Annual Report 2011, Renaissance: Renewing the Liberal Arts at Boston College

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produced by the office of marketing communications 9/2011

editor: Maureen Dezell

writer: William Bole

art director: Christine Hagg

designer: Kristen Patterson

photography: Gary Wayne Gilbert

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

2 | From the PresidentWilliam P. Leahy, S.J.

4 | Growth PatternSix programs that took place during the spring 2011 semester are evidence of Boston College’s ambitions in the liberal arts, and of the infl uence of a new entrepreneurial center

18 | From the ChairWilliam J. Geary ’80

19 | Year in Review

26 | Financial Report

29 | Statistical and Financial Highlights

30 | Board of Trustees


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In the mid-16th century, when the Society of Jesus began

to found schools, one model of education originating in

medieval universities stressed professional education in

law, theology, and medicine, with a grounding in science,

mathematics, and philosophy. A second approach, evident

in Renaissance humanistic academies, favored literature,

drama, and rhetoric, with the goal of developing the

human spirit as well as the mind.

The fi rst Jesuit educators regarded these approaches

“as complementary,” the historian John W. O’Malley, S.J.,

has written. According to O’Malley, Jesuit education suc-

ceeded because it formed itself around these two models,

which together make up the liberal arts.

Today, the liberal arts perform several important functions in undergraduate education. At a

time when learning is often fragmented into disciplines that do not relate to one another, the

liberal arts off er a way of viewing the whole of human experience and knowledge, liberating

students who might otherwise have been constrained in their growth by specialization.

Additionally, the liberal arts challenge students to discover their intellectual passions and personal

gifts. Exposed to a core curriculum, an essential feature of Jesuit education, many students who

enter college discover their true interests or calling through exposure to knowledge and disci-

plines they had not previously experienced.

From the President

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In particular, faced with an uncertain economy, some students now feel compelled to

quickly select a major course of study and a career path. But the message of Jesuit education

is: Take time. Find your gifts. Listen to your deepest desires and test them. Then make your

decisions. A vibrant liberal arts community gives students encouragement and opportunity

for exploration and discernment about the program of studies right for them.

Students of the liberal arts develop methods of learning and of expressing themselves in

writing. As a history major, I learned ways of evaluating evidence, analyzing arguments, and

making judgments that have served me well as a researcher, writer, teacher, and administrator.

Students who graduate from college with a sense of who they are, a method of learning, and

an ability to speak and write eff ectively are equipped to succeed, regardless of their particular

major or career choice. And in an age when, we are told, individuals are likely to switch occu-

pations several times over the course of their working lives, a solid grounding in the liberal

arts is a signifi cant asset because it off ers a way of approaching life and work that is fl exible

and adaptive.

In undertaking the liberal arts initiatives chronicled in these pages, Boston College invites

students not only to gain knowledge and skills, but to ask themselves: What is it that I believe?

What is it that I cherish? What is my relationship to others, and to God? What are my respon-

sibilities in my community and in society? These are the kinds of questions that Jesuit schools

have been inviting students to contemplate since the Society of Jesus opened its fi rst schools

more than 450 years ago.

william p. leahy, s.j. President


By William Bole

when boston college unveiled its $1.5 billion Capital Campaign in

October 2008, it announced seven strategic directions, previously ratifi ed by the

Board of Trustees, that would guide the University’s growth. Among them was

a commitment to become a national leader in liberal arts education.

“In the classic tradition, training in the seven liberal arts had the goal of edu-

cating an individual intellectually and spiritually to make reasoned and virtuous

choices in his or her life,” Provost Cutberto Garza noted at the time. “Today’s

liberal arts education needs to be redesigned to accommodate a world in which

biology shades into ethics, literature into history, and politics into economics.”

Fundamental to the redesign was the establishment of the Institute for the

Liberal Arts, charged with coordinating 21st-century responses to an idea of

learning that fi rst fl ourished in the Renaissance but is ultimately rooted in the

wisdom of classical antiquity. According to its fi rst director, David Quigley

(who is now the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences), the ILA is a

University-wide program designed to “strengthen and encourage the liberal arts

through interdisciplinary inquiry and interest, which from a practical perspec-

tive means that it will off er funding and administrative support to faculty who

Six programs that took place during the spring 2011 semester are evidence of Boston College’s ambitions in the liberal arts, and of the infl uence of a new entrepreneurial center

Growth Pattern

By William Bole


come up with practical, innovative proposals for programs that are going to

fortify liberal education at Boston College.”

Now directed by Mary Crane, Thomas Rattigan Professor of English, the ILA

presented its fi rst full slate of programs during the 2010–11 academic year, making

its mark as an incubator of courses and programs that augment undergraduate

curriculum, enrich intellectual life, and encourage imaginative thinking about the

liberal arts. “Reinventing the liberal arts means fostering interdisciplinary work

that bridges the gap between the liberal arts and the professional schools, and

enhances liberal arts education for all BC students,” says Crane.

As sponsor or co-sponsor of approximately 35 conferences, public lectures, semi-

nars, symposia, artist residencies, fi lm screenings, and other projects, the “ILA has

created a space for scholars to think about shared interests unlike any that has

existed before at Boston College,” according to Quigley. “Outside of the course

curriculum and faculty scholarship, it’s become the central engine for advancing

liberal arts on the Heights.”

The following essay touches on six programs brought to life by the ILA in the

spring semester of 2011.

From left, Brown University Professor Emeritus David Konstan with fellow Brown classicist Pura Nieto,

Melissa Grasso ’12, and George Evangjeli ’14 at a symposium on the literary, mythological, and scientifi c

aspects of dreams.


I.dreams team on a raw day in may 2011, three guests of Boston College—a classicist, a neuroscien-

tist, and a psychoanalyst—crossed Beacon Street in Chestnut Hill, along with a half-dozen Boston College students and faculty. They had all just emerged from 10 Stone Avenue, the Tudor Revival home of the University’s Institute for the Liberal Arts, where the visitors had conducted small-group discussions on the nature of dreams with some 15 undergraduate students selected from two advanced Latin seminars and an introductory neuroscience course. Ambling through a late-day drizzle, the group headed toward McGuinn 121 for a Q&A with more than 200 students in the neuro-science course—to be followed that evening by a public forum in Higgins 300 on the topic “The Meaning of Dreams in a Scientifi c Age.”

Assembled by Daniel Harris-McCoy, a visiting pro-fessor in classics, the “dreams team,” as he referred to it, consisted of Harvard University neuroscientist Allan Hobson, Brown University classicist David Konstan, and Jungian psychoanalyst William Ventimiglia of

Cambridge, Mass. The theme for the day, with roots in the Bible and ancient Greece, was the eff ect neuro-science has had on one of our most ancient concerns: where our dreams come from and what they mean.

The evening program off ered a striking sample of contrasting perspectives on a subject that was dominat-ed through most of the 20th century by Freudian dream theory—a foundation all the speakers agreed was crumbling, if not already collapsed.

“There is no evidence or support for what Sigmund Freud thought about dreams,” said Hobson during his evening talk. He described Freudian dream theory as “speculation, not science.” Hobson also presented fi nd-ings suggesting, for instance, that people have trouble recalling their dreams not because they are trying to repress frightful memories, as Freud supposed, but because the brain modulators that enable memory are mostly shut down during sleep.

Beliefs and theories about what dreams “mean” have evolved dramatically since antiquity, said Konstan, when the Greeks believed that dreams were messages from the gods and foretold the future. Evidence indicates that ancient Greeks recounted their dreams in a linear


and logical fashion, much like the speeches they heard in the Athenian agora, and in contrast to the bizarre and fantastic dreaming that moderns take for granted, Konstan added. The content of dreams, he said, may be “culturally determined,” with Greek epiphanic visions replaced by the sort of episodic dreams that dominated Western literature in the 18th and 19th centuries, before Freudian interpretation radically changed cultural expectations about dreams and what we say they mean.

Ventimiglia, the Jungian therapist, argued forcefully that dreams still have meaning for the dreamer, but he and his colleagues agreed that the meanings are not as esoteric as either Jung or Freud believed. As Hobson put it, dreams are “stories about me,“ which invite refl ection upon one’s own life.

“The characteristic goal of liberal arts education is to engage individuals in pursuits that ultimately surprise, that awaken,” says Quigley, the former ILA director. “You do that when you take classics majors familiar with the dream-obsessed Greeks and bring them up against cognitive science, and when you introduce scientists to current theory about dreams as manifesta-tions of personality.”

George Evangjeli ’14, one of those classics majors, sat with three other students and Konstan in a corner of a conference room at 10 Stone Avenue, and did some dream analysis. Evangjeli, who is from Boston, recount-ed a dream he had a few nights earlier in which he was standing in McElroy Commons, talking with a woman he had recently dated, but was not able to hear her voice or his own. Two female students in the group asked about the general quality of communication he had had with the woman before the dream.

Evangjeli blushed, and then looked skeptical. He explained after the discussion, “I’m not really convinced that dreams have any meaning.” He added, however, that as a classics major he was interested in historical perspectives on human dreaming and wanted to hear about the science and psychology as well. “That’s why I came here,” he said.

“This is unusual,” Ventimiglia observed that after-noon as he wended his way toward the Middle Campus with Hobson and Konstan. The Jungian was referring generally to the interaction among people of such diverging disciplines. “We don’t talk to each other fre-quently enough,” he said. “And we should.”

Opposite and above left: Audience members at “The Meaning of Dreams in a Scientifi c Age.”

Above right: From left, Jungian psychoanalyst William Ventimiglia, classicist David Konstan,

and Harvard University neuroscientist Allan Hobson.



II.economic stimulation on an afternoon in late march, Inter-national Monetary Fund economist Ayhan

Kose crisscrossed the front of a lecture hall in Devlin Hall, gesturing broadly as he made a case that the economies of emerging-market nations experiencing rapid industrial growth—such as Turkey, Brazil, Poland, South Korea, and South Africa—are “decoupling” from advanced economies such as that of the United States. The trend was underscored during the recent Western fi nancial crisis, when emerging markets kept chugging along while the West faltered, contended Kose.

