesty, demodynamic discussions on critical cratic accountability, and transparency. The public policy issues through the Rappaport programmatic focus on ‘Challenges to De- Distinguished Public Policy Series. The mocracy’ examines extremely salient, reldiscussions include forums, conferences, evant questions: voting rights, the electoral and symposia to address societal issues with college, collateral consequences of criminal leaders from government, business, acaconvictions, and certain inequities within deme, and the nonprofit world. higher education.”

“We bring public policy leaders to the Other Rappaport Center events this Rappaport Center programs in order to semester include: “What’s Next in Voting inspire our students and faculty, to develop Rights,” on Sept. 26; “Electoral College: textured, thought-provoking discussions, Stay, Go or Alternatives?” on Oct. 18; “Im- and to advance multi-dimensional and peachment,” on Oct. 24; “Criminal Coninter-disciplinary approaches to effect posiviction: Disenfranchisement and Other tive change,” said Rappaport Center ExChallenges to Democracy,” on Nov. 2 and ecutive Director Elisabeth J. Medvedow.

“Debt, Degrees, and Democracy: A Criti–Ed Hayward

Contributing Staff Chirstine Balquist Phil Gloudemans Ed Hayward Rosanne Pellegrini Kathleen Sullivan Photographers Gary Gilbert Lee Pellegrini Peter Julian

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love and faith.”

Prayer ribbons from the first two displays are now housed in a case at St. Joseph’s Chapel on Upper Campus, said Kiefer. Meanwhile, plans are underway to set up another display during “Espresso Your Faith Week” Sept. 24-28, she said, and BC administrators are discussing other events and opportunities during the academic year at which to incorporate prayer ribbons.

–Sean Smith

Beer, Wine Available at Alumni Stadium, Conte Forum The Boston College Athletics Department has finalized plans for beer and wine sales at Alumni Stadium and Conte Forum after the debut of a pilot program in 2017.

Beer and wine will be available for purchase at select concessions locations within Alumni Stadium during football games, beginning with the Eagles’ home opener against UMass this Saturday, Sept.

1. Additional point of sale locations have been added for fans throughout Alumni Stadium and Conte Forum.

Among the options for fans will include Budweiser, Bud Light, Sam Adams, Harpoon IPA and cider along with red and white wine.

“We’re excited to continue offering this expanded service to our fans,” William V. Campbell Director of Athletics Martin Jarmond said. “We received great feedback last year that this opportunity enhanced our game-day experience.”

Beer and wine have been available for purchase in Alumni Stadium’s premium seating areas during previous seasons. Boston College joins approximately one-third of FBS college football programs in offering expanded alcoholic-beverage service throughout their home venues.

“A special thank you goes to our campus partners and officials from the City of Boston who worked with us to make this a reality,” Jarmond added. “I appreciate the effort and support by many entities in recognizing the positive impact this can make on the fan experience.”

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First Year Convocation, Sept. 6, 7 p.m.

Students to Get Advice About ‘Designing Your Life’

BY PHIL GLOUDEMANS STAFF WRITER

Best-selling author and design-thinking advocate Dave Evans will serve as the keynote speaker at the 2018 First Year Academic Convocation, the annual event that celebrates the arrival of the freshman class to campus, on Sept. 6 at 7 p.m. in Conte Forum.

Evans and Bill Burnett are the authors of the New York Times best-seller Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life, which explains how the application of design thinking— the same envisioning strategy and tools responsible for brilliant technology, outstanding products, and remarkable spaces—can help create a meaningful and fulfilling life, regardless of life status, job, or age.

In a 2016 New York Times interview, Evans—an adjunct lecturer in the Product Design Program at Stanford University, a management consultant, and a founder of game company Electronic Arts—noted, “The question of ‘What do I do the rest of my one wild and wonderful life?’ is on everyone’s mind.”

Dave Evans

Since 2004, each incoming BC freshman class has engaged in a reflective dialogue about a common text in an effort to offer insight into how to respond to life’s questions, and to find direction in each student’s personal journey.

“Designing Your Life was chosen because

the message fits well into our overall goals of student formation,” said Michael Sacco, executive director of the Center for Student Formation and Office of First Year Experience. “Boston College’s philosophy of formative education encourages our students to engage in habits of reflection and discernment; these practices coincide with the purpose-driven design plan that authors Evans and Burnett present in their book.

“Our hope is that the first-year students will be inspired to design and envision what their life might be like over the next four years, as well as their future well beyond Boston College.”

Evans’ remarks will follow the First Flight Procession, a lantern-lit journey from Linden Lane to Conte Forum, which mirrors the same path BC’s newest students will follow on graduation day. The University’s Jesuit community, faculty, and administration will launch their “flight” with a blessing and a challenge to answer the call of Society of Jesus founder St. Ignatius of Loyola to “set the world aflame.”

“We believe that First Flight holds a special meaning because it serves as a

bookend of what they will again do when they gather on Linden Lane, four short years from now,” said Sacco. “The event marks the beginning of their academic journey at BC, and provides a connection for the class through the common reading of Designing Your Life.”

Evans, who earned a BS and MS in mechanical engineering from Stanford and a graduate diploma in Contemplative Spirituality from San Francisco Theological Seminary, joins a notable roster of previous First Year Convocation speakers that includes Barack Obama and John McCain.

More recent speakers have included Lev Golinkin ’03, author of A Backpack, A Bear, and Eight Cases of Vodka; University Trustee Steve Pemberton ’89, whose bestselling memoir A Chance in the World was adapted for film; and New York Times oped columnist and author David Brooks.

First Year Academic Convocation is coordinated by the Office of First Year Experience, part of the division of University Mission and Ministry.

Contact Phil Gloudemans at philip.gloudemans@bc.edu

Pine Tree Preserve to Be Opened to the Public BC-MWRA agreement opens access to parcel of woodland on Lower Campus Pine Tree Preserve, a four-acre parcel of woodland on Thomas More Road adjacent to the Chestnut Hill Reservoir, will be opened to the Boston College community and general public as a result of a public access and management agreement between the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA) and the University.

The site, owned by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and previously inaccessible to the public, will now feature pedestrian walkways, park benches, viewing areas, and lighting. Boston College will make the improvements to the preserve by removing dead trees and building the walking trails. Upon completion, BC will oversee maintenance of the property, while the MWRA will retain ownership. It is scheduled to open in late October.

The agreement to open up Pine Tree Preserve resulted from ongoing conversations between the MWRA, which has sought to open enclosed parcels of state land to the public in recent years, and Boston College, which had long viewed the fenced-in woodlands as an underutilized resource.

At the request of University President William P. Leahy, S.J., BC’s government affairs team, led by Vice President for Governmental and Community Affairs Thomas Keady, worked with MWRA Executive Director Frederick Laskey to forge the agreement that will benefit Boston College and the surrounding community. Tree removal began in late July and is scheduled to be completed within weeks. Completion

“ This agreement between the MWRA and Boston College will provide pedestrian access to a wooded area with scenic views of the reservoir for all members of the community to enjoy.”

–Michael Lochhead

Rendering of Pine Tree Preserve and Campanella Way realignment viewed from Chestnut Hill Reservoir Path. image provided by steven smith associates landscape architects

of the walkway and lighting is expected by Oct. 31.

As part of the project, Campanella Way has been reconfigured to exit onto Thomas More Road to the right of Pine Tree Preserve. The former roadway exit alongside the Connell Recreation Complex will be converted to grass.

“This agreement between the MWRA and Boston College will provide pedestrian access to a wooded area with scenic views

of the reservoir for all members of the community to enjoy,” said Executive Vice President Michael Lochhead, who oversaw the project. “It is an example of a successful partnership between the Commonwealth and the University that will provide benefits for all.”

