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Boston Baptist College is accredited by the Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools (TRACS), an institutional accrediting body, to award the Associate and Bachelors degrees.
Boston Baptist College is approved by the Board of Higher Education of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Boston Baptist College is a Baptist institution of higher education in the Bible college tradition.
www.boston.edu /catalog.html   (685 words)

  
 Boston College   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Boston College is one of the oldest Jesuit universities in the United States, and its president serves as chairman of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities.
Boston College is called The Heights, a reference to both its lofty aspirations--the College motto is "Ever to Excel"--and its location on Chestnut Hill, or "University Heights" as the area was initially designated.
Boston College's first Football team in 1893 Football at Boston College can be traced to the 1884 founding of the "Boston College Athletic Club" and the first series of interclass games held on the James Street Fields in Boston's South End.
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 Boston College faculty object to honorary degree for Rice - Boston.com (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Nearly 100 faculty members at Boston College have signed a letter objecting to the college's decision to award Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice an honorary degree.
BOSTON --Nearly 100 faculty members at Boston College have signed a letter objecting to the college's decision to award Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice an honorary degree.
The letter entitled "Condoleezza Rice Does Not Deserve a Boston College Honorary Degree," was written by the Rev. Kenneth Himes, chairman of the department of theology, and the Rev. David Hollenbach, who holds the Margaret O'Brien Flatley chair in the department, and sent to all faculty inviting their signatures.
www.boston.com.cob-web.org:8888 /news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/05/03/boston_college_faculty_object_to_honorary_degree_for_rice   (400 words)

  
 Colleges That Change Lives - Life After College
Beloit College has an alumni community of over 20,000 graduates—many alumni are involved with the college today through gifts to the college, mentoring, or helping current Beloit students to find jobs after graduation.
John's College is listed in the top 30 colleges in the nation in the number of graduates who go on to receive Ph.D. degrees.
Olaf College graduates report that they are happy in their careers.
www.ctcl.com /why/after_college.htm   (906 words)

  
 Mount Holyoke Faculty Members Honored
Lois Brown, associate professor of English, and Stan Rachootin, professor of biological sciences, have received the Mount Holyoke College Faculty Prize for Teaching; Michael Robinson, professor of economics, and Mary Jo Salter and Brad Leithauser, Emily Dickinson Senior Lecturers in the Humanities, have been awarded the Meribeth E. Cameron Faculty Prize for Scholarship.
Faculty members nominated their peers for the scholarship award, while students, alumnae, and faculty submitted nominees for the teaching award.
Brown's English department courses, which often are interdisciplinary and cross-listed with African American studies and with American studies, reflect her deep interest in literary history, women and religion, New England narratives, and the use of literature to revisit vital political, social, and cultural questions.
www.mtholyoke.edu /offices/comm/press/releases/Honored.shtml   (937 words)

  
 Faculty - Masters Program in Mediation and Applied Conflict Studies - Woodbury College
The Woodbury faculty members are innovators and leaders in the field who bring a broad understanding of the mediation, and a strong desire to facilitate student learning through analysis, discussion, and experiential learning.
She was formerly the Dean of Students at Trinity College of Vermont and Assistant Dean of Students at Champlain College.
Tammy received a B.A. at Middlebury College, a Certificate in Mediation and Conflict Management at Woodbury College, a Master of Education at the University of Vermont, and a Doctor of Education at the University of Vermont.
www.woodbury-college.edu /programs/mediation/masters/faculty.html   (839 words)

  
 The Boston Indicators Project 2004
Boston’s After-School for All Partnership reported in 2003 that for the first time, a majority of Boston’s school-aged children — 48,000 in all — participated in after-school programming, a doubling of capacity and activity from five years earlier, according to a parent survey.
The Boston Plan for Excellence in the Public Schools found in an April 2004 survey that more than half of the 2002-2003 new Boston Public School hires expected to stay at their job between one and five years, and only 65% expected to stay more than five years.
As many as 93% of state college graduates and up to 95% of community college graduates are either employed in Massachusetts or continue their education one year after graduation, yet the quality of the state system is eroding, with funding cuts and the departure of tenured faculty and an increased reliance on adjunct faculty.
www.bostonfoundation.org /indicators2004/education/overview.asp   (5788 words)

