College of Communication Dean John Schulz was given a contract extension by the Boston University Board of Trustees during the board’s January meeting.
Schulz received his original one-year contact, which would have expired at the end of the 2003-2004 academic year, after former Dean Brent Baker resigned over comments he made during last year’s Convocation about administrators, and over differences with then-Chancellor John Silber. The extension also comes after a December meeting in which COM faculty discussed Schulz’s performance.
“The Trustees and I are pleased to confirm the faculty’s expressed confidence in Dean Schulz’s continuing leadership for the college,” Provost Dennis Berkey said in a press release.
As dean for one semester, Schulz has already made an impression on COM students like Erik Dawson.
“From what I’ve heard, it seems like [Schulz] has a very loose style and that he has a much broader view of communications in general,” Dawson said. “As opposed to Baker who seemed to look at things more narrowly.”
-James Duffy and Chris Gaylord
CGS professor receives Catholic book award
The American Catholic Historical Association recently honored College of General Studies professor Jay Corrin with its Gilmary Shea Prize for his book “Catholic Intellectuals and the Challenge of Democracy.”
The prize is an annual monetary award given to an American or Canadian author who, in the last year, “has made the most original and significant contribution to the historiography of the Catholic Church in the form of a book published” within the last year, according to an American Catholic Historical Association press release.
Two dozen works on the history of the Catholic Church were considered for the award. The committee of judges, however, voted unanimously for Corrin’s book.
Corrin said his work, published in 2002, is “a study of a number of Catholic intellectuals and their response to the whole process of modernization, from the French Revolution up through the rise of the dictators of the 1940s.”
“It covers a broad spectrum of time,” Corrin said, “and doesn’t only deal with British and American Catholics, but also German, Spanish, French and Italian.”
When notified that he won, Corrin said he was “flattered, surprised and humbled.”
This is the 58th year the organization has given the award and the first time the recipient was associated with BU.
–Erin Kennedy