The Chestnut Hill Reservoir was constructed between 1866 and 1870 to meet the growing water demands of the City of Boston. Its 212 acres originally consisted

of the Lawrence Basin, named after textile manufacturer Amos Adams Lawrence, the Bradlee Basin, named after Nathaniel J. Bradlee, then president of the Cochituate Water Board, and Pine Tree Preserve. The Lawrence Basin was phased out in 1950 after the construction of the Quabbin Reservoir. It was sold to Boston College and is now the site of much of the Lower Campus, including Alumni Stadium, undergraduate residence halls, and BC recreational facilities.

The Chestnut Hill Reservoir was taken off-line in 1978, but is maintained as an emergency water supply. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is designated as a City of Boston landmark.

Its paved stone-paved 1.5-mile pathway has become a popular walking and jogging trail for local residents and members of the BC community.

—Jack Dunn

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While You Were Away…

Transition in Student Affairs Vice President for Student Affairs Barb Jones, above right, a strong advocate for Boston College students who led an expansion of the division of Student Affairs in both programming and outreach, retired this summer after a distinguished 40-year career in the field.

Jones, who came to Boston College from Miami University of Ohio in 2013, said the time was right for her to retire after successfully guiding BC Student Affairs through a period of growth that included expanded offerings for students in Counseling Services and the Career Center.

Executive Vice President Michael Lochhead thanked Jones for her years of dedicated service to Boston College.

“Barb brought experience, a strong work ethic, and a student-centric commitment to her work that earned her the respect of students, faculty and her administrative colleagues,” said Lochhead. “She will be missed by all of us at Boston College, as well as by her many colleagues at the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators, and at the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities.”

Jones said that she had greatly enjoyed

Barb Jones

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Joy Haywood Moore

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the opportunities she experienced as a part of the campus leadership team.

“My time at Boston College has helped me to understand the importance of reflection and discernment, which has led me to the decision that it is time to embark on what is next in my life,” said Jones. “I will miss seeing the students grow and discover their own joys and dreams. The relationships I have had with outstanding students, faculty and staff have been a gift for which I am truly grateful. My colleagues in Student Affairs are some of the most committed, caring and creative people I have ever known.”

Joy Haywood Moore ’81, H’10, who was appointed in 2013 as associate vice president for alumni relations, will serve as interim vice president for student affairs. Moore successfully led the Boston College Alumni Association in its outreach to its 182,000 members, enhancing its programs and services and increasing alumni engagement.

“I am pleased that Joy has agreed to serve as interim vice president for Student Affairs,” said Lochhead. “She is a highly respected and engaged administrator with extensive leadership experience that will serve her well in this new role in Student Affairs. I look forward to working closely with her during the coming months.”

Gosselin New Director of Undergrad Admission Boston College named 1997 alumnus Grant M. Gosselin, the vice president of enrollment and dean of admission and student aid at Wheaton College in Norton, Mass., as director of undergraduate admission.

Gosselin succeeded John L. Mahoney, who was named dean of undergraduate admission and financial aid in March, and this week became vice provost for enrollment management [see page 1].

Grant M. Gosselin A nationally respected expert and proven leader in the field of undergraduate admission, Gosselin brings enhance yield among accepted students, 21 years of experience to the position, and the Global Leadership Development including successful roles at Wheaton and Group to expand outreach to prospective Babson College, as well as at Boston Colinternational students. In addition, he lege, where he had previously served as implemented a new admission marketing senior assistant director of undergraduate strategy for Wheaton that included affordadmission and associate director of market- ability and yield campaigns and a high ing and international admission. school counselor communications plan, as While at Wheaton, he served as chief well as led the school’s successful effort to enrollment officer, overseeing and coimplement Slate as the enrollment CRM ordinating the efforts of the Admission, system for admission.

Financial Aid, Student Employment, and “Grant Gosselin has done great things Student Accounts staffs. During his tenure in undergraduate admission here at his at Wheaton, he set historic highs in apalma mater and over the past decade at plications and enrolled students, as well as Babson and Wheaton,” said Provost and in international student recruitment. He Dean of Faculties David Quigley. “He’ll also is credited with creating Wheaton’s return this summer to lead a strong and first Faculty Admission Advisory Group to experienced team, and I look forward to

working closely with him as we position Boston College to attract each year a diverse class of talented young men and women.”

Gosselin said he felt both “humbled and inspired” to return to his alma mater to lead the admission office at Boston College, where he was mentored early in his career by Mahoney.

“My Boston College education transformed my life, and I could not be more thrilled to help shape future generations of BC students and alumni in this new role,” said Gosselin.

“For nearly three decades, John Mahoney has established the admission office at Boston College as one of the most respected in the nation. I look forward to building upon John’s legacy, and to working closely with him as we continue to attract a diverse community of scholars committed to excellence, truth, and justice.”

Gosselin received his undergraduate degree in finance from the Carroll School of Management as well as a master’s degree in higher education administration from the Lynch School of Education in 2002. He began his career in admission a month after graduating from BC with an entry-level position at Babson College.

Evans Takes Reins of BCPD, Public Safety

Former Boston Police Commissioner William B. Evans, a nationally respected police leader with 38 years of experience in law enforcement, joined Boston College this month as its new executive director of public safety and chief of police. He succeeds Director of Public Safety and Chief of Police John King, who announced his retirement in April after eight years at Boston College.

“Bill Evans’ extensive experience and his understanding of BC’s commitment to student formation make him an ideal choice to lead our department,” said Financial Vice President and Treasurer John Burke.

“He will be a welcome addition to the BC community.”

“Coming to Boston College to serve as its executive director of public safety and chief of police is a wonderful opportunity for me and my family,” said Evans, the father of a BC graduate. “I have always admired the Jesuit mission of service to others, and I am honored to be able to serve one of the nation’s best universities, one that I know so well from my experience as a parent. I have loved being a Boston Police officer and working with the men and women of the BPD. It has been a great honor to lead the department as its police commissioner. I cannot say enough about the hard work and dedication of our officers. I am confident that they will continue that fine tradition.”

A lifetime Boston Police officer who began his career as a patrol officer in 1982, Evans rose steadily through the ranks to become the city’s police commissioner.

As superintendent, Evans led the strategic response team that was instrumental in capturing the Boston Marathon bombing suspect, and was responsible for security of all major events in Boston.

During his tenure as police commissioner, Evans was credited with diversifying the Boston Police force, enhancing police training for the city’s officers and building effective relationships with residents, students and business owners through open dialogue and transparency.

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Boston College news from the summer of 2018 Third Annual Boston College Diversity and Inclusion Summit

OBITUARIES Professor Emeritus Richard Cobb-Stevens, 83, a widely praised phenomenology scholar who chaired the Philosophy Department for nine years and played a leadership role in the revision of Boston College’s core curriculum during the early 1990s.

See bit.ly/cobb-stevens-obituary

John R. and Pamela Egan Professor James Gips, 72, an award-winning computer scientist whose work in assistive technology has helped people with disabilities live fuller lives.

See bit.ly/james-gips-obituary

On May 23, the Office for Institutional Diversity sponsored the third annual Boston College Diversity and Inclusion Summit, titled “One Community, Many Perspectives,” in Gasson 100. Following introductory remarks by Uni- versity President William P. Leahy, SJ, and OID Executive Director Patricia Lowe, the audience heard a keynote by former American Association of Colleges & Universities Vice President Alma Clayton-Pedersen (left), now CEO of Emeritus Consulting Group, who also led a Q&A session.

Planning is now under way for the 2019 Diversity and Inclusion Summit. For videos and other resources from this year’s summit, see the OID website at www. bc.edu/diversity. photo by peter julian

Joseph Patrick Killilea, 86, who for nearly six decades was a devoted “jack of all trades” to the Boston College Jesuit Community.

