Category: Community
The League (Now the Community Service Center)
The Community Service Center (CSC), originally called “The League,” is founded by a group of Boston University students to create a structure through which they can actively address issues faced by the community in which the University is located. Student volunteers address issues of critical concern such as youth education, the AIDS pandemic, the destruction of the environment, and providing food and shelter for the poorest among us. Through the supervision, training, and support of the center, the energies of young people create affordable housing, provide companionship to elders, and tutor recent immigrants in English as a second language.
Medeiros Scholarship Program
Boston University creates the Medeiros Scholarship Program, granting full-tuition awards to students from local parochial high schools.
NNN Established
The School of Public Communication first hosts Neighborhood Network News, broadcast nightly on Boston Cable Channels 3 and 8.
Huntington Theatre Company First Season
The Huntington Theatre Company begins its first season in collaboration with the Boston University Theatre.
Miracle on Ice
The US Olympic Hockey Team wins the gold medal. Among the team members are four Boston University players: Captain Mike Eruzione, Jim Craig, Dave Silk, and Jack O'Callahan. The winning game is played on February 24, 1980. This game is known as the "Miracle on Ice" and is portrayed in the Disney movie Miracle.
Evergreen Program
The Evergreen Program offers the opportunity for older members of the community to attend Boston University lectures.
Boston Scholars Program Initiated
The Boston Scholars Program is initiated and provides full-tuition scholarships and pre-college courses for local high school students.
Prison Education Program
The Boston University Prison Education Program, founded by labor organizer, tenant activist, and poet Elizabeth Barker, offers its first credit-bearing college courses at MCI/Norfolk prison. The program strives to provide the means whereby, through education, students currently imprisoned can become informed, successful, and contributing citizens. Students who earn 30 to 60 credits can apply the credits towards a Boston University bachelor’s degree and even go on to pursue a master’s degree. In 1991, the Prison Education Program expands to include MCI/Framingham, the only penal institution in Massachusetts for women. Boston University continues to be nationally recognized for its contribution to the lives of prisoners in the program, and by extension, its contribution to the prisons they inhabit, the families they left behind, and the communities to which they will return.
BU Marine Program
The Boston University Marine Program is founded at Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
MLK Jr Delivers “I Have a Dream”
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Boston University alumnus, delivers his famous “I Have a Dream” speech during the March on Washington, the then-largest civil rights demonstration in US history.
