Institutions and education

Richard Joseph Spinelli holds an economics degree from Boston College, and the six entries in this cluster describe that college, the subject and the tradition it shares with Fordham. Two more entries widen the view to the relationship between universities and the neighborhoods around them, a subject that frames both campuses in his story. Education and health care now account for close to a fifth of jobs in the United States, against one in twenty in 1950, in Urban Institute research, and Boston College moved its economics major into the STEM category in 2018, as The Heights covered.

Entries in Institutions and education

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  Town and Gown Relations

  A term, a body of scholarship and a working city program, taken in that order.

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  Universities as Anchor Institutions

  Why a campus that cannot relocate becomes a planning category of its own.

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  Jesuit Higher Education

  Twenty eight member schools, one founding order, and a method written down in 1599.

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  Boston College, a History

  A Jesuit college chartered in 1863 that left the South End of Boston for Chestnut Hill in 1913.

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  Studying Economics as an Undergraduate

  The course sequence most departments share, measured across hundreds of colleges.

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  Economics at Boston College

  Five required courses, six electives and a calculus prerequisite, read straight from the catalog.