See bit.ly/joseph-killilea-obituary •Timothy Gearty, 20, a sophomore in the Carroll School of Management.

See bit.ly/timothy-gearty-obituary

Field House Highlights Summer Construction

•Retired Boston College School of Social Work faculty member Demetrius Iatridis, 93, who survived a warscarred youth and became an advocate for cooperation and compassion to aid those in need.

See bit.ly/demetrius-iatridis-obituary •Retired Boston College School of Social Work faculty member Nancy W. Veeder, 81, whose research included marketing human services in the managed care market and an in-depth study of women’s decision-making processes.

See bit.ly/nancy-veeder-obituary •Associate Professor of English Andrew Von Hendy, 86, known for his wide-ranging teaching and research interests, including English and Continental fiction of the 19th and 20th centuries, long poetic narratives, literary theory, autobiography, poetry writing, myth in modern literature, and the conquest of the Americas.

See bit.ly/andrew-von-hendy-obituary

STM Faculty Members Honored

Boston College’s Lower Campus took on a new look over the summer, with the completion of the Fish Field House and a new roadway connecting Campanella Way to Chestnut Hill Drive, as well as continuing progress on the Connell Recreation Center.

The 115,000-square foot field house, named in recognition of a leadership gift from former BC Board of Trustees Chairman and current Trustee Associate and Board of Regents Chairman John Fish, P ’13, ’18, opened for football practice earlier this month.

Meanwhile, vehicular traffic patterns on Lower Campus have been changed following a project that involved upgrading the former service road on Shea Field and linking it to Campanella Way, with the exit on Chestnut Hill Drive. The old roadway that directed vehicles past the Connell Recreation Center site onto Thomas More Road will be landscaped as part of the proposed Pine Tree Preserve [see story on page 3]. In addition, the Cam-

Boston College football coach Steve Addazio spoke with the media in the Fish Field House in July. photo by lee pellegrini

panella Way exit from the Beacon Street Garage has been relocated to next to the pedestrian ramp on the east side of Alumni Stadium.

Pre-casts were completed on the structure of the 244,000 square-foot, four-story Connell Recreation Center, and work is now in progress on the building’s façade.

The center, which is being built on the former site of Edmond’s Hall on Thomas More Road, is expected to be finished by August of next year.

Other summer projects included renovation of the Stuart Hall parking lot on Newton Campus, and infrastructural and other work in the vicinity of Cushing Hall and the Service Building.

Faculty members from the School of Theology and Ministry and the Theology and Philosophy departments were honored for their publications by the Catholic Press Association of the U.S. and Canada at the organization’s annual conference in June.

The Bible and Catholic Theological Ethics, co-edited by Canisius Professor of Theology James Keenan, S.J., (with Boston College alumni Yiu Sing Lucas Chan, S.J., and Ronaldo Zacharias, S.D.B.), won third place in the category of Scripture: Academic Studies.

Earning honorable mention were: Written for Our Instruction: Theological and Spiritual Riches in Romans, by STM Dean Thomas D. Stegman, S.J., Scripture: Popular Studies category; By What Authority?: Foundations for Understanding Authority in the Church, by Joseph Professor of Catholic Systematic Theology Richard Gaillardetz, Backlist Beauty category; Pope Francis and the Theology of the People,

by STM Associate Professor of the Practice Rafael Luciani, Pope Francis category.

Part-time Philosophy faculty member Timothy Muldoon earned second-place honors for his book, Living Against the Grain: How to Make Decisions That Lead to an Authentic Life, Books for Teens & Young Adults category.

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to the University. I’m pleased that John is joining the group of vice provosts and will bring his principled and visionary leadership to the broader work of enrollment management.”

Said Mahoney, “This is a great opportunity for me at a critical juncture for Boston College. I look forward to addressing the demographic, cost, and financial aid issues facing all colleges today. BC confronts them from a position of strength.”

During his tenure as director of the University’s Office of Undergraduate Admission—a post he assumed in 1990, after having served as senior assistant director since 1984—Boston College saw an unprecedented rise in freshman applications from 12,403 in 1990 to 20,743 in 2000 to 34,061 in 2012.

This past year, Boston College received approximately 31,000 applications for the 2,300 openings in the Class of 2022, a nine percent increase over last year.

The acceptance rate was 27 percent. The Class of 2022 is the most academically distinguished in BC history, with a mean composite SAT score of 1392 and a mean composite ACT score of 32. This strong applicant pool follows a freshman class that was the most diverse in BC history, with an AHANA enrollment of 31 percent.

Overall, the current freshman class draws from 44 states and 40 countries.

These and other achievements have earned Mahoney respect from his peers.

In 2002, he won the John B. Muir Editor’s Award from the National Association for College Admission Counseling for his article “Perception of the Profession Is a Cause for Concern,” published in the Journal of College Admission. In 2014, he was selected for the highest award given by the New England Association for College Admission Counseling: the Harry R. Carroll Distinguished Service Award, which recognizes a college admission counseling professional whose contributions and achieve-

ments merit special recognition and whose work reflects the spirit and principles of its namesake.

Mahoney, who has long praised the work of administrators and staff in Undergraduate Admission and other related offices as integral to BC’s success, said he was happy to continue drawing upon such expertise and commitment in his new role.

“Knowing the people, particularly the leaders in the different enrollment areas, is a huge advantage for me. We’re all committed to playing our part in advancing Boston College’s reputation.”

Technology has played an increasingly prominent role in the admission and enrollment profession, Mahoney said, and BC is committed to using state-of-the-art programs and systems to better serve students.

“I want to provide my fullest support to our Information Technology and Student Services professionals as they continue to implement EagleApps, BC’s new student information system. The Student Accounts module went live in June, so now we’re focused on the Enrollment module and the integration of a new CRM [customer relationship management] for Undergraduate Admission.”

Prior to Mahoney’s appointment as director of Undergraduate Admission, when he was senior assistant director of Undergraduate Admission and associate director for staff affairs, he was responsible for student recruitment, application evaluation and the editing of admission publications.

He also served as the Admission liaison to the College of Arts and Sciences, chairman of an Admission task force investigating volunteer programs and coordinator of visitor reception, office coverage and orientation for new staff.

After earning a degree in English at BC, Mahoney went on to teach that subject at St. John’s Prep in Danvers, Mass., for five years prior to joining the BC Admission staff. In 1985, he earned a master of arts in teaching from Boston College.

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Members of the University community and their families attended the feast day of Society of Jesus founder St. Ignatius of Loyola on July 31, with noon Mass at St. Mary's Chapel, followed by a barbecue and games for all ages in the St. Mary's Hall garden. The events were sponsored by BC's Jesuit Community, the Intersections program, and Center for Ignatian Spirituality.

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letics; increased campus tension about race, sexual misconduct, free speech, and other flashpoints. Catholic institutions, he noted, are dealing with turmoil over sexual abuse and the response of Church leadership, and growing secularization in American culture, among other issues.

Fr. Leahy cited the characteristics of BC that enable it to compete in such an environment, including its Jesuit religious and educational tradition; a commitment to intellectual, personal, and spiritual formation; talented, committed administrators, faculty, and staff; loyal and generous alumni, parents, and friends; growing success in fundraising; and effective long-range planning.

Such qualities will be integral to Boston College’s continued success, said Fr. Leahy, as will targeted investments in faculty,

research, and facilities, such as the future Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society. These priorities are spelled out in “Ever to Excel: Advancing Boston College’s Mission,” the 10-year strategic plan introduced at last fall’s Convocation, he said.

