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.

Boston College offers over 20 programs, sponsored by various departments, providing students opportunities for real-life, community-based learning experience both at home and abroad. The programs foster a respect for the people, history, and cultures present in the countries or areas visited; a recognition of God's presence in the lives and cultures of the people we encounter; and a willingness to be challenged personally by the stories, the experiences, and the relationships that are encountered while on the trip. They are designed to provide an educational experience for students, using what is often referred to as the "action/reflection model". These programs are cognizant of the university's larger Jesuit mission of forming "men and women for others", and attentive to the spiritual formation of students who travel to serve and learn in impoverished areas. They include time for community building, education, and reflection before, during, and after the trip in order to help participants process and appropriate their shared and individual experiences. They not only encourage the growth and formation of our student participants, but should also contribute something positive toward fostering greater justice in the world. Key to this is the relationship nurtured with the host organizations and the solidarity that develops over time between Boston College and the communities visited. These opportunities travel over winter, spring, or summer breaks, and some programs travel multiple times per year.
 

Urban immersion, 4-Boston, Appalachia Volunteers, Ignacio Volunteers, Mexico Experience, Jamaica Experience, Dominican Republic Summer Camp, Belize, Nicaragua, Mexico, El Salvador

Pax Christi, a chapter of Pax Christi International, meets Wednesday nights in Campion House from 9:00-10:00 pm. All students are welcome.

The group has a threefold focus:

• to educate its members on issues of justice, war and peace;
• to foster a strong sense of community among it members through prayer, reflection and discussion;
• and to decide on specific actions to promote justice.

Boston College offers over 20 programs, sponsored by various departments, providing students opportunities for real-life, community-based learning experience both at home and abroad. The programs foster a respect for the people, history, and cultures present in the countries or areas visited; a recognition of God's presence in the lives and cultures of the people we encounter; and a willingness to be challenged personally by the stories, the experiences, and the relationships that are encountered while on the trip.

Programs Include:

Arrupe International

Navajo Nation Service Trip

Urban Immersion

Bolivia Micro-Finance Service/Immersion Trip

Haiti Service Project

Jamaica Summer Trip

Nicaragua Service Trip

Ghana Service Immersion Trip

Appalacia Volunteers

Lynch School of Education Immersion Trips

Students spend three weeks working with the International Rescue Committee exploring issues affecting refugees from the Great Lakes region, East Africa. Students learn about child protection, repatriation, and child/ maternal health clinics.

In 1972-73 the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation of New York launched an innovative model of integrated service delivery to parents of young children, the Brookline Early Education project (BEEP). BEEP was grounded in the principle that health and education are intimately linked. Healthy children learn and develop more positively than children who are not healthy. BEEP also operated from a primary belief in the important role of parents in supporting children's optimal development.

The BEEP preschool program continues to function as part of the Brookline Public Schools.