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Metropolitan College News
2008 January to December
November 14 — Victor Béguin (head chef at MET’s Sargent Center for Outdoor Education) is profiled in a slide show and interview in today’s BU Today.
http://www.bu.edu/today/2008/11/18/foods-world-woods-new-hampshire
November 14 — Professor Tom Nolan was interviewed on WBUR discussing the new marijuana law:
http://www.radioboston.org/
November 7 — Professor Tom Nolan was interviewed on "Mass. Voters Ease Penalties For Pot Possession" on WBUR:
http://www.wbur.org/news/2008/81170_20081105.asp
Richard Cravatts, who heads our Publishing Program (in the Center for Professional Education) published these recent op-ed pieces:
http://www.californiachronicle.com/articles/78126
http://www.thebulletin.us/site/news.cfm?newsid=20142357&BRD=2737&PAG=461&dept_id=638428&rfi=6
October 30 — In today’s BU Today, Associate Professor Tom Nolan debates Ballot Question #2, where he speaks in favor of this measure liberalizing the laws governing marijuana possession: http://www.bu.edu/today/2008/10/29/ballot-question-2-mary-janes-last-dance
MET Psychology faculty coordinator was quoted in “Inspiring Creativity: the Big Ideas” in U.S. Business Review (10/22/08):
http://www.usbusiness-review.com/content/view/1074/31/
Eric Friedman in our Office of Distance Education was quoted in the BU Daily Free Press (10/24/08) on online education for athletes under a NCAA proposal:
http://dailyfreepress.com/ncaa_weighs_allowing_online_credits
Professor Samuel Hammer (CGS), who coordinates MET’s Online Degree Completion Program submitted a video to boston.com, which received one thousand hits within one day:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-FPZ3HrqFc
August 20 — MET's Gastronomy Program was mentioned as a "pioneer" in food studies by the Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/19/AR2008081900599.html
August 18 — Terry Regan, who is a MET lecturer and serves on the Urban Affairs Advisory Board and co-teaches a MET course on Transportation Planning, wrote an article for the summer issue of CommonWealth Magazine, entitled, "The MBTA is Underfunded and Overextended":
http://www.massinc.org/index.php?id=697
Professor Tom Nolan was quoted in an August 14th Cape Cod Times articles:
http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080814/NEWS/808140330&template=printart
Terri Trespicio, who teaches in the Publishing program through MET’s Center for Professional Education and serves as senior editor of Body+Soul Magazine, parlayed her traumatic experiences on a reality TV dating show into a recent Boston Sunday Globe article in the “Coupling” column (entitled, “Lights, Camera, Flirt”):
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/magazine/articles/2008/08/10/lights_camera_flirt/
Bingru Wang a new Arts Administration student was interviewed by NBC’s Brian Williams in Beijing (he unwittingly had taught her English):
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032619/vp/26225125#26225125.
August 8 — MET Professor Tom Nolan appeared in today's Boston Herald column on the "Clark Rockefeller" case, and he was also interviewed by WCVB Channel 5, WFXT Channel 25, and WHDH Channel 7.
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1111799&format=text
August 4 — Two colleagues, who teach in the Publishing Program through the Center for Professional Education, have made recent media appearances:
On last night's reality TV episode of "Sox Appeal" on NESN (I am told), instructor Terri Trepescio (senior editor, Body + Soul Magazine) was one of three women vying for the affections of the bachelor du jour:
http://www.nesn.com/content/shows/soxappeal/episodes.aspx
The program's director, Richard Cravatts, has also brought notoriety to the program through his by-line on recent op-ed pieces such as these:
How to Get the World To Hate Israel
http://hnn.us/articles/52723.html
Israel: Archeology and the Propaganda War of Lies
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=22849
Answering Back to Israel's Campus Critics
http://hnn.us/articles/51527.html
Boston Threatens Property Rights
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/04/boston_threatens_property_righ.html
Britain's Boycott Folly
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=B0EB98F7-0A7D-4D73-9DB0-C839EB689BDF
Which academic values does the British boycott wish to protect?
http://web.israelinsider.com/views/11565.htm
The 'Diversity' of Ideas Lie at UC Davis [incls. Norman Finkelstein]
http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/4275
July 29 — Today's BU Today features an interview with Professor Dan LeClair, on the implications and potential ramifications of legalized casino gambling in Massachusetts: http://www.bu.edu/today/campus-life/2008/07/28/bu-politics-rolling-dice-gambling-mass
July 26 — In today's Boston Globe, Richard Cravatts, director of Boston University's certificate program in publishing in the Center For Professional Education has an op-ed piece on the ironies of the mortgage crisis. See, Unintended Fallout of Loan Crisis
July 23 — Professors Suresh Kalathur and Tanya Zlateva have received a $10,000 grant from IBM for their curricular development proposal "Enhancing IT Curriculum for the Globally Integrated Enterprise." This award also creates access to significant amounts of software applications for our students and faculty. Congratulations and thanks to Tanya and Suresh as they demonstrate the caliber and relevance of MET programs for the IT industry.
