Safety Town Halls and Off-Campus Meet and Greets
Are you concerned about safety on campus? Do you live off-campus and want to hear about support and services available to you?
Category: Dean JCF’s Corner
Splash into BU! Join a Student Organization
Sure! Student clubs are a great for meet-ups with other students, but student-run organizations are also a decent way work on an initiative; plan a specific event; or, work on a key cause with other interested students.
A Spree For Starting Anew
This Commencement Spree is my riff on Brother Lawrence Whitney’s (Brother Larry) Howard Thurman remix: I make of my life an offering to you, the young folk. There is a surrender of the life that redeems, purifies, and makes whole. Every surrender to a particular person, event, circumstance, or activity is but a token surrender, […]
Reflecting Now – Words and Music in a Region of My Mind*
In the midst of your learning, I hope your reflection continues. I look for poetry in the ordinary and grace from the terrible. The chorus at the end of The Cure at Troy in Seamus Heaney’s translation of Sophocles’ The Philoctetes keeps me hopeful: Human beings suffer, They torture one another, They get hurt and […]
(Higher Ed) Mic Check. 1-2-3
Last week I had a chance to take it to the stage. As part of an open mic night I got a few minutes to stand in front of bunch of folks being wonky and geekin’ out about the future of higher education in the States. Instead of a speech, I dropped a little Nina […]
Re-connect with the Lyrics of Your Life This King Day
Martin Luther King, Jr. is a voice, a vision, and a way . . . [t]he whole future of America will depend on the impact and influence of Dr. King. Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel Martin Luther King is still calling us out. He assumed we were intelligent and eloquently called out a generation to have […]
Another Trip Around The Sun
Happy! Happy! Happy! It might be a cliche, but don’t you think we should make time to always do this: Peace.
Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray
The sun finds a way to shine into even the deepest parts of the forest. It is a metaphor for all of us who are working to restore hope and dignity around the world. United Nations 2012 World Aids Report
“I am Positive”
Rip and Read: A Mobile List
Enjoy a few suggestions from folks that we’re checking out on our mobiles while we’re on planes, trains, and riding in cars: A stunningly beautiful song and video – Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – “Same Love” feat. Mary Lambert: “The Baryshnikovs Of Jookin” by Alastair Macaulay Ted Talk by Clay Shirky on “Institutions vs. Collaboration”: […]