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In The News - Archives
Metropolitan College News
2007
Our
wine-studies program was again highlighted in BU Today: Nine
Wines
Beth
Forrest, instructor and assistant director of the Gastronomy Program,
was featured in BU Today: Chocolate
as a Mortal Sin?
The
Elizabeth Bishop Wine Resource Center and the summer food and wine
events are featured in BU Today: Celebrate
Summer with Boston University's Elizabeth Bishop Wine Resource Center
and Program in Food and Wine
The
Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education took place June 4-7, 2007. Leading experts from government,
academia, and industry discussed the latest trends in information
assurance research, education, and funding. Click
here to download the brochure or visit the CISSE
website.
BU
Online is featured in BU Today: BU's
Online Degrees Make the Grade.
Scott
Watson, an Real Estate/Facilities Management Program instructor
for the Center
of Professional Education, authored a book titled The
Art of War for Security Managers.
Rich
Maloney, Arts Administration professor and professional lutest,
performed at the Center
for Arts in Natick on May 6th with Ensemble
Trident.
The
latest issue of the online journal, CenterPoint, published
by the American
Council on Education, includes our Scholarship for Community College Graduates program in its Innovations section: Financial
Aid for Adult Students.
An
article in Delta's Sky Magazine: Learning
Curves focuses exclusively on our Wine
Studies Program. Faculty member Sandy Block (also a VP at Legal
Sea Foods) and Bill Nesto, who designed the curriculum that
certifies different levels of wine knowledge, are featured.
They are among the only 257 "masters of wine" globally.
Ruth
Henderson, lecturer for the BU
Prison Education Program, was featured in the Boston Globe: The
Hardest Word and in The Daily Free Press: Students
learn to forgive in MET course. The articles focuses on
Henderson’s imaginative interdisciplinary course, The
Nature of Forgiveness.
The
monthly newsletter of the CFP (Certified Financial Planners) Board
celebrated the twentieth anniversary of CFP-registered educational
programs, and identified
Boston University (our program is offered under the leadership
of Bob Glovsky through the Center for Professional Education) as
among the first twenty. Now there are more than 320 CFP registered
programs nationally.
MET's
model for Preferred
Educational Partnerships has been honored with the University
Continuing Education Association’s 2007 Creative Partnership
Award. This honor validates our outreach and relationship
building efforts to attract new students, cultivate employer relationships,
and generate opportunities for applied research for our faculty.
Congratulations to those who develop and cultivate our Preferred
Educational Partnerships! BU Today has an article describing our
preferred educational partnership mode: Seeking
Students, Near and Far.
Pablo
Friedmann, Art History lecturer for the Prison Education Program, was
profiled in the Boston Globe: Freeing
trapped voices.
Tom
Nolan, Associate Professor for the Department
of Applied Social Sciences, is quoted extensively on the manipulation
of police data and the alarmist way politicians and news media misinterpret
crime trends in an LA Weekly: Ganging
Up On City Hall.
The
Metropolitan College and Extended Education Department of Marketing
and Publications has won four awards from the University
Continuing Education Association (UCEA), which will be presented
at the annual meeting in Vancouver this April: 1) Electronic Marketing
and Communications (over 25,000 enrollments) Website, Gold for the Summer
Term website; 2)Electronic Marketing and Communications (over 25,000
enrollments) E-Communication, gold for the Brussels Pay Per Click Campaign;
3) Promotion/Publicity: Media Release, silver for CPE Professional Investigation
Print; 4) Advertising: Single outdoor, transit, other (over 25,000 enrollments),
silver for the CPE Interpreter Transit Car Cards.
Daniel
Ranalli, Associate Professor and Director of the Arts
Administration Program, published a remembrance on photography dealer
Carl Siembab for Boston.com: Carl
Siembab, Rememberance
Sara
Moulton, longtime friend of MET’s office of Lifelong
Learning and host of Sara’s Secrets on the Food Network,
is interviewed in BU Today: Deconstructing
Dinner. Moulton demonstrated recipes during Lifelong Learning's International
Conference on Food Styling and Photography.
Offering
Intensive International Courses in MET - Dan Ranalli,
Director of the Arts
Administration Program, discussed how his department has developed intensive
courses and curriculum that are offered abroad. The Arts Administration
Program has offered courses in Cuba, London, and Barcelona over the
past several years. The colloquia took place on Thursday February 22,
2007.
