MET Professors Coauthor BU Today Article
In “POV: Memo to Boston’s Mayor on How to Fight Inequality,” two Metropolitan College faculty members examine how Mayor Marty Walsh can keep his promises to fight inequality in Boston.
BU Today Shares MET Top 10 Program Rankings
In a February 10 article, BU Today mentioned MET’s rankings in U.S. News & World Report’s 2014 Best Online Programs. “Two Metropolitan College online graduate programs, the master’s program in computer information systems and the master’s programs in management, ranked in the top 10 in their categories…” Read the whole story at BU Today.
MET’s Enrique Silva quoted in BU Today on Menino’s new post
MET Assistant Professor of City Planning and Urban Affairs Enrique Silva was quoted in the article, referring to the IoC as a “very bold and sophisticated” initiative.
The Pleasures of Wild and Foraged Foods
BU Today spotlights Netta Davis’ (GRS’13 and MET Gastronomy lecturer) whose Wild and Foraged Foods class demonstrates the academic and experiential sides of foraging. Read more about this unique course and learn some foraging techniques from Netta at BU Today.
Prisoners Educated Through MET Music Class
Jamie Hillman was surprised by the enthusiasm of the men in his freewheeling music class at MCI-Norfolk last spring, part of BU’s Prison Education Program. But it wasn’t until the instructor learned that the inmates, several serving life sentences, were singing the mournful Handel aria “Lascia ch’io pianga” in the shower, that Hillman (CFA’13), a […]
MET Celebrates 100 Years of Julia Child
On November 7, a group of culinary arts students, joined by renowned chefs Michael Leviton and Jacques Pépin (Hon.’11), celebrated the centenary of the legendary Julia Child (Hon.’76). Child, along with friend and colleague Pépin, was co-founder of MET’s Certificate Program in Culinary Arts and Master of Liberal Arts in Gastronomy. In 1991 she established […]
MET Alum Makes Headlines – Owns New England’s Largest Independent Bookstore
Last November, MET Alum and former insurance executive, Tom Lyons (MET’76) bought New England Mobile Book Fair (NEMBF). Since then he’s held weekly meetings and hired a consultant to organize over one million books in his Newton Highlands location. Lyons calls it “organized chaos.” The purpose of the reorganization was to the benefit of the […]
MET Dean to Assume New Post
After nearly a dozen years helming BU’s Metropolitan College, Dean Jay Halfond will step down at the end of the fall semester. He will teach a graduate seminar at the School of Education next semester before taking a yearlong sabbatical, beginning next summer. He plans to teach and conduct research when he returns. Tanya Zlateva, […]
Sunday’s commencement singer, Michael Convicer (CFA’12), is an incoming MET Arts Administration student.
The faculty chose Convicer for many reasons says Phyllis Hoffman (CFA’61,’67), a College of Fine Arts professor of music and director of BU’s Tanglewood Institute. Not only is he a leader in CFA in terms of student government and his support of his fellow students, but he has worked in three units of the University—Admissions, […]
Perkins Awards Winners Profiled in BU Today
BU Today took a look at this year’s winners of the John S. Perkins Distinguished Service Awards. Among them is MET’s assistant Finance Director, Zhuyuan Zhang. Zhang (MET’04) has worked at MET since 1998. Dean Jay Halfond praised her efforts to implement BUworks, the University’s massive software upgrade, during MET’s busiest season last summer, when the college […]