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The annual Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship Ceremony, one of the University community’s major events, will take place Feb. 12 at 5 p.m. in the Robsham Theater Arts Center.
Highlighting the event will be the presentation of the King Scholarship by University President William P. Leahy, SJ, to a Boston College junior who exemplifies the life and philosophy of the legendary civil rights leader.
This year’s featured speaker will be John H. Jackson, president and CEO of The Schott Foundation for Public Education, which seeks to ensure a high quality public education for all students regardless of race or gender. A former senior policy advisor in the Office for Civil Rights at the Department of Education during the Clinton administration, Jackson served as national director of education and later chief policy officer at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
The ceremony, which is free and open to the public, will be followed by a reception. For more information, see www.bc.edu/mlk.