Kose’s lecture was one of eight off ered during the spring by the International Economic Policy and Political Economy Seminar. The series, conceived and coordinat-ed by Associate Professor of Economics Fabio Ghironi, brings prominent representatives and practitioners from fi nance, political science, and international aff airs to campus for face-to-face lectures, seminars, and discus-sions with students and faculty.

The seminar, which covers such matters as monetary union in Europe and global greenhouse-gas emissions,

is a departure from most economics courses, which tend to be theory-oriented, says Crane, the ILA director. Eager to expose undergraduates to the stellar assembly in the series, the ILA organized and funded it as a one-credit spring semester course for undergraduates. “This seminar brings in practitioners from all over the world and students and faculty from a variety of departments. It’s interdisciplinary, it’s global, and it enriches the cur-riculum,” says Crane.

In the lecture hall, Kose called for discussion. “What does this structural change mean for the global [eco-nomic] cycle?” he asked. His question hung over a room that looked and sounded much like the world itself, with accents that spanned the globe from the Far East to Eastern Europe. A young Russian student argued that the “decoupling” seems less a fact of economic life than a transient symptom of the recent Western meltdown.

The guest speaker held his ground. “It’s a slow-going, structural change. It hasn’t happened overnight,” Kose noted. Then he asked, “Thirty years from now, will we be asking if the United States has decoupled from China?”

Conversation was at the heart of the seminar. Before his afternoon talk, Kose met individually with a

“This seminar brings in practitioners from all over

the world and students and faculty from a variety

of departments. It’s interdisciplinary, it’s global,

and it enriches the curriculum.” —MARY CRANE

International Monetary Fund econo-

mist and guest lecturer Ayhan Kose

consults with Xiaoping Chen (left) and

Alessandro Barattieri (far right), both

graduate students in economics.

half-dozen Ph.D. students in economics to off er guid-ance on their dissertation topics, then had lunch with graduate and undergraduate students. When his lecture ended, he headed to dinner at a local restaurant with six students and Ghironi. Dinner conversation ranged from opportunities in fi nance and in graduate school to fertility rates in Western Europe. Noting that his din-ner companions included a fellow Turk, an Italian, an Indian, a Brazilian, a Chinese-born Canadian, and an American, Kose smiled and said, “All of the players are here. We could have a conversation about global [trade] imbalances.” And they did.

III.contact lens founded in 2009 to promote inter-disciplinary study of constitutional govern-

ment, Boston College’s Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy is well-versed in the conven-tional ways of exploring government. The center during the past academic year off ered a series of public lectures and forums on immigration and national security.

But in April, with the co-sponsorship of the ILA,

the Clough Center turned a diff erent sort of focus on the often-overlooked workings of state legislatures, presenting a screening of the 2006 documentary State Legislature, by the renowned documentary-maker Frederick Wiseman. The octogenarian director was on hand to greet visitors and lead an after-fi lm discussion in the Cushing lecture hall.

Celebrated since the 1967 release of his ground-breaking Titicut Follies, which exposed the maltreatment of inmate patients at the Bridgewater State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, Wiseman has made more than 30 full-length feature fi lms. He has explored American institutions in such fi lms as High School (1968), Hospital (1969), Basic Training (1971), and Public Housing (1997). State Legislature trains an unblinking eye on yet another institution, this time in Idaho’s capital city of Boise.

Like most ILA programs, the screening, which began at 10 a.m., had a goal of bringing in students and faculty from divergent disciplines. Among some 30 fi lmgoers who turned up was Katherine Galle ’11, a history major with a minor in American Studies, who said she came out on a Saturday morning in April (two days before she was to run the Boston Marathon) to get a fi lmmaker’s

perspective on a topic related to her academic interests. Diana Araujo, an English major who would graduate a month later from the Woods College of Advancing Studies, was a documentary fi lm buff who had already seen most of Wiseman’s other documentaries. She talked with the director about a paper she had written on his work.

Clough Center Director Ken Kersch, an associate professor of political science, introduced Wiseman, who has thin, curly hair, a slight build, and a soft voice. He stepped to the podium and said, “I don’t like to say much before a fi lm. I like to let the fi lm speak for itself.” And the 217-minute documentary began speaking.

There is no narrator or background music in the Wiseman fi lm, and he leaves it to the viewer to draw links and come to judgments. State Legislature captures a hall-way conversation between a lawmaker and a pro-immi-gration activist about a proposal to let undocumented workers drive legally in the state. Later in the fi lm, in the State Capitol rotunda, Mexican-American schoolchildren in folk costume are shown clicking their heels in syncopa-tion to mariachi music, performing a traditional dance.

Using his principal tool, a lightweight 16-millimeter camera, Wiseman spied moments like these for three months in hearing rooms, offi ces, and other corners of the Capitol building. He spent another 11 months edit-ing the work. His approach was to limn the democratic process, not the legislative outcomes in that particular state. “It’s about Idaho, but it could be about almost anywhere,“ John Louis, a fi rst-year master’s student in political science, said after the screening.

Wiseman’s portrayal of the lawmakers in Boise, who meet from January to mid-March, is respectful. “I was quite moved by the complexity of the vast array of issues they had to deal with,” he told the audience afterward. “There is almost no aspect of human behavior that a state does not regulate or is not asked to regulate,” Wiseman added, alluding to scenes that caught debates over mad cow disease, the defi nition of marriage, second-hand smoke, video voyeurism, and regulations for the practice of acupuncture. “These people have enormous control over our lives, but most of us don’t pay any attention to it.”

forthcoming ila events2011–12

ILA Symposium

Science in the Liberal Arts University:

Why It Matters to Us All–october

A daylong symposium featuring guest speakers Brian

Greene, Columbia University professor of mathematics

and physics; Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker; Steven

Pinker, Harvard University professor of psychology;and

Siva Vaidhyanathan, University of Virginia professor of

media studies and law.

Practicing Plenitude: Cutting-Edge Lifestyles for People and Planet–october A two-day conference for ethnographers from Boston

College and around the country. Cosponsored by the

Chicago-based Center for Humans and Nature.

Celebration of Tomás Luis de Victoria–october

Four concerts and a symposium celebrating the Jesuit

composer Tomás Luis de Victoria, organized by music

department chair Michael Noone. Part of the Jesuits in

Music Series.

Charles Homer Haskins Society Annual Conference–november

Medievalists and scholars of Viking, Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-

Norman, and Angevin history convene yearly at Boston

College for the Haskins Society conference, named

for the historian who pioneered the study of medieval

culture as an autonomous fi eld.

International Economic Policy and Political Economy seminar–fall/spring

Continuation of weekly seminars with top economics

practitioners and policymakers such as George Akerlof,

University of California Berkeley professor of economics

and 2001 Nobel laureate in Economics, and Harvard

professor of economics N. Gregory Mankiw.

Junot Diaz: Writer Residence–february

Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao will lecture, give a public reading, teach,

and meet with creative writing students, faculty, and

Latino groups during a three-day residency.

James Joyce Events–april Weekly meetings of the Boston College Finnegans Wake reading group, Raidin the Wake, Boston Joyce

Forum lectures, and conferences including “Joyce and

Religion,” a multi-disciplinary seminar.

Forgotten Chapters/Boston Literary History 1790–1860–spring/summer

Experimental course linked to an exhibition that

goes on display at the Boston Public Library and the

Massachusetts Historical Society in the spring and

summer of 2012. Students will help design the exhibition.

For more information, www.bc.edu/ila

“There is almost no aspect of human

behavior that a state does not

regulate or is not asked to regulate.”

—FREDERICK WISEMAN


In the hour-long discussion after the screening, Wiseman articulated what the history major had come looking for—an artistic sensibility that speaks to a truth about politics and its paradoxes. “I am interested in com-plexity. I am interested in ambiguity,” he explained when asked about his treatment of subjects. “And I’m not the fi rst to realize that these exist in great abundance.”

IV.faith based boston college is striving to

improve but also to redefi ne the liberal arts, says Crane. As part of that rethinking, the University is highlighting the contributions that research and learn-ing can make to the advancement of social justice. This focus, Crane points out, draws inspiration from the Jesuit tradition of service and addresses “the spiritual as well as the material well-being” of people and societies.

On a weekend in April, a diverse collection of more than two dozen scholars from almost as many universi-ties converged on the Heights to explore the religious dimensions of a signature social concern: human rights. The two-day seminar, Human Rights and Religion in Historical Perspective, was conceived and coordinated by History Professor Devin O. Pendas, and funded by the ILA.

A Boston College scholar of post-war Germany who teaches an undergraduate class titled Human Rights as History, Pendas says he had found that when he talked with colleagues at Boston College and elsewhere about human rights, “religion kept coming up.” He proposed to the ILA a “serious investigation into the evolving rela-tionship between human rights and religion that looks at religion as a source of human rights; a human right; and a cause of human rights violations.”

The conference—a classic scholar’s confab that drew political scientists, theologians, sociologists, and other faculty from institutions such as Yale, Duke, Princeton, and the University of Chicago, as well as several univer-sities abroad—ranged across the Christian Democratic movement in post-war Europe, the rights of women in Islamic societies, and the role that religion and human rights have played in American foreign policy.

The religious intellectual framework for the gathering was set by theologians such as David Hollenbach, S.J., University Chair in Human Rights and International Justice, who chaired a session titled “Freedom of Religion as a Human Right” and underlined the place of human rights in contemporary Catholic social teach-ing, particularly with regard to the dignity of the human person. An overarching theme of the gathering was the “historiography of human rights,” which, in the view of

At the conference on the religious dimensions of human rights, Perin Gurel, Yale University graduate

fellow (left) and Timothy James, assistant professor of history and humanities, University of South

Carolina at Beaufort. Right: Boston College Associate Professor of History Seth Jacobs (right) with

Cambridge University Professor of History Andrew Preston.


several presenters, has taken inadequate account of reli-gion as a source of ideas and action in this area.