July 23 — A student in the Accelerated Degree Completion Program ADCP – Jacqueline Calderon – is one of 50 scholarship recipients (out of 700 applicants) from the Latino Professionals in Finance and Accounting (ALPFA). She will be honored at a national convention with the organization and its sponsors in Phoenix this August. Congratulations Jacqueline.
July 17 — MET's Commencement 2008 Newsletter is released
July 16 — Rick Dimino, former part-time lecturer and a current member of our Urban Affairs AdvisoryBoard has been quoted in the Boston Sunday Globe's front page article on the Rose Kennedy Greenway:
boston.com/lifestyle/green/articles/2008/07/13/not_so_green_acres/
July 7 — In the latest Bostonia (summer 2008), Sargent Center's gourmet chef Victor Beguin is profiled:
http://www.bu.edu/alumni/bostonia/2008/summer/commonwealth/chef/index.html
You can also see [slide show] Victor in his kitchen at the Sargent Center.In the same issue on page 15, several BU Global students are pictured at a farewell reception for departing international students.
June 27 — In today's BU Today, art historian Jonathan Ribner discusses his experience teaching in MET's Evergreen Program:
http://www.bu.edu/today/campus-life/2008/06/26/evergreen-students-receive-and-give-education
June 24 — This past week's Chronicle of Higher Education profiled Ben Bolger as a "serial student" pursuing many degrees while teaching in many different institutions. One of them was Boston University – Ben was, for a brief time, a part-time lecturer and faculty coordinator of Urban Affairs at MET. At first, we found his resume unbelievable, but as you'll see below he has been a busy if not overextended guy over the years... http://chronicle.com/weekly/v54/i41/41a01501.htm http://chronicle.com | Section: Students | Volume 54, Issue 41, Page A15
June 15 — Susan Kryczka appears in an article in today's Sunday New York Times business pages. The Matt Villano article ("The Homework to Do Before Enrolling Online") focuses on the features of online learning:
While every employer is different, Susan Kryczka, director of distance education at Boston University, said that most treat online degrees as equivalent to degrees obtained by attending classes in classrooms. Ms. Kryczka said that many employers would cover online education as part of existing tuition reimbursement programs, provided that employees could prove that the online degree pertained to their current job. Once employees have completed their degrees, she added, many are rewarded with additional compensation for advancing their education. "Our students have reported very little pushback on the part of their employers," said Ms. Kryczka, whose program offers eight graduate degrees online.
June 12 — In today's BU Today, WBUR's new science and health reporter -- Sacha Pfeiffer (MET '94) -- is announced. As a Boston Globe investigative reporter, she shared the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for uncovering pedophilia in the Boston priesthood. Sacha is also a recipient of a distinguished alumni award from MET. http://www.bu.edu/today/node/6956
June 6 — BU Today eatures Sargent Center for Outdoor Education as an integral part of the orientation of the Boston Scholars to their new academic community: http://www.bu.edu/today/campus-life/2008/06/05/boston-scholars-bond-sargent-camp.
June 5 — Today's Boston Globe Metro West quotes Izabel Arocha, President of the Medical Interpreters Association and one the faculty for our Interpreter Program, and provides background on this CPE program: "In an emergency, it can't be left to interpretation..." Boston Globe
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2008/06/05/in_an_emergency
_it_cant_be_left_open_to_interpretation/?rss_id=Boston.com+--+Massachusetts+news
This is an important program, which trains individuals who can, as Izabel says in the article, " make a life-or-death difference." For more information on this MET program, visit: http://professional.bu.edu/cpe/interpreter-translator-ovrview.asp
May 30 — Brockton Enterprise featured several BU/CPE Professional Investigation students, along with Program Director Tom Shamshak, took part in searching for missing Brockton teenager Jennifer Lynn Fay. The student pictured, Darlene Adams, is in the current PI cohort that started in March.
http://professional.bu.edu/cpe/downloads/BU-PI_StudentsTakePart_inMissingGirlSearch_v2.pdf
Learn more about Certification in Professional Investigation.
