{"id":11881,"date":"2021-06-29T11:17:14","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T15:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/?p=11881"},"modified":"2021-06-29T11:17:14","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T15:17:14","slug":"ioc-founding-codirector-graham-wilson-to-retire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/2021\/06\/29\/ioc-founding-codirector-graham-wilson-to-retire\/","title":{"rendered":"IOC Founding Codirector Graham Wilson to Retire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2021\/founding-codirector-of-bu-initiative-on-cities-graham-wilson-will-retire\/?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=link&amp;utm_content=faculty&amp;utm_campaign=social_main\">BU TODAY: Graham Wilson, Founding Codirector of BU\u2019s Initiative on Cities, Will Retire<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>CAS political science professor helped create a nation-spanning partnership between US mayors and the University<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>In 2014, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/profile\/graham-wilson\/\">Graham Wilson<\/a> shared founding director duties at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2013\/menino-lands-at-bu\/\">BU\u2019s Initiative on Cities (IOC)<\/a> with a marquis name. Working at the IOC with Boston\u2019s longest serving mayor, Thomas Menino (Hon.\u201901), was \u201cone of the highlights of my career,\u201d says Wilson.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s quite a statement, given that Wilson\u2019s career spans almost a half century. Yet as the College of Arts &amp; Sciences professor of political science prepares to step down as IOC codirector July 1 in advance of his retiring December 31 after 14 years at BU, his pride in the IOC isn\u2019t idle boasting.<\/p>\n<p>In the seven-plus years since its inception, the IOC pioneered academic polling of US mayors via its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/research\/menino-survey-of-mayors-middle-page\/\">annual Menino Survey<\/a>, sponsored vital research, including COVID-19\u2019s effects on vulnerable urban groups, and forged links between those running cities and scholars studying them at BU and other universities, continuing after Menino\u2019s death from cancer just nine months after joining the IOC [&#8230;] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2021\/founding-codirector-of-bu-initiative-on-cities-graham-wilson-will-retire\/?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=link&amp;utm_content=faculty&amp;utm_campaign=social_main\">Read the full story by Rich Barlow at BU Today.<\/a><\/p>\n<a href='http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2021\/founding-codirector-of-bu-initiative-on-cities-graham-wilson-will-retire\/?utm_source=twitter&#038;utm_medium=link&#038;utm_content=faculty&#038;utm_campaign=social_main' class='button '>Read the full story at BU Today<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BU TODAY: Graham Wilson, Founding Codirector of BU\u2019s Initiative on Cities, Will Retire CAS political science professor helped create a nation-spanning partnership between US mayors and the University In 2014, Graham Wilson shared founding director duties at BU\u2019s Initiative on Cities (IOC) with a marquis name. Working at the IOC with Boston\u2019s longest serving mayor, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19364,"featured_media":11908,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11881"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19364"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11881"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11912,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11881\/revisions\/11912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}