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MET students to explore Boston during commencement weekend

Lauren Davalla — Wed, 18 May 2011 12:03:38 +0000

Photo courtesy of Pxl3000 on Flickr / Creative Commons.

MET’s Distance Education graduates have studied remotely for most of their tenure at BU but this weekend they will get a chance to explore the Charles River Campus and the city of Boston while participating in MET’s GPS Urban Adventure. On Saturday starting at 12:30 PM, these graduates will discover the secrets of Boston and BU’s campus, put faces to names and get to know their fellow graduates from online programs. In small teams, they’ll be using handheld GPS units to guide them on a race around the city, solving riddles and completing challenges leading to the next adventure. If you are a graduate and are interested in participating, click here to register.

“Reaching Out” Parts Four and Five

Kira Jastive — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 21:12:53 +0000

Today in BU Today’s “Reaching Out” series, we learn more about a School of Law program, the Asylum & Human Rights Clinic (AHR), which assigns second and third year law students to help people seeking asylum and fighting deportation. Launched in 1985 by School of Law (LAW) Professor Susan Akram, the program has helped hundreds of people obtain asylum. The students in the four-course cluster program also handle Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) cases, temporary restraining orders in Probate and Family Court, and other immigration and humanitarian cases.

The series also looks at the interpreter certificate program at Metropolitan College’s Center for Professional Education, which has been teaching interpreters for more than 15 years and preparing them for careers in the court system, hospitals and other community services. The 12-to-18 month program prepares interpreters in three languages—Chinese, Portuguese, and Spanish.

“Reaching Out” concludes tomorrow with with coverage of the School of Education’s Intergenerational Literacy Project, which teaches English language literacy skills to entire families.

MET Awarded Distance Learning Silver Medal

Lauren Davalla — Wed, 12 May 2010 15:11:11 +0000

Metropolitan College’s Master of Science in Health Communication program was awarded a Silver Medal for best Practices in Distance Learning Programming by the United States Distance Learning Association. The Health Communication program is taught in conjunction with the College of Communication. MET Dean Jay Halfond said:

“Our faculty and staff commit a substantial amount of time and talent in creating high-quality online courses. We have the reputation of a great university to protect and extend, and believe that programs like this reflect well on BU and provide degrees every bit as credible and valuable as those on campus.”