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metropolitan college news/events in the news
News & Events
In The News
Current Metropolitan College News
2008 June to December [January to May]
October 6 — Larry Chambers (School Program Coordinator, Sargent Center for Outdoor Education) was referenced in both the Rockport and Gloucester (MA) papers for a pilot program designed to extend the reach of the SCOE resident environmental programs by helping teachers develop on-site, hands-on science activities outside the classroom:
http://www.gloucestertimes.com/archivesearch/local_story_274225034.html
October 3 — Professor Robert Cadigan was quoted broadly on MET's Prison Education Program in today's Daily Free Press
http://www.dailyfreepress.com/1.759525
September 2 — Annie Wilcox, MET’s alumna, is the leadoff speaker featured in the slideshow on Martin Luther King’s “dream” speech on BU Today. Annie is a city of Boston employee, and scholarship recipient, who has spoken at MET annual ceremonies with Mayor Menino.
http://www.bu.edu/today/world/2008/08/29/king-s-dream-realized
August 20 — MET's Gastronomy Program was mentioned as a "pioneer" in food studies by the Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/19/AR2008081900599.html
August 18 — Terry Regan, who is a MET lecturer and serves on the Urban Affairs Advisory Board and co-teaches a MET course on Transportation Planning, wrote an article for the summer issue of CommonWealth Magazine, entitled, "The MBTA is Underfunded and Overextended":
http://www.massinc.org/index.php?id=697
Professor Tom Nolan was quoted in an August 14th Cape Cod Times articles:
http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080814/NEWS/808140330&template=printart
Terri Trespicio, who teaches in the Publishing program through MET’s Center for Professional Education and serves as senior editor of Body+Soul Magazine, parlayed her traumatic experiences on a reality TV dating show into a recent Boston Sunday Globe article in the “Coupling” column (entitled, “Lights, Camera, Flirt”):
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/magazine/articles/2008/08/10/lights_camera_flirt/
Bingru Wang a new Arts Administration student was interviewed by NBC’s Brian Williams in Beijing (he unwittingly had taught her English):
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032619/vp/26225125#26225125.
August 8 — MET Professor Tom Nolan appeared in today's Boston Herald column on the "Clark Rockefeller" case, and he was also interviewed by WCVB Channel 5, WFXT Channel 25, and WHDH Channel 7.
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1111799&format=text
August 4 — Two colleagues, who teach in the Publishing Program through the Center for Professional Education, have made recent media appearances:
On last night's reality TV episode of "Sox Appeal" on NESN (I am told), instructor Terri Trepescio (senior editor, Body + Soul Magazine) was one of three women vying for the affections of the bachelor du jour:
http://www.nesn.com/content/shows/soxappeal/episodes.aspx
The program's director, Richard Cravatts, has also brought notoriety to the program through his by-line on recent op-ed pieces such as these:
How to Get the World To Hate Israel
http://hnn.us/articles/52723.html
Israel: Archeology and the Propaganda War of Lies
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=22849
Answering Back to Israel's Campus Critics
http://hnn.us/articles/51527.html
Boston Threatens Property Rights
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/04/boston_threatens_property_righ.html
Britain's Boycott Folly
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=B0EB98F7-0A7D-4D73-9DB0-C839EB689BDF
Which academic values does the British boycott wish to protect?
http://web.israelinsider.com/views/11565.htm
The 'Diversity' of Ideas Lie at UC Davis [incls. Norman Finkelstein]
http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/4275
July 29 — Today's BU Today features an interview with Professor Dan LeClair, on the implications and potential ramifications of legalized casino gambling in Massachusetts:
http://www.bu.edu/today/campus-life/2008/07/28/bu-politics-rolling-dice-gambling-mass
July 26 — In today's Boston Globe, Richard Cravatts, director of Boston University's certificate program in publishing in the Center For Professional Education has an op-ed piece on the ironies of the mortgage crisis. See, Unintended Fallout of Loan Crisis (PDF)
July 23 — Professors Suresh Kalathur and Tanya Zlateva have received a $10,000 grant from IBM for their curricular development proposal "Enhancing IT Curriculum for the Globally Integrated Enterprise." This award also creates access to significant amounts of software applications for our students and faculty. Congratulations and thanks to Tanya and Suresh as they demonstrate the caliber and relevance of MET programs for the IT industry.
