Sunday’s Boston Globe featured several members of the MET community.
In the review of a current Robert Motherwell exhibition in Provincetown, Mass., Arts Administration director Daniel Ranalli was quoted from his essay on the artist. Ranalli helped organize the exhibit along with Lise Motherwell, Robert Motherwell's daughter, who has also been a student at MET. Poet, Jill McDonough, who has taught... More
MET Alum Coaching at the Olympics Games
source: Zereshk In 1983, he was a senior point guard on the America East Championship men's basketball team at BU. Now, MET Alum Brett Brown (’83,’09) is taking his passion to the world stage as the head coach of the Australian men's basketball team at the 2012 London Olympic Games. His leadership will... More
An article by MET International’s Cristin Hoover recently appeared on Boston.com
Cristin describes the draw of Copenhagen’s Torvehallerne Market. Read More
Tom Shamshak, director of CPE’s Professional Investigation Program, was interviewed at length on Emily Rooney Greater Boston.
On the WGBH show Tom discusses the Molly Bish case. Watch the interview.
Bostonia’s summer edition has two feature articles profiling MET alumni.
Read how a record-setting gift from alumna Karin Addison Jack (MET’08) has ensured the perpetual funding of the Prison Education Program at the all-female correctional facility, MCI–Framingham. The article appears under a photo of Associate Professor of Applied Social Sciences Robert Cadigan. Also in the summer edition, alumnus Jason Sobocinski... More
Music Brings Transformation to MCI-Norfolk
For the men at MCI–Norfolk, there was something to sing about this past spring when Boston University doctoral candidate in conducting Jamie Hillman and BU Professor of Music André de Quadros brought Music Appreciation (MET MU 118) to the medium-security prison through BU’s Metropolitan College Prison Education Program. Lest one assume... More
Cristin Hoover, MET student, authors Boston Globe article
Cristin Hoover, Gastronomy student and MET International's Student Services Coordinator, authored the following Boston Globe article. See the article.
Dean Halfond’s column for New England Journal of Higher Education is picked up by other publications.
Dean Halfond's article for the New England Journal of Higher Education talks about the vanishing neighborhood campus. It was picked up by the Providence Journal and subsequently paraphrased in a recent Inside Higher Ed article. He says: Higher education thrived in various local settings, especially for adults returning to college on a... More
Bob Glovsky, CPE’s prior financial planning leader, merges his investment advisory firm
Glovsky merges his firm, Mintz Levin Financial Advisors (MLFA), with the Colony Group (coincidentally founded by MET alumnus and MET advisory board member, Peter Raimondi). He continues to work with CPE and serve on MET’s Advisory Board. In the new firm Glovsy will serve as vice chariman. Read about the... More
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... More
MET Advanced Degree Programs, Students Featured in Boston Globe Money & Careers section
MET's Masters of Project Management and Masters of Gastronomy programs highlighted in Boston Globe Money and Careers Section. In a down economy many professionals are turning to alternative degree programs to gain the competitive edge. Terry Robbins, 45, a director of operations technology at a major insurance company in New Jersey, More
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... More
The Big Cheese
Ask Jason Sobocinski about a cheese and he’ll tell you a story. Take Point Blue for example. He'll tell a tale of salty Pacific breezes, coastal pastures, and a herd of Holsteins that ends with a blue cheese with a yummy saltiness. The MET Alum is the host of The Big... More
Rob Haley Receives Bronze Telly Award
Rob Haley, a member of Metropolitan College's Office of Distance Education, has received a Bronze Telly Award for the video, “A Day in the Life: Paul Shihadeh.” The Telly Awards are an annual national competition that “honors the very best film and video productions, groundbreaking online video content, and outstanding... More
MET Gastronomy Program in the New York Times
The New York Times covers the growth of food studies in higher education and cites BU Gastronomy as a pioneering department in this new academic field. Read the full article.