May 20 — In today’s BU Today, Associate Dean Tanya Zlateva is featured for her efforts to help BU achieve recognition as a Center for Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Research (from the NSA and Homeland Security): http://www.bu.edu/today/2008/05/19/bu-receives-nsa-recognition
May 16 — Channel 5 News showcased BU’s City Lab Academy – where students can receive biomedical training and then matriculate into Metropolitan College. Visit The Boston Channel for the text, and then click on “Free College Program?” under the “Related to Story” section for the video of the broadcast.
May 12 — In BU Today's video today, Professor Anatoly Temkin attempts to give advice to graduating seniors, and provides comic relief:
http://www.bu.edu/today/2008/05/09/one-final-note-class-2008.
In the latest issue of SMG’s Builders and Leaders, Alice Cheng (MET Computer Science alumna) is featured as a “Triple Terrier” (three BU degrees) and member of eSPRIT, an School of Management program in how to commercialize new ventures.
CPE Professional Investigation instructor, Jack LeClair, was interviewed on Boston's Fox 25 (not for the squeamish):
http://media.myfoxboston.com/news/fingerprinting.html.
May 8 — Professor Tom Nolan was interviewed on two local news broadcasts:
NECN (5/6/08)Computer system helps keep track of gangs:
http://www.necn.com/Boston/New-England/Computer-system-helps-keep-track-of-gangs/1210107249.html
WFXT-TV Ch. 25 (5/7/08)Dangerous police pursuits:
http://www.myfoxboston.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail;jsessionid=EB42A1117B5B1AADFE0D01A3E9C8F0E1?contentId=6490759&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=1.1.1&sflg=1
Today's BU Today featured Summer Term, quotes Assistant Dean Donna Shea, and promotes our summer offerings for a variety of audiences (from high schools, from BU, from other colleges, and from the public at large). The book title in the photo makes a provocative statement.
May 7 — Professor Tom Nolan was quoted extensively in an article on "Packed Prisons" in the Dig:
http://www.weeklydig.com/news-opinions/feature/200805/packed-prisons#
May 2 — Per Rob Rubendall, Director of Sargent Center for Outdoor Education (SCOE): "you never know where you are going to get free publicity." In this Channel 13 news piece in New Hampshire, you will see an interview with the Peterborough Chamber of Commerce director early in this video clip -- with a BU/SCOE sign prominently displayed on the back of a solar collector used for a demonstration piece:
http://www.screencast.com/users/WYCN/folders/Favorites/media/40b201c5-0447-4e33-9349-84f9b7b575de
April 18 — Associate Dean Tanya Zlateva, as director of the Center for Reliable Information Systems and Cyber Security, for successfully leading BU’s efforts to achieve university recognition as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Research for 2008-2013 – one of the first in the nation to receive this distinction from the National Security Agency.
As Professor Lou Chitkushev said in his congratulatory note to Tanya, this "brings BU to another level in Cyber Security, recognizing our research in addition to excellent teaching and pedagogy in Information Security. Besides the direct academic and research benefit in terms of eligibility for federal grants and programs, receiving prominent national designation like this is one the most effective marketing tools for attracting and recruiting high quality students and faculty."
Tanya will represent BU at the awards ceremony at the annual conference of the Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education at the University of Texas in June.
Congratulations for this latest accomplishment.
April 15 — On April 26 & 27 (noon – 6pm), both Jeannie Motherwell and Daniel Ranalli (and his wife, Tabitha Vevers) will participate in the 11th Annual North Cambridge Open Studios:
http://www.noca-arts.org
For more on each artist:
http://www.noca-arts.org/Jeannie_Motherwell.html
http://www.noca-arts.org/Daniel_Ranalli.html
http://www.noca-arts.org/Tabitha_Vevers.html
April 1 — Professor Tom Nolan was quoted extensively in the front page Sunday Boston Globe article on police infractions:
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2008/03/29/penalties_for_hub_officers_stiffened/?page=1
"The commissioner is in the very unenviable and delicate position of having to satisfy the community and assure them that he takes allegations of wrongdoing very seriously, while at the same time assuring the rank-and-file officer that he will treat them equitably and even handedly," Nolan said, adding that Davis "is walking a tightrope, to an extent."
"There has always been that sentiment that the deck has been rigged," said Nolan, who once was vice president of the Boston Police Superior Officers Federation, which represents sergeants, lieutenants, and captains.
