MET featured in the online journal CenterPoint

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.

Ruth Henderson focused in The Boston Globe and The Daily Free Press

Ruth Henderson, lecturer for the BU Prison Education Program, was featured in The Boston Globe article The Hardest Word and in The Daily Free Press article Students learn to forgive in MET course. The articles focuses on Henderson's imaginative interdisciplinary course, The Nature of Forgiveness.

Wine Studies Program feature in Delta’s Sky Magazine

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.

Boston University identified among top twenty CFP-registered programs

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... More

Seeking Students, Near and Far

MET's model for Preferred Educational Partnerships has been honored with the University Professional and 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... More

Freeing trapped voices

Pablo Friedmann, Art History lecturer for the Prison Education Program, was profiled in The Boston Globe article "Freeing trapped voices."

MET wins four awards

The Metropolitan College and Extended Education Department of Marketing and Publications has won four awards from the University Professional and 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... More

Ganging Up On City Hall

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 article "Ganging Up On City Hall."

Sara Moulton interviewed in BU Today

Sara Moulton, longtime friend of MET's office of Lifelong Learning and host of Sara's Secrets on the Food Network, was interviewed in BU Today in the article Deconstructing Dinner. Moulton demonstrated recipes during Lifelong Learning's International Conference on Food Styling and... More

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 featured on Fox News

Tom Shawshak, director for CPE's Professional Investigation Program, was featured on Fox News regarding a missing persons case in the article "New England's Unsolved: Miguel's Last Steps."