Pickering Fellow
A Thomas R. Pickering Fellowship will support Carroll School alumna Nazifa Subah's career plan for foreign service through the U.S. State Department.
Boston College’s commitment to global engagement lies at the core of its educational mission. The Jesuit, Catholic liberal arts tradition, fostered through the links between Jesuit scholars across the world since the sixteenth century, is in its essence international.
Our path for the future is expressed in the university’s Strategic Plan: “Boston College commits itself to increasing its presence and impact through increased outreach to international students, recruitment of faculty with international backgrounds, and the development of programs that promote global cooperation.”
After twelve months of systematic work, the Boston College Global Engagement Committee— consisting of faculty, students, and administrators—completed the BC Global Report (below), which recommends a set of strategies and initiatives to increase the university's presence and impact in the global arena.
Upcoming Events
Graduate seminar: How Can the Humanities Save the Planet?
The one-week seminar is a series of morning lectures exploring the potential and important role that scientists and social scientists have under the ever-increasing likelihood of global climate change and resulting political instabilities. The program is a Venice International University (VIU) Global Challenges Initiative. Students of VIU’s member universities including Boston College will pay no participation fees and are eligible to receive grants to support, partially or fully, the costs of international travel and accommodation. Program and registration details provided here.
June 10 – 14, 2019
Venice International University, Isola di San Servolo, Venice
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BC Global Engagement
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Far away, so close
For several weeks this fall, Boston College students and faculty have held extraordinary conversations about everyday things, from video games to the cost of living to the value of education, with people in faraway places like Mexico City, Nairobi, Amman (Jordan), and Herat (Afghanistan)—all without leaving campus.
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Strategic Alliance of Catholic Research Universities
Representatives from six of the eight universities comprising the new Strategic Alliance of Catholic Research Universities attended a signing ceremony hosted by Catholic University of Portugal on October 12. Among the signatories are university provosts, rectors, and our very own Alberto Godenzi, vice provost for global engagement at Boston College.
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Arrupe Chile
Each year, more than 100 BC students participate in the Arrupe Program. They travel to parts of Central America and the Caribbean to humbly encounter, hear, and respect the stories of the people from the countries they visit in their own words. Through these stories, our Arrupe Chile group was able to better understand the complex realities of a country where the income of the top 10% is 26 times higher than the poorest 10% of the population.
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Truth and Memory
Participants in the Boston College seminar to Chile and Argentina discuss their experience. The seminars offer an immersive professional development experience, but also an invaluable face-to-face connection with their colleagues in different schools. Participants in the most recent seminar, in summer 2017, came from the departments of English, philosophy, history, sociology, communication and physics.
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BC Faculty Seminar to Turkey
The contemporary approach to intercultural learning envisions a vital role for faculty, administrators and other higher education professionals in challenging students to interpret their experiences abroad and in the classroom, integrating them into a deeper understanding of the world and their place in it.
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Big Questions: Immigration
Immigration has become a flashpoint around the world and the faculty experts at the Lynch School of Education are trying to understand complexities surrounding families and children. Dean Stanton Wortham, Prof. Brinton Lykes and Associate Professor Mariela Paez explain their research and work with immigrant families.
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Every Rock Tells a Story: A Field Trip in the Italian Alps
As a Geological Sciences major, I am humbled by my studies because, whether I am actively cognizant of it or not, I am reminded each day how fleeting the human lifespan is in the context of Earth’s four billion year history...
Read more about her thesis and her trip to the Italian Alps here
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Boston College Men's Rowing -- China Trip 2018
We share a few of our favorite memories from our recent trip to China for the 2nd annual World Leading Universities Regatta. Music: Grabbitz - Float Away.
Spotlights from Colleges, Schools, and Centers
International Engagement
313
international faculty and research scholars
1878
enrolled international students
50%
of undergraduate students study abroad
246
students participated in an international service trip