Ministries: Research, MASSACHUSETTS
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Center for Religion, Ethics, and Culture (Worcester, MA)
The Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture sponsors and supports programming that explores basic human questions of meaning, morality, and mutual obligation. Following the principle that faith and learning are partners in liberal education, the Center’s programs foster dialogue that respects differences, and provides a forum for intellectual exchange that is interreligious as well as interdisciplinary, intercultural, and international in scope. Most events are free and open to the public.
Center for Retirement Research (Chestnut Hill, MA)
| The Center provides decisionmakers in the public and private sectors with critical information to better understand the issues facing an aging population. The Center's research program spans the four main areas that affect a household's retirement income: 1) Social Security; 2) employer-sponsored pension plans; 3) household saving; and 4) labor market trends among older workers |
Center on Wealth and Philanthropy (Chestnut Hill, MA)
| To discover, communicate, and apply primary qualitative and quantitative multidisciplinary research on spritual life in an age of affluence, with a special focus on the biographical meaning and practice of wealth, financial security, fundraising, the intergenerational transfer of wealth, planned giving, donor advisement, and the Ignatian model of discernment. |
Current Projects:
| "Boston Metropolitan Area Wealth Transfer Study", "Wealth Transfer Estimates for African Americans", "Wealth Transfer on Track?" |
Environmental Studies Holy Cross (Worcester , MA)
The Environmental Studies Program at Holy Cross is a multidisciplinary, student-designed major and concentration run by the Center for Interdisciplinary and Special Studies. The aim of Environmental Studies is to allow students to assemble a series of courses that bridges three or more disciplines and that provides a comprehensive understanding of environmental issues. Students are expected to study the causes, mechanisms and effects of environmental problems by investigating the relevant natural processes and the interplay between the environment and social, political and economic institutions.
Environmental Studies Program, Boston College (Chestnut Hill, MA)
Economics, culture, policy, society and science all play key roles in the impact modern society has on the Earth's natural systems. This program is designed to provide students with a fundamental knowledge of the structure and function of these systems, and develop awareness of paths toward global sustainability.
Immigration Law Group (Newton, MA)
This student organization is appointed by the elected student government of the law school. They focus on researching immigration law.
Leadership for Change (Chestnut Hill, MA)
| Leadership for Change Engages accomplished faculty from the Boston College Carroll School of Management and the Department of Sociology; Harvard Graduate School of Education and The Work and Learning Center at Northeastern University with business practitioners from the greater Boston area. All engaged wiht the participants as members of the learning community. |
Current Projects:
| Faculty concentrations:Charles Derber, Ph.D., Boston College, the Department of Sociology, "Morality Wars: How Embires, The Born Again, and the Politically Correct Do Evil in the Name of Good with Yale R. Magrass, Paradigm Publishers, February 28, 2008" |
Media Reserach and Action Project (Chestnut Hill, MA)
MRAP works with community organizations to expand democratic space in mainsream media, both in terms of opening access and providing greater diversity of messages. We believe that building media capacity requires the same attention as capacity building in any institutional area, e.g., government, the economy, public sector, etc. We work in partnership with under represented communities develop strategic media plans, e.g., long-term media strategies rather than one shot public relations efforts. We believe that media plans must be developed in tandem with, not as a substitute for broader organizing strategies.
Current Projects:
MRAP researches information about how media impacts communities in other regions of the country as well as how communities interact with media and/or develop partnerships to work proactively with mass media. The goal is to bring that information to New England and share it through a Community Media and Internet Resource Network web server. MRAP specifically works with marginalized constituencies to: identify ways that media coverage can forward their organizations' overall agenda, to establish them as routine sources for mainstream media, to position them to work for long-term change regarding their communities' under-representation and/or misrepresentation in mainstream media
Post-Deportation Rehabilitation Project (Chestnut Hill , MA)
The Post-Deportation Human Rights Project, based at the Center for Human Rights and International Justice at Boston College, is a pilot program designed to address the harsh effects of current U.S. deportation policies. The Project aims to conceptualize an entirely new area of law, providing direct representation to individuals who have been deported and promoting the rights of deportees and their family members through research, policy analysis, human rights advocacy, and training programs.
