"Technology is not a surrogate for good teaching.  With a piece of chalk, a strong teacher will have no trouble keeping students engaged." - Eric Strauss, research professor of biology » Learn more about Professor Eric Strauss and Rita Owens

Boston College has long been known for its outstanding faculty—teachers and scholars who play a formative role in the lives of our students. But today's faculty rely on more than textbooks and lab coats to challenge and help shape BC students. Recruiting and retaining great teacher-scholars means equipping them with modern tools.

Gifts to the Boston College Fund have allowed us to modernize our science labs, expand access to scholarly journals, and reduce class sizes for our undergraduates. BC's faculty could teach at any top college, but gifts to the BC Fund help attract and retain the best and brightest professors, shaping our students in and outside the classroom.

From endowed professorships and research grants to modern equipment and online journals, the BC Fund supports our premier faculty and provides them with the tools they need to inspire students in the classroom while continuing to conduct cutting-edge research. Gifts to the BC Fund are also essential to attracting and retaining top professors to Boston College.

An example of the caliber of professors the BC Fund helps bring to the Heights is Professor Kevin J. Mahoney (pictured at right), a faculty member in Boston College's Graduate School of Social Work.

Building on a model developed in the Netherlands, Mahoney created the Cash and Counseling program (C&C) in which Medicaid consumers decide themselves how their personal assistance needs are met.

Early findings show C&C participants have dramatically higher satisfaction levels and fewer unmet needs than their counterparts in the traditional program. More importantly, the services C&C consumers obtain better fit their needs and schedules. All of this was accomplished without a drop in the health or the safety of the participants. Given the highly positive results to date, the program holds great promise for the up to 70 million Americans who will turn 65 in the next 25 years. C&C, which had been piloted in three states, is being expanded to include 12 more states.

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