校园文摘:2024年冬季
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In 2012, 电子游戏软件 was seeking to revamp its Core Curriculum, the group of liberal arts classes all undergrads must take, which had been largely unchanged for more than two decades. There was broad support on campus for the changes, but disagreement about what those changes should be.
打破僵局, the University made a surprising decision: At the suggestion of Carroll School of Management Powers Family Dean Andrew Boynton, BC转向了Continuum, 咨询公司, to assist with the updates to the Core. The company met with Core Renewal Committee members and key 管理员, held interviews with faculty, 学生, 和校友, and researched best practices at peer institutions to arrive at a vision for the Core.
BC’s journey to a new Core Curriculum and the ways it energized faculty, 管理员, and 学生 to view liberal arts education as an ongoing process of innovation form the basis of a new book, 设计课程: Innovation and the Liberal Arts Core. Edited by the cochairs of the Core Renewal Committee—Boynton, Provost and Dean of Faculties David Quigley, and Rattigan Professor of English Mary Crane, who is director of BC’s Institute for the Liberal Arts—the book features essays by BC faculty about the new courses they’re teaching from the revitalized curriculum.
“A decade into the work of Core renewal, I’m more convinced than ever that the work of curricular revision is the most important work that we are called to do as college faculty and academic 管理员,奎格利说. “It remains very gratifying to see the ways in which hundreds of colleagues have, through their own work and commitment, brought the renewed Core to life. The engagement of University faculty, 跨领域的, 一代又一代, 和学校, has been perhaps the most inspiring outcome.” 
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狼之家
by Mike Lupica ’74 and James Patterson
In this thriller by acclaimed sportswriter Lupica and bestselling author Patterson, 主人公珍妮·沃尔夫, a thirty-something former high school teacher, finds herself in charge of a billion-dollar empire following her father’s murder. 突然, Wolf is the head of an esteemed San Francisco newspaper and running a professional football team—two leadership roles that land her squarely in the crosshairs of her powerful and cutthroat family.
Your Freedom, Your Power: A Kid’s Guide to the First Amendment
by Clelia Castro-Malaspina ’05 and Allison Matulli
卡斯特罗-马拉斯皮纳和马图利, 他们以前都是律师, educate young readers on the significance of their First Amendment rights—including freedom of the press, 宗教, 和语音. In addition to its overview of fundamental legal concepts, the book highlights key legal cases and social movements that have affected children’s lives throughout history to give them a real-world grounding in the amendment’s impact.
The Crucible of Desegregation: The Uncertain 搜索 for Educational Equality
作者:BC教授. 谢普梅尔尼克
Most Americans are familiar with the landmark Supreme Court decision 布朗诉. 教育委员会, which overturned the “separate but equal” doctrine and led to the desegregation of public schools in the country. But ambiguities remain around the legal definition of desegregation, and Melnick chronicles the progression of federal school desegregation law over the last seven decades, as well as the battles still being fought over it today.
Milk and Whiskey On Logan Way
蒂莫西·伯克，1996年
伯克, a BC School of Social Work graduate, shares his difficult story of growing up in a South Boston housing project, the son of a firefighter whose alcoholism destroyed his own life and robbed 伯克 of his childhood. The memoir chronicles 伯克’s own alcoholism, 他对清醒的追求, and an eventual recovery that inspired his work as a clinical social worker specializing in addiction treatment and counseling.
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好点子从何而来
史蒂文·约翰逊
Innovation and learning are never-ending life processes, as are change and adaptation. We must identify how to get the best out of learning opportunities if we aim to innovate in life. 好点子从何而来 describes the process of innovation, the learning processes intertwined in it, and the social interactions required for it. It’s an excellent read to spark thinking and awareness in search of opportunities to improve in any area of life.
—亚历杭德罗·奥拉约·姆萨姆德斯，SJ, Assistant Professor, School of Social Work