Holding sessions in a small windowless room in 21 Campanella Way, the scholars cast steady light on unheralded fi gures and little-appreciated episodes of recent history. A Saturday afternoon session on human rights, religion, and U.S. foreign policy, for example, focused on the part played by one man in making human rights a foreign policy priority: the late Jesuit priest Robert Drinan, a fi ve-term congressman from Massachusetts (1971–81) who had formerly served as dean of Boston College Law School.

In a presentation titled “The Human Rights Crusade of Father Robert F. Drinan,” Andrew Preston, senior lecturer in history at Cambridge University, surveyed the priest’s broad-based defense of human rights, in particular his advocacy of religious liberties. Though Drinan’s leadership in the human rights move-ment was well known in the 1970s, Preston pointed out, the Jesuit is scarcely acknowledged in academic histories of human rights.

Citing the cause of Soviet Jewry as a prime example, Preston remarked, “Drinan was everywhere on this issue” at that time, “but is mentioned nowhere in the historical literature.” The historian added that on this and other

human rights issues, “he’s been totally forgotten” by other academic historians of that subject and period. In general, according to Preston, secular scholars often overlook reli-gious contributions to social and political life.

On those few occasions when historians acknowl-edge religion’s role in human rights policies of the era, they tend to emphasize the evangelical Protestant infl uences, according to William Steding of University College in Cork, Ireland, whose seminar presentation, “Jimmy Carter’s Evangelical Mission: Human Rights,” focused on the former President’s groundbreaking 1978 declaration that human rights would be a central focus of his administration, “the soul of our foreign policy.”

Among critical ideas that emerged from the confer-ence was an awareness that religion has been an “essen-tial element in the development of human rights ideas and policies, certainly throughout the 20th century,” Pendas says. (He and other participants are quick to observe, however, that secular notions deriving from the Enlightenment were among other indispensable sources of human rights concern.)

Pendas has asked conference contributors to expand their papers and presentations into longer treatments that take into account questions raised at the gathering, which will be off ered as a collection to a major university press.


V.harmonic convergence on an evening in late march, stu-dents trickled into a classroom in Lyons

as Kayleigh Dudevoir ’11, wrote the names of two Italian Renaissance songs–Orazio Vecchi’s “Il Bianco e Dolce Cigno” and “Lasciatemi Morire,” by Claudio Monteverdi—on a blackboard. Dudevoir is the founder of the Madrigal Singers of Boston College, a 14-mem-ber student-run ensemble made up almost entirely of non-music-majors who sing for the love of the art form. Encouraged by faculty adviser and linguistics Professor Michael J. Connolly, with University funding for Renaissance-era costumes and occasional travel expens-es, the troupe has performed during the Christmas sea-son at Rockefeller Center in Manhattan and Boston’s Prudential Center, and at various campus events.

Robert Duggan ’11, a philosophy major who served as artistic director and conducted the ensemble, had stepped aside that evening so students could work on two 16th-century vocal music compositions under the baton of Scott Metcalfe, director of Blue Heron Renaissance Choir, who was teaching the fi fth and fi nal session of a master class with the young vocalists.

The University’s artist-in-residence for the 2010–11

academic year, the Boston-based Blue Heron is widely considered one of the brightest lights in the city’s stellar early music scene. The ensemble drew praise recently from Alex Ross of The New Yorker, who lauded their “imaginative realization” of Renaissance polyphony and the stunning “contrasts of ethereal and earthly timbres” in their performance. As it happens, Dudevoir, a linguistics major and Massachusetts native who founded the Madrigals as a freshman, has long been a fan of Blue Heron. “It was absolutely wild for me” to get this opportunity, she says.

Dressed in jeans and a sweatshirt, casual and friendly in his interactions with the students, Metcalfe urged the young singers to “access your inner Italian.” Standing in a circle holding sheet music, they laughed but listened as he continued, explaining that learning vocal music is not just about projection and intonation. “Some of the R’s are rolled, and some are not, in Italian. The energy is in the vowel, and the consonants are quite expressive,” he said, using an elaborate hand gesture to emphasize the “ir” in the grim word “morire,” part of Monteverdi’s madrigal (known to English-speaking audiences as “Let Me Die”).

Most of the fi ve coaching sessions the Madrigals spent with Metcalfe focused on improving their intonation,

Opposite: From left, Louie Fantini ’14, Jonathan Mott ’14, and Scott Metcalfe, director of the Blue

Heron Renaissance Choir. Above left: From left, Katie Ring ’14, Katie Weintraub ’12, and Jamie

McGregor ’13. Right: Metcalfe with Madrigal Singers artistic director Robert Duggan ’11.



or the precision of notes they sing, and ear training, according to Dudevoir.

At around 9:30 p.m., after nearly two hours of sing-ing at what was the fi nal rehearsal with Metcalfe, the six male and eight female singers became a bit chatty and Dudevoir said, “Everybody listen up. This is the last time we’ll see Scott.” Metcalfe looked surprised, saying, “I thought we were going out for ice cream.” They did, at the end of the semester.

Sponsored by the ILA, the Heron musicians were art-ists in residence on campus for weeklong residencies in the fall and the spring semesters. Each time, they off ered music lessons, worked with student choral groups, and held a series of concerts, rehearsals, workshops, and master classes organized by the Music Department.

During his visits to classes in Medieval and Ren-aissance choral music during the spring semester, Metcalfe lectured on the Spanish Jesuit composer Tomas Luis de Victoria (1548–1611), and the challenges of performing his works today. In mid-March, Blue Heron commemorated the 400th anniversary of the death of the Spanish Renaissance composer, perform-ing a free concert in St. Mary’s Chapel that featured Victoria’s six-voice “Requiem Mass.” The concert was a centerpiece of the Blue Heron spring residency, but not

the centerpiece, Music Department Chair Michael Noone stresses. “The artist-in-residence program is so much more than simply inviting professional groups to BC for one-off concerts,” he explains. “The whole concept is about a continuing relationship with our students.”

VI.musings amanda leahy ’11 sat by herself at the back of the Murray Function Room

in Yawkey Center, wearing a gray summer dress on an unexpectedly wet, cold April day. Holding a hot cup of coff ee with both hands, she scanned a single page that rested in her lap, moving her lips as she silently rehearsed lines of a poem she would read at that day’s 2011 Greater Boston Intercollegiate Poetry Festival.

An English major from Lowell, Mass., Leahy was Boston College’s 2011 “entry” at the annual festival, a celebration of undergraduate creativity at 20 local col-leges that drew an audience of 300 this year. English professor and festival coordinator Suzanne Matson had chosen her from among students in an advanced poetry writing class. She had never read her poetry to any public wider than the literary workshops in which she had participated.

At the Greater Boston Intercollegiate

Poetry Festival: From left, soldier-

poet Brian Turner; Amanda Leahy ’11;

Suzanne Matson, English department

chair; Skye Shirley ’10. Center: Noemi

Paz, student at Pine Manor College.

Opposite: Turner and Matson with writ-

ing students at a Q&A with the poet.

“Just take a deep breath. It’s no big deal,” Turner

told the younger poet, adding, “The hardest part

is over.” That is, she’d written the poem.

“I’m excited. I’m a little nervous,” Leahy acknow-ledged. Then Matson approached, took her student by the hand, and led her to the center aisle of Murray to meet the evening’s special guest, poet Brian Turner.

A serious man with short hair and a thick frame, the 43-year-old Turner attended community college in his hometown of Fresno, Calif. He went on to the state university there, then earned an M.F.A. from the University of Oregon, and went abroad to teach English. In 1999, he began a seven-year career with the U.S. Army, including one year as an infantry team leader in Iraq, where he wrote poems and carried a favorite, “Here, Bullet,” in a Ziploc bag he kept in his left chest pocket. That became the title poem in his celebrated 2005 debut poetry collection, a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection that year.

“Just take a deep breath. It’s no big deal,” Turner told the younger poet, adding, “The hardest part is over.” That is, she’d written the poem.

The poetry festival, which dates to the late 1980s, rotated for a while among Boston-area campuses, took a hiatus, then found a permanent home in 2006 in Chestnut Hill, where it is sponsored by Boston College Magazine and Poetry Days, the English Department’s annual celebration of the art form.

“What the ILA can do for artist-in-residency pro-grams such as this one, that are already successful,” says Crane, the ILA director, “is to use some of our resources to boost what’s otherwise possible, increasing the audi-ence or the scope of the program.” In this case, the Lowell Humanities Series, which is supported by the ILA, booked Turner for a lecture, then took the opportu-nity to partner with the student poetry programs.

During the student readings, Turner sat in the front row, his arms folded, a look of steady interest and inten-sity on his face. He talked with students and guests for almost an hour afterward about their work and ideas.

Turner said he has been invited to read his work at many universities recently, but “seldom in such a relax ing environment” where he could spend time with stud ents and faculty. He had done that earlier in the day at Hovey House, where he recalled some of his wartime experi-ences and took part in a question-and-answer session with approximately 30 students and faculty members.

Taking her turn at the podium that evening, Leahy read “Variations of a theme by,” (“When I think of Wordsworth, it is: /—Are you heading west? And / Was it for this?”) without missing a beat. She drew whistles and applause from a crowd that included friends, rela-tives, and scores of fellow poets.


afterwordTHE NATIONAL CONTEXT FOR LIBERAL ARTS EDUCATION

boston college is not the only institution

seeking to revivify its liberal arts tradition. At a time

when laments about the “crisis of the humanities”

(and declining enrollments in those areas) have

be come commonplace on campuses, some univer-

sities are reasserting the value of the liberal arts,

recogniz ing anew the intellectual inquiry and investiga-

tion these disciplines encourage and the perspectives

they bring to a host of contemporary concerns.

For example, Duke University recently launched

a Humanities Writ Large initiative, funded with a

$6 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon

Foundation. Among other strategies, Duke intends

to expand its “humanities labs,” which bring together

scholars of various disciplines within and beyond the

university, with a view toward a better understanding

of chal lenges ranging from global health to democratic

movements in the Middle East.

At Dartmouth, the three-year-old Daniel Webster

Project for Ancient and Modern Studies, a faculty ini-

tiative, aims to bring both academic spheres to bear

on issues of pressing moral and political importance.

