Category: Learning
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.”
Trustee’s Gift Ignites Student Entrepreneurship
BU Spark!, a new incubator for technology-driven student entrepreneurship, comes to life thanks to a $1M gift from the Mullen Family Foundation. Based at the Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering, BU Spark! will offer programs and resources to help students pursue next-stage development of projects.
BU and Red Hat Forge $5M Partnership
Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open-source enterprise software, joins the University in a five-year partnership aimed at advancing research into emerging and translational technologies, such as cloud computing and big data platforms. The collaboration will involve researchers from both Red Hat and BU, and will provide opportunities for students, staff, and faculty to drive new ideas and new technologies. The plan includes support for two research labs, one at Red Hat’s new corporate space in Boston’s Seaport District and one on the Charles River Campus.
BU Grads Ranked Among the World’s Most Employable
The employability of BU graduates is ranked 11th in the world and 7th in the nation, according to Times Higher Education. The 2016 Global University Employability Ranking survey queried the opinions of thousands of management-level recruiters and managing directors of international companies.
Digital Education Leader to Move University Beyond MOOCs
Chrysanthos Dellarocas, the Richard C. Shipley Professor of Management at the Questrom School of Business, is named to the new position of Associate Provost for Digital Learning and Innovation. He had been leading the Digital Learning Initiative (DLI), the team that, in part, developed the massive open online courses (MOOCs), the popular computerized classes that can reach a global student audience. In his new post, Dellarocas will oversee the DLI and two other University groups: the Center for Teaching & Learning and the educational technology team in Information Services & Technology.
Innovative University-Wide General Education Program Proposed for 2018
The proposal calls for BU undergraduates to develop core skills, knowledge, and habits of mind through both coursework and cocurricular programs that will prepare them to succeed. Called the BU Hub, the proposal is the work of a 14-member faculty task force that solicited input from hundreds of members of the University community in dozens of meetings over 15 months.
New MED Curriculum Aimed at Stemming Explosive Rise in Opioid Misuse
To address the opioid overdose crisis in Massachusetts, Governor Charlie Baker had asked the deans of the commonwealth’s four medical schools (BU School of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Tufts University School of Medicine, and University of Massachusetts Medical School) for help in designing a list of core competencies needing to be covered during medical school to help combat prescription drug misuse, addiction, and overdose fatalities.
BU Ranks #32 in Global Universities, Says U.S. News & World Report
BU jumps five spots in the latest ranking of the best “global universities” by U.S. News & World Report, rising to 32 from last year’s 37. It is the magazine’s second annual compilation in this category, and “affirms how competitive we continue to be among the world’s premier research universities,” says Jean Morrison, University provost and chief academic officer.
