President Lee Pelton and Eos Foundation President Andrea Silbert co-hosted a summit with leaders from colleges and universities across Massachusetts mid-March to discuss the findings of a recent Eos report … Continue Reading Boston Globe Covers Gender Parity Summit in Higher Education
Nigel Gibson, associate professor, Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies, wrote an article for The Conversation “Why ‘Marxism and Freedom’ resonates six decades on” examining how the work relates to the state of the world today.
Emerson has plans to utilize Alexa for Business Blueprints to enhance student learning experiences on campus, and Director of Emerson Launch Sanjay Pothen explains in an Alexa blog post how exactly the College plans to integrate that tool.
School of Arts alum Paloma Valenzuela ’09 was featured in WBUR’s The ARTery 25: Millennials Of Color Impacting Boston Arts And Culture, which highlights “The Pineapple Diaries,” a comedic web series following the lives of three best friends and their neighbor living in a predominantly Dominican neighborhood of Jamaica Plain.
President Lee Pelton hosted a gender parity in higher education summit this week, gathering 40 leaders in the industry to discuss the results of the Eos Foundation’s recent study highlighting the gender gap in leadership at local colleges and universities.
Men’s basketball coach Bill Curley had quite a year, as the team won its first New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference basketball championship, and thus earning a spot in the Division 3 tournament, and the same month, his jersey was retired at his alma mater, Boston College.
Tamia Rashima Jordan, Emerson’s Director of Intercultural Student Affairs, spoke before the United Nations’ Commission on the Status of Women’s 63rd session on Monday.
Writing, Literature, and Publishing alumna Holly VanLeuven ’13 grew up a big fan of actor and dancer Ray Bolger, and this month Ray Bolger: More than a Scarecrow, publishes, the first book detailing the life and career of the Boston-born actor.
Associate Chair and Professor of the Writing, Literature, and Publishing Department, John Skoyles, had one of his poems published in the April issue of The Atlantic, titled The Heart Has Reasons.
Roger House, an associate professor in American Studies, writes in a Hill opinion column that college students should enact a “Florida Summer Project,” similar to action in 1964 in Mississippi, and help register about 1.4 million former prisoners whose voting rights have been restored in thee state of Florida.