Much like the ILA, (though it has never been offi cially

reviewed, endorsed, or rejected by Dartmouth College),

the program sponsors lectures, conferences, and schol-

arly collaborations. At Harvard, a controversial multiyear

eff ort to reform and expand the core curriculum, with

emphasis on ethical, cultural, religious, and global stud-

ies, was approved in modifi ed form in 2007.

Many at Boston College feel that the University is

particularly well-positioned to assume a leadership role

in the broader eff orts to renew the liberal arts, according

to Crane, who points to three key advantages.

“First, we have the Jesuit, Catholic tradition; the his-

toric importance of the liberal arts in Jesuit education,

and the emphasis on developing the whole person and

making a diff erence in society,” she says.

“Second, while many schools are placing new empha-

sis on the humanities, the ILA’s ambitions are broader.

We are trying to bring the liberal arts together with the

sciences, the humanities, and the social sciences. And

third, the ILA hopes to ultimately involve the profes-

sional schools and professional education.”

Boston College’s professional schools are thinking

expansively about the liberal arts as well. In the most

extensive restructuring of its core curriculum in more

than 30 years, the Carroll School of Management has

unveiled a revised core aimed at encouraging manage-

ment students to cast more deeply into the liberal arts

while pursuing the requirements of a management

concentration. Under the new program of study, which

will fi rst aff ect students who enter as freshmen in

2012, undergraduates who choose to major or minor

in a subject off ered through the College of Arts and

Sciences will be able to opt out of one or two core

requirements at the Carroll School.

For the fi rst time in nearly two decades, the College

of Arts and Sciences is reviewing its own core curricu-

lum—the essence of the Boston College undergradu-

ate experience in the liberal

arts. Philosophy Professor

Arthur Madigan, S.J., direc-

tor of the core program, is

leading the eff ort, which is

currently considering ques-

tions such as whether core

classes are adequately challenging Boston College

students (whose caliber, based on test scores and

other quantitative measures, has risen noticeably in

recent years). Separately, the A&S Honors program,

which emphasizes the classics of Western thought and

interdisciplinary study in small, seminar-style classes,

is also under review. Dean Quigley says he hopes that

the honors program approach to teaching and learning

will serve as a model for an increasing number of A&S

classes off ered to all undergraduates.

But the ILA will remain the principal incubator of

ideas about improving and expanding the liberal arts

at Boston College, says Quigley, who expects that the

experiences and discussions under ILA auspices will

ultimately help guide Boston College in “reimagining

the core curriculum.”

The ILA will organize and facilitate faculty discus-

sion of the core curriculum—in Arts and Sciences

and across the University—during Boston College’s

Sesquicentennial Year. At that time, says Crane, “we

will use our resources to bring faculty together to talk

about what the core should look like over BC’s next

150 years.” ✵

“While many schools are placing new emphasis on

the humanities, the ILA’s ambitions are broader.”

—MARY CRANE


afterwordthe national context for liberal arts educationboston college is not the only institu-tion seeking to revivify its liberal arts tradition. At a time when laments about the “crisis of the humani-ties” (and declining enrollments in those areas) have be come commonplace on campuses, some universities are reasserting the value of the liberal arts, recogniz-ing anew the intellectual inquiry and investigation these disciplines encourage and the perspectives they bring to a host of contemporary concerns.

For example, Duke University recently launched a Humanities Writ Large initiative, funded with a $6 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Among other strategies, Duke intends to expand its “humanities labs,” which bring together scholars of various disciplines within and beyond the university, with a view toward a better understanding of chal lenges ranging from global health to democratic movements in the Middle East.

At Dartmouth, the three-year-old Daniel Webster Project for Ancient and Modern Studies, a faculty initia-tive, aims to bring both academic spheres to bear on issues of pressing moral and political importance. Much like the ILA, (though it has never been offi cially reviewed, endorsed, or rejected by Dartmouth College), the program sponsors lectures, conferences, and scholarly collabora-tions. At Harvard, a controversial multiyear eff ort to reform and expand the core curriculum, with emphasis on ethical, cultural, religious, and global studies, was approved in modifi ed form in 2007.

Many at Boston College feel that the University is particularly well-positioned to assume a leadership role in the broader eff orts to renew the liberal arts, according to Crane, who points to three key advantages.

“First, we have the Jesuit, Catholic tradition; the his-toric importance of the liberal arts in Jesuit education, and the emphasis on developing the whole person and making a diff erence in society,” she says.

“Second, while many schools are placing new emphasis on the humanities, the ILA’s ambitions are broader. We are trying to bring the liberal arts together with the sciences, the humanities, and the social sci-

ences. And third, the ILA hopes to ultimately involve the professional schools and professional education.”

Boston College’s professional schools are thinking expansively about the liberal arts as well. In the most extensive restructuring of its core curriculum in more than 30 years, the Carroll School of Management has unveiled a revised core aimed at encouraging manage-ment students to cast more deeply into the liberal arts while pursuing the requirements of a management concentration. Under the new program of study, which will fi rst aff ect students who enter as freshmen in 2012, undergraduates who choose to major or minor in a sub-ject off ered through the College of Arts and Sciences will be able to opt out of one or two core requirements at the Carroll School.

For the fi rst time in nearly two decades, the College of Arts and Sciences is reviewing its own core curricu-lum—the essence of the Boston College undergraduate experience in the liberal arts. Philosophy Professor Arthur Madigan, S.J., director of the core program, is leading the eff ort, which is currently considering questions such as whether core classes are adequately challenging Boston College students (whose caliber, based on test scores and other quantitative measures, has risen noticeably in recent years). Separately, the A&S Honors program, which emphasizes the classics of Western thought and interdisciplinary study in small, seminar-style classes, is also under review. Dean Quigley says he hopes that the honors program approach to teaching and learning will serve as a model for an increasing number of A&S classes off ered to all undergraduates.

But the ILA will remain the principal incubator of ideas about improving and expanding the liberal arts at Boston College, says Quigley, who expects that the experiences and discussions under ILA auspices will ulti-mately help guide Boston College in “reimagining the core curriculum.”

The ILA will organize and facilitate faculty discus-sion of the core curriculum—in Arts and Sciences and across the University—during Boston College’s Sesquicentennial Year. At that time, says Crane, “we


It is my pleasure to share with you the University’s annual

report for 2010–11, titled Renaissance: Renewing the Liberal Arts

at Boston College. The report focuses on Boston College’s com-

mitment to the liberal arts by highlighting six programs spon-

sored by the Institute for the Liberal Arts (ILA), a University-wide

center charged with strengthening the liberal arts.

The ILA demonstrates Boston College’s commitment to becom-

ing a national leader in liberal arts education—one of the strategic

directions guiding the University’s $1.5 billion Light the World

capital campaign. The campaign also allows the opportunity to

develop a model student formation program, as well as research

initiatives in select sciences and in areas addressing urgent social

concerns, leadership in our graduate and professional schools,

and international programs and partnerships. And it furthers

Boston College’s ambition to become the world’s leading Catholic

university and theological center.

As I conclude my term as Chair of the Board of Trustees, please know that it has been a true privilege

to serve our University, alumni, and friends. I am so proud of Boston College, its administration,

faculty, and students, and their collective pursuit of excellence in higher education, service to others,

and accomplishments in the world.

On behalf of my fellow present and past Trustees, thank you for your love, enthusiasm, and support of

our great University.

william j. geary ’80Chair

Boston College Board of Trustees

From the Chair


academic affairs

The University conferred 2,397 undergraduate and 1,871 advanced degrees, including 127 doctorates. U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood spoke at the 135th Commencement, where he received an honorary doctorate in public administration. Ann M. Davis, vice chairman of New Balance Athletic Shoe Inc., and man-aging trustee of the New Balance Charitable Foundation; New Balance Athletic Shoe Chairman James S. Davis; Senior Vice President James P. McIntyre ’57, M.Ed. ’61, Ed.D. ’67; and Sylvia Q. Simmons, M.Ed ’62, Ph.D. ’90, retired president of the American Student Assistance Program, also received honorary doctorates. Massachu-setts Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Roderick L. Ireland addressed the 286 J.D. and 15 LL.M. graduates of the Law School.

Fourteen graduating seniors received Fulbright Awards. Anne Kornahrens ’11 became the fi rst Boston College student to win a Skaggs-Oxford Scholarship, a fi ve-year joint Ph.D./D.Phil. program at Scripps Research Institute and the University of Oxford. Christopher Sheri-dan ’12 was awarded a Goldwater Scholarship, and Aditya Ashok ’12 was named Boston College’s seventh Truman Scholar. Amanda Rothschild ’11, a Rhodes Scholarship fi nalist, was one of 40 students nationwide selected for the Hertog Political Studies Program. Class of 2011 graduates Isabel Protasowicki and Alison O’Connell were chosen for the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange for Young Professionals, a yearlong, federally funded fellow-ship for study and work in Germany.

The University rose to number 31 in the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings of national universities, its highest position to date. Graduate school and profes-sional programs also moved upward in the U.S. News survey released in March, with the Lynch School of Education climbing from 19th to 15th, the Connell School of Nursing from 26th to 21st, the Law School from 28th to 27th, and the Carroll School of Manage-ment from 39th to 34th. Among Ph.D. programs, the economics department was ranked 31st and chemistry 45th in the United States. The Graduate School of Social Work, a program that was not reviewed this year,

ranks 14th in the country. In addition, Boston College was 161st (of approximately 9,000) in the inaugural Times Higher Education World University Rankings, and 27th on the Forbes list of America’s Best Colleges. And Bloomberg Businessweek ranked the Carroll School num-ber 16 in the “Best Undergraduate Business Schools 2011.” Princeton Review again ranked Boston College one of its “100 Best Value Colleges” for 2011.

For the third consecutive year, communication was the most popular undergraduate major, with 895 students enrolled. It was followed by economics (818), biology (773), fi nance (755), and English (666). Among minors, international studies led competitors with 201 enrollees.

