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Step Up is a collaboration between the BPS and the City of Boston to help students improve their performance. [24] Boston University is one of five universities involved in the program. [24] The school partners with Jumpstart, an AmeriCorps program that recruits college students to mentor 3- to 5-year-old children. [25]
The Flynn recreation complex is named after William J. Flynn who was director of Athletics at Boston College from 1957-1991. [4] The Flynn recreation complex is used to host thirty (30) Allston/Brighton residents per day during the summer months (June 7, 2010 – August 13, 2010) free of charge.
Boston College (BC) is a private Catholic Jesuit research university in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1863 by the Society of Jesus, the university has more than 15,000 total students. [9] The university offers bachelor's degrees, master's degrees, and doctoral degrees through its eight colleges and schools.
Graduate programs enrolled 281 Full-time MBA, 406 Part-time MBA, 61 Executive MBA, and 50 Ph.D. students during the 2015–16 school year. [12] The school offers several MBA dual degree programs in conjunction with other BU schools: MBA/JD in Law Management (with the School of Law) MBA/JD in Health Sector Management (with the School of Law)
In 1925, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences was formed, followed by programs at the doctoral level in 1952, establishing Boston College's role as a leading research university. In September 1933, Casper Augustus Ferguson enrolled in Morrissey College and four years later became the first black student to graduate from Boston College. [ 7 ]
Prior to World War II, Boston College's Department of Education within the College of Arts and Sciences was organized to prepare teachers, however student interest dropped after the war. [3] Department chairman Charles F. Donovan, S.J., a 1933 graduate who received his Ph.D. from Yale, rearranged the curriculum and established a major in ...
The School of Social Work was founded in 1936 by Walter McGuinn, S.J., who held a Ph.D. from Fordham University, and Dorothy L. Book, an experienced social worker. [2] [3] McGuinn, a faculty member, petitioned both the Society of Jesus in Rome and Cardinal William Henry O'Connell of Boston for permission to open a social work program with a focus on Catholic philosophy and ethics.
Wheelock College was a private college in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. The college was founded in 1888 as the Miss Wheelock's Kindergarten Training School and was merged into Boston University as part of the university's Wheelock College of Education and Human Development in 2018.