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Boston College is a private university in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Its historic campus, one of the earliest examples of Collegiate Gothic architecture in North America, is set on a hilltop six miles (10 km) west of downtown Boston. Although chartered as a university by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1863, Boston College's name reflects its early history as a small liberal arts college. It was the first institution of higher education to be founded in the city of Boston, though it moved from the city's South End to then-rural Chestnut Hill as a result of rapid growth and urbanization in the late nineteenth century. Boston College is one of the oldest Jesuit universities in the United States, and its president serves as chairman of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities.
About Boston College
Founded by the Society of Jesus in part because immigrants and Catholics were being denied admission to Harvard University in the nineteenth century, Boston College later earned the nickname "Jesuit Ivy" in a speech by John F. Kennedy. Its founding charter was among the first documents to stipulate that the institution be open to "youths of any faith."
Boston College students come from 50 states and 99 countries. It received more than 24,000 applications for approximately 2,100 seats in the freshman Class of 2005.
At $1.2 billion, BC's endowment is among the nation's 40 largest, and the largest of any Jesuit university.
The 150 Jesuits living on the Boston College campus make up the largest Jesuit community in the world. About half are actively involved in the University's faculty and administration. Others include graduate students and visiting scholars.
In 2004, 2 BC students won Rhodes scholarships and BC produced 11 Fulbright Scholars, ranking 16th among national universities. BC ranked 9th among Peace Corps volunteer-producing colleges and 1st among Jesuit Volunteer Corps producing colleges. It ranked 37th in US News and World Report.
Boston College is called The Heights. This is also the name of the principle student newspaper. BC students were universally called "Heightsmen" until 1925 when Mary C. Mellyn became the first "Heightswoman" to receive a BC degree.
In addition to the "Heights," the BC campus is refered to as the "Crowned Hilltop" and "Oxford in America." This latter moniker was coined by the university's first architect, Charles Maginnis, and confirmed by a visiting British journalist in 1915 who wrote, "Even in embryo, it is Oxford and Cambridge without their grime." In June of 2004, Boston College acquired 43 acres (174,000 m²) of land from the Archdiocese of Boston, including the historic Cardinal's Residence.
BC teams are called The Eagles. The school colors are maroon and gold. The fight song, "For Boston!," was composed by T.J. Hurley, Class of 1885. Principle athletic facilities include Alumni Stadium (capacity: 44,500), Conte Forum (8,606), Kelley Rink (7,884), Shea Field, the Newton Soccer Complex and the Flynn Recreation Complex. The Yawkey Athletics Center is scheduled to open in March of 2005.
Boston College is comprised of eight schools and colleges:
Arial view of Boston College's Chestnut Hill campus In December of 2004, Boston College announced plans to create a Divinity School by merging its existing Theology department, its Institute for Religious Education and Pastoral Ministry and the Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The new school would be located on the BC campus on land recently acquired from the Boston archdiocese.
University Research Institutes and Centers
- Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life
- Center for Child, Family, and Community Partnerships
- Center for Corporate Citizenship
- Center for East Europe, Russia, and Asia
- Center for International Higher Education
- Center for Ignatian Spirituality
- Center for International Higher Education
- Center for Christian-Jewish Learning
- Center for Nursing Research
- Center for Retirement Research
- Center for Study of Testing, Evaluation, and Educational Policy
- Center for Work and Family
- International Study Center
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- Institute for Medieval Philosophy and Theology
- Institute for Scientific Research
- Institute for the Study and Promotion of Race and Culture
- Irish Institute
- Jesuit Institute
- Lonergan Center
- Mathematics Institute
- Media Research and Action Project
- Small Business Development Center
- Social Welfare Research Institute
- Weston Observatory
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Departments
College of Arts and Sciences
Notable alumni
Arts and Literature
- Margaret Badenhausen '66, painter/printmaker
- James Balog '74, photographer
- Peter Dee '61, playwright
- Larry Deyab '79, painter
- Brendan Galvin '60, poet
- George Higgins '61, JD '67, novelist
- Charles Hogan '89, novelist/screenwriter
- Jack Kerouac x'40, novelist, writer, poet, artist
- Natalia Majluf '88, curator, Museo d'Arte de Lima, Peru
- Joyce McDaniel '73, artist, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- David Plante '61, novelist
- Paul Shakespear '71, painter
- John Vernon '65, novelist
Business
- Kara Grady Boudreau '89, vice president, Solomon Smith Barney
- Wayne Budd '63, executive vice president, John Hancock Financial Services
- Jack Connors '63, chair, Hill, Holliday, Conors, Cosmopulos
- Kathleen Corbet '82, CEO, fixed income division, Alliance Capital Management
- Bettina Doulton '86, manager, Fidelity Value Fund
- Sixto Ferro '92, vice president, Conchita Foods
- Robert Leonard '54, president and CEO, Ticketmaster
- Peter Lynch '65, legendary mutual fund manager for Fidelity
- Therese Meyers '66, CEO, Bouquet Multi Media
- Virginia Mitchell Ryan '89, vice president, JP Morgan Chase
- Theresa Santisi '76, partner, KPMG LLP
- Bill Simon JD '82, businessman and former gubernatorial candidate in California
- Patrick Stokes '64, president, Anheuser-Busch
- G. Craig Sullivan '64, chairman and CEO, The Clorox Company
- Richard Syron '66, chairman, president and CEO, Thermo-Electron Corp.
