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Around Campus
Expansion
Burns Scholar
New-look Eagle’s Nest; Veterans Day Mass and Remembrance Ceremony; Chestnut Hill Reservoir undergoing drawdown.
New BC Prison Education Program for women in MCI-Framingham.
Eve Watson views Irish Studies through many lenses.
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NOVEMBER 6, 2025 VOL. 33 NO. 6
Woods Expands Degree Completion Agreements BY JACK DUNN ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT FOR UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS
photo by caroline alden
RUNNING UNITED—Two participants in the October 25 Welles Crowther Red Bandanna 5K linked up as they neared the finish line on Linden Lane. The 21-year-old event raises funds for the Welles Remy Crowther Charitable Trust [wellescrowthertrust.org], in honor of the heroic Boston College alumnus who died in the 9/11 attacks.
The Woods College of Advancing Studies has expanded its outreach into professional sports by signing agreements with the National Hockey League (NHL), NHL Alumni Association, Pro Hockey Players’ Association, and the Canadian Football League Players’ Association (CFLPA) that will enable individuals from their respective organizations to earn their college degrees at Boston College. The agreements follow a successful arrangement established earlier this year with the NHL Players’ Association and the Major League Baseball Alumni Association,
which enables current and former association members to start or complete their education at BC. The agreements were facilitated by Mike Heaney, the director of corporate engagement at the Woods College, on behalf of Dean David Goodman. Goodman said that Woods’ wide array of degree options, including in-person, online, and hybrid courses, and its years of experience in helping former professional athletes complete their degrees, makes the Woods College uniquely prepared to partner with these leagues and associations in offering this resource to its members. “The Woods College is an international leader in college degree completion,” said Goodman. “We have a proven track record
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Clough School Part of New Global Initiative Partnership’s goal is to strengthen theological education and fostering intercultural dialogue
BY KATHLEEN SULLIVAN STAFF WRITER
The Clough School of Theology and Ministry is an inaugural member of the Collaborative Theology Initiative (CTI), a groundbreaking partnership announced earlier this year by Jesuit Superior General Arturo Sosa, S.J., that brings together Jesuit theology centers around the world to foster global Jesuit theological education, formation, and research. With a mission that builds on Pope Francis’s call to cultivate a theology that bridges divides and addresses global challenges, the CTI will prepare students for ministry in a rapidly changing world by strengthening theological education and fostering intercultural dialogue. “The CTI is a timely and innovative hub of intellectual encounter and partner-
ship that has the potential to transform our ways of approaching theological education in our Jesuit schools of theology,” said CSTM Dean Michael McCarthy, S.J. He and CSTM colleagues Gandaf Wallé, S.J., special assistant to the dean, and Jennifer Bader, associate dean of academic affairs, are the school’s representatives on the CTI’s coordinating committee. Other institutions that are part of the CTI are the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University; Regis St. Michael’s, Toronto School of Theology in the University of Toronto; Hekima University College (Kenya); Loyola School of Theology at Ateneo de Manila University (Philippines); Vidyajyoti College of Theology (India); and Jnana-Deepa Pontifical Atheneum of Philosophy and Religion (India). In its
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Connell School of Nursing faculty member Alison Marshall and her students shared a meal this fall through the Cooking in Conversation program.
Recipe for Fellowship New program brings faculty and students together to make meals—and connections BY ELLEN SEAWARD SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE
A new Boston College Student Affairs program is dishing up more than delicious dinners—conversation and connection are on the menu, too. “Cooking in Conversation” brings faculty and students together to cook, con-
nect, and share a meal in the Vanderslice Cabaret Room, recently transformed into an all-purpose teaching kitchen. In any given session, faculty and students can cook a recipe of their choosing or choose from Cooking in Conversation’s pre-selected menu options, like meatballs and pasta with garlic bread or roasted
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