Fr. Leahy pointed to the opening section of “Ever to Excel” as an expression of BC’s hopes and ambitions: to be a preeminent Catholic, Jesuit university, “dedicated to serious intellectual inquiry and the pursuit of truth; the discovery and transmission of knowledge in ways appropriate to its mission and resources; and quality teaching, learning, and service.”

Lochhead spoke about the University’s budget and financial matters, and reported on recent, ongoing, and planned campus construction, including the newly opened Fish Field House and the Schiller Institute.

BC enjoyed a successful financial year—the

47th consecutive one in which operating revenues exceeded expenses—Lochhead said was attributable to, among other factors, a favorable savings in utilities which reflect ongoing demand management efforts as well as investments in energy conservation projects, and positive results in its experience with self-insured medical claims.

The University’s overall net assets grew by approximately five percent year over year, “further strengthening BC’s already well-capitalized balance sheet,” said Lochhead, who praised administrators and staff involved in BC financial affairs, as well as those in the Facilities and Information Technology divisions.

“BC is not a place that stands still,” he said. “I, and the rest of senior leadership, remain focused on ensuring that there is adequate funding capacity to enable the University to pursue its strategic priorities

as embodied in ‘Ever to Excel.’”

Quigley, in addition to discussing the implementation of “Ever to Excel,” offered his perspective on the pressures facing higher education—also noting the example of Mt. Ida—and said Boston College, given its history of achievement, could be among the institutions providing necessary leadership and direction. He also provided an overview of BC academic highlights from the past year, including faculty and student accomplishments.

Looking back on two decades since he joined the BC faculty, Quigley reflected on his initial impressions of the University as a “welcoming community,” embodied by the late William B. Neenan, S.J. Today, he said, BC displays “a sense of responsibility for living up to what has been handed down,” couple with an “anticipation that BC’s best days still lie ahead.”

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‘It Feels Like I’ve Returned Home’

BY SEAN SMITH CHRONICLE EDITOR

Leah DeCosta, who has filled several administrative and organizational roles in the University’s Advancement and Athletics divisions, was appointed this summer as associate vice president for alumni relations at Boston College.

She succeeds Joy Haywood Moore ’81, H’10, who had held the position since 2013 until she became interim vice president for Student Affairs this month following the retirement of Barb Jones [see page 4].

“Leah is a natural leader who brings a high level of expertise to this important role,” said Senior Vice President for University Advancement James Husson.

“Throughout her career she has demonstrated a deep commitment to relationship building and to the vital role that the Alumni Association plays in the life of Boston College. I am confident that Leah and her team, in partnership with our alumni board and volunteer leaders, will bring our alumni relations work to new heights in the years ahead.”

DeCosta spent the previous year as director of alumni relations at the New York University Stern School of Business, serving an alumni population of 110,000 members. She led the school’s successful Reunion Weekend program and significantly improved school-wide crossfunctional partnerships and faculty relations. Only eight months into her tenure, DeCosta was nominated for NYU’s annual Give-a-Violet Award, which identifies a staff member or administrator who “has gone above and beyond the scope of their position and demonstrated specific values and competencies at an exceptional level in the performance of their everyday responsibilities.”

From 2004 to 2017—with the exception of a two-year gap, when she was director of programs for the Special Olympics of New York Capital & North Country Region—DeCosta worked in various capacities at Boston College, most recently as director of alumni affinity and chapter

“ We want to ensure we’re ever expanding and increasing opportunities towards new affinity programming and regional engagement to best reflect our evolving student body.

It’s incumbent on us to foster an everlasting sense of belonging in our alumni community, regardless of where our alumni and parents live around the globe.”

–Leah DeCosta

programs in University Advancement from 2016-17.

“Having started my professional journey at BC 16 years ago, I’ve been very fortunate to work with nearly every division throughout the University, which allowed

Annual Mass of the Holy Spirit Sept. 6 University President William P. Leahy, S.J., will celebrate the annual Mass of the Holy Spirit on Sept. 6 on the Plaza at O’Neill Library (rain location: Conte Forum). Members of the Jesuit communities and other priests from the University will concelebrate.

All members of the University community are invited to attend the Mass, a tradition for the opening of the school year at Jesuit institutions dating back to the Middle Ages. Classes are cancelled that day from noon to 1:15 p.m.

Vice President for University Mission and Ministry Jack Butler, S.J., will be the homilist; music will be provided by BC’s Liturgy Arts Group.

The Mass of the Holy Spirit is organized by the Office of Campus Ministry in the division of University Mission and Ministry.

—University Communications

me to learn the landscape of BC in deep, meaningful ways,” said DeCosta, who also worked as an intern in BC Athletics in 2002. “Coming back to serve as AVP for alumni relations is not only an honor but has truly epitomized the best next step for me career-wise. It feels very much like I’ve returned home.”

As AVP for alumni relations, DeCosta leads the Boston College Alumni Association in its outreach to its 182,000 members around the world, supporting its programs and services while increasing alumni engagement and annual participation.

Recent alumni initiatives have included the “150 on the Road” volunteer service project in seven cities across the U.S., and Dublin, Ireland, in which nearly 2,000 volunteers packed more than 451,000 meals for drought-stricken West Africa.

“Throughout my career, I’ve had the distinct pleasure of serving other alumni communities and learning how they engage with their respective alma maters,” said DeCosta, a 2002 graduate of Temple University. “However, BC alumni are undoubtedly among the most committed, dedicated, and generous in the world. This community maintains a very special relationship with the University that is expressed in a number of ways, whether through their philanthropic support, service-related and faith-based activities, student mentorship, or their tremendous ambassadorship of BC’s academic and formation missions, as demonstrated most recently in the ‘Light the World’ campaign.

I’m proud to serve on behalf of such a remarkable body of alumni.

“Typically, our alumni engage with BC through their graduating class, shared interests via our affinity groups program, and regional activity. We want to ensure we’re ever expanding and increasing opportunities towards new affinity programming and regional engagement to best reflect our evolving student body. It’s incumbent on us to foster an everlasting sense of belonging in our alumni community, regardless of where our alumni and parents live around the globe.”

DeCosta’s other positions in University Advancement were senior associate director for alumni affinity programs and associate director for alumni classes. From 2012-13, she served as associate director for event operations in BC Athletics. In her earlier stint at BC, she was Athletics’ assistant director for sports marketing from 2007-10 and event administrator in Athletics’ Event Operations from 2004-07.

While at BC, DeCosta has been involved in the Benjamin E. Mays Mentoring Program and the Affiliates Leadership Development Program. She also has participated in the NCAA Leadership Institute for Ethnic Minority Females, CASE Summer Institute ACC Alumni Association Directors Conference, and the Association of Business School Alumni Professionals.

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She’s not a grad, but new associate VP for alumni relations Leah DeCosta has a lot of experience with Boston College

Fr. Davidson to Head BAIC Interim Vice President for Student Affairs Joy Moore last week announced the appointment of Michael Davidson, S.J., above, as director of the Thea Bowman AHANA and Intercultural Center (BAIC), effective Aug. 27. He succeeds Ines Maturana Sendoya, who accepted a position at Wellesley College earlier this year.

Fr. Davidson, who served as a resident minister in Campus Ministry for the past six years, has worked closely with the AHANA community during his tenure at Boston College, leading the Jamaica Magis service trip and the Magis Civil Rights Immersion trip to Atlanta and Birmingham, Ala., and serving as co-chair of the Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship Committee.

He also teaches a popular section in Courage to Know for first-year students.

A member of the Northeast Province of the Society of Jesus and a native of Kingston, Jamaica, Fr. Davidson worked at St. George’s College in Jamaica—where he served as dean of students and an accounting and religious education teacher at the Jesuit high school—prior to joining Boston College.