He said police officers can appeal the decisions of the disciplinary hearing officer, "but there is a sense that there is a foregone conclusion.
"It's a fair question to ask the commissioner if at some point, he might not consider replacing the model that exists and lacks credibility among the rank and file for very good reasons," Nolan said.
MET Gastronomy program's Elizabeth Navisky wrote this article for the Boston Globe:
http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/food/articles/2008/03/26/new_gastropubs_offer_a_little_something_extra/.
April 28 — An online article appeared in the New York Times "Shortcuts," which quotes Robert Glovsky, the head of our Certified Financial Planners Program.
&bsp;March 14 — Professor Tom Nolan was quoted in an article about homicides involving babies in the Wichita Eagle:
http://www.kansas.com/news/local/v-prhttp://www.ucea.edu/pdfs/infocus/200802.pdfint/story/341201.html.
The latest In Focus (the newsletter of the University Continuing Education Association) has a blurb on Kim Blanchette, MET’s former off-campus program manager, who was recently appointed as associate dean of the business school at Daniel Webster College in New Hampshire:
http://www.ucea.edu/pdfs/infocus/200802.pdf
March 13 — The business section of today’s Boston Globe profiles former MET associate dean, Fred Yalouris, who is retiring as the Big Dig’s director of architecture and urban design, responsible for restoring and enhancing the urban landscape of the area impacted by the central artery project:
http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2008/03/13/after_reworking_citys_face_greenway_gatekeeper_retires/
MET Professor Tom Nolan is pictured and featured today in BU Today's lead article on Gov. Eliot Spitzer's downfall and offers his insights from a police perspective:
http://www.bu.edu/today/node/6387
March 10 — MET’s marketing director, Roxolana Sawchuk, was quoted in BostonNOW, "A Recipe for Education," describing our new eLive programs:
http://www.bostonnow.com/lifestyle/2008/03/10/a-recipe-for-education
March 5 — In a recent Boston Business Journal, Professor Eric Braude is mentioned in an article, “Rising Game Popularity Leads Colleges to Add Classes,” describing MET’s new interactive media/game engineering track: http://sanjose.bizjournals.com/boston/stories/2008/02/04/story8.html
A professor, a program, and our college all received mentions.
March 2 — In today’s Boston Sunday Globe, Professor Enrique Silva is quoted in an article, "Off Campus, Council, Says, Five’s A Crowd," about a recent amendment to Boston’s zoning code that would limit to four the number of undergraduates who can share a residence, regardless of the size of the unit. The legislative goal is to keep landlords from subdividing rental units in order to pack more students in at high monthly rents:
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/03/02/off_campus_council_says_fives_a_crowd/
February 28 — Neil Coletta, in the Office of Lifelong Learning, was quoted this week in a supplement to the regional weekly newspapers published by the Community Newspaper Company (and distributed in Brookline, Cambridge, Needham, Dover, Sherborn, Boston, Somerville, Watertown, Wellesley) on "Lifelong Learners: Cooperative Learning Programs for the Over50set Abound."
Neil talked about our Evergreen Program: "Evergreen's goal is to provide continuing education for those 58 and over. One way we do this is with a lecture and discussion series... We also offer, in tandem with the University at large, an option to audit a course... Some like the shorter courses and discussion groups, and some like to feel as though they're back at school."
Evergreen attracts thousands of senior citizens annually to a variety of courses and programs. Over the past several decades, Evergreen has created multi-generational experiences in liberal arts courses along with special presentations and seminars offered exclusively for Evergreen students.
Congratulations to Professor Carla Romney, a recent recipient of a Grant for Undergraduate Teaching and Scholarship (GUTS) – to help with the integration of tablet PCs into mathematics instruction in SEP. This competition for $30,000 of funds attracted nearly $100,000 of requests.
February 27 — Articles that depict MET's amazing array of contrasting programs...
In yesterday's BU Today, PBS TV host, Chris Kimball, was interviewed on kitchen essentials, before his seminar at a culinary seminar last evening:
http://www.bu.edu/today/2008/02/25/be-bobby-flay-not-chef-boyardee
On the front page of today's Boston Globe, the story on "Commutation Carries a Political Risk for Patrick" focused on Arnie King, an alumnus of MET's prison education program: http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2008/02/27/commutation_plea_carries_a_political_risk_for_patrick/
February 25 — Professor Eric Braude (one of several "eminent management gurus") is pictured and quoted in the Economic Times of India, after his visit to India this past month.