  
 Associated Faculty - Boston College
Faculty from many academic departments within the College of Arts and Sciences are associated with the International Studies Program.
These faculty teach courses in the Program and in many cases are doing research related to international issues and affairs.
Professor Banuazizi who joined the Boston College faculty in 1971 is Professor of Cultural Psychology, Co-director of the Program in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, and a member of the International Studies Academic Board.
www.bc.edu /schools/cas/isp/faculty   (2177 words)

  
 Boston Conservatory | Programs of Study
Kevin Owen (Horn) Principal horn of the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, the Boston Lyric Opera, the Rhode Island Philharmonic and the Boston Philharmonic.
Tamara Smirnova (Violin) Born in 1958 in Siberia, Tamara Smirnova is associate concertmaster of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and concertmaster of the Boston Pops Orchestra.
Former faculty at the University of the Witswatersrand in Johannesburg, where he taught piano, chamber-music and was head vocal coach of the Opera Department.
bostonconservatory.edu /programs/music_bio.html   (13226 words)

  
 Press Release
Notable women have always graced the halls of Simmons.
Mary Morton Kehew, former president of the Women’s Educational and Industrial Union, served as a College corporator; Ellen Richards, the first woman graduate of MIT, taught at Simmons in the early 1900s; and Boston civil rights advocate Melnea Cass received an honorary Simmons degree in 1971.
The College has temporarily loaned the mural to the Boston Public Library, where it hangs in the Johnson Building lobby.
www.simmons.edu /about/news/releases/2002/notable_women.shtml   (207 words)

  
 GSE To Aid Boston Schools Through Gift from Fleet
Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino announced that Boston corporate and foundation leaders have contributed $9.7 million to meet the Foundation's challenge gift of $10 million, the largest private donation in the history of the Boston Public Schools.
Our faculty and students, along with employee volunteers from Fleet, will be helping Boston take the best research, absorb it, and utilize it to make the city's schools work more effectively.
Most notable are Robert Schwartz, first director of the Boston Compact; Mildred Blackman, a former Cambridge school principal; and Robert Peterkin, former Boston Public Schools Deputy Superintendent and chair of Payzant's transition team.
www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/1997/05.08/GSEToAidBostonS.html   (796 words)

  
 About Pitzer College - Report of Excellence
Pitzer College is ranked 38th of 215 liberal arts colleges in academic reputation and as having the 38th lowest acceptance rate among the top tier liberal arts colleges, according to U.S.News and World Report.
The College stands positioned to become one of the first colleges in the nation to replace all of its residence halls with LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) gold-certified residence halls.
Pitzer College was invited to become one of 10 colleges forming the founding core of the national Project Pericles, which encourages liberal arts colleges to turn rhetoric into action by training students to be responsible citizens.
www.pitzer.edu /about/great_colleges_excellence.asp   (2534 words)

  
 Faculty Honored for Outstanding Teaching and Scholarship
The award recipients were selected through a nomination and review process coordinated by the Faculty Awards Committee, comprising Dean of Faculty Donal O'Shea, faculty members Penny Gill, Mary Lyon Professor of the Humanities and professor of politics, and Peter Berek, professor of English, and emeriti faculty members Sarah Montgomery and Diana Stein.
The memoir, published in 1835 by an African American Boston schoolteacher named Susan Paul, is the earliest prose narrative by a fl woman in the United States and the first account of the life of a free child of color in the United States.
The memoir, published by Harvard University Press in 2000, was largely unknown until Brown discovered it in the course of her research for a literary biography of the New England novelist Pauline Hopkins.
www.mtholyoke.edu /offices/comm/csj/042304/faculty.shtml   (1389 words)

