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GENE
Athletic director Gene DeFilippo has signed a two-year contract
extension and will remain at BC at least through the 2005-06 academic
year. Since DeFilippo arrived in September 1997, athletics at Boston
College have enjoyed significant successes, including last year's
national championship in men's ice hockey. BC athletes have also
done well as students: Last year, 358 maintained a GPA of 3.0 or
above, and 178 were named Big East Academic All-Stars.
PASSING LANE
This year's graduates of Boston College's School of Nursing achieved
a 96.7 percent pass rate on the 2000 traditional nursing licensing
exam, 13 percentage points above the national and state averages.
Their performance mirrors those of other recent SON classes, according
to the school's dean, Barbara Munro.
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NEW TRUSTEES
Four new trustees have been elected to four-year terms: Thomas P.
O'Neill III '68, chairman and CEO of GPC/O'Neill Associates; Randall
P. Seidl, executive vice president of GiantLoop Network; Sally Engelhard
Pingree, director and chair of Engelhard Hanovia; and Robert B.
Lawton, SJ, president of Loyola Marymount University.
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ECONOMIC SENSE
A study sponsored by the European Economic Association has ranked
six BC economists among the top 1,000 worldwide, including two in
the top 20. The rankings were based on a comprehensive survey of
the number and quality of researchers' publications from 1994 through
1998. Representing Boston College are: Professors Peter Ireland
(15th), Arthur Lewbel (20), Jushan Bai (184), Peter Gottschalk (264),
Uzi Segal (403), and James Anderson (533). The economics department
as a whole was ranked 63rd in the world, rising to 31st when department
size was factored in.
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HAPPY RETURNS
Forbes magazine has ranked the Carroll Graduate School of Management
23rd among comparable MBA programs for its return on investment.
The magazine compared the cost of attending a given MBA program
(including foregone wages) to the average salary of graduates. Students
from the Carroll School's MBA program saw their annual income rise,
on average, from $28,000 before enrolling to $83,000 two years after
receiving their MBAs.
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The Forbes rankings in full
MAJOR ADDED
The College of Arts and Sciences has announced plans to establish
a new major, International Studies. Approximately 20 students from
each of the next three sophomore classes, beginning with the Class
of 2004, will participate in a pilot program that will determine
the major's academic requirements. The interdisciplinary field will
likely incorporate economics, political science, ethics, and a foreign
language. Associate Professor David Deese (political science) directs
the program.
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SUMMER SCHOOL
Two conferences held at Boston College last summer focused on trends
in Catholic education. As part of the SPICE (Selected Programs for
Improving Catholic Education) initiative, "Conversations in
Excellence" (June 29-July 1) looked at successful primary-
and secondary-school programs that combine academic and spiritual
progress. A five-day conference on July 10-14, cosponsored by the
Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities, inaugurated the
Institute for Administrators in Higher Catholic Education. Deans
and presidents from 22 colleges and universities attended to consider
issues ranging from lay leadership to Ex Corde Ecclesiae.
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PROPHETS OF PHILANTHROPY
The Nonprofit Times has named two BC researchers to its 2001 "Power
and Influence Top 50." Professor Paul Schervish, director of
the Social Welfare Research Institute, and John J. Havens, the institute's
associate director, were cited for their groundbreaking studies
of the motives and concerns of philanthropists.
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FINANCIAL AID REFORM
Boston College has joined a select group of colleges and universities
on a project to clarify, simplify, and improve the fairness of the
financial aid process. The 568 Presidents' Working Group, as the
organization is known, is named for Section 568 of the Improving
America's Schools Act of 1994. According to Section 568, universities
with need-blind admissions policies--who assess a student's financial
need only upon acceptance, not as part of the decision process--may
work together to establish common guidelines. Other schools in the
group include Yale, Cornell, Notre Dame, Dartmouth, and Stanford.
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A summary of the 568 Presidents' Working Group mission
 HISTORIAN
HONORED
History professor Larry Wolff has received the 2001 Teaching Award,
given by students in the Boston College chapter of Phi Beta Kappa.
Wolff lectures on the culture and history of Enlightenment Europe.
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CALL NUMBER
The Boston College library system has been named among the nation's
best by the Chronicle of Higher Education. Unranked in 1995, BC
moved to 77th on the list of research libraries, building on recent
expansions in holdings and staffing.
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