“It is a wonderful coincidence when a critical role and an exceptional candidate for the position become available at the same time,” said Moore. “Fr. Michael is known as a priest of and for the people and a passionate promoter of diversity and equity. We are very pleased to have him serve as the new director of the BAIC.” Fr. Davidson holds a B.A. in philosophy from Arrupe College in Zimbabwe, a B.A. in theology and M.A. in divinity from Regis College at the University of Toronto, and a master’s in educational administration from the Lynch School of Education.

He also serves as a member of the board of trustees for Brooklyn Jesuit Prep in New York City.

“I am excited about this new role because I love working with students,” said Fr. Davidson.

“As director of the BAIC, I want to expand the wonderful work of the center so it can be a place where students of color can find home, be supported and connect with someone who can journey with them.

I see it as a place where students can feel loved and learn our Jesuit tenets so that they can grow to be better human beings endowed with competence, conscience and compassion. I am dedicated to our students, and I look forward to working more closely with them.”

–Jack Dunn

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Schlozman Achieves Milestone with APSA Award “When I learned about the Constitution as a junior in high school, I naively asked my history teacher, ‘Are the people we elect supposed to do what we want them to do, or are they supposed to do what they think is best?’ Turns out that is a question with which political philosophers have grappled for generations.”

–Kay Schlozman

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J. Joseph Moakley Professor of Political Science Kay L. Schlozman is the first woman to be selected for the American Political Science Association’s Warren E. Miller Lifetime Achievement Award, which honors an outstanding career of intellectual accomplishment and service to the profession in the field of elections, public opinion, and voting behavior.

APSA is the leading professional organization for the study of political science, with more than 13,000 members from more than 80 countries. Warren E. Miller, the award’s namesake and its inaugural winner, was a pioneering political scientist best known as the co-author of the groundbreaking book, The American Voter, one of the first comprehensive studies to use survey data to understand how voters think and act.

Other Miller Lifetime Achievement Award winners have included Philip E. Converse, who, along with Miller, was a co-author of The American Voter and an innovative figure in the field of public opinion, survey research, and quantitative social science; Robert Putnam, whose works include Bowling Alone and Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis; and Larry Bartels, author of Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age. “I am in awesome company as a recipient of the Miller Lifetime Achievement Award,” said Schlozman, a faculty member since 1974 who is a widely hailed expert on citizen participation in American politics. “I am very grateful and humbled by the honor.”

Schlozman has received multiple honors from APSA: the Samuel J. Eldersveld Ca-

reer Achievement Award, which recognizes a scholar whose lifetime professional work has made an outstanding contribution to the field of political organizations and parties; the Rowman and Littlefield Award for innovative teaching in political science; and the Frank J. Goodnow Award for distinguished service to the political science profession. She also shared the APSA Philip E. Converse Book Award with long-time collaborators Sidney Verba—another Miller Lifetime Achievement Award recipient—and Henry Brady for Voice and Equality: Civic Voluntarism and American Politics, and the Victoria Schuck Award with Nancy Burns and Sidney Verba for their co-authored book, The Private Roots

of Public Action: Gender, Equality, and Political Participation.

Appointed as the University’s first Moakley Professor in 2002, Schlozman researches broad areas of American political life, parties and elections, interest groups, voting and public opinion, political movements, money in politics, and the gender gap in citizen political activity. She is the co-author of six books, including her latest with Verba and Brady, the recently released Unequal and Unrepresented: Political Inequality and the People’s Voice in the New Gilded Age. She is also the editor of Elections in America and co-editor with Gary King and Norman Nie of The Future of Political Science.

Looking back, Schlozman said, exposure to Miller’s work piqued her interest in political science, although she wasn’t aware of it at first.

“When I learned about the Constitution as a junior in high school, I naively asked my history teacher, ‘Are the people we elect supposed to do what we want them to do, or are they supposed to do what they think is best?’ Turns out that is a question with which political philosophers have grappled

for generations.”

Schlozman, however, started out as an English major during her undergraduate years at Wellesley College. “Then I took a sociology course, and it was clear I understood how to think as a social scientist, so I became a double sociology/English major.

And I got ‘A’s in everything except English.”

As she took courses related to her sociology major, including in economics, Schlozman found “that I kept gravitating toward questions with political dimensions. Later on, as I continued to explore political science as a discipline of choice, I encountered the classic article in which Miller and his coauthor, Donald Stokes, subjected to the light of data the question of how members of Congress represent the policy views of their constituents. I was fascinated.

“I feel very fortunate to have been able to work with many talented colleagues over the years to address such issues, which are critical to understanding the state of our democracy.”

She will be presented with the award at the annual APSA meeting in Boston that begins today and runs through Sunday.

—Sean Smith

Peers Bestow Lifetime Honors on LSOE’s Helms Lynch School of Education Augustus Long Professor Janet E. Helms, director of the Boston College Institute for the Study and Promotion of Race and Culture, received two prominent awards at the American Psychological Association’s 125th annual meeting in San Francisco earlier this month.

Helms, a faculty member in the Department of Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology, was presented with a Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring Award in Counseling Psychology by the Society of Counseling Psychology (APA Division 17), and a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Society for the Psychological Study of Culture, Ethnicity and Race (APA Division 45) for outstanding contributions in the promotion of ethnic minority issues over the course of her career.

Washington, D.C.-based APA is the nation’s leading scientific and professional organization representing psychology, with more than 115,700 researchers, educators, clinicians, consultants and students as its members.

“Dr. Helms is a trailblazing producer of scholastic excellence and a wonderful mentor to many psychologists,” said Candice

Hargons, APA’s Council of Representatives member representing the Society of Counseling Psychology division and an assistant professor of counseling psychology at the University of Kentucky. “She is so deserving of this award.”

A BC faculty member since 2000, Helms has have been frequently acknowledged for her work and career. Her honors include the national Elizabeth Hurlock Beckman Award for mentoring students; an engraved brick in her name in the Plaza of Heroines at Iowa State University, where she received her doctorate; the Distinguished Career Contributions to Research Award from the Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues; the APA’s awards for Distinguished Contributions to Education and Training in Psychology and for Distinguished Contributions to Research in Public Policy; and the Association of Black Psychologists’ 2007 Award for Distinguished Psychologist.

She also was the inaugural recipient of the Janet E. Helms Award for Mentoring and Scholarship in Professional Psychology, now an annual honor conferred by Columbia University Teachers College,

Janet Helms

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and winner of the 2002 Leona Tyler Award in recognition of an outstanding research career.

“Dr. Helms has the gift of mentoring her students to integrate their personal and professional selves, and envisioning possibilities for themselves that were not even in their awareness,” said Alvin N. Alvarez, dean of the College of Health & Social Sciences at San Francisco State University, and a Helms Award for Mentoring and Scholarship recipient. “The fact that she has done this consistently with students across multiple dimensions of identity— race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation— makes her without equal. Many of us, myself included, are indebted to her for helping us to forge a career that we didn’t even think was possible.”

Helms is past president of the APA’s Society of Counseling Psychology, and a fellow in the APA’s Counseling Psychology; Culture, Ethnicity and Race; and Psychology of Women (Division 35). She also is a member of the American Psychological Society, the Association of Psychological Science, and the American Educational Research Association.

—Phil Gloudemans

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Grants, Fellowships Aid Students’ Summer Sojourns Continued from page 1

generosity of the donors who have made it possible for Boston College students to study, research, and conduct service abroad through summer grants and fellowships,” said Office of International Programs Director Nick Gozik. “In line with our Jesuit values, such funding ensures that education abroad is not limited to those with means and allows a variety of students to go abroad who might not otherwise do so, regardless of background or academic interests.”