The University received a record 33,000 applications for undergraduate admission to the class of 2015, a 10 percent increase over last year. This year’s freshman class set a new high average for class SAT scores. Bos-ton College continues to see a signifi cant upward trend in international student enrollment, and the entering class of 2014 included 714 AHANA students—a record 30 percent.

The University named Notre Dame Law School Professor Vincent D. Rougeau dean of the Law School. Lynch School Associate Dean Maureen Kenny was named interim dean of the Lynch School of Education, replacing Joseph O’Keefe, S.J., head of the Lynch School since 2004, who will return to the faculty next year after a sabbatical.

The Carroll School of Management unveiled a revised core curriculum that will give undergraduate business students the opportunity to major or minor in a subject off ered in the College of Arts and Sciences. In an eff ort to engage the most academically promising fi rst-year students, the University launched a pilot Distinguished First Year Scholars Program that will allow freshmen to work with faculty on research projects.

What had been the department of geology and geo-physics became earth and environmental sciences, refl ect-ing the department’s research focus. Some 50 students enrolled in a new B.S. program off ered by the psychology department that focuses on neuroscience. The Lynch Leadership Academy welcomed 25 inaugural fellows to its

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yearlong program, which is designed to expand the execu-tive skills of principals in Boston public, parochial, and charter elementary and secondary schools.

The University established a Global Service and Jus-tice Program that combines classroom work and overseas placements, under the auspices of the recently inaugu-rated McGillycuddy-Logue Center. The Law School and Tufts University began to off er a dual degree in law and urban and environmental policy and planning.

Seventy-two graduating Carroll Graduate School of Management students took part in the school’s inau-gural Oath of Ethical Conduct, a voluntary pledge for graduating MBAs and current MBAs across the country to “create value responsibly and ethically.” The Boston College Graduate School of Social Work conducted its 23rd Annual National Conference on Social Work and HIV/AIDS. Some 400 professionals from the United States and other countries around the world attended the weekend conference, held in Atlanta in May.

Boston College President William P. Leahy, S.J., and Fordham University President Joseph M. McShane, S.J. ’72, addressed a forum about what Catholic higher education institutions can and cannot do for Catholic elementary and secondary schools, at the third Catholic

Higher Education Collaborative Conference. Cospon-sored by the Roche Center for Catholic Education at Boston College and Fordham University’s Center for Catholic Leadership and Faith-Based Education, the con-ference was held September 26–28 at Boston College.

Students, faculty, and local and national media packed Robsham Theater for an October 25 forum on the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, with U.S. Representative Barney Frank (D-Mass.); Sheila Bair, chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; and Paul Volcker, then-head of the president’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board.

Six prominent scholars—John O’Malley, S.J., profes-sor of theology at Georgetown University; Catharine Stimpson, professor of English at New York University; Alan Ryan, visiting scholar in the department of politics at Princeton University; Louis Menand, the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of English at Harvard Univer-sity; and Stanley Fish, professor of humanities and law at Florida International University—gathered to discuss the defi nition, value, and future of liberal arts education at “Remapping the Liberal Arts for the 21st Century,” a daylong forum sponsored by The Institute for the Lib-eral Arts on November 13.

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executive committee of the board of trustees | (standing, from left) John L. LaMattina, John M. Connors Jr.,

Susan Martinelli Shea, R. Michael Murray Jr., John F. Fish, T. Frank Kennedy, S.J., Robert J. Morrissey; (seated) William P. Leahy, S.J.,

William J. Geary, Kathleen M. McGillycuddy.


The Law School presented a forum on the late Robert Drinan, S.J., former dean of Boston College Law School and U.S. representative from Massachusetts, and a dis-cussion of the book Bob Drinan: The Controversial Life of the First Catholic Priest Elected to Congress, the fi rst com-prehensive Drinan biography, by Raymond A. Schroth, S.J. New York University College of Nursing Dean Terry Fulmer, M.A. ’77, Ph.D. ’83, delivered the inaugural Con-nell School of Nursing Pinnacle Lecture, the fi rst of a series that brings a widely recognized nursing leader to campus each semester to address issues at the forefront of health care today.

faculty research and awards

The Provost reported that grant expenditures reached $53.5 million in fi scal year 2011, an increase from $39 million in 2006. The biology department alone account-ed for nearly $6.4 million. The W.M. Keck Foundation awarded a team of Boston College scientists, headed by Ferris Professor of Physics Michael Naughton, a $1 mil-lion grant to develop a new microscope that uses nano-technology to deliver clearer images.

Associate professor of physics Willie J. Padilla received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, a $1 million grant that is the highest honor given by the U.S. government to individuals who “show exceptional potential for leadership at the fron-tiers of scientifi c knowledge.” Stephen Wilson of the physics department and Dunwei Wang of the chemistry department received Career Awards from the National Science Foundation. Lynch School associate professor Rebekah Levine Coley and her research team won a $900,000 grant from the MacArthur Foundation to study how housing infl uences the well-being of children in low-income families. Sweeney Professor of Account-ing G. Peter Wilson received the 2010 Distinguished Achievement in Accounting Education Award from the American Institute of Certifi ed Public Accountants. Alexa Veenema of the psychology department won a Young Investigator Award from the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression.

School of Theology and Ministry associate professor Khaled Anatolios was named one of seven Henry Luce III Fellows in Theology for 2011–12. The Times Higher Education ranked Vanderslice Millennium Professor of Chemistry Amir Hoveyda and physics professor Zhi-feng Ren among the top researchers in chemistry and materials science of the past decade.

Lynch School of Education Monan Professor Philip Altbach, director of the Center for International Higher

Education, was elected to the International Academy of Education. Mary Ann Hinsdale, IHM, an associate professor of theology, was installed as president of the Catholic Theological Society of America, the principal association of Catholic theologians in North America.

At the Connell School of Nursing, professor Ann Wolbert Burgess and nurse theorist Sister Callista Roy, CSJ, were among the inaugural class of 22 nurse researchers inducted into the newly created Sigma Theta Tau International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame. Ann Riley Finck ’66, a nurse practitioner and preceptor in the neurological intensive care unit of New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medi-cal Center, received the 2011 Connell School of Nursing Dean Rita P. Kelleher Award, which recognizes a gradu-ate who is an accomplished nursing leader, an ethically aware scientist, and a skilled and inquisitive clinician. Connell School of Nursing assistant professor Donna Cullinan, who led a group of nursing faculty, students, and alumni on a medical mission to Haiti in March, was presented with the University’s 2011 Community Service Award.

Nineteen Boston College faculty members received promotions this year. College of Arts and Sciences fac-ulty promoted to full profes sor were: Kevin Newmark, Romance languages and literatures; Eileen Sweeney, philosophy; Sarah Babb, sociology; Elizabeth Rhodes, Romance languages and literatures; and Bruce Mor-rill, S.J., theology. Also promoted to full professor were Ronnie Sadka of the Carroll School of Management fi nance department, and Rebekah Levine Coley of the counseling, developmental, and educational psychology department in the Lynch School of Education. Faculty members promoted to associate professor with tenure were: Adam Brasel, marketing; Jiri Chod, operations and strategic management; Johannes Gubbels, biol ogy; Sarah Ross, history; Scott Slotnick, psychology; C. Shawn McGuff ey, sociology; Boyd Taylor Coolman, theology; Jane Flanagan, Susan Kelly-Weeder, and Danny Willis (Connell School of Nursing); Margaret Lombe (Graduate School of Social Work); and Vlad Perju (Law School).

Richard R. Gaillardetz was named the Joseph McCar-thy Professor of Catholic Systematic Theology.

university advancement and alumni

The $1.5 billion Light the World campaign successfully passed its midpoint, raising more than half its ambitious goal just two years after its public launch in October 2008. By the end of the year, more than 99,700 donors had pledged $794 million to the campaign, which drives

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academic program development, faculty expansion, endowed undergraduate fi nancial aid, student forma-tion programs, capital projects, athletics, and eff orts to advance Boston College as a leading global Catholic university. Buoyed by this early support, Light the World continues its surge toward its planned 2015 conclusion.

Some 300 guests turned out to celebrate the cam-paign’s landmark achievements at this year’s October 28 New York Gala, hosted by the New York Regional Campaign Committee at the New York Public Library. Emmy Award-winning broadcaster Bob Costas P ’12 moderated a discussion with University President Wil-liam P. Leahy, S.J., and William B. Neenan, S.J., vice president and special assistant to the president, who talked about the campaign’s milestone achievements and goals.

Undergraduate alumni continued to show enthusias-tic support for their alma mater, with nearly 26,000—26 percent overall—contributing to the Boston College Fund. Meanwhile, life income and bequest gifts poured in, as membership increased to more than 1,400 in the Shaw Society, which recognizes donors who make legacy gifts.

William J. Cunningham ’57, P ’80, received the Wil-liam V. McKenney Award, the Alumni Association’s highest honor, given to a Boston College graduate who has made outstanding contributions to service, industry, and the University. Cunningham was recognized at the Alumni Association Awards of Excellence ceremony in October as a past association president and board mem-ber, and tireless fundraiser. The Rev. Nicholas Sannella, a physician, medical legal expert, parish priest, and University trustee, received the Ignatian Award at the ceremony, while former women’s hockey team captain Sarah Joy (Carlson) Hollingsworth ’05 took home the GOLD Award for her work as an emergency room nurse in hospitals at home and abroad. Susan Kelley, Ph.D. ’88, a one-time Boston College professor who is now the dean of the College of Health and Human Services at Georgia State University, won the Professional Excel-lence Award for her children’s rights advocacy.

After years of planning, the University broke ground October 4 on Stokes Hall, a cornerstone of the Univer-sity’s institutional master plan, and the fi rst academic building to be constructed on Middle Campus since 2001. Named for Boston College alumnus, benefactor, and trustee Patrick T. Stokes ’64 and his wife, Anna-Kristina “Aja” Stokes, P ’91, ’94, ’97, in recognition of their $22 million gift, the four-story, 183,000-square-foot building will be the new home of the University’s

humanities departments, undergraduate academic pro-grams, 36 classrooms, a café, and an honors library. It is expected to be completed in fall 2012.