Education
- Harold Attridge '67, dean, Yale University Divinity School
- Laurence Barton '78, president, Heald College
- Anthony Bryk '70, Marshall Field professor of urban studies, University of Chicago
- William Bulger '58, professor, Boston College; former president, University of Massachusetts
- Peter Dervan '67, former chairman, division of chemistry and chemical engineering, California Institute of Technology
- Robert Drinan, SJ, '42, former dean, Boston College Law School
- Joseph McShane, SJ, '72, president, Fordham University
- Ernest Moniz , '66, chair, Physics Department, MIT; director, Bates Linear Accelerator Center
- Thomas O'Malley, SJ, '51, former president, John Carroll University; former president, Loyola Marymount University
- Elizabeth Poster '81, dean, University of Texas at Arlington School of Nursing
Entertainment
- Raj Bhakta '98, candidate on the second season of The Apprentice
- Sean Flahaven '95, Broadway composer
- Michael Frazier '58, producer
- Gary Gulman '93, comedian, Runner-Up in 2004's Last Comic Standing
- Mark McLaren '84, Broadway conductor
- Leonard Nimoy x'52, actor
- Chris O'Donnell '92, actor
- Mary Parker '75, actress
- Ellis Paul '87, singer/songwriter
- Amy Poehler '93, repertory player for Saturday Night Live and Upright Citizens Brigade
- Jack Ryan (fictional character), main character in Tom Clancy's novels
- Elliot Silverstein '49, director; president, Artists Rights Foundation
- David Smalley '85, rock musician
- Timothy Stack '78, actor
Law, Politics and Public Service
- Joseph Brennan '58, former Maine Governor and Congressman
- Wayne Budd '63, former US associate attorney general
- R. Nicholas Burns '78, US ambassador to NATO
- Mike Capuano JD '77, United States Congressman
- A. Paul Cellucci '70, JD '73, US ambassador to Canada, former governor of Massachusetts
- Silvio Conte '49, JD '49, former United States Congressman
- John Curtin '54, former president, American Bar Association
- Bill Delahunt JD '67, United States Congressman
- Robert Drinan, SJ, '42, human rights advocate, only Catholic priest ever to serve in US Congress
- Jennifer Franke '91, White House fellow
- Michael Greco JD '72, president, American Bar Associattion
- Patrick Guerriero MA '92, executive director, Log Cabin Republicans
- Cheryl Jacques '84, first openly gay state senator; former president, Human Rights Campaign
- Karim Kawar '87, Jordanian ambassador to the United States
- John Kerry JD '76, United States senator, former 2004 Democratic candidate for President
- Edward J. King '48, basketball player and former governor of Massachusetts
- Patricia LaMarche '82, 2004 Green Party vice-presidential candidate
- Stephen Lynch '91, United States Congressman
- Edward Markey '68, JD 72, United States Congressman
- Tip O'Neill '36, former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
- Kathleen O'Toole '76, Boston's first woman police commissioner
- Pierre-Richard Prosper '85, United States Ambassador-at-large for War Crimes Issues
- Warren Rudman JD '60, former New Hampshire senator and Attorney General
- R.T. Rybak '78, Mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Leslie Samuelrich '85, co-founder and head, Green Corps
- Maurice J. Tobin '22, former Mayor of Boston, former Governor of Massachusetts, former US Secretary of Labor
- Kevin White '55, longest serving mayor of Boston
- Debra Wong Yang JD '84, United States attorney for the Central District of California
Media and Communication
- Leonard DeLuca '74, senior vice president for programming development, ESPN
- Kenneth Dolan '65, author; co-host, The Dolans, syndicated financial talk show, WOR radio network
- Susan Gianinno '70, chair and CEO, Publicis
