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CHESTNUT HILL, MA (September 2009) - The University's new 30-second institutional video for national broadcast highlights BC's commitment to educating students for success - in both their careers and their lives. (View video here)
The video is the latest in a series of public service announcements - so named because the broadcast outlets offer the air time free of charge to each school as a public service - produced annually by the Office of News & Public Affairs. The PSA will showcase the University during televised BC athletic events throughout the year, as well as be available on-demand on BC YouTube and other social media channels.
On Saturday, Sept. 19, during the Boston College at Clemson "ACC Game of the Week," the PSA will be broadcsat throughout the eastern half of the nation by Raycom Sports (check here or local listings for the channel in your area).
The new spot, "I Teach at Boston College" is designed to illuminate through example both the excellence and the dedication to student formation of the University's faculty, according to Director of News & Public Affairs Jack Dunn. It centers on John Gallaugher, an associate professor of Information Systems in the Carroll School of Management, whose commitment to the student learning experience is known to extend beyond the classroom - well beyond, in fact: as far as the West Coast and parts of Asia.
Gallaugher, a past recipient of the Boston College Distinguished Teaching Award, is founder and organizer of the annual "TechTrek West" field study courses which bring undergraduate and graduate students to learn first-hand how businesses grow from start-up to blue chip.
The "treks" take students to tech industry hubs in California’s Silicon Valley and Washington state to meet face-to-face with entrepreneurs and top executives at leading firms such as Apple, Cisco, eBay, Google, Intel, Intuit, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook and Nintendo, among others.
John Gallaugher
Gallaugher, who holds both undergraduate and graduate degrees from BC, also is co-leader, with Carroll School adjunct faculty member Greg Stoller, of the "International Management Experience: Asia" course, which offers a similar experience for MBA students in China and India.
The video also makes note of the "Tech for Good" seminar series that, in keeping with the University's Jesuit mission to use knowledge to better the world, illustrates for students how technology can make a difference in people's lives.
"Tech for Good" brings thought leaders from academia and industry to campus to speak about roles IT can and does play in promoting social justice, free markets and sustainability across the globe.
In particular, the video highlights the One Laptop per Child initiative, which aims to narrow the digital divide by providing low-cost, connected laptops to poor children around the world.
Gallaugher brought Charles “Chuck” Kane - who had been his international finance professor when Gallaugher was an MBA student at BC and who is now OLPC’s president and chief
operating officer - to address last year’s Tech for Good audiences.
Since then, several BC students have pursued internships with OLPC and other tech projects in the developing world.
MORE: Hear BC undergraduates discuss previous Tech Treks here
Chuck Kane
--Patricia Delaney