The 23rd annual Wall Street Council Tribute Din-ner raised more than $1.6 million to support the Presidential Scholars Program. More than 900 alumni, parents, and friends attended the April 28 event at the Waldorf=Astoria New York, where Citibank CEO Eugene McQuade, P ’06, ’10, the evening’s honoree, received the President’s Medal for Excellence.

More than 46,400 alumni, parents, and friends turned out for alumni events during the course of the year. Reunion Weekend drew the largest number of participants, with more than 5,000 alumni and their guests returning to the Heights for celebrations of their milestone years.

student life

More than 6,000 students registered to use MyBC, a web-based software program that allows student clubs and organizations to manage their members, budgets, and schedules, and to advertise events on a common calendar.

The Division of Student Aff airs’ new Offi ce of Health Promotion, which directs programs and services and provides information about student health and well-being, opened in February. That month, the division also launched a comprehensive new website (www.bc.edu/studentaff airs), which brings together 14 student aff airs departments and features student-centered news, events, and multimedia posts at one web address.

Running on a platform of “Building Community Through Programming, Outreach, Accessibility, and Formation,” Mike Kitlas ’12 and Jill Long ’12 were elected president and vice president of the Undergradu-ate Government of Boston College. Student government leaders this year spearheaded two eff orts to improve academic advising, working with faculty and administra-tors to develop advising guides for student majors, and collaborating with the University Council on Teaching and the Provost’s Advisory Council to draft an advising evaluation similar to course evaluation forms.

Students greeted Boston Marathon runners with an infl atable maroon and gold arch emblazoned with the message “The Heartbreak Is Over—Mile 21,” which stood in front of Bapst Hall on Marathon Monday. Nearly 300 Boston College students ran the marathon to gather contributions for the Campus School for chil-dren with special needs.

Boston College’s fourth annual Relay for Life raised

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$140,000 for cancer research, while 14 student partici-pants in the seventh annual BC Idol competition raised $3,600 in ticket sales to support a music program at St. Columbkille School in Brighton, an elementary diocesan school that is managed in partnership with the Universi-ty and the Lynch School. Men’s and women’s ice hockey players launched an after-school mentorship program at St. Columbkille. Team members made regular visits to the school, and kept in touch with students through e-mails and blogs.

Students formed Every Bite Counts, an organization that works with Dining Services to collect and store left-over food for use by a local food bank.

Boston College is once again among the top 10 pro-ducers of Peace Corps volunteers in its category, placing ninth in the 2011 rankings of colleges and universities with between 5,000 and 15,000 undergraduates.

jesuit, catholic mission

The Church in the 21st Century Center published a pamphlet titled The Catholic Intellectual Tradition:

A Conversation at Boston College, an exploration of what is meant by the Catholic intellectual tradition, and how it can be a guiding force in a complex, contemporary uni-versity. It is available for download on the center website.

Boston Archbishop Cardinal Seán O’Malley, OFM Cap., presided at the blessing of the Chapel of the Holy Name of Jesus at the new Blessed Peter Faber Jesuit Community on Foster Street on December 3, the Feast of St. Francis Xavier. The Faber Community is home to an international group of 75 Jesuits studying and teach-ing at the School of Theology and Ministry, who had lived at the former Weston School of Theology in Cam-bridge until August 2010.

Theologians and historians joined the writers and producers of the PBS Frontline and American Experience series “God in America” for a panel discussion on “Lin-gua Sacra: Negotiating God-talk in America” in April.

Thirty recent graduates signed on to the Jesuit Vol-unteer Corps in 2010, making Boston College the best represented university in the program this year. Some 500 alumni and friends of Boston College marked the

boston college vice presidents | (standing, from left) James P. McIntyre, Senior Vice President; John Butler, S.J., Vice President

for University Mission and Ministry; Mary Lou DeLong, Vice President and University Secretary; Patrick J. Keating, Executive Vice President;

Thomas P. Lockerby, Vice President for Development; Michael J. Bourque, Vice President for Information Technology; Patrick H. Rombalski,

Vice President for Student Aff airs; Thomas J. Keady, Vice President for Governmental and Community Aff airs; Daniel F. Bourque, Vice

President for Facilities Management; James J. Husson, Senior Vice President for University Advancement; (seated) William B. Neenan, S.J.,

Vice President, Special Assistant to the President; Peter C. McKenzie, Financial Vice President and Treasurer; Cutberto Garza, Provost and

Dean of Faculties; Leo V. Sullivan, Vice President for Human Resources.

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Lenten midpoint at the Boston College Alumni Asso-ciation’s 60th annual Laetare Sunday Mass in Conte Forum and a brunch afterward.

University President William P. Leahy, S.J., Vice Presi-dent for University Mission and Ministry Jack Butler, SJ., and Jeremy Zipple, S.J., ’00, a student at the School of Theology and Ministry, drew a capacity crowd to the Heights Room March 31 for “Three Jesuits: Who Do They Say They Are,” a panel discussion of what led them to their vocations as members of the Society of Jesus. The panel was sponsored by the Church in the 21st Century Center, STM, the theology department, the Alumni Asso-ciation, and the Center for Ignatian Spirituality.

Theologian Paul Knitter, the Paul Tillich Professor at Union Theological Seminary, characterized the free market economy as “a religion in dire need of dialogue with other religions” at the opening of the University’s third annual Symposium on Interreligious Dialogue, which was held October 7–9, and sponsored by the theology department, the Church in the 21st Century Center, and the School of Theology and Ministry.

The Church in the 21st Century Center sponsored visits from Cardinal Francis George, OMI, archbishop of Chicago and past president of the U.S. Confer-ence of Catholic Bishops, in December, and Cardinal

Roger Mahony, archbishop emeritus of Los Angeles, in March, as part of the center’s Episcopal Visitors Pro-gram. The program engages members of the Catholic hierarchy in conversation about important issues in the Church, and invites them to experience a Jesuit, Catholic university.

athletics

For the second consecutive year, more Boston College athletic teams (21) received a perfect Graduation Success Rate score of 100 than did any other Division I intercol-legiate athletics program, according to the NCAA. Foot-ball was one of only six bowl subdivision programs in the country to receive a score of 90 or better.

Mark Herzlich ’10, a standout football player diag-nosed with bone cancer in the spring of 2009, returned to play and led the team onto the fi eld on opening day this season.

The coed sailing team won its second consecutive Intercollegiate Sailing Association dinghy national championships, held in Cascade Locks, Ore.

For the fi rst time, both the men’s and women’s ice hockey teams won their respective Beanpot Tournaments in the same year. Both teams also won their conference championships and advanced to the NCAA tournament.

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boston college deans | (standing, from left) Thomas B. Wall, University Librarian; Susan Gennaro, Connell School of Nursing;

Andrew C. Boynton, Carroll School of Management; Alberto Godenzi, Graduate School of Social Work; Mark S. Massa, S.J., School of

Theology and Ministry; (seated) Maureen Kenny, Interim Dean, Lynch School of Education; David Quigley, College of Arts and Sciences;

James A. Woods, S.J., Woods College of Advancing Studies.


Women’s teams registered other fi rsts for Boston College. The women’s soccer team advanced to the Final Four of the 2010 NCAA tournament, and the Eagles made their fi rst appearance in the NCAA women’s lacrosse tournament. The Eagles’ 4 x 1500 meter relay team became the fi rst Boston College women’s team to take a crown at the Penn Relays.

With the fl oor of Conte Forum converted to half-rink, half-court, the men’s and women’s basketball and hockey teams showcased their song and dances skills in Boston College’s fi rst ever Ice Jam, a preseason pep rally.

arts

Author Gish Jen (Mona in the Promised Land, World and Town) delivered a Lowell Humanities Series lecture, taught a master class in fi ction writing, held an open book club–style discussion of her latest novel, fi elded students questions in an Asian-American literature class, and met with senior creative writing students over lunch during her three-day sojourn as University writer in residence in early November. Blue Heron Renais-sance Choir, Boston’s premier professional early music vocal ensemble, was artist in residence at Boston College for the 2010–11 academic year.

Actor and director James Franco came to campus April 15 to screen the world premiere of his fi lm The Broken Tower, which is based on University Professor of English Paul Mariani’s 1999 biography of the poet Hart Crane. Mariani, who consulted on the project and played a cameo role as the photographer Alfred Stieglitz in the movie, joined Franco on stage for a post-screen-ing Q&A with students.

Best-selling author Chuck Hogan ’89, whose novel Prince of Thieves was adapted into the 2010 fi lm The Town, directed by and starring Ben Affl eck, received the Arts Council Alumni Award for artistic achievement at the 13th annual Boston College Arts Festival April 27–30. Highlights of the 2011 festival included a theater department production of the musical comedy Dirty Rotten Scoundrels; a social justice fi lm festival; a dance showcase featuring 18 student groups; and performanc-es by music ensembles.

Paul Daigneault ’87, the founder and artistic director of Boston’s SpeakEasy Stage Company, was appointed Monan Professor in Theater Arts for the 2011–12 aca-demic year.

The McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College was the exclusive venue for Dura-Europos: Crossroads of Antiq-uity, an exhibition showcasing well-preserved Roman artifacts excavated from the ancient site of Dura-Europos,

a vibrant multicultural city located at a crossroad be-tween major Eastern and Western civilizations.

management

On March 4, the Board of Trustees approved a budget of $848 million for the 2011–12 fi scal year. It called for a 3.6 percent increase in undergraduate tuition, room, board, and fees, with tuition set at $41,480.

Undergraduate fi nancial aid will grow by 6.5 per-cent to $84.6 million, with overall student aid totaling $135 million. The budget also includes $4.5 million to fund academic initiatives outlined in the Strategic Plan approved in 2006, and additional funds to provide for a salary increase for staff and faculty (3.5 percent for employees earning under $50,000 and 2.5 percent for those over $50,000).

The Board was able to limit the tuition increase and allocate resources to support strategic priorities in part be cause of $22.5 million in budget reallocations and savings that will be realized between fi scal years 2009 and 2012.

