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Acting on a report by the Faculty Council on Diversity and Inclusion, BU has created a new and critical position, which was filled in September. President Robert A. Brown introduced the new member of the community at this year’s University Management Conference.
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Gabriela Shalev became the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations on September 3, 2008, the first woman to hold the post. Tonight, she will speak at BU’s Florence and Chafetz Hillel House about her position and how Israel engages in the complex environment of the UN. Shalev is Israel’s 14th permanent representative to the UN.
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Class by class, lecture by lecture, question asked by question answered, an education is built. This is one of a series of visits to one class, on one day, in search of those building blocks at BU.
Allison Adair chats with a student as three others wait to speak with her before class. One holds a late paper, two gaze at a sign-up sheet for small group meetings.
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For the past three years, Jackie Boyle has volunteered to chaperone one of BU’s annual Alternative Spring Break trips. On a trip to Arkansas, the acting director of student services in the School of Education offered some friendly advice to a student who later went to law school outside Massachusetts. But distance didn’t end the relationship; Boyle continues to offer advice and emotional support. She has become, phone call by phone call, a mentor.
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