July 23 — A student in the Executive Degree Completion Program EDCP – Jacqueline Calderon – is one of 50 scholarship recipients (out of 700 applicants) from the Latino Professionals in Finance and Accounting (ALPFA). She will be honored at a national convention with the organization and its sponsors in Phoenix this August. Congratulations Jacqueline.
July 17 — MET's Commencement 2008 Newsletter is released
July 16 — Rick Dimino, former part-time lecturer and a current member of our Urban Affairs AdvisoryBoard has been quoted in the Boston Sunday Globe's front page article on the Rose Kennedy Greenway:
boston.com/lifestyle/green/articles/2008/07/13/not_so_green_acres/
July 7 — In the latest Bostonia (summer 2008), Sargent Center's gourmet chef Victor Beguin is profiled:
http://www.bu.edu/alumni/bostonia/2008/summer/commonwealth/chef/index.html
You can also see [slide show] Victor in his kitchen at the Sargent Center.In the same issue on page 15, several BU Global students are pictured at a farewell reception for departing international students.
June 27 — In today's BU Today, art historian Jonathan Ribner discusses his experience teaching in MET's Evergreen Program:
http://www.bu.edu/today/campus-life/2008/06/26/evergreen-students-receive-and-give-education
June 24 — This past week's Chronicle of Higher Education profiled Ben Bolger as a "serial student" pursuing many degrees while teaching in many different institutions. One of them was Boston University – Ben was, for a brief time, a part-time lecturer and faculty coordinator of Urban Affairs at MET. At first, we found his resume unbelievable, but as you'll see below he has been a busy if not overextended guy over the years...
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v54/i41/41a01501.htm http://chronicle.com | Section: Students | Volume 54, Issue 41, Page A15
June 15 — Susan Kryczka appears in an article in today's Sunday New York Times business pages. The Matt Villano article ("The Homework to Do Before Enrolling Online") focuses on the features of online learning:
While every employer is different, Susan Kryczka, director of distance education at Boston University, said that most treat online degrees as equivalent to degrees obtained by attending classes in classrooms. Ms. Kryczka said that many employers would cover online education as part of existing tuition reimbursement programs, provided that employees could prove that the online degree pertained to their current job. Once employees have completed their degrees, she added, many are rewarded with additional compensation for advancing their education. "Our students have reported very little pushback on the part of their employers," said Ms. Kryczka, whose program offers eight graduate degrees online.
June 12 — In today's BU Today, WBUR's new science and health reporter -- Sacha Pfeiffer (MET '94) -- is announced. As a Boston Globe investigative reporter, she shared the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for uncovering pedophilia in the Boston priesthood. Sacha is also a recipient of a distinguished alumni award from MET. http://www.bu.edu/today/node/6956
June 6 — BU Today eatures Sargent Center for Outdoor Education as an integral part of the orientation of the Boston Scholars to their new academic community: http://www.bu.edu/today/campus-life/2008/06/05/boston-scholars-bond-sargent-camp.
June 5 — Today's Boston Globe Metro West quotes Izabel Arocha, President of the Medical Interpreters Association and one the faculty for our Interpreter Program, and provides background on this CPE program: "In an emergency, it can't be left to interpretation..." Boston Globe
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2008/06/05/in_an_emergency
_it_cant_be_left_open_to_interpretation/?rss_id=Boston.com+--+Massachusetts+news
This is an important program, which trains individuals who can, as Izabel says in the article, " make a life-or-death difference." For more information on this MET program, visit: http://professional.bu.edu/cpe/interpreter-translator-ovrview.asp