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In The News - Archives
Metropolitan College News
2006
On Friday,
October 27, 2006, Metropolitan College undergraduates who received scholarships,
made Dean’s List, or were inducted into Alpha
Sigma Lambda—an Honor Society for adults in continuing education
programs—were honored at the Dean’s Reception. The event
was hosted by Dr. Carl Sessa, Assistant Dean of Student Academic Affairs.
The speaker was Dr. Tanya Zlateva, Associate Dean of Academic Programs.
Six students present at the reception are enrolled in MET’s online
Undergraduate Degree Completion Program. Nanci Maxim, a student
from California, won a MET backpack for traveling the longest distance
to be present.
Richard
Smith, a former Prison Education student, now on campus, was featured
on WBUR on December 18th. He works for Partakers,
which helps our prison program by preparing students for their academic
courses.
Richard
Cravatts, who heads the Book
and Magazine Publishing Program offered by the Center
for Professional Education, wrote an opinion piece for the New
York Sun: High
School Propaganda, and an article for Front Page Magazine: I'm
Offended.
The
December 2006 issue of Brookline Magazine has an article called Higher Education: What is the actual value of undergraduate and
advanced degrees? where we are featured throughout.
Alfred
Santino, an Administrative
Sciences lecturer in Project Management, is profiled in BU Today: Project
Management at the South Pole.
Bob
Stott, a member of the MET Dean's Advisory Board, was featured
in an article in The Boston Globe: Career
spans from wired to wireless.
Daniel
Ranalli, director of the Arts
Administration Program, is profiled in Maverick Arts Magazine: Photographer
Daniel Ranalli: Beer and Burger. The article also mentions
Metropolitan College and the Arts
Administration Program.
Richard
Cravatts, heads our new Publishing
Program in the Center
for Professional Education, wrote an opinion piece for the online American Thinker on the scandals and slippery slope of modern
book publishing: Money
and Morals in Book Publishing
MET
professor Tom Nolan appeared on Fox News (Legal
Analysis: Police Shooting at NYC Wedding) in front of Marsh Chapel
and also in Newsday (Why
so many shots?), discussing a current controversy in NYC where
police employed deadly force with tragic consequences.
The
Evergreen Program was mentioned in The Daily Free Press: College
classrooms making room for more retirees
Kristen
Roman, one of our online MCJ students, from Madison, Wisconsin, is featured
in BU Today: Respecting
Police Officers as Individuals, as a result of her op-ed piece
in Newsweek (in the My Turn column) on The
Officer's Pledge: To Serve and Deflect?
Daniel
Ranalli, director of the Arts
Administration Program, will have a number of works in the December
exhibition at Gallery
Kayafas titled Pictures Outside The Box: Photography Without
a Camera from November 27th through December 1, 2006. The show
includes a number of artists from the U.S. whose work is made without
benefit of a camera.
Two
articles appeared in the BU presses regarding the President's Council
on BU and the Global Future: Shaping
BU's place in the world and BU
may offer aid to foreign students
Roger
Warburton, associate professor for Administrative
Studies, had research papers accepted in the International Journal
of Production Economics (IJPE) and in the Journal of Information
& Optimization Sciences (JIOS).
Tom
Shamshak, who heads our Professional Investigator certificate program,
was featured on Fox 25 - New
England's Unsolved: What Happened to Jane Park?
Professor
Carla Romney has been appointed to the Massachusetts Department of Education's
Mathematics and Science Advisory Council. Professor Romney's successful
NSF grant was also featured in BU's Daily Free Press: SEP
program gets $500K in scholarships
Roger
Warburton, associate professor for Administrative
Studies, has two papers that were recently accepted in professional
journals: one in the International
Journal of Production Economics (IJPE) and the other in the Journal
of Information & Optimization Sciences (JIOS).
The Technology Course Enhancement
Symposium took place on Monday October 30, 2006 in the George Sherman
Union Second Floor Auditorium.
Heidi
Marston, an Arts
Administration student and inaugural artist in our Metropolitan
Gallery, is cited and quoted in this Boston Globe article: Tea
party gets students into the act
In the
fall issue of edibleBOSTON,
our culinary,
wine, and gastronomy programs are mentioned throughout. One article, Spilling the Beans, mentions the the Elizabeth
Bishop Wine Resource Center – and scholarship support for
African-American women to pursue advanced studies in wine.
John
Sullivan, associate professor of Administrative
Sciences, is featured in The Marblehead Reporter: BU
promotes Sullivan to associate professor
Assistant
Dean Judy Marley was quoted in The Daily Free Press regarding
our work with the defense industry: BU
teams up with defense contractors
John
Sullivan, recently promoted to Associate Professor, is featured in BU
Today: MET
administrative sciences lecturer promoted
The
Metropolitan College has received the biggest grant in its history,
thanks to Professor Carla Romney. This achievement is featured in BU Today: Helping
MET freshmen succeed in science
The
newest Certificate Program in Book
and Magazine Publishing, offered by CPE, is mentioned in BU
Today: MET
launches book and magazine program
Vijay
Kanabar, Associate Professor for Computer Science and Administrative
Studies, graces the
cover of PMI Today, the monthly Project Management Institute
newsletter, along with an
article on our recent accreditation. We are also featured in www.pmi.org.
Robert
Cadigan, Director of the Prison Education
Program, was quoted in an article in the Lowell Sun, which
raised some of the more provocative public policy questions about the
Prison Program: Murderer
earns two college degrees while behind bars
Yvette
Jusseaume, the Director for BU Global,
is the newest artist to show in the Metropolitan Gallery (755 Commonwealth
Avenue, room 103). Her photography exhibit - Nature, Man, and Paris - will be on display throughout the month of September.