Ground was broken in October for Stokes Hall, a 183,000-square-foot academic complex that will house the departments of classical studies, English, history, philosophy, and theology, as well as the A&S Honors Program, the Academic Advising Center, and the Offi ce of First Year Experience. Gasson Hall, which underwent exterior and interior renovations starting in June 2010, was slated to reopen in September 2011—two years in advance of the 100th anniversary of the building’s con-struction in 2013. On the Brighton Campus, remodeling of 129 Lake Street (formerly known as Bishop Peterson Hall) and 2121 Commonwealth Avenue (once the Chan-cery of the Archdiocese of Boston) is underway. When these projects are completed in 2011 and 2012, respec-tively, employees currently working in More Hall are expected to be relocated to the Brighton Campus, allow-ing the University to build an undergraduate residence hall on the current More Hall site.

University maintenance staff cleared a cumulative eight feet of snow from campus roads, sidewalks, park-ing lots, staircases, and fl at roofs between December 21 and April 1. Some 1,600 tons of snow were ultimately trucked to a “snowfi eld” on the Brighton Campus.

The University community gathered on January 21 at St. Ignatius Church for a funeral Mass for Francis B. Campanella, who died on January 14, following a stroke, at age 74. Appointed executive vice president of Boston College in 1973, Campanella served for 25 years in the University’s number two position, under J. Donald Monan, S.J., and then William P. Leahy, S.J. ✵

Year in Review



Financial Report

overview

Boston College stayed on course during fi scal 2011, fulfi lling its mission, managing its

resources, and planning for a very bright future. At the beginning of the fi scal year, the

University issued $195 million of debt to refi nance existing debt and provide funds for

new campus construction. In our meetings with the various credit rating agencies, we

stressed three points. First, we are a Jesuit, Catholic educational institution that knows

its mission is fi rmly rooted in the liberal arts. Second, we are an institution that care-

fully manages its resources and lives within its resources. Third, we are an institution

that has a disciplined fi nancial plan and is prepared to weather the all-too-frequent

fi nancial storms that come our way. At the end of their reviews, both Moody’s and S&P

reaffi rmed our rating at the AA- and stable level. While our fi nancial position had not

yet returned to what it was during fi scal 2008, both agencies observed that Boston

College had persevered throughout the market downturn and intervening period.

At the end of fi scal 2011, we see an institution that has largely returned to pre-2009

fi nancial levels. The fi nancial results below speak to the hard work put forth by our

faculty and staff and the generosity of our alumni and friends. The size of our endow-

ment and the growth in net assets are at all-time highs for Boston College. While our

sights remain higher, we have much to be thankful for.

fiscal 2011 financial results

As noted in the accompanying “Growth in Net Assets” chart (see page 28), the Univer-

sity’s net assets increased by $288 million, an increase of 13% over prior year levels.

Strong market performance and fund-raising were the key drivers of this increase.

Our primary liquidity ratio, “Expendable Resources to Debt,” improved to 1.7 times

coverage (see chart, page 28); however, it remains below our target of 2.0.

The University’s endowment fund increased by more than $241 million, to nearly

$1.89 billion. This increase was made up of investment gains of $272 million, contribu-

tions of $52 million, and net assets reclassifi ed or released of $5 million, which were

off set by assets used in support of operations of $88 million. The portfolio return on the

endowment fund was 18.3% versus the S&P 500 return of 26.0% and the Barclay Aggre-

gate Bond Index of 5.9%. Over the past 10 years, the endowment fund has generated an

annualized return of 7.0%, compared with the S&P 500 return of 2.6% and the Barclay’s

return of 5.8%. The University’s endowment portfolio is well-diversifi ed with 47% in


domestic and international equities, 6% invested in fi xed-income securities, and

47% invested in alternative strategies including absolute return funds, private equity

funds, and real asset funds. The University’s portfolio is liquid and well positioned,

with over 60% of our portfolio invested in securities that can be redeemed in 30 days

or less.

In fi scal 2011, gross plant assets increased by $94 million. The construction of a

major new academic building, Stokes Hall, the renovation of Gasson Hall on the Mid-

dle Campus, and the renovations on the Brighton Campus of 129 Lake Street and 2121

Commonwealth Avenue were our largest capital projects.

Strong enrollments led overall revenue growth of 3.2%. Tuition and fee revenues

exceeded budget amounts while the related student receivable remained low. We

increased fi nancial aid funds by 7.2% to assist returning students and their families.

Expense savings were achieved in many areas of the operating budget, most notably

utilities, salaries, and fringe benefi ts. The University continued to aggressively pursue

operating effi ciencies in areas such as procurement, printing, overtime, and libra ries.

conclusion

In fi scal 2011 we rebuilt our fi nancial base and continued the momentum of our aca-

demic, research, and student formation programs. We are keenly aware that while

progress has been made, we live in very challenging times. Recent events in Wash-

ington, in the Middle East, in Europe, and on Wall Street point to the volatility of the

economy and world events. More than ever, great institutions are needed to develop

leaders and help guide a society to change, grow, and prosper. Boston College—its

trustees, its alumni, its faculty, its students, its staff , and its Jesuit leaders—is meeting

this challenge. In fi scal 2012, the administration will work hard to provide the neces-

sary resources to continue our important mission, deeply rooted in our liberal arts tra-

dition. Our goal continues—Ever to Excel!

peter c. mckenzie ’75 Financial Vice President and Treasurer

The University’s fi scal 2011 fi nancial statements are available at www.bc.edu/offi ces/controller.



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Growth in Net Assets(1992 Base Year)

total expendable resources

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Expendable Resources to Debt

fy2007 fy2008 fy2009 fy2010 fy2011

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Operating and Nonoperating Revenues

tuition and fees, gross 46%

auxiliary enterprises, gross 13%

sponsored research, grants, and financial aid 6%

investment income, net 1%

private gifts 8%

realized and unrealized investment gains, net 25%

other 1%

Expenses academic support 7%

research 5%

student services 6%

general administration 14%

student aid 17%

instruction 31%

auxiliary enterprises 19%

public service/other losses 1%


Statistical and Financial Highlights

statistics 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011

Full-time equivalent enrollment

Undergraduate 9,471 9,505 9,512 9,599 9,518Graduate/professional 3,132 3,152 3,308 3,414 4,120

Total full-time equivalent enrollment 12,603 12,657 12,820 13,013 13,638

Full-time employees

Faculty 675 679 708 725 737Staff 2,193 2,228 2,316 2,293 2,304

Total full-time employees 2,868 2,907 3,024 3,018 3,041

Campus facilities (gross square feet)

Chestnut Hill Campus 5,481,081 5,481,766 5,481,766 5,493,499 5,501,713Newton Campus/other 1,092,075 1,313,008 1,317,818 1,301,227 1,588,275

Total gross square feet 6,573,156 6,794,774 6,799,584 6,794,726 7,089,988

financial (fi scal years ending May 31) In thousands of dollars

Statement of fi nancial position*

Total assets $2,945,213 $3,153,053 $2,898,500 $3,092,938 $3,487,314Total liabilities (736,218) (824,404) (888,269) (905,514) (1,012,011)

Total net assets $2,208,995 $2,328,649 $2,010,231 $2,187,424 $2,475,303

Endowment and similar funds*

Net assets $1,752,760 $1,849,801 $1,491,158 $1,647,653 $1,889,079Investment income 18,162 13,866 11,487 10,768 14,127Realized and unrealized investment gains 235,852 62,200 (401,392) 180,485 271,796

and (losses), net

Physical plant*

Land, improvements, and purchase options $154,518 $215,049 $232,822 $234,200 $238,048Buildings (including capital lease 843,733 873,603 962,539 1,004,577 1,026,711

and purchase option)Equipment 163,403 178,015 179,000 191,622 200,569Library books/rare book and art collections 140,657 147,812 155,814 164,739 173,918

Plant under construction 17,629 35,852 38,242 17,610 67,898

Physical plant, gross 1,319,940 1,450,331 1,568,417 1,612,748 1,707,144Accumulated depreciation and amortization (452,953) (498,998) (530,929) (573,137) (619,065)

Physical plant, net $866,987 $951,333 $1,037,488 $1,039,611 $1,088,079

Statement of activities*

Total operating revenues $567,157 $600,684 $621,018 $628,354 $643,654Total operating expenses 567,066 600,587 620,916 628,247 643,544Total nonoperating activity 276,635 93,199 (318,520) 177,086 287,769

Student aid

University scholarships, fellowships, and prizes $100,900 $107,229 $113,752 $123,315 $132,594Federal/state programs (including Pell grants) 7,900 8,330 8,571 10,579 10,834Student loans granted by the University 9,879 6,313 5,299 4,005 5,434

Total student aid $118,679 $121,872 $127,622 $137,899 $148,862

*2008 amounts adjusted to refl ect Weston Jesuit School of Theology affi liation.



officers

william j. geary ’80Chair

kathleen m. mcgillycuddy nc ’71Vice Chair

t. frank kennedy, s.j. ’71Secretary

trustees

drake g. behrakis ’86President and CEO

Marwick Associates

Lexington, Massachusetts

matthew j. botica, esq. ’72Partner

Winston & Strawn LLP

Chicago, Illinois

cathy m. brienza nc ’71Partner

WallerSutton 2000, L.P.

New York, New York

john e. buehler jr. ’69Managing Partner

Energy Investors Funds

Mill Valley, California

patrick carney ’70Founder, Chairman and CEO

Claremont Companies

Bridgewater, Massachusetts

hon. darcel d. clark ’83Supreme Court Justice

State of New York

Bronx, New York

charles i. clough jr. ’64Chairman and CEO

Clough Capital Partners, L.P.

Boston, Massachusetts

juan a. concepción, esq. ’96, m.ed. ’97, j.d., m.b.a. ’03Associate

Nixon Peabody LLP


margot c. connell, d.b.a. ’09 (hon.)Chairman and Member of the Advisory Board

Connell Limited Partnership


john m. connors jr. ’63, d.b.a. ’07 (hon.)Chairman

The Connors Family Offi ce


robert j. cooney, esq. ’74Partner

Cooney & Conway

Chicago, Illinois

kathleen a. corbet ’82Founder and Principal

Cross Ridge Capital, LLC

New Canaan, Connecticut

leo j. corcoran, esq. ’81Owner

Autumn Development Company, Inc.


robert f. cotter ’73President (Ret.)

