Center for Enterprise Leadership
The Center for Enterprise Leadership opens. A partnership of academics and senior executives dedicated to research, communication, and learning with respect to fundamental problems of product and service supply in a global economy, the center would operate for the next fifteen years.
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.
Edward M. Kennedy Keynote
The Honorable Edward M. Kennedy, Senator from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, delivers the Keynote Address at Commencement.
Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation
The Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation, a research, training, and service organization dedicated to improving the lives of persons who have psychiatric disabilities, opens. The center adheres to the most basic of rehabilitation values: First and foremost, a person with psychiatric disabilities has the same goals and dreams as any other person. Its mission is to increase the likelihood that a person with psychiatric disabilities can achieve these goals by improving the effectiveness of people, programs, and service systems.
Center for Energy & Environmental Studies
The Center for Energy & Environmental Studies is established as part of the College of Arts & Sciences to educate, research, and train in the fields of energy and environmental analysis. The center is multidisciplinary and problem-oriented; its educational programs are based on the philosophy that students need a solid training in traditional disciplines as well as a set of integrative courses that expose them to the broad and systematic nature of environmental problems. This approach also informs the center's research programs, which investigate some of the planet's most challenging environmental issues.
William Miller Delivers the Keynote
Federal Reserve Board Chairman G. William Miller delivers the Keynote Address at Commencement.
Anna Howard Shaw Center
The Anna Howard Shaw Center opens at Boston University to promote structures and practices that empower women and to honor diversity. Named after the Reverend Doctor Anna Howard Shaw (STH 1878), a Methodist minister, medical doctor, and suffragist, the center is designated as the women’s center for the Northeastern Jurisdiction of the United Methodist Church ten years after its founding. Ecumenical, the center’s primary activities are in research, education, support, and advocacy.
"When Margaret Wiborg was hired as director of the Shaw Center in 1984, she fashioned her role as 'identifying the needs and finding the people and the money to do something about it.' One of the needs she identified was finding more role models for female students. 'Many women told me they had never had the opportunity to hear other women preach,' Wiborg says. That led to the creation of Women and the Word, the center's national preaching event, held each spring. Bishops, teachers, artists, and theologians serve as the primary leadership as women get to hear other women preach." — BU Bridge
John Silber Commencement Keynote
President John Silber delivers the Keynote Address at Commencement.
William V. Shannon Keynote
William V. Shannon delivers the Keynote Address at Commencement.
