The Lynch School of Education is changing its name to the Lynch School of Education and Human Development, effective this January.
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Outgoing Connecticut Governor to Teach Law, Public Policy
Almost 40 years after he left campus, outgoing Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy, BC ’77 and BC Law ’80, will return to Boston College Law School. He will begin teaching at the Rappaport Center for Law and Public Policy in January.
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University Announces Details of Student Experience Survey
Boston College is launching the first Student Experience Survey next week, the University announced Thursday morning in a release. Survey data will be available this spring, with more “segmented analysis and extensive reporting” available in fall 2019.
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School of Social Work To Help Research Under Schiller
“The Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society provides the School of Social Work that ideal platform to reach across disciplines to define, understand, design, and test interventions,” the dean of the Boston College School of Social Work said in an email.
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Economics Major Reclassified as STEM
The economics major was reclassified as a science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) program from a social science this summer. The major was discontinued and replaced by Econometrics and Quantitative Economics (EQE) which will serve as its new name.
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Psychology Department Launches Neuroscience Major
The Boston College psychology department announced a Bachelor of Science degree in neuroscience, the first degrees for which will be awarded to the Class of 2020 and may be declared as early as Sept. 1, 2019 by the classes of 2020, 2021, and 2022.
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CSOM Professor James Gips Passes Away
Gips, the John R. and Pamela Egan Chair of Computer Science, taught at BC from 1976 until the end of this academic year.
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CSOM Associate Dean Richard Keeley to Retire
“I feel very fortunate to have been part of this community, and to have been able to contribute in some way to its progress,” Keeley said.
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University Grapples With Wave of Faculty Retirements
“Even as we have probably more older faculty, that’s been offsetted by all the new faculty that we’ve hired,” said Vice Provost for Faculties Billy Soo.
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International Studies Advisory Board Considers Opening Program to All Students
“To move forward from here, we’ll need to add additional sections of classes, and we hope to do that in the next few years, so that we might be able to open the major to all students, without an application,” said Robert Murphy, the program’s director.