  
 Boston College faculty object to honorary degree for Rice | AfterDowningStreet.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Boston College faculty object to honorary degree for Rice
The Genius of Impeachment: The Founders' Cure for Royalism," by John Nichols, a masterpiece that should be required reading in every high school and college in the United States, a history and portrait of the practice of impeachment.
Boston College faculty object to honorary degree for Rice
www.afterdowningstreet.org /?q=node/9877   (835 words)

  
 Press Release: Thomas More cited as one of top 100 colleges
Merrimack, NH - For the sixth year in a row, the Thomas More College of Liberal Arts (TMC) was cited by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI), based in Wilmington, DE, as one of America's top 100 colleges in its annual "Choosing the Right College" guide.
Listed alongside such national secular and religious universities as Boston College, the University of Dallas, Colorado College, Harvard University, Hillsdale College, the University of Notre Dame, Rice University, Tufts University, and Yale University, Thomas More held its academic ground against these institutional giants.
Acknowledging the "superior education" offered by Thomas More and the fact that ours is "the smallest [college] reviewed" by the ISI guide, note is also made of the "first-rate" faculty, the students - who are described as "intensely curious, intellectually" - and the "orthodox [Catholic]" atmosphere of the campus.
www.thomasmorecollege.edu /news/isireview.html   (194 words)

  
 BU | CFA | School of Music | Overview
Alumni and faculty can be found in major symphony orchestras, opera companies and prestigious ensembles throughout the world.
Notable faculty include opera singer Phyllis Curtin, composer and conductor Lukas Foss, and violinist Roman Totenberg.
Notable alumni include Fred Bronstein, president of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra; opera singer Dominique LaBelle; and Ikuko Mizuno-Spire, violinist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
www.bu.edu /cfa/music   (168 words)

  
 The Boston Tango Festival
She has danced professionally with notable groups including Partners: Martynuk/McAdams Dance, Laura Knott Dance Company and Glendance; has had her choreography commissioned by First Night Boston; and has taught dance at the JP Firehouse Arts Center, MIT, Wellesley College and for the Bank of America Celebrity Series.
She has been on the faculty of the Cambridge Center for Adult Education since 1997 as their tango instructor, and travels regularly in New England to teach in other communities.
She is a member of the faculty at the Brookline Community Center for the Arts, at the Dance Complex in Cambridge, MA, and is adjunct faculty at North Shore Community College.
www.bostontangofestival.com /artists.htm   (2642 words)

  
 Quincy College
Mabel Biagini, a Quincy musical legend, and one of the honorary degree recipients at Quincy College’s Winter Commencement, stole the show as she serenaded the nearly 200 graduates attending the ceremony at Quincy’s Marriott Hotel.
Always active, she is booked for twenty-five shows per month, and for ten years she taught the accordion in South Boston to a new generation of musicians.
According to College President Sean L. Barry, “Our graduates, if not already residents, have spent so much time in Quincy it has become their home away from home.
www.quincycollege.edu /qc/news/stories/news001.htm   (709 words)

  
 The Department of English, University of Massachusetts Boston
The UMass Boston English Department offers both the B.A. degree and the M.A. degree and is the home to programs in Creative Writing, Professional Writing, and Irish Studies.
Our faculty includes recipients of major fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, of the Chancellor’s Awards for Distinguished Teaching, Scholarship, and Service, and of the Pulitzer Prize.
And our graduates have had notable success in a great range of careers in public service, in the arts, in the academic world, in publishing, and in an extraordinary variety of administrative and commercial enterprises.
www.umb.edu /academics/departments/english   (346 words)