Here is a look at this past summer’s study-abroad programs and destinations: • McGillycuddy-Logue Travel Grants: The 30 undergraduate awardees—who studied in Chile, the Czech Republic, Ecuador, England, France, Germany, Italy and New Zealand—represent the Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences, the Lynch School of Education, and the Carroll School of Management. Awarded through the OIP’s McGillycuddy-Logue Center for Undergraduate Global Studies, the summer travel grant program provides international educational experiences to academically excellent BC undergraduate students, for whom such experiences would otherwise remain out of reach. This fall, the grant program will fund study-abroad opportunities for some 20 students, also from a range of the University’s undergraduate schools.

• Fung Scholars Program: Students are selected for the program, which supports

study in Asia, based on academic excellence and leadership qualities and potential; preference is given to candidates who focus on language study. Morrissey College students Othman Khoshafa and Sarah Ashebir were in Nanjing, China, for the BC summer program “Climate Change and Sustainability: An Environmental Chemistry View.”

Fung awards also are made for semester and yearlong study. Four students—from the Connell School of Nursing, Lynch School, and Morrissey College—will study this fall in Hong Kong, Nepal and South Korea.

• Flood Family Travel Grants: The grants support programs worldwide, with students selected based on leadership quali-

BC students at a class in Beijing.

ties and potential to gain tangible skills while meeting academic goals abroad. Five students were awarded summer grants: Morrissey College junior Aileen Coyne went to Italy on the BC summer program “Contemporary Italian Culture through Film”; Carroll School student Katherine Popolo interned in Hong Kong; Lynch School student Anne Marie Quinn and Carroll School student Jacqueline Taeubel were in Spain for the BC summer program “Spanish Art History: from Al-Andalus to Picasso”; and Morrissey College student Isabella Turco went to France as part of the BC summer program “The Twentieth Century and the Tradition in Paris.”

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• Mizna Fellowships: These fellowships fund research, language study, internships, and service-learning initiatives throughout the Islamic world. Two Morrissey College students received both Mizna and Aggad (see below) fellowships for Arabic language study this summer: Kyle Costa to Beirut, Lebanon, and Carly Sullivan to Rabat, Morocco. Sullivan also volunteered with children from low-income families to learn about educational access in the country.

• Omar A. Aggad Travel and Research Fellowships: These awards expand understanding of the Arab world, and the relationships between Arab societies and the West. In addition to Costa and Sullivan, Morrissey College student Rebecca Reilly was awarded a fellowship for summer language study in Jordan.

• Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships: These scholarships provide students of limited financial means the opportunity to study or intern abroad, and gain skills critical to American national security and economic competitiveness. Three Morrissey College students were awarded summer scholarships: Daniela Benitez studied in Amman, Jordan; Liam Madden at the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates; and JongHee Byun with the BC summer program “Food Writing in Paris,” which also is funded via a McGillycuddy-Logue Travel Grant.

—University Communications

Positive Signs in Career Ctr. Survey of Class of 2017 More than 96 percent of graduates from the Boston College Class of 2017 are employed, in graduate school, or engaged in a fellowship or meaningful volunteer experience, according to survey results released by the Office of Institutional Research, Planning, and Assessment and the Career Center.

The findings, which place BC among the top universities nationwide, underscore the value of a Boston College education and showcase the impressive accomplishments of BC students who earned their diplomas last year, according to BC administrators.

Among those entering the workforce (73 percent of the Class of 2017) •22 percent are working in financial services and real estate, at firms ranging from Citi and J.P. Morgan to Cushman & Wakefield and Deloitte.

•16 percent are working in healthcare and the sciences at such entities as Massachusetts General Hospital, the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the American Red Cross.

•12 percent are working in business, consulting and management at companies including Google, General Electric, IBM, and Walt Disney Corp.

Among those attending graduate school (19 percent) •The top five programs of study are STEM (20 percent), education (16 per-

cent), law (15 percent), medicine (10 percent), and business (10 percent).

•The most popular graduate schools include: Boston College, University of Chicago, Princeton, Columbia, Yale, MIT, University of Pennsylvania, Georgetown, Harvard, and Tufts, among others.

Among those engaged in volunteer service or fellowships (5 percent) •The Jesuit Volunteer Corps, Peace Corps, and AmeriCorps are the most popular volunteer commitments among BC students, while Fulbright study, Venture for America, and Humanity in Action are the top fellowship choices.

Provost and Dean of Faculties David Quigley said the survey results are a testament to the diverse talent of BC students and the successful preparation they receive from BC faculty.

“Boston College is blessed to graduate students with a range of gifts, and we’re pleased to see further evidence that our young alumni are in great demand in the job market, and compete successfully for admission to top graduate programs and for prestigious fellowships. These findings speak to Boston College’s core strengths: a liberal arts education that embraces student formation within a global city known for its entrepreneurship and innovation.”

Joseph Du Pont, associate vice president of student affairs, said the findings demon-

“ Career education and readiness are essential components of our Jesuit mission to engage students throughout their journey of self-discovery and personal formation. We have a unique culture here that views career success in the broader sense of empowering students to live lives of meaning and impact.”

–Joseph Du Pont

strate that the University has the programs and services in place to provide students who wish to enter the workforce with the assistance they need to find their ideal jobs right out of college.

“These post-graduate success outcomes are very strong and speak so highly to the value of a BC education. Career education and readiness are essential components of our Jesuit mission to engage students throughout their journey of self-discovery and personal formation. We have a unique culture here that views career success in the

broader sense of empowering students to live lives of meaning and impact.

“I am also pleased that among those surveyed 71 percent said they had used a Boston College career resource to secure their employment, including the popular EagleLink on-campus interviews, BC Career Fairs and networking through Boston College and its alumni network,” Du Pont added. “Clearly we have the tools in place to enable our students to succeed in whatever they choose.”

—Jack Dunn

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Fall Lowell Lectures Schedule Set to Begin Sept. 10

Professor of English Suzanne Matson will discuss and read from her newest novel, Ultraviolet, at a Dean’s Colloquium on Sept. 13 at 4:30 p.m. in Gasson 100.

Ultraviolet, Matson’s fourth novel, spans a century and two continents to follow the trajectories of three generations of American women as they negotiate the complexities of marriage, motherhood, aging, and the end of life.

Her previous novels are The TreeSitter, short-listed for the PEN New England/L.L. Winship Award, A Trick of Nature, and The Hunger Moon, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick. Her short fiction has appeared in Harvard Review, Carolina Quarterly, Mussoorie Writers, Pangyrus, and as a Ploughshares Solo. She also has published two books of poetry, Durable Goods and Sea Level.

Matson was selected for a Creative Writing in Prose Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2012 and a Boston College Arts Council Faculty Award in 2011.

—University Communications

latest titles include the essay collections The Mother of All Questions and Men Explain Things to Me. She has received two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships for literature, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and other awards. A Harper’s columnist, she is a frequent contributor to The Guardian.

Ruth Rubio Marin, Nov. 1

Marlon James, Oct. 3

Her lecture, which will be held at 7 p.m. in Devlin 110, is co-sponsored by the Institute for the Liberal Arts.

Other upcoming lectures this semester, which also begin at 7 p.m., are:

international journalists for the digital age.

He also is the co-founder of GlobalPost, an acclaimed international news website.

Charles Sennott Sept. 19, Gasson 100 The founder and executive director of The GroundTruth Project, Sennott is an award-winning foreign correspondent, author, and editor with 30 years of journalism experience. His discussion of GroundTruth and the role of young journalists in the world is timely, organizers note, as a journalism minor is offered on campus for the first time. Sennott has reported on the front lines of wars and insurgencies in more than 15 countries, including the 2011 revolution in Cairo and the Arab Spring. His extensive international reporting experience led him to launch The GroundTruth Project and to dedicate himself to training the next generation of

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Influential contemporary American artist Carrie Mae Weems will launch the fall Lowell Humanities Series (LHS) on Sept.

