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$10,000 Grant Awarded from IBM

Professors Suresh Kalathur and Tanya Zlateva have received a $10,000 grant from IBM for their curricular development proposal "Enhancing IT Curriculum for the Globally Integrated Enterprise." This award also creates access to significant amounts of software applications for our students and faculty. Congratulations and thanks to Tanya and Suresh as they demonstrate the caliber and relevance of MET programs for the IT industry.

MET Announces New Graduate Certificates and New Learning Formats in Computer Science

Learn more about our exciting new Graduate Certificate programs in:

MET Honors War Vets at VA Hospital

Friday, November 9, 2007. In appreciation of the efforts of U.S. war veterans, the Metropolitan College chapter of the Alpha Sigma Lambda Honor Society sponsored a Veteran’s Day event at the VA Hospital in Jamaica Plain.

The large and diverse group in attendance included veterans of wars ranging from World War II to the war in Iraq, many of whom were accompanied by their family members. Representatives of MET—including academic counselor Julie Guthrie, faculty member Ronald Harding, and students Carnot Sylvestre, Michelle Mobilia, Katherine Reid, and Thomas Ferrante—provided refreshments and distributed toiletries, gift cards, and several food contributions. They also presented monetary donations collected from members of the MET community and handed out special thank you cards signed by Honor Society members.

Patriotic displays and music were complemented by a poetry reading by faculty member Harding, who read two poems that he had composed especially for the event, on the theme of heroism.

Dean's Reception

Friday, October 19, 2007. The Second Annual Dean's Reception honored Metropolitan College undergraduates who received scholarships, made Deans List, or were inducted into Alpha Sigma Lambda—an Honor Society for adults in continuing education programs.

The ceremony was hosted by Dr. Carl Sessa, Assistant Dean of Student Academic Affairs. Speaking to the students were Dr. Jay Halfond, Dean of Metropolitan College and Extended Education, and faculty guest Dr. Joseph Bellefeuille. Dr. Bellefeuille was also awarded an honorary membership in Alpha Sigma Lambda Honor Society.

Twenty students (pictured) were invited to join the Alpha Sigma Lambda Honor Society. During their formal induction, they recited a pledge of membership and received certificate awards and membership pins.

Recipients of MET's Scholarship for Community College Graduates from six area community colleges were also recognized.

Sixteen students present at the reception are currently enrolled in MET's online Undergraduate Degree Completion Program. Many of these students traveled considerable distances to attend the reception—some from as far away as California, Washington, and Louisiana.

The Metropolitan College community congratulates all students honored at the Dean's Reception this year.


 

MET Programs Receive Accreditation from
the Project Management Institute

The Project Management Institute's Global Accreditation Center for Project Management awarded accreditation to the following MET programs: Master of Science in Project Management, Master of Science in Administrative Studies, and Master of Science in Computer Information Systems. Read more:

PMI Global Accredidation Center for Project Management

PMI Community Post: Global Accreditation Center for Project Management Accredited Programs at Boston University Metropolitan College

Boston University, Metropolitan College, and the University of Management and Technology Receive GAC Project Management Accreditation

Information on the Global Accreditation Center for Project Management


The MET department chairs, meeting under the direction of Associate Dean Tanya Zlateva, are in the process of creating the MET Working Papers Project. The project is designed to be a forum for MET faculty to share their innovative work in pedagogy, research, and other areas in a way that would be of interest to all MET faculty. The papers will be published by MET faculty and, like a refereed journal, will undergo a critical selection process. Falling somewhere between a disciplinary journal and departmental working papers, the MET Working Papers will offer interdisciplinary engagement of critical issues in adult and distance education.

Julia Child Foundation Honors MET with $5,000 Grant

MET’s Department of Gastronomy received one of the first five grants awarded by the Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts. Julia Child was highly supportive of MET’s groundbreaking, interdisciplinary Master of Liberal Arts in Gastronomy. The four other grant recipients were the American Institute of Wine & Food (AIWF); COPIA: The American Center for Wine, Food & the Arts; The Culinary Trust; and the Schlesinger Library at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

Hewlett-Packard Technology for Teaching Grant Initiative 2007

The Metropolitan College has been awarded one of Hewlett-Packard’s 42 grants for 2007 to create an interactive mathematics classroom for the Science and Engineering Program.  This $68,000 grant will provide 20 wireless tablet PC stations and additional technology for instructors in the coming month to teach our introductory math courses.  We have targeted the SEP conference room as the probable location. This will allow students to solve math problems in real time by learning from their peers and the instructor – where handwriting is instantaneously digitized and distributed and also preserved for future use.  This will create a far more dynamic and engaging learning laboratory, where the activity of individual problem solving will be immediately visible to all students in the classroom. 

The Science and Engineering Program (SEP) is a "kinder, gentler" approach to the freshman and sophomore years.  Reflecting MET’s pioneering efforts in innovative pedagogy, this technology will further the uniqueness of this important program.  SEP provides a modest example of how a student-centered approach to science education can make a difference in encouraging young students to persevere in the sciences.  This achievement is also featured in BU Today: Boston University one of 42 Schools Selected as HP Technology Grant Recipient

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