- Jack Griffin '82, publisher, Parade magazine
- Elisabeth Filarski Hasselbeck '99, cohost, The View, ABC
- Paul LaCamera MBA '83, president and general manager, WCVB-TV/Boston
- Mike Lupica '74, author; columnist, New York Daily News
- Julianne Malveaux '74, MA '76, nationally syndicated columnist, author, producer
- John McLaughlin MA '61, executive producer and host, The McLaughlin Group, PBS
- Mark Mulvoy '64, former managing editor, Sports Illustrated
- Thomas Mulvoy '64, former managing editor, the Boston Globe
- William Perkins '76, MBA '78, president, Wells Greene BDDP
- Bob Ryan, columnist, the Boston Globe
- Herb Scannell '79, president, MTV Networks, Nickelodeon Networks
- Lesley Visser '75, sports broadcaster, ESPN
- William Wheatley Jr. '66, vice president for news, NBC News
- Carter Wilkie '88, author, former White House speechwriter
Religion
- Timothy Broglio '73, archbishop, Vatican ambassador to the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico
- Richard Cushing '17, Cardinal, archbishop of Boston
- Robert Drinan, SJ, '42, human rights advocate, only Catholic priest ever to serve in US Congress
- John Higgins, SJ, '59, MA '60, STL '67, rector, Fairfield University
- Richard Lennon, '69, bishop, Boston
- Catherine McNamee, CSJ, 'MEd '55, MA 58, former president, National Catholic education Association
- William O'Connell 1881, Cardinal, archbishop of Boston
- Edward O'Flaherty, SJ, '59, director, ecumenical/interreligious affairs, Boston archdiocese
Science, Technology and Medicine
- Robert Cefalo '55, chief of obstetrics and gynecology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine
- James Chambliss '59, clinical radiology, University of Chicago
- Gerald B. Healy '63, Otolaryngologist-in-Chief and Surgeon-in-Chief at The Children's Hospital in Boston
- Gilbert Connelly '62, director of cardiac anesthesia, New England Medical Center
- Patrick Leahy '68, MS '70, chief geologist, US Geological Survey
- Paul Nadeau '75, MS '70, geological advisor, Statoil, Norway
- Lisa Navratil Navracruz '94, chief resident, family medicine, University Hospitals of Cleveland
- Susan Sheehy '69, associate director, clinical research, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
- Aleksandar Totic '88, cofounder and former partner, Netscape
- Kevin Tracy '79, medical researcher, the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Research Institute
Sports
- Troy Bell '03, NBA Point Guard with the Memphis Grizzlies
- Mark Chmura x'91, NFL Tight End for the Super Bowl winning Green Bay Packers
- Mike Cloud '98, NFL Running Back, 1st Team All-American
- Doug Flutie '85, NFL star quarterback in both American football and Canadian football, 1984 Heisman Trophy winner
- William Green x'99, NFL Running Back, 1st Team All-American, Cleveland Browns
- Matthew Hasselbeck '97, NFL quarterback, Seattle Seahawks, Green Bay Packers, and Washington Redskins
- Tim Hasselbeck '00, NFL Quarterback with the Philadelphia Eagles; husband of Elisabeth Hasselbeck
- Frank Hussey '28, leading US collegiate runner, Olympic gold medalist, 1924
- Chris Hovan '01, NFL defensive tackle, Minnesota Vikings
- Tyler Jewell '99, champion snowboarder
- Pete Kendall '95, NFL Guard with the New York Jets
- Brian Leetch x'90, NHL defenseman and two-time Norris Trophy winner
- Ronald MacDonald 1898, first winner of the Boston Marathon
- Bill Romanowski '88, Notorious NFL Linebacker for the San Francisco 49ers, Denver Broncos, and Oakland Raiders
- Chris Snee '04, NFL Offensive Guard with the New York Giants
- Damien Woody x'99, NFL Center for the Super Bowl winning New England Patriots, and Detroit Lions
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