Category: Learning
Questrom to Launch Online MBA via edX
The University is investing in the capability to deliver high-quality, large-enrollment online graduate programs, which could be key in the near future, says Jean Morrison, BU provost and chief academic officer. Created in 2012, the edX platform has more than 21 million registered users, representing every country in the world, who have enrolled in more than 75 million courses. The online MBA was designed from the ground up for the global online learner.
BU Boosts Effort to Recruit Low-Income Students
BU joins American Talent Initiative (ATI), an alliance of colleges and universities with a shared commitment to improve opportunities for accomplished students from low- and moderate-income households. ATI hopes to expand its membership to all US colleges and universities with six-year graduation rates consistently above 70 percent.
Trustee Richard Cohen’s Challenge Bolsters Need-Based Financial Aid
Cohen (CGS’67, Questrom’69) pledges to match, dollar for dollar, new or increased gifts for need-based undergraduate financial aid—doubling their impact—up to a total of $1 million. Donors who take the Cohen Challenge help the University in its ongoing quest to make undergraduate education affordable for all students.
BU to Build New Data Sciences Center
Aiming to become a leader in a booming field, BU plans to build an iconic new 17-floor tower that will bring math, statistics, computer science, and the multidisciplinary Hariri Institute under one roof. BU’s evolving computational science curriculum, renowned faculty and staff, and proposed Charles River Campus building at the corner of Comm Ave and Granby Street (where a parking lot now sits) will assure BU’s place in the vanguard of the field.
BU Hub Starts in Fall 2018
Boston University’s incoming freshman class in 2018 will be the first class to register for the new BU Hub. This new University-wide general education program “ensures that all undergraduates, no matter their major, develop intellectual capacities that will teach them to thrive throughout their lives,” says Hub managing director Amanda Urias.
Noted Scholar of Inequality to Lead School of Law
Angela Onwuachi-Willig, renowned legal scholar and expert in racial and gender inequality as well as civil rights law, is named LAW dean. Drawn by BU’s history of access and diversity, Dean Onwuachi-Willig is expected to increase the school’s current focus on interdisciplinary scholarship, social justice, and public service.
BU Doubles Number of Posse Scholars
The University marks its 10th year of partnership with the Posse Foundation, which sends groups of students to college together, tuition-free for four years, with the idea that a supportive unit is key to future success. With the addition of a California cohort to the University’s long-time relationship with the Atlanta Posse program, BU doubles the number of scholarship recipients from the foundation.
Rankings Put BU Among Best Nationally, Globally
Boston University continues to climb in the U.S. News & World Report rankings of best graduate schools in the country. Among BU’s professional schools, the School of Education moved up 9 notches, to 36th. Other BU schools that fared well in the 2018 rankings: the College of Engineering placed 34 out of 198 peers, and the School of Law 23rd of 197. BU’s School of Medicine was named 30th best for research and 34th for primary care education out of 118 schools nationally.
$10M Gift Names New CFA Theater
Global financier and BU Trustee Steve Zide (LAW'86) donates $10M to name a new BU theater, which is part of a 75,000-square-foot artistic complex under construction on the Charles River Campus. The gift is a tribute to his theater-loving wife, Janet Zide, and will be named after his in-laws, Joan and Edgar Booth, who brought the joy of stage performance into his family's life.
School of Hospitality Administration Offers Master’s Degree
To meet the need of the hospitality industry for more job applicants at all levels of employment, the School of Hospitality Administration adds a one-year graduate degree. For the past 36 years, the school has offered only undergraduate programs. “Companies now require those at upper management to have a solid foundation in the business of hospitality,” says Makarand Mody, SHA assistant professor of hospitality marketing. “A master’s degree is becoming the norm, not the exception, for progression in the industry.”
