NEWS
Monday, February 20, 2023
This Week’s Top 3 Events
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The Heights
Join the Office of the Dean of Students this week for lunch and a focus group discussion to share perspectives on and suggest improvements to the student experience. Sessions will be held Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday at 12 p.m. in Maloney Hall 450.
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The Career Center is hosting a networking and recruitment fair for careers in nonprofits, government, and social impact. The fair runs from 4 to 6 p.m. on Thursday in the Heights Room at Corcoran Commons.
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Attend a dialogue on education, Thomism, and virtue with the Director of the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues James Arthur and Director of the Jesuit Institute Rev. James Keenan, S.J., on Tuesday from 12 to 1 p.m. in Gasson 100.
Vice Provost Mahoney to Step Down This Spring Mahoney, from A1 “John remains one of the most eloquent voices in articulating what makes this a special place among the nation’s best universities.” Mahoney attributed his accomplishments at BC to the University’s faculty and leadership—crediting University Presidents Rev. William P. Leahy, S.J. and Rev. J. Donald Monan, S.J., as well as the Board of Trustees. “What I’ve observed is complacency is not in the lexicon here at Boston College,” Mahoney said. “It just doesn’t exist. I’ve watched the leadership, they’re never satisfied. It’s always forward thinking and thinking about ‘How do we improve. How do we get better?’” Mahoney said he was especially proud of BC’s recent partnership with QuestBridge, a nonprofit organization that helps low-income students applying for college, which began with the Class of 2025. “That’s what BC does,” Mahoney said. “The fact that we’re need-blind … means that we can recruit the most
talented students across the country, regardless of the financial circumstances they come from.” Following his retirement at the end of this academic year, Mahoney said he is confident the division is in good hands.
“I’ve hired some really remarkable people and been able to retain them here at BC, and I think it’s because they love BC in the same way that I do.”
“I’ve hired some really remarkable people and been able to retain them here at BC, and I think it’s because they love BC in the same way that I do,” Mahoney said. “They love the whole culture of the place, they love the students that they interact with.” n
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BC announced Mahoney will step down as vice provost for enrollment management at the end of this academic year.
CSOM Unveils New Minor and Coding Camp By Olivia Joung News Editor The Carroll School of Management (CSOM) has launched a general business minor as well as an intensive summer coding boot camp geared toward non-busi-
ness majors. The general business minor, which launched this spring semester, is for Boston College students outside of CSOM who want a broader understanding of management and hope to develop skills in accounting, finance,
marketing, and more, according to its website. “The minors that we launched in 2018 were all meant to kind of dive a little bit more deeply into a functional area of business,” Ethan Sullivan, senior associate dean of undergraduates at CSOM, said.
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CSOM unveiled a new general business minor as well as a three-week intensive summer coding bootcamp.
“And I think now we just think the timing is right to offer another alternative, a broader approach.” Students in the program will first take Introduction to Financial Accounting, according to Sullivan, and they will then choose five of the eight courses offered—including Business Law, Principles of Marketing, and Coding for Business, among others—to complete the minor. “I mean, the fact of the matter is that anybody who’s going to work after graduation is going to work for some sort of organization—for-profit or not-forprofits,” Sullivan said. “You know, whatever it is, they’re going to be working for an organization, and these types of management skills and classes will prepare folks for whatever role they might have.” Starting this summer, CSOM will also now offer Jumpstart into Coding, a new summer coding bootcamp for non-business students with no prior coding or programming experience, according to its website.
Sullivan said the three-week, four-credit bootcamp will be more intensive and hands-on compared to the introductory computer science courses normally offered throughout BC’s school year. “Students will basically … learn techniques in the morning, and then they’ll apply them in the afternoon—that’s the design of the course,” Sullivan said. “So it’s not really a memorization course, it’s more of a doing course.” Students can now declare and apply for the business minor and coding bootcamp on CSOM’s website. Sullivan said he thinks the programs will complement other disciplines well and hopes they build well-rounded BC students. “I think, on a bigger level, it just helps people become more of that T shape, you know, that well-roundedness that BC students are so well known for,” Sullivan said. “This gives kind of a practical art to complement the rest of their education." n
Cahill Receives SCE Lifetime Achievement Award By Isabel Sullivan Heights Staff For Lisa Sowle Cahill, the Monan Professor of Theology at Boston College, receiving the 2023 Lifetime Achie vement Award from the Society of Christian Ethics (SCE) served as a reminder not just of her career successes, but also of everyone who helped her achieve them. “It gives a person an opportunity to appreciate their limits and their flaws as well as their accomplishments,” Cahill said. “But mostly, it’s gratitude, not just for the award, but for all the colleagues and students who have put me in a place to accomplish whatever I have managed to accomplish.” The SCE honored Cahill with the award for her contributions to Christian ethics at its annual meeting earlier this month, according to a University release. “We organized [the conference] with other former students and our colleague, professor Cahill, to honor the way in which she contributed to the field and to reflect together on the changes that happened in the field of theological ethics in the last over 45 years,” said Andrea Vicini, chairperson of BC’s theology department.
According to B C ’s pre ss release, Cahill is an expert in several subfields of Christian ethics, having published 10 books and hundreds of articles and book chapters on subjects such as sex and gender, war and peacemaking, bioethics, and Catholic social teaching. “She is the major Catholic feminist theologian who is interested in reflecting on issues that affect society,” Vicini said. Vicini said he is grateful for Cahill’s mentorship and her commitment to teaching others using her broad expertise in the subject of theological tradition. “She tries to be an active contributor to training of, you know, the next generation of colleagues and leaders here at Boston College,” Vicini said. Cahill said the SCE promotes and facilitates religious and ethical discussions across a variety of Christian denominations. “It’s been a wonderful space to really engage … theological ethical problems with a community of other scholars who are from different religious traditions,” Cahill said. “[The SCE] was having a community of scholars that shared interests in common that had a maybe a slightly different spin on things than we might have seen in
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The SCE honored Cahill with the award for her contributions to the field of Christian ethics at its annual meeting . Catholicism.” When Cahill first joined the SCE in the ’70s, she said these cross-denominational conversations allowed people to look beyond religious traditions when addressing modern cultural issues. “You kind of get somewhat narrowly focused on the Catholic moral theological tradition and how that’s moving along,” Cahill said. “And when you’re in conversation with Protestants, at least at that time, it was often larger
cultural questions. So it expanded the resources quite a bit and the conversation quite a bit.” According to Cahill, these discussions concerning larger cultural issues resulted in a greater effort to include and affirm all gender identities within the church. “These questions also represent kind of the mission of the Catholic Church and how we sort of face non-traditional developments, and how we find a space
to welcome everyone within the church, and to encourage people who have non-traditional gender identities and affirm those people,” Cahill said. C a h i l l s a i d th e L i fe t i m e Achievement Award reminded her of her past and future work with the SCE. “So just to look at that whole community and to appreciate that I’ve been a part of it for so many years, was a wonderful thing,” Cahill said. n