April 2019

Eleven students, two alumni, and Dance Director Kristen Duffy Young from The Colleges of the Fenway attended the New England Regional conference of the American College Dance Association. The conference took place April 4-7 at Plymouth State University in Plymouth, NH. This year’s theme was “Dance in the Creative Economy,” which focused on the ways […]

Breaking Borders: On February 22, members from all five COF campuses engaged in the Breaking Borders and Building Bridges conference and social, generously funded by the Davis Foundation.  This conference, made possible by the COF Faculty Mini-Grant Program, was the result of an 8-month exploration of the COF student experience around intercultural learning and engagement. Over

Cynthia Schoolar Williams is Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston.  As a scholar of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature, she has focused on national identity formation, especially in the Atlantic world.  Her book Hospitality and the Transatlantic Imagination, 1815-1835 appeared in 2014 from Palgrave Macmillan. In more recent scholarly projects, her focus

COF Emergency Preparedness Over the past year all Colleges of the Fenway institutions have made shelter in place and active threat training and exercises a priority across our community. Most recently, Emmanuel College and MassArt conducted campus wide full scale shelter in place exercises. These exercises occurred on March 29th (Emmanuel) and on April 11th (MassArt). Leading

In late January 2019, Colleges of the Fenway welcomed Allison O’Connor as the new Director of Academic Programs and Professional Development. In this role, Allison will provide strategic leadership and support to the Colleges of the Fenway collaboration among the five member institutions with particular focus on joint academic and human resources initiatives, including cross registration and training and development.   Allison (Coutts) O’Connor

Emmanuel College’s Department of Chemistry was recently accredited by the American Chemical Society (ACS), a renowned organization and the world’s largest scientific society that promotes excellence in chemistry education and serves as an authority on program evaluation in the field. ACS-approved programs denote a wide-ranging and rigorous chemistry education that gives students the intellectual, technical

Appoints Susan MacKenty Brady as Managing Director Simmons University today announced the establishment of the Simmons University Institute for Leadership to be run by Susan MacKenty Brady, a nationally renowned women’s leadership expert. The Institute will take Simmons’ longstanding success in developing empowered women leaders to a new level — hosting global conferences and conversations,