The Heights

Moore, Kalscheur Appointed Co-Directors of Forum on Racial Justice

Megan Kelly • September 8, 2021

The appointment of Kalscheur and Moore, who also serves as executive director of the Pine Manor Institute for Student Success, follows the departure of the forum’s inaugural director and former BC Law School Dean Vincent Rougeau.

Joy Moore Steps Down as VP for Student Affairs

Megan Kelly and Julia Kiersznowski • February 24, 2021

Joy Moore is stepping down from her position as vice president for Student Affairs, according to a University release.

University Will Announce Thanksgiving Plans by Monday

Scott Baker • October 14, 2020

The weekly COVID-19 undergraduate positivity rate at Boston College fell last week for the second week in a row, marking a new semester low.

Christenson: Boston College Is Not a Good School—But It Can Be

Grace Christenson • September 29, 2020

Columnist Grace Christenson asks a question that high school seniors across the country are asking themselves right now: Is Boston College a good school? Well, that depends on what you mean by good. But if we’re using the University’s coronavirus response as a measuring stick, the answer is no.

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.

BC Represents One-Fifth of Mass. Higher-Education Cases in New State Data

Scott Baker and Madeleine Romance • September 18, 2020

Twelve undergraduates tested positive this week, with a positivity rate .66 percent on Thursday—a drop nearly 3 percent drop from last week.

As BC Again Rejects an LGBTQ+ Resource Center, It Doesn’t Deny Donors Influence Its Policies

Scott Baker • July 12, 2020

UGBC leaders are undergoing conversations with the University administration about ways BC can better support its students who identify as part of the LGBTQ+ community. While conversations are ongoing, BC has no plans to establish an LGBTQ+ resource center in the near future, according to Vice President for Student Affairs Joy Moore and Director of Student Outreach and Support Caroline Davis.

BC Tells Students to Pack Lightly for Fall, Limit Travel

Madeleine Romance • June 30, 2020

Vice President for Student Affairs Joy Moore sent a letter to Boston College students and parents on Monday with more details for the fall semester.

BC Agrees to Conversations With Climate Justice

Scott Baker • March 2, 2020

BC agreed to ongoing discussions with CJBC in response to its protest and list of demands, which called for fossil fuel divestment, among other actions.

DiversityEdu Updated After Student Feedback

Danny Flynn • December 4, 2019

The diversity education module has now gone through its second round of students after undergoing some changes based on student feedback.

Moore Talks Addiction at Agape Latte

Hannah Murphy • November 28, 2019

She shared the story of her older brother—the first time she shared this story outside of her immediate family, she said.

VP for Student Affairs Joy Moore Previews Changes

Abby Hunt • August 28, 2019

After serving in the position on an interim basis since last fall, Joy Moore, BC ’81, was named vice president for Student Affairs last month, an opportunity she said she is thrilled about and reaches far past what she ever thought was possible in her career.