Tag Archives: higher education
Higher education’s value
College students and their parents often question the “return on investment” from humanities courses, but Boston College Professor of English Carlo Rotella says that misses the point of what’s going on in the classroom. He contends that teaching—particularly an English-lit … Continue reading
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Higher education in the British Atlantic world
The Universities of Scotland, Ireland and New England during the British Civil Wars: Contested Seminaries (Boydell Press, 2024), written by Boston College alumnus Salvatore Cipriano, provides new insight into the contested nature of higher education in the British Atlantic world … Continue reading
Latinx Leadership Initiative highlighted
The Boston College School of Social Work’s Latinx Leadership Initiative, which marked its 10th anniversary this spring, is featured in a new publication, Advancing What Works to Intentionally Serve Latino Students: Opportunities for Action – 2024. For 20 years, Excelencia … Continue reading
Academic excellence initiatives in higher ed
Academic Star Wars: Excellence Initiatives in Global Perspective (MIT Press, 2023) is a new book of case studies on the global phenomenon of academic excellence initiatives and how they shape the performance of research universities. Academic excellence initiatives (AEIs)—special government-sponsored … Continue reading
The FBI, cybersecurity, and American higher ed
The synergy between academy, industry, and government that led to the successful M.S. in Cybersecurity Policy & Governance Program at Boston College’s Woods College of Advancing Studies is outlined in a chapter of the new Routledge International Handbook of Universities, Security, … Continue reading
Engaging first-gen college students
Digital tools can help ensure the academic success of students who are first in their families to go to college, according to a new book co-authored by BC Lynch School of Education Associate Professor Heather Rowan-Kenyon, Lynch School of Education Professor … Continue reading
Lessons from Piers Plowman
Higher education has become a polarizing topic in U.S. politics, but the underlying issues—who should be taught, what should be taught, and to what end—stretch back to the Middle Ages, according to Assistant Professor of English Eric Weiskott. In a … Continue reading
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Jesuit-Catholic leadership
Boston College alumnus Maduabuchi Leo Muoneme, S.J. is the author of a new book, The Hermeneutics of Jesuit Leadership in Higher Education (Routledge, 2017). Fr. Muoneme interviewed seven Jesuits who served as university leaders, as well as University of Notre Dame President Theodore … Continue reading
Honors for Martínez Alemán
Lynch School of Education Professor Ana Martínez Alemán was honored with the 2016 Outstanding Publication Award in Division J (Postsecondary Education) for Critical Approaches to the Study of Higher Education (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015), a book she co-edited with Estela … Continue reading
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Perspectives on higher ed
Johns Hopkins University Press has released the fourth edition of American Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century: Social, Political, and Economic Challenges, co-edited by Research Professor and Center for International Higher Education Founding Director Philip G. Altbach, Michael N. Bastedo and … Continue reading
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