Boston College plans to create approximately 20 new faculty positions as part of its search to fill as many as 44 faculty positions, announced Provost and Dean of Faculties Cutberto Garza recently.
The majority of the newly created positions will be classified as tenure or tenure track.
Along with the newly created positions come the appointments of history professor David Quigley as inaugural director of BC's Institute for Liberal Arts (ILA) and John Spinard, BC '84, MBA '98, as executive director for budget, policy, and planning in the Office of the Provost.
"The distribution of new positions among the University's academic departments and professional schools that are not subdivided into departments will be in direct response to the professional schools' and the College of Arts and Sciences' priorities; these, in turn, are based primarily on BC's strategic plan," Garza said.
The faculty search plans come as a part of the fulfillment of the seven directions of the Strategic Plan. The Strategic Plan will act as the University's institutional and academic blueprint for the years to come.
One of these directions is committing Boston College to becoming the leader in liberal arts education among American universities.
"The hope with the ILA is that it will bring together folks working across the liberal arts to think of ways of developing undergraduate student programs and research opportunities to use the great strength we have in the disciplines across the liberal arts to bring those together in new interdisciplinary ways to create something more rewarding for undergraduates an elevate the place of liberal arts at BC," Quigley said.
For the '08-'09 academic year, the ILA will have an active presence through the Lowell Humanities series. The series will present 10 to 15 humanities lectures throughout the year, bringing in writers, intellectuals, and scholars to speak at BC. "We want to build on the great work the Lowell series has done over the years, but also think of ways to partner with classes, like undergraduate core classes, so these speakers will have a deeper connection to the undergraduate experience," Quigley said.
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