February 22 — Ivan Gold, who taught creative writing in MET for several decades died recently. He is remembered in today’s BUToday: http://www.bu.edu/today/node/6260
A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m. on Saturday, February 23, at First Church on Boston's Marlborough Street.
February 18 — Susan Kryczka and Nancy Coleman presented an analysis of our online student survey at the annual conference of the Association for Continuing Higher Education (ACHE) this past fall. A summary of their presentation appeared in the conference proceedings (on page 26-27 of the 2007 edition):
http://www.acheinc.org/2008%20Site/publications.html#proceedings
February 15 — In this past Sunday’s Boston Globe supplement, MET student Amy Rutkowski and Gerry Keegan were featured in an article, "How I Finished my Bachelor's" where they described the Accelerated Degree Completion Program. "Everyone at BU has been so great and supportive," Amy said. "I never dreamed that I would go to BU, but this makes it possible and affordable." Gerry directs this program for us (we think of him as the "concierge"). Amy goes on to say in the article: "It's a lot of work and it’s not easy. I had a pretty successful business back home, but I didn’t want my kids to think that a college degree wasn’t important."
"The Accelerated Degree Completion Program is a unique and important way for those other accomplished adults who never finished their undergraduate program to do so in a cohort program modeled on an executive MBA. Students take two or three courses at a time, with intensive sessions built in, and complete the latter half of their bachelor’s degree in two years. We've had great success with this model – students are almost sorry to graduate."
February 4 — BUniverse just released the video from the Computer Science Distinguished Lecture Series featuring Dr. Ian Davis's talk on AI in Video Games and introducing our new graduate certificate in Interactive Multimedia and Game Engineering (IMAGE). Professors Lou Chitkushev and Eric Braude introduced this presentation:
http://www.bu.edu/phpbin/buniverse/videos/view/?id=160
Professor Tom Nolan published an article in the New England Law Review on the role that CSI shows play in popular culture:
http://www.nesl.edu/lawrev/VOL41/3/Volume%2041,%20book%203,%20article%206.pdf
Professor Roger Warburton had a paper he co-wrote, "A note on approximate solutions to the linear differential delay equation," accepted by the International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics.
Studies support that theory [that a police presence reduces accidents], according to Thomas Nolan, a former Boston Police lieutenant and professor of criminal justice at Boston University. "It creates a sense in the community that if you commit an infraction you are going to get pulled over," Nolan said. And while police activity cannot be definitively said to cause lower accident rates, the two are "positively correlated," he said. In Boston, where police officers rarely make traffic stops, drivers' behavior is widely considered among the worst in the country. The only thing that keeps serious traffic accidents down there is congestion, Nolan said.
Richard Marinick (a graduate of our Prison Education Program) just published his second "Southie noire" novel, In For A Pound:
http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2007/12/10/southie_noir_is_unsparing_in_the_details/
January 13 — Today's Boston Sunday Globe profiles Ivan Gold, a writer and longstanding and dedicated creative writing instructor at Metropolitan College, who recently died: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2008/01/13/ivan_gold_at_75_was_celebrated_writer_and_educator/?page=1
January 7 — In today's Boston Globe supplement, Assistant Dean Carl Sessa is quoted extensively in the article, "Troops Find Educational Support, and More, at Local Universities."
Here are some excerpts:
Sessa, at BU’s Metropolitan College, says easing the transition from military to civilian life can make all the difference in a student’s success. "We have a unique program in that we offer courses right on bases for active military personnel in Virginia [and in North Carolina] as well as a program at Hanscom Field in Bedford," Sessa says. "Many of our student veterans are interested in earning master’s degrees in science and business, as well as our graduate certificate in project management, and by taking courses while they’re active it puts them ahead of the curve when they leave the military. We've also found that our online courses are very popular with soldiers who are deployed on active duty. When they have down-time, the take courses with BU."
But Sessa says the university also wants to recognize the service veterans have given. "We created a school fund last year for veterans who have earned Purple Hearts," Sessa says. "The program was named after a Metropolitan graduate student, Marine Captain Bryan D. Willard, who was killed in combat. The memorial scholarship is an effort to honor them for their good service."
January 6 — Here is an article from the Providence Journal about Vicki Veh, a current Arts Administration students, who was recently appointed as interim director of the Providence Preservation Society:
http://www.projo.com/ri/providence/content/MC_PPS_12-11-07_P7875V2_v9.254670f.html
The Boston Business Journal highlighted MET's certificate programs in:
http://boston.bizjournals.com/boston/stories/2007/12/17/focus1.html?t=printable