Tracy
Slater, a lecturer for the Prison Education
Program, had an essay published in the Chronicle Review that details her experiences teaching within the prison system: Teaching
Gender Issues to Inmates
Andrew
Epstein, a part-time faculty member for Arts
Administration, was quoted in the Boston Globe: US
Court of Appeals deals blow to artist's fight against Fidelity
Daniel
Ranalli, Associate Professor of Art
History and Arts
Administration, is highlighted in the Boston Globe calendar
for his exhibit at ArtStrand in Provincetown as a "Gallery Pick" along with a large color
photograph of his work, Lachan
Strand #1.
The
accreditation of MET programs is featured again in BU Today: Making
Better Managers: Three MET grad programs earn international accreditation
The
accreditation of MET programs is featured in BU Today: Boston
University Metropolitan College Graduate Programs earn accreditation
in Project Management
"Team
BU", a bowling team raising money for the pediatric ward of the
Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, competed against other university
teams at Lucky Strikes on August 10, 2006. They are still
accepting donations for this fundraiser.
Ruth
Ann Murray, Director of the Center
for Professional Education, is featured in the Weston Town Crier: Resident
leads program
The
expanding program for interpreters, run by the Center for Professional
Education, was recently featured in BU Today: BU's interpreter certificate program: opening doors to a booming
field
Bruce
Berman, a longstanding lecturer in Administrative Sciences, appears
in BU Today: Bostonians
and Tourists Rediscover Boston Harbor Islands
In the
July/August issue of MedCenter News, an article on CityLab
Academy’s Graduates Celebrates Success quotes Connie Phillips,
the program’s director and a member of our faculty
Andrea
Silver, a graduate of MET's Culinary Arts Program, is featured in the
July 20th issue of the Brookline TAB: Home
Cooking, At Your Service. She is credited in the article for
her ability to turn her passion into a career opportunity
Shannon
Bennett, an instructor for the Summer Challenge Program, is featured
in a recent BU Today article Taking
the Summer Challenge
Brad
Kay.Goodman, an instructional designer in Office of Distance Education,
was featured recently in BU Today, anticipating his 175-mile/2-day
charity bike ride in August for AIDS organizations: Biking
for AIDS charities
Eric
Braude, associate professor in the Computer Science Department, is featured
in the Boston Globe: So
You Want to Be...a Software Engineer
Paul
“Hutch” Hutchinson, the assistant conference coordinator
of Sargent Center’s Conference Programs, was featured in an article
for BU Today:
The Searchers, GPS-guided scavenger hunts teach new students about the
city
Greg
Salyer, associate professor and chair of the department of Liberal Studies,
was featured in an article for BU Today: Getting
Native American culture right -
An online course hopes to set the record straight.
Carl
Sessa, Assistant Dean of Student Academic Affairs, is quoted in an article
for CenterPoint regarding Metropolitan College's recent announcement
of the Bryan Willard Scholarship: In
Support and Remembrance.
Susan
Kryczka, director of Distance Education, was featured in the Chronicle
of Higher Education: Marketing Will Be Key to Growth as Enrollment Patterns Shift, Conference
Speakers Say.
BU Today
features Rich Maloney, Assistant Professor of Arts Administration, in
a recent article: Richard Maloney’s summer course meets in Boston — and
London.
Susan
Kryczka, director of Distance Education, was featured in an article
in the Boston Herald: Online
courses offer flexibility but require hard work.
Two
articles appeared in BU
Today regarding the Metropolitan College Ceremonies that took place
on May 14, 2006: MET
celebrates 40 years at convocation & Verizon
Wireless New England Region President Challenges Metropolitan College
Graduates to Make Tomorrow Better.
Rich
Maloney, Assistant Professor of Arts Administration, was elected for
a three-year term to the Board of Directors of the
Center for Arts in Natick, which supports the arts in Metrowest.
Arts Research Initiative: The Department of Arts Administration
held a symposium on Research, Policy, and Practice in the arts. Events
took place May 16. Learn
more...
Dan
Ranalli, Associate Professor of Art History and Arts Administration, is
featured in the Spring 2006 issue of Bostonia, discussing
art museums and their struggle to stay true to their mission.
The
Project Risk and Cost Management Conference took place on May 15, 2006,
at 8 a.m. in the Photonics Center. Learn
more about this conference.
Heidi
Marston, the first artist to show in the Metropolitan Gallery (755 Commonwealth
Avenue, room 103), is featured in BU Today: The
MET museum of art: New
gallery opens in dean's office
Museums alter pact: Rich Maloney, Arts Administration Professor
at MET, commenting on the MFA's Japanese partnership in the Boston Globe.
Nineteen
months and counting: No murders in Lawrence: Dan LeClair, Criminal
Justice professor at MET, offers his analysis to the Boston Globe.
Gerry
Lewis’s new book is due for release in March 2006: Organizational
Crisis Management: The Human Factor, published by Auerbach Press
(Part of Taylor Francis Group).
Inquiring Minds: The Sunday Boston Globe featured the new noncredit
Professional Investigation certificate program, run by MET's Center
for Professional Education.
Students
from the Arts Administration's "Art World" class organized
and curated a gallery show of artwork created by boys and girls incarcerated
in the state juvenile system. Temporary Walls: The Visual Voices
of Detained Youth - The
exhibition ran February 10 through March 4, 2006.
