Dear Eagles,
I hope this email finds you well! My top picks this week include Community Conversations and Student Involvement's Leadership Day; there is still time to sign up for both opportunities. Career Center is sponsoring a Careers in Health Fair and is offering an Interviewing Workshop for graduate students.
Additional highlights include UGBC's Terrence Floyd speaker event this Tuesday at 6:00 p.m. in Robsham Theater and some upcoming programming from our Office of Institutional Diversity such as the Reflection & Dialogue Series.
Finally the Office of the Dean of Students is conducting focus groups, learn more below!
As always, I encourage you to take advantage of the events and programming our campus community has organized this Spring semester!
Yours in Community,
Dr. Shawna Cooper Whitehead
Vice President for Student Affairs
Drop by Maloney Hall 412 and say Hello!
Open Office Hours: 2/24, 3/3, 3/17, 3/24, 3/31, 4/14, 4/21, 4/28, 5/5, 5/12
Student Affairs & Campus Highlights
Office of the Dean of Students
Community Conversations
Come together as a Boston College community to engage in important dialogue between students and administrators focused on racial identity and experiences.
Wednesday, February 15 at
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Faculty Dining Room
We Want to Hear From You!
Student Involvement
Hosted by the Office of Student Involvement, Leadership Day is a free, leadership conference open to all undergraduate students. Highlights of the event include a keynote speaker, leadership workshops, and class year presentations.
Saturday, February 18
10:15 - 3:30PM | Devlin 008
In Conversation with
Terrence Floyd
Terrence Floyd, brother of George Floyd, is a well known advocate and leader for a more just and equitable world. Join Terrence Floyd for a conversation on the Black Lives Matter movement, structural inequity, and his non-profit WeAreFloyd.
Tuesday, Feb. 14 | 6:00PM Robsham Theater
Career Center
- Health & Sciences Fair | February 15, 2023
- Social Impact Careers Week | February 20-24
- Nonprofit, Government, and Social Impact Fair | February 23, 2023
- Communication, Arts, and Media Networking Night | March 22, 2023
- Social Services Recruitment Fair (led by GSSW) | March 31, 2023
- SEC & ACC Virtual Career Fair | April 5, 2023
Graduate Student Life
Graduate Student Career Session: Interviewing
Graduate Student Career Sessions (GSCS) are designed specifically for graduate students in the liberal arts and sciences. In the third GSCS of the semester, we will focus on how to prepare for interviews. By attending this session, students will:
- Learn how to connect their skills and experiences to positions they're interviewing for
- Practice articulating answers to common behavioral interview questions
- Identify resources to advance their interview skills
- Attend in-person or virtually. Snacks will be provided to in-person attendees!
This session is open to graduate students in the following schools: MCAS, LSOEHD, CSON, WCAS, STM, SSW
Thursday, February 16 at 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Southwell Hall (Career Center), Garden Level Classroom
Boston College, 38 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, MA
Campus Partners
Boston College Athletics
MIH vs. UMASS
Chestnut Hill, MA
Friday, Feb. 17 | 7:00 PM
WEEI 850 AM | Live Audio
Live Video | Live Stats
WBB vs. Louisville
Chestnut Hill, MA
Sunday, Feb. 19 | 12:00 PM
ACCN | Live Stats
Global Engagement
Apply to be an
International Assistants
The International Assistant Program was established in 1980 in response to the needs of incoming international students. The program matches each incoming undergraduate international student with an upper class student, an International Assistant. The purpose of the International Assistant Program is to facilitate the adjustment of new international students to Boston College, Boston, and American life in general, especially during the crucial first month.
Applications are due by
Monday, March 20
Pine Manor Institute
Become an Academy Success Coach!
Join Pine Manor Institute! Undergraduates may apply for positions during the summer 2023-2024, Academic Year, or both.
This is a paid position.
Office of Institutional Diversity
Reflection & Dialogue Series: Belonging and Burdensomeness on Latinx and Black Youth
What is the role of social connectedness and burdensomeness on the development of suicide ideation among ethnoracially minoritized adolescents, particularly Latinx and Black youth? Join the Office for Institutional Diversity to hear from Dr. Carolina Vélez-Grau, Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, for an interactive discussion exploring both the construct and practice of this critical subject.
Dr. Carolina Vélez-Grau will lead us through her compelling research, deep reflection, and group dialogue that will help deepen our awareness of – and engagement with – preventative measures ensuring well-being and belongingness among all members of our Boston College community.
Time and Location:
Tuesday, February 28, from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm,
Thomas More Apartments Room 109
Campus Ministry
Imagination and Faithful Practices of Resistance
In this lecture Dr. Callid Keefe-Perry, Assistant Professor of Contextual Education and Public Theology, Boston College School of Theology and Ministry, explores some of the themes emerging from his research on the intersection of theology and the study of imagination. In particular he focuses on the ways in which greater attention to imagination can be part of a deepening spirituality that engages questions of social justice and inequity.
Thursday, February 16 at 5:30pm to 7:00pm
Theology and Ministry Library, Auditorium - Room 113
Boston College - Brighton Campus, 117 Lake Street, Boston, MA
Academic Features
Social Justice Digital Humanities:
Advocacy, Collaboration, and Communities
Risam is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies and of Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College, where she is part of the Digital Humanities and Social Engagement Cluster.
Monday, February 13 | 10:00am | Connolly House | Boston College 300 Hammond St.
In this talk, Roopika Risam will discuss how a social justice-driven approach to digital humanities can facilitate advocacy, collaboration, and relationships with distant and local communities. Risam will discuss these issues through her work on Torn Apart/Separados, a series of data visualizations exploring the landscape of immigrant detention in the U.S., and History Lives Here: The Freeman Family of Gloucester, a house history project undertaken in collaboration with a community organization. Building on her experiences with these projects, she will explore data ethics, how digital humanities projects can contribute to advocacy, and ethical collaboration with communities.
BC Arts | Robsham Theater Spotlight
Robsham Theater Presents: Blue Stockings
In playwright Jessica Swale's debut play, Blue Stockings, Tess Moffat and her fellow first years are determined to win the right to graduate. But little do they anticipate the hurdles in their way: the distractions of love, the cruelty of the class divide or the strength of the opposition, who will do anything to stop them. Directed by Patricia Riggin, join us for this moving, comical and eye opening story of four young women fighting for education and self determination against the larger backdrop of women's suffrage.
Production Dates
Thursday, February 23 at 7:30 PM
Friday, February 24 at 7:00 PM
Saturday, February 25 at 7:30 PM
Sunday, February 26 at 2:00 PM
Robsham Theater Arts Center, Bonn Studio Theater
Looking for more events or ways to get involved? Visit MyBC and the
University Calendar.
Division of Student Affairs
21 Campanella Way, Maloney Hall 412, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
617-552-8600 | bc.edu/studentaffairs