The 2009 Academic Convocation took place on Thursday, September 17th, and featured the author of Run, Ann Patchett. For a video of the keynote address, please click here.
DISCERNMENT: Understanding Our Vocational Calling By Reflecting
Upon the Patterns and Interconnectedness Within Our Lives

Thank you to those of you that attended and helped make this year's Academic Convocation a success!
2008 - J.R. Moehringer (The Tender Bar)
2007 - Jeanette Walls (The Glass Castle)
2006 - Senator John McCain (Lives of Moral Leadership by Robert Coles)
2005 - Senator Barack Obama (Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama)
2004 - Dr. Paul Farmer and Tracy Kidder (Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder)
To view these Academic Convocations, please go to BC's Front Row presentation.
"Go set the world aflame."
- Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)
In the entrance of the Jesuit headquarters in Rome is a striking statue of Ignatius of Loyola (founder of the Jesuits) with the motto "Ite, inflammate omnia." - "Go set the world aflame" - his parting words to Francis Xavier who was carrying the Gospel to the East. This is our charge as you begin your experience at Boston College. Take the gift of education and carry it to great places throughout the world.