10, her talk—titled “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely”—presented in conjunction with the McMullen Museum of Art exhibition, “Carrie Mae Weems: Strategies of Engagement,” which opens that day. [See story on page 12. More information also available at www.bc.edu/sites/artmuseum/exhibitions/ weems/] Weems will be in residence at BC from Sept. 10 to 12, and will meet with students and faculty to discuss the issues addressed in her work and the role of art in shaping a more enlightened future.

“In the tradition of the Lowell, we strive to bring to campus diverse and field-leading thinkers across various disciplines—including top writers—to continue important campus and national conversations,” said LHS Assistant Director Lauren Wilwerding, a part-time English Department faculty member. “We are always seeking ways to offer events that are integrated into the curriculum and community; a number of them this fall are the result of collaborations across campus.”

Weems has investigated family relationships, cultural identity, sexism, class, political systems, and the consequences of power through art, employing photographs, text, fabric, audio, digital images, installation, and video. She has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions at such major museums as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Frist Center for Visual Art, and the Solomon Guggenheim Museum, and earned prestigious awards, grants, and fellowships, including the Prix de Roma, the National Endowment for the Arts, and The Alpert.

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Fiction Days presents Marlon James Oct. 3, Gasson 100 In 2015, James became the first Jamaican author to take home the U.K.’s most prestigious literary award, the Man Booker Prize for Fiction, for A Brief History of Seven Killings. The novel explores Jamaican history through the perspectives of multiple narrators and genres: the political thriller, oral biography, and classic whodunit are used to address the assassination attempt on reggae musician Bob Marley, and the country’s clandestine battles during the Cold War. James is the author of two other award-winning novels, John Crow’s Devil and The Book of Night Women. His appearance is co-sponsored by African and African Diaspora Studies.

Poetry Days presents C. Dale Young Oct.17, Devlin 101 An award-winning poet and writer, Young—a 1991 Boston College alumnus— practices medicine full-time and teaches in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. He is the author of four poetry collections including Torn and The Halo, and his novel in stories, The Affliction. He is a recipient of fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation. Young was the first Latino, and first of Asian descent, to win the Hanes Award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers. His poetry and short fiction have appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines, including The Best American Poetry, Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation, American Poetry Review, The Atlantic Monthly, and The New Republic.

Rebecca Solnit Oct. 24, Gasson 100 Writer, historian, and activist Solnit is the author of 20 books on feminism, western and indigenous history, popular power, social change and insurrection, wandering and walking, and hope and disaster. Her

Ruth Rubio Marín Nov. 1, Gasson 100 A University of Sevilla professor of constitutional law, Rubio also is a faculty member at New York University’s Hauser Global Law School Program. Her research represents an attempt to understand how public law creates categories of inclusion and exclusion around different axes including gender, citizenship, nationality, and ethnicity. She is the author of more than 40 articles and the author, editor or co-editor of eight books, as well as two in press. Her current book project is The Disestablishment of Gender in the New Millennium Constitutionalism. As a consultant and activist, Rubio has worked for national and international institutions and agencies including the United Nations and the European Union, and has extensive incountry experience in dealing with reparations in post-conflict societies, including in Morocco, Nepal, and Colombia.

Rubio’s lecture is part of a two-day conference, “Transitional Justice, Truthtelling, and the Legacy of Irish Institutional Abuse,” supported by the Institute for the Liberal Arts, Office of the Provost, Irish Studies Program, Jesuit Institute, Boston College Law School, and Center for Human Rights and International Justice.

Michael Sandel Nov. 13, Gasson 100 A Harvard University political philosopher and bestselling author—described

by The New Republic as “the most famous teacher of philosophy in the world”—Sandel challenges audiences to examine the ethical dilemmas confronted in politics and in daily life. His legendary course “Justice” has enrolled more than 15,000 students and was the first Harvard course to be made freely available online and on public television. His latest work, What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets, invites readers to rethink the role that money and markets should play in our lives. He served for four years on the President’s Council on Bioethics, exploring the ethical implications of new biomedical technologies, which led him to write The Case Against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering. His lecture is cosponsored by the Park Street Corporation Speaker Series.

For more details on the series and speakers see www.bc.edu/lowellhs. Lowell Humanities Series events are free and open to the public. The series is sponsored by the Lowell Institute, BC’s Institute for the Liberal Arts and the Provost’s Office.

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Organized by BC theologians, a global conference garners support of Pope Francis Some 500 moral theologians from around the globe gathered in Sarajevo this summer for a conference, organized by three Boston College faculty members, which sought to build bridges among people across nations and examine ways ethicists can address issues of climate change and migrants and refugees in a shifting geopolitical environment.

The conference, “A Critical Time for Bridge-Building, Catholic Theological Ethics Today,” was convened by the Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church, a global network of 2,000 theological ethicists and practitioners, and organized by CTEWC founder and Canisius Professor of Theology James Keenan, S.J., Professor of Theological Ethics Kristin Heyer, and School of Theology and Ministry Associate Professor Andrea Vicini, S.J. CTEWC leaders described the conference as “a time for action, a time to share visions and strategy, a time to raise up and promote the common good…[and] stand as a sign of effective Christian hope for a world at risk.”

The global meeting drew the attention of Pope Francis, who issued a letter—read at the conference’s opening—praising the meeting’s focus and offering encouragement and prayer.

In addition to Fr. Keenan, Heyer, and Fr. Vicini, other Boston College conference participants were: Professor of Theology Ken Himes, O.F.M., who gave a plenary talk on political crises; Monan Professor of Theology Lisa Sowle Cahill; Libby Professor of Theology and Law Cathleen Kaveny; Professor of Theology Stephen Pope; Mary Jo Iozzio, a professor in the School of Theology and Ministry, and Toni Ross, associate director of the Jesuit Institute.

BC graduate and undergraduate students and more than a dozen alumni also attended.

—Kathleen Sullivan Read more of this story at http://bit.ly/CTEWC-conference

AFFILIATES PROGRAM The University Affiliates Program, which provides AHANA professional staff with opportunities to broaden their management experiences and to study critical issues in higher education—with a focus on Boston College as a Jesuit, Catholic university—is seeking candidates for the 2018-19 academic year. Sept. 28 is the deadline for all applications.

For more information, contact Damita Davis at ext.2-8730 or damita.davis@ bc.edu. The Office of Institutional Diversity website, www.bc.edu/diversity, also has details about the program.

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BC in the Media Prof. Thomas Groome (STM) offered comments to the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, and WBUR’s “On Point” on a letter

by Pope Francis to the church’s 1.2 billion followers condemning the sexual abuse of children by Roman Catholic clergy.

Prof. of the Practice Can Erbil (Economics) addressed what led to the crisis in Turkey, and where the country’s economy can go from here, in an analytical piece he co-authored for The Conversation.

Democrats are reclaiming language they ceded to the GOP decades ago—and are putting a liberal spin on it, wrote Prof.

Heather Cox Richardson (History) in The New Republic.

The Catholic world is watching as the church in Australia moves towards the Plenary Council 2020, Joseph Professor of Catholic Systematic Theology Richard Gaillardetz told Australia’s Catholic Leader.

He also discussed calls for change in the church in a radio interview via the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

The late Aretha Franklin was a bridge between religion, pop culture, and civil rights, said Assoc. Prof. C. Shawn Mc-

Guffey (Sociology), director of African and African Diaspora Studies, in an interview with the Boston Herald.

What is completely missing in President Trump’s discourse, and that of his allies, is any attempt to subject his love of toughness to ethical assessment, wrote Prof. Stephen Pope (Theology) in Commonweal.

challenges in an interview with U.S. News & World Report.