Tom
Shawshak, directory for CPE's
Professional Investigation Program, was featured on Fox News regarding
a missing persons case: New
England's Unsolved: Miguel's Last Steps
MET's
community college efforts were mentioned in The Daily Free Press: Four-year degrees rare among community college graduates
Greg
Salyer, Associate Professor and Chair of Liberal
Studies, made two presentations at the annual meeting of the Southern
Humanities Council in Louisville, Kentucky. The first presentation
was titled meaning.online.edu/criticalreflections and examined
the relationship between discussion forums, blogs, and wikis on the
web and in the online classroom. The second presentation was the keynote
address titled Making and Unmaking Meaning in the Twenty-First Century.
Beth
Forrest, Assistant Director of Lifelong
Learning, edited the abstract of the Annual Joint Meeting of the
Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS) and the Agriculture,
Food, and Human Values Society (AFHVS) conference hosted by Metropolitan
College in June. This abstract is published in Appetite: Research
on Eating and Drinking (November 2006) and includes summaries of
presentations by two Gastronomy faculty, five MET Gastronomy students,
and two other Boston University graduate students.
Our
sixth community college partner – Quinsigamond
Community College in Worcester, Massachusetts – invited us
to a formal signing of an agreement with QCC’s president, Gail
Carberry. Several faculty from MET and QCC participated throughout
the day in an exchange of online best practices. MET partners with area
community colleges to provide merit-based
scholarships for associate degree graduates to complete their bachelors
degree at MET. This agreement was announced in the Worcester Telegram
and Gazette: BU
Offers QCC Scholarships and then broadcast on NECN last evening: Worcester
school joins forces with high profile schools
Sargent
Center’s Adventure Camp is featured in BU Today - Into
the Wild Sargent Center Adventure Camp offers summer fun for 10- to
17-year-olds
Boston Magazine had a blurb on Four Tricks for Teaching Old
Dogs one of which was to go back to school: "Around here,
degrees are status symbols. Thankfully, Boston is a continuing-ed
mecca... Boston University’s Metropolitan College advertises more
than 800 [courses]." The article also included the MET URL.
Paul
Greene, Assistant Dean of International Initiatives, was featured in
two BU Today articles: Tonight:
The View from Iran - U.N.
ambassador answers questions via video and Iranian
Ambassador Denies Intent to Build Nuclear Weapons
MET’s
Publishing Program was featured in the Boston University Free
Press, where CPE director Ruth Ann Murray, instructor Lissa Warren,
and program director Richard Cravatts were quoted: Publishing
program teaches tools of the trade
Dr.
Richard Cravatts published an article in a recent edition of American
Chronicle: The
Challenge for Yankee Magazine?: Retaining Loyal Readers While Re-Positioning
Its Brand
BU Today features our celebration of City of Boston MET students,
which Mayor Thomas Menino attended: Skills
That Shape the City
Connie
Phillips, Assistant Research Professor of Biochemistry, and the CityLab
Academy are featured in BU Today as part of an effort to recruit BU
employees from the community: Boosting
Careers, Building Community - BU seeks local hires at job fair
Professor
Greg Salyer's essay, Rediscovering Leslie Marmon Silko: Stories,
Books, and Meaning, has just been published in The
Dos Passos Review literary quarterly.
Professor
Barry Unger was quoted in a Boston Globe article on the challenges
of bringing innovative products to the marketplace. The article
also features Ralph Grabowski, who has been a guest speaker in Barry's
classes: Why
good products fail
The
BU Daily Free Press wrote a feature on a MET event we held,
organized by our Outreach office and attended by Mayor Menino -- honoring
City of Boston employees enrolled, on scholarships, in Metropolitan
College: Mayor
honors city employees enrolled in BU's MET program
MET
is featured in BU Today: Tradition
Meets Innovation at Post-Merger MET - New programs seek to fill industry
needs
The Sargent Center for
Outdoor Education is featured in BU Today: Destination:
Sargent Center Winter Family Camp - Mild temperatures won't dampen outdoor
fun
Arts
Administration students James Manning and Lydia Ruby were quoted
in a Boston Globe article on an outlaw graffiti artist: Pixnit
was here.
Arts
Administration alum Phaedra Shanbaum and her gallery were featured
recently in the Globe: Their
new station in Llfe.
MET’s Gastronomy
Program was recently recognized by the Julia
Child Foundation with one of its first grants.
Fred
Raskin, who has taught finance part-time for MET over the years, recently
passed away. His
obituary can be found on Boston.com.
Greg
Salyer, associate professor and chair of MET liberal studies, presented
at BU’s Winterfest – a major BU alumni weekend. His presentation about religion and
Native American literature was on Saturday, January 20th at 1pm.
