Category: Learning
ENG Established
The transfer of the New England Aircraft School to the University leads to the establishment of the College of Industrial Technology, renamed the College of Engineering in 1963.
Isaac Asimov Becomes a University Instructor
Isaac Asimov becomes a first-year instructor of biochemistry at the School of Medicine. Asimov, the scientist and author, was writing pulp science fiction stories in his spare time at his Somerville home while doing cancer research at the School of Medicine.
Public Relations Degree First Offered
Boston University is the first university to offer a college degree in public relations at its newly founded School of Public Relations. As related programs are added, this school changes names several times, becoming the College of Communication in 1984.
School of Nursing Opens
The School of Nursing is opened. To the regret of many proud graduates, because of declining enrollment and the increase in subsidized nursing programs at state colleges and universities, it closes in 1988.
Instructional Materials Center
The genesis of the Instructional Materials Center goes all the way back to the fall of 1929, when Abraham Krasker, then a science teacher at Boston Latin School, was hired to offer an SED course called "Visual Education" to science teachers to train them in how to use educational film, still pictures, film slides, and lantern slides (the current technologies of the time) in teaching and learning science.
SSW Created
The School of Social Work is created after the School of Religious Education and Social Service is split; the religious education division merges with the School of Theology. SSW had received provisional accreditation as a seperate school in 1939. Since its inception over ninety years ago, the School has valued differences among people as enriching the quality of life for all.
Aeronautical Engineering Established at Logan Airport
Captain Hilding Carlson and Lt. Arthur B. Metcalf are hired to start the Aeronautical Engineering Department, located at Logan Airport.
Sargent College Acquired
Sargent College, a privately owned school of allied health founded by Dudley Allen Sargent in 1881, becomes part of Boston University.
US President Taft Was a Professor at BU
President William Howard Taft, who lectured on legal ethics at Boston University School of Law from 1918 to 1921, is appointed 10th Chief Justice of the United States following his tenure as the 27th US president (from 1909 to 1913). To date, he is the only person to hold both positions.