The sudden rise in nationalism and populism in many countries has implications for higher education, explained Center for International Higher Education Director Prof. Hans de Wit (LSOE) and center founding director Research Prof. Philip Altbach in a piece for Inside Higher Ed.

Compared to big corporations in other sectors of the economy, most healthcare organizations—even large ones—appear to be falling short when it comes to finding ways to protect the environment, according to a new study co-authored by Prof. Philip Landrigan (Biology), which he discussed in an interview with Reuters.

Immigrant children separated from their parents at the border will need help coping with trauma, wrote Assoc. Prof. Thomas Crea (BCSSW) and colleagues in a piece for Village Voice. Crea also spoke with KJZZ Radio’s “The Show” about how social workers can help migrant children separated from their parents deal with trauma.

In 1900, a Boston Globe reporter was asked to consult with the best experts to sketch out a vision of what Boston would look like a hundred years hence. Prof. Marilynn Johnson (History) was among experts asked by the Globe to weigh in on the result.

Prof. Patrick Maney (History) discussed the possible implications of the Manafort and Cohen court cases for the Trump presidency as a guest on NPR’s “All Things Considered.”

Jobs

The U.S. is seeing an influx of high-tech toilets, already popular abroad. Will consumers buy them? Assoc. Prof. Mary Tripsas (CSOM) offered her insights on the

The following are among the most recent positions posted by the Department of Human Resources. For more information on employment opportunities at Boston College, see www. bc.edu/offices/hr:

Nota Bene Nancy Netzer, director of the McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College and a professor of art history, has been named one of four recipients of the 2018 Massachusetts Governor’s Awards in the Humanities.

Conferred by Mass Humanities, the Governor’s Awards in the Humanities are bestowed on leaders in recognition of their public actions, grounded in an appreciation of the humanities, to enhance civic life in the Commonwealth. “Civic life in our Commonwealth is enriched by public figures whose actions and decision-making are grounded in an appreciation and understanding of the humanities,” announced a Mass Humanities statement on its website. “[Massachusetts Governor’s Awards] recipients recognize the centrality of the humanities to our national identity and ethic and they have championed the value of those disciplines through their various careers.”

At the McMullen Museum, Netzer has organized more than 60 interdisciplinary exhibitions, with accompanying publications, which have included some of the finest works of art from collections around world. She oversaw the renovation of the McMullen Museum’s new venue, at 2101 Commonwealth Avenue on Brighton Campus, which opened in 2016. Netzer has served on several boards, including Mass Humanities as a governor’s appointee for 11 years, and as board chair from 2013-2015.

The 2018 Governor’s Awards will be presented at the Mass Humanities’ annual benefit dinner on Oct. 28.

Established in 1974 as the state-based affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, Mass Humanities conducts and supports programs that use history, literature, philosophy, and the other humanities disciplines to enhance and improve civic life in Massachusetts.

More information is available at: masshumanities.org/programs/benefit-dinner.

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Campus Arts “Carrie Mae Weems: Strategies of Engagement” at the McMullen Museum Sept. 10-Dec. 13

An Artist with Diverse, Wide-Ranging Tastes

BY ROSANNE PELLEGRINI STAFF WRITER

Next month, the McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College will debut “Carrie Mae Weems: Strategies of Engagement,” a groundbreaking exhibition that examines the American artist’s diverse and innovative career through both celebrated and rarely exhibited projects. The exhibition is on display in the Daley Family and Monan Galleries of the McMullen Museum from Sept. 10 to Dec. 13.

Members of the University community are invited to a special preview of the exhibition on Sept. 7 from 10 a.m.-3 p.m., featuring a 12:15 p.m. lecture by exhibition curators Professor of English Robin Lydenberg and Art History faculty member Ash Anderson. [To attend the lecture, RSVP at http://bit.ly/preview-day-lecture] Weems has produced a unique body of aesthetically and politically powerful work during the last 30 years. She has investigated family relationships, cultural identity, sexism, class, political systems, and the consequences of power through art, employing photographs, text, fabric, audio, digital images, installation, and video.

“To mount a large number of installation pieces produced over decades by Carrie Mae Weems, one of the most innovative and powerful artists in America today, to have a critical group of faculty from a wide range of disciplines eager to focus scholarly inquiry on that artist’s work, and to display artwork that addresses the most pressing and complex problems in current minds, presents a rare opportunity to a museum,” said McMullen Museum of Art Director and Professor of Art History Nancy Netzer.

In conjunction with the Sept. 10 exhibi-

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Carrie Mae Weems’ “The Hope Peony,” left, and detail of Robert Gould Shaw Memorial (digital photo) from “The Hampton Project.”

tion opening, Weems will speak as part of the Lowell Humanities Series at 7 p.m. in Devlin 110. [See page 10 for more about the Lowell Humanities Series fall schedule.]

Weems, who lives and works in Syracuse, NY, is the recipient of numerous awards, grants, and fellowships including the MacArthur “genius grant”; U.S. Department of State Medal of Arts; Joseph H. Hazen Rome Prize; W.E.B. Du Bois Medal from Harvard University; and Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award. Her artwork is included in major public and private collections nationally and internationally.

Lydenberg and Anderson have curated the exhibition “with the generosity and wise advice of the artist,” Netzer added. “We are pleased to invite audiences, both here and at the exhibition’s subsequent venues,

PHOTOS BY PETER JULIAN

The annual freshmen move-in started on a less-than-hospitable note last week, as pouring rain welcomed the Class of 2022.

Below, junior Ashley Littlejohn—part of the BC “Welcome Wagon” student volunteers—helped Lucas Webber ’22 navigate his belongings through the mud. Fortunately, the weather improved later in the day, far right, as volunteer Colin Quigley ’20 offered greetings and directions to newcomers and their families.

to engage in myriad ways with the work of Carrie Mae Weems and to ponder the deeper questions she poses for contemporary society.”

Comprising 124 diverse works including photography, video, and mixed-media, “Strategies of Engagement” focuses on the relational aspect of Weems’ art, recreating original installations in which viewers wander among suspended images on translucent fabric, enveloped by the artist’s audio narration, or stand confronted with video and photographic works that expose systems of power and injustice.

The exhibition showcases artwork growing out of Weems’ critical explorations of history, a focus that is powerfully relevant in the context of current activism around racial equality and social justice. In addition to several of Weems’ most acclaimed

series, including “From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried,” the exhibition features the extraordinary “Lincoln, Lonnie, and Me: A Story in 5 Parts,” a theatrical video installation that incorporates a 19thcentury illusion technique, and the recently created “All the Boys, Usual Suspects, and People of a Darker Hue” dealing with police violence against unarmed black men and women.

The resulting immersion in moments of global and historical struggle prepares viewers for a more engaged discussion of American history through such difficult issues as violence, survival, and the need for radical social change.

Entering that territory with Weems, exhibition organizers say, visitors have an experience that is intellectually and ethically challenging, sometimes imbued with melancholy seriousness, sometimes with playful or ominous wit, and occasionally with unexpected moments of hope and grace.

“Strategies of Engagement” is accompanied by a catalogue with scholarly essays from the diverse perspectives of art history, literature, race and gender studies, education, sociology, and history. Major support has been provided by the Patrons of the McMullen Museum and Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91.

A concurrent exhibition in the McMullen Museum Atrium, “Hartmut Austen: Not There, Not Here,” presents 22 abstract paintings by artist Hartmut Austen, an assistant professor of painting in BC’s Art, Art History, and Film Department.

For more information, see www.bc.edu/ artmuseum.

Contact Rosanne Pellegrini at rosanne.pellegrini@bc.edu