December 6, 2022

Lit Christmas tree in front a Gothic building

NISS Gold Honor Medal

Professor of Biology Philip J. Landrigan, M.D., founding director of the Program for Global Public Health and the Common Good, today receives the Gold Honor Medal from the National Institute of Social Sciences. Read on BC News >>

Teacher ed expert assumes Brennan Chair

A. Lin Goodwin, former dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Hong Kong, has joined the Lynch School as its Thomas More Brennan Chair in Education, established in 2002 to promote social justice and connect theory and practice in education. Read on BC News >>

Team USA Collegiate Impact Award

Boston College will be inducted into the award's Class of 2022 today at a ceremony recognizing the top-contributing schools to Team USA's performance at this year's Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in Beijing. BC Athletics >>

MEDIA COMMENTARY

Chevron CEO at BC Chief Execs Club

Chevron Chief Executive Officer Mike Wirth, shown with BC Trustee John Fish, was the featured speaker at the latest gathering of the Boston College Chief Executives Club. Reuters

| Boston Globe (scroll down).

BC Trustee John Fish and Chevron CEO Mike Wirth in conversation on stage at the event

The railroad deal

President Biden on Friday signed legislation to avert a rail shutdown. Concurrent Professor of Law and Philosophy Thomas Kohler commented on the process prior to the signing: Wall Street Journal.

Italy and the Vatican

If the Catholic Church of the future is truly to be a global instrument of evangelization, its centralized bureaucracy must lose its Italian ethos, Professor of History Oliver Rafferty, S.J., writes in an op-ed for the Irish Times.

View from Qatar

BC Ireland Academic Director Mike Cronin writes on his experiences watching the World Cup in Qatar: Irish Times.

ALSO IN THE NEWS

Economics' Brian Bethune. Reuters, NBC 10
Professor of Sociology Juliet Schor. CNN

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OFF CAMPUS

Supreme Court to Hear Student Debt Forgiveness Case: The justices left in place an injunction blocking the Biden administration's authority to forgive up to $20,000 in debt per borrower. New York Times, Inside Higher Ed, Chronicle of Higher Education

Law School Revolt Against U.S. News Rankings Gains Steam: Eleven law schools, most recently at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Washington, have announced that they will stay out of the rankings. Many wait for a similar push by undergraduate colleges. Inside Higher Ed, Washington Post

It's All That Young Job Seekers Are Asking For: Stability: People entering the workforce amid inflation, pandemic uncertainty, and layoffs are recalibrating what a dream job looks like. New York Times

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