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Winston Family Gift To Endow Provost Position, Support Innovation at BC

Mei Dasgupta • April 28, 2025

Provost and Dean of Faculties David Quigley was named the inaugural Robert L. and Judith T. Winston Provost and Dean of Faculties following a major gift from Bob and Judy Winston.

Girardot: BC and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Year

Doug Girardot • September 29, 2020

Columnist Doug Girardot writes that in their reopening rhetoric, BC officials did everything in their effort to downplay the realities of college life in a pandemic. The flurry of summer emails students received in their inboxes and the maroon and gold technocratic signage littered throughout campus have suggested a conditional promise of normalcy: If you do all these things, then we can have school just like usual. But this is a dangerously fantastical apodosis.

Fall Update Details Classes, Testing, Contact Tracing

Scott Baker • July 6, 2020

BC released a letter on Monday with more information on how testing and contact tracing will be conducted in the fall and giving a more detailed look at the plan for a mix of online and in-person course instruction.

BC to Treat Shared Residences as ‘Family Units,’ Enact Stricter Guest Policies

Megan Kelly and Abby Hunt • June 22, 2020

Boston College released a letter on Monday providing updates on how the University is preparing for instruction and housing in the fall.

BC Outlines Plans for Returning to Campus in the Fall

Megan Kelly • June 15, 2020

Boston College released a letter on Monday detailing plans for the University to return to on-campus instruction as scheduled for the Fall semester.

At Community Gathering, Students Question Administrators About Leahy’s Stance, Institutional Racism

Abby Hunt and Jack Goldman • December 13, 2018

Students confronted a panel of administrators and students in the wake of Michael Sorkin, CSOM ’21, defacing walls, furniture, blinds, and a mirror in Welch Hall with racist epithets on Sunday.

Racist Vandalism, Disjointed Administrative Response Alienate Black Students On Campus

The Heights Editorial Board • December 11, 2018

In response to Michael Sorkin’s racist vandalism, top BC administrators sent out two separate statements—one to faculty and one, albeit much less detailed, to students—rather than addressing the University community as a unified group.

UPDATE: Michael Sorkin Named as Student Arrested for Sunday Damage, Racist Vandalism

Andy Backstrom • December 10, 2018

BC student Michael Sorkin, CSOM ’21, was named as the student arrested for damaging property in Walsh Hall, racist vandalism in Welch Hall, and assaulting a BCPD officer earlier that morning.

BC Names Grant Gosselin Director of Undergraduate Admission

Cole Dady • June 19, 2018

“My Boston College education transformed my life, and I could not be more thrilled to help shape future generations of BC students and alumni in this new role," Gosselin said.

Filings Show Coach, Admin Salaries

Steven Everett • April 18, 2018

Football head coach Steve Addazio received $2,514,859 in total compensation and men’s basketball head coach Jim Christian received $1,480,826.

Academia at Rest: What Your Professors Did Over Winter Break

Archer Parquette • January 22, 2017

From the mundane to Thomas Kaplan-Maxfield, here’s a small dose of what your professors have been getting up to for the past month.

Strategic Planning Initiative Moves into Second Semester, Hosts Town Hall Meeting

Sophie Reardon • September 26, 2016

The University Strategic Planning Initiative, an 18-month self-assessment, will continue to seek input from the BC community this semester, beginning with a town-hall meeting Oct. 5.

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