  
 Faculty Biographies
From 1980-1988 he was on the Faculty of the Boston Conservatory and Ballet Master of the Boston Conservatory Dance Theatre.
She later joined the Boston Dance Company as a company member in her early teens and performed soloist and principal roles in such ballets as Nutcracker and Cinderella, as well as roles in Aggnes DeMille's Three Virgins and a Devil and George Balanchine's Valse Fantaisie.
During the summers, she performed with the Boston Dance Company in the Boston Park Arts program, entertaining children around the Boston area in such classics as Reardon's Peter and the Wolf and Pie Jesu.
www.bostondancecompany.net /id4.html   (895 words)

  
 Revised "Colleges That Change Lives" (Still) Includes Eckerd
In an era when college rankings and name-brand recognition seem to drive the search process, many students, parents and counselors may be left questioning the options for a good college match.
Pope believes that the college search should be focused on each student's individual learning style and interests rather than on magazine rankings.
Since the book was first published in 1996, students, parents, and college counselors alike have praised this sensible message and informed writing.
www.collegenews.org /x5931.xml   (635 words)

  
 News > Woodbury College: News Archive
Two faculty members from Woodbury College, Anne Cucinelli and Tammy Lenski, are continuing the Woodbury College tradition of community service by serving as volunteers to help with disaster relief in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
Lenski, a faculty member at Woodbury since 1999, recently returned from a 10-day stint in Mississippi, where she worked with the Best Friends Animal Society (www.bestfriends.org) to rescue and care for pets displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
Accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, Woodbury College is unique in its strong emphasis on practice-based higher education for adults to ensure that graduates achieve both academic excellence and actual experience in their fields.
www.woodbury-college.edu /news/archive.html   (7075 words)

  
 Faculty
Her memoir, The Black Notebooks, was a recipient of the 1998 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Black Caucus of the American Library Association Nonfiction Award, and was nominated for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir.
Among her other awards are a Whiting Writers' Award, the Rome Prize in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Berlin Prize Fellowship.
A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he's the recipient of awards from the NEA, the James Michener/Copernicus Society, the Henfield Foundation, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, where he was twice a fellow.
www.middlebury.edu /academics/blwc/faculty   (2487 words)

  
 Music
Nathaniel H. Dickey serves on the Concordia College faculty as Instructor of Low Brass and Director of the Cobber Band.
Dickey previously served on the faculty at Baylor University and Columbia Union College, as well as teaching elementary, junior high, and high school band.
Concordia College is a private, four year liberal arts college of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
www.cord.edu /dept/music/faculty/dickeynat.html   (641 words)

  
 Women's Studies Program - Boston College
The Women's Studies Program at Boston College places emphasis on the study of women's past and present position in society.
The program includes around 20 affiliated faculty working in a number of different fields such as Black Studies, Communications, English, German Studies, History, Political Science, Sociology, and Theology.
In addition, external resources can be very valuable for faculty and students.
www.bc.edu /bc_org/avp/cas/ws/test.html   (137 words)

  
 Electronic Voting Press Quotes
She insisted that a body of standards, developed by an agency such as the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), is necessary to avoid a repeat of the 2000 presidential election crisis.
The machines' critics say the main problem is a potential improvement they lack: an auditable paper trail that enables a voter to verify the accuracy of his or her own vote and allows a meaningful recount in a contested race.
Rebecca Mercuri, assistant professor of computer science at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, told The Guardian that she was horrified that any government would even consider using the internet for elections.
www.notablesoftware.com /Press/RMPress.html   (7462 words)

  
 Physics Home
The NU Physics Department provides undergraduate education in physics for the members of the Northeastern student body, graduate education in a number of physics specialties, and performs cutting-edge research in a variety of experimental and theoretical disciplines in condensed matter, fundamental particles and fields, biophysics, and complexity.
The Department is housed in the Dana Research Center and the Egan Research Center on the Boston campus of Northeastern University.
The department invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in biological physics (biophysics) and/or medical physics to begin September 2007.
www.physics.neu.edu   (172 words)

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