ISP leadership change
International Studies Program inaugural director Robert Murphy will step down in June.
Boston College’s commitment to global engagement lies at the core of its educational mission. The Jesuit, Catholic liberal arts tradition, fostered through the links between Jesuit scholars across the world since the sixteenth century, is in its essence international.
Our path for the future is expressed in the university’s newest Strategic Plan: “Boston College commits itself to increasing its presence and impact through increased outreach to international students, recruitment of faculty with international backgrounds, and the development of programs that promote global cooperation.”
Upcoming events
2018 NANDA International Conference
June 13-June 15, 2018, Boston College, Connell School of Nursing. Read more here and register
2018 WES-CIHE Summer Institute
June 20-22, 2018, Boston College, Center for International Higher Education. Read more here and register
Global News
BC Global Engagement
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Connell School service trip to Nicaragua
Each year, a group of students and faculty from the Connell School of Nursing travel to one of the poorest communities in Nicaragua to provide primary care and health education to its residents and to learn more about that country's health care, social, and political systems. Diane Quinones, a graduate student in the Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Program, shares her perspective.
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BC Faculty Seminar to Turkey
The contemporary approach to intercultural learning envisions a vital role for faculty, administrators and other higher education professionals in challenging students to interpret their experiences abroad and in the classroom, integrating them into a deeper understanding of the world and their place in it.
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Schiller Institute
The Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society will strengthen teaching and research in the sciences, expand cross-school collaboration, and enhance Boston College’s ability to address critical global problems in targeted areas such as energy, health, and the environment.
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Joycestick: The Gamification of Ulysses
There’s art imitating life, and then there’s art taking on a virtual life of its own. That’s what’s happening with a Boston College academic project involving the unlikely pairing of an immersive virtual reality 3D game, and one of the most important novels of the twentieth century, James Joyce’s, Ulysses. Exhibits have been held in Dublin, Toranto, Singapore and Washington D.C.
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Refugee Portal
As part of its observance of International Education Week, Boston College hosted the Refugee Portal, a shipping container converted into a videoconferencing chamber where students, faculty and administrators spoke with refugees and other displaced persons from the Middle East.
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Big Questions: Immigration
Immigration has become a flashpoint around the world and the faculty experts at the Lynch School of Education are trying to understand complexities surrounding families and children. Dean Stanton Wortham, Prof. Brinton Lykes and Associate Professor Mariela Paez explain their research and work with immigrant families.
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Tracking Turtles in Costa Rica
While many students returned from the semester break with stories of vacations taken or jobs worked, Boston College junior Branick Weix had something unusual and inspiring to share: his weeklong trip to Costa Rica to help researchers track endangered sea turtles.
Spotlights from Colleges, Schools, and Centers
International Engagement
278
international faculty and research scholars
1,751
enrolled international students
50%
of undergraduate students study abroad
246
students participated in an international service trip