Kerzner International

Coral Gables, Florida

cynthia lee egan ’78President of Retirement Plan Services

T. Rowe Price

Owings Mills, Maryland

john r. egan ’79Managing Member

Carruth Management, LLC

Westborough, Massachusetts

john f. fishPresident and Chief Executive Offi cer

Suff olk Construction Company


keith a. francis ’76Intelligence Analyst (Ret.)

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms

and Explosives

New Bedford, Massachusetts

mario j. gabelliChairman and Chief Executive Offi cer

GAMCO Investors, Inc.

Rye, New York

william j. geary ’80Partner

North Bridge Venture Partners

Waltham, Massachusetts

susan mcmanama gianinno ’70Chairman and CEO

Publicis Worldwide, North America

New York, New York

janice gipson ’77Beverly Hills, California

kathleen powers haley ’76Manager

Snows Hill Management LLC

Wellesley, Massachusetts

michaela murphy hoag ’86Interior Designer

Treasured Designs

Atherton, California

t. frank kennedy, s.j. ’71Rector

Boston College Jesuit Community

Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts

john l. lamattina ’71Senior Partner

PureTech Ventures


timothy r. lannon, s.j. ’86President

Creighton University

Omaha, Nebraska

william p. leahy, s.j. President

Boston College


peter s. lynch ’65, ll.d. ’95 (hon.)Vice Chairman

Fidelity Management & Research Company


t.j. maloney ’75President

Lincolnshire Management, Inc.

New York, New York

douglas w. marcouiller, s.j.Provincial

Jesuits of the Missouri Province

St. Louis, Missouri

david m. mcauliffe ’71COO and Managing Director of

Investment Banking

J.P. Morgan PLC

London, United Kingdom

kathleen m. mcgillycuddy nc ’71Executive Vice President (Ret.)

FleetBoston Financial


william s. mckiernan ’78Founder

CyberSource Corporation

Mountain View, California

robert j. morrissey, esq. ’60 Senior Partner

Morrissey, Hawkins & Lynch


Board of Trustees


john v. murphy ’71Managing Director

Korn/Ferry International


r. michael murray jr. ’61, m.a. ’65Director Emeritus

McKinsey & Company, Inc.

Chicago, Illinois

stephen p. murray ’84President and CEO

CCMP Capital Advisors, LLC

New York, New York

brien m. o’brien ’80Chairman and CEO

Advisory Research, Inc.

Chicago, Illinois

david p. o’connor ’86Senior Managing Partner

High Rise Capital Management, LP

New York, New York

brian g. paulson, s.j.Rector

Loyola University Jesuit Community

Chicago, Illinois

scott r. pilarz, s.j.President

University of Scranton

Scranton, Pennsylvania

paula d. polito ’81Chief Marketing Offi cer &

Group Managing Director

UBS Financial Services Inc.

Wealth Management Americas

Weehawken, New Jersey

richard f. powers iii ’67Advisory Director (Ret.)

Morgan Stanley

Hobe Sound, Florida

pierre-richard prosper, esq. ’85Counsel

Arent Fox LLP

Los Angeles, California

thomas f. ryan jr. ’63Private Investor (Ret.)


bradley m. schaeffer, s.j., m.ed. ’73Rector

Faber Jesuit Community

Brighton, Massachusetts

susan martinelli shea ’76Founder and President

Dancing with the Students

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

marianne d. short, esq. nc ’73, j.d. ’76Managing Partner

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Minneapolis, Minnesota

patrick t. stokes ’64Chief Executive Offi cer (Ret.)

Anheuser-Busch Cos., Inc.

St. Louis, Missouri

richard f. syron ’66, ll.d. ’89 (hon.)Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts

elizabeth w. vanderslice ’86New York, New York

david c. weinstein, esq., j.d. ’75Chief of Administration (Ret.)

Fidelity Investments

Newton, Massachusetts

trustee associates

mary jane vouté arrigoni Greenwich, Connecticut

peter w. bell ’86General Partner

Highland Capital Partners

Menlo Park, California

geoffrey t. boisi ’69Chairman and Senior Partner

Roundtable Investment Partners LLC

New York, New York

wayne a. budd, esq. ’63Senior Counsel

Goodwin Procter LLP


d.h. carroll ’64President

Pro Equine Group, Inc.

Deerfi eld, Illinois

james f. cleary ’50, d.b.a. ’93 (hon.)Advisory Director


joseph e. corcoran ’59, d.b.a. ’09 (hon.)Chairman

Corcoran Jennison Companies


john f. cunningham ’64Chairman and CEO

Cunningham & Company


brian e. daley, s.j. Huisking Professor of Theology

University of Notre Dame

Notre Dame, Indiana

robert m. devlinChairman

Curragh Capital Partners

New York, New York

andrew n. downing, s.j.Doctoral Student

University of Notre Dame

Granger, Indiana

francis a. doyle ’70, m.b.a. ’75President and CEO

Connell Limited Partnership


emilia m. fanjul Palm Beach, Florida

john f. farrell jr. Greenwich, Connecticut

yen-tsai feng Roy E. Larsen Librarian (Ret.)

Harvard College

Lexington, Massachusetts

charles d. ferris, esq. ’54, j.d. ’61, ll.d. ’78 (hon.)Senior Partner

Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky

and Popeo P.C.

Washington, D.C.

thomas j. flanagan ’42Retired

Madison, Connecticut

mary j. steele guilfoile ’76Chairman

MG Advisors, Inc.

Norwalk, Connecticut

paul f. harman, s.j. ’61, m.a. ’62Vice President for Mission

College of the Holy Cross

Worcester, Massachusetts

daniel j. harrington, s.j. ’64, m.a. ’65, dhl ’09 (hon.)Professor of Theology

Boston College School of Theology

and Ministry


Board of Trustees



john l. harrington ’57, m.b.a. ’66, d.b.a. ’10 (hon.)Chairman of the Board

Yawkey Foundation

Dedham, Massachusetts

daniel s. hendrickson, s.j.Doctoral Student

Columbia University

New York, New York

john j. higgins, s.j. ’59, m.a. ’60, s.t.l. ’67 Fairfi eld Jesuit Community

Fairfi eld, Connecticut

richard t. horan sr. ’53 President (Ret.)

Hughes Oil Company, Inc.

Newton, Massachusetts

george w. hunt, s.j.Fordham University

Bronx, New York

richard a. jalkut ’66CEO

TelePacifi c Communications

Los Angeles, California

anne p. jones, esq. ’58, j.d. ’61, ll.d. ’08 (hon.) Consultant

Bethesda, Maryland

michael d. jones, esq. ’72, j.d. ’76Chief Operating Offi cer

PBS

Arlington, Virginia

edmund f. kellyChairman, President, and CEO

Liberty Mutual Group


robert k. kraftChairman and CEO

The Kraft Group

Foxborough, Massachusetts

robert b. lawton, s.j.Georgetown Jesuit Community

Washington, DC

peter k. markell ’77Vice President of Finance

Partners HealthCare System, Inc.


catherine t. mcnamee, csj, m.ed. ’55, m.a. ’58Member, Congregational Leadership Team

Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet

St. Louis, Missouri

john a. mcneice jr. ’54, d.b.a. ’97 (hon.)Chairman and CEO (Ret.)

The Colonial Group, Inc.

Canton, Massachusetts

giles e. mosher jr. ’55 Vice Chairman (Emeritus)

Bank of America

Wellesley, Massachusetts

robert j. murray ’62Chairman and CEO (Ret.)

New England Business Service, Inc.


therese e. myers nc ’66 Chief Executive Offi cer

Bouquet Multimedia, LLC

Oxnard, California

edward m. o’flaherty, s.j. ’59, th.m. ’66Treasurer

Boston College Jesuit Community


thomas p. o’neill iii ’68Chief Executive Offi cer

O’Neill and Associates


sally engelhard pingreeDirector and Vice Chairman

Engelhard Hanovia, Inc.

Washington, D.C.

r. robert popeo, esq., j.d. ’61Chairman and President

Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and

Popeo P.C.


john j. powers ’73Managing Director

Goldman Sachs & Company

New York, New York

nicholas s. rashford, s.j. Professor

St. Joseph’s University

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

thomas j. rattigan ’60Natick, Massachusetts

rev. nicholas a. sannella ’67Pastor

Immaculate Conception Parish

Lowell, Massachusetts

randall p. seidl ’85Senior Vice President, Americas, Enterprise

Servers, Storage & Networking

Hewlett-Packard Company

Marlborough, Massachusetts

john j. shea, s.j., m.ed. ’70Associate Director, Catholic Center

Sophia University

Tokyo, Japan

sylvia q. simmons, m.ed. ’62, ph.d. ’90President (Ret.)

American Student Assistance Corp.

Roxbury, Massachusetts

robert l. sullivan ’50, m.a. ’52International Practice Director (Ret.)

Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co.

Siasconset, Massachusetts

salvatore j. trani Executive Managing Director

BGC Partners, Inc.

New York, New York

thomas a. vanderslice ’53, d.b.a. ’03 (hon.)Osterville, Massachusetts

jeffrey p. von arx, s.j.President

Fairfi eld University

Fairfi eld, Connecticut

vincent a. wasik Co-Founder and Principal

MCG Global, LLC

Westport, Connecticut

benaree p. wiley, d.p.a. ’09 (hon.)President and CEO (Emeritus)

The Partnership, Inc.


jeremy k. zipple, s.j. ’00Director and Producer

National Geographic Television

Faber Jesuit Community

Brighton, Massachusetts

Vice President and University Secretary

mary lou delong nc ’71

University Chancellor

j. donald monan, s.j., ll.d. ’96 (hon.)

Board of Trustees

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Documents

Annual Report 2011, Renaissance: Renewing the Liberal Arts at Boston College