WINTER 2012

The Magazine of University Metropolitan College

Inside this issue: Dean’s Message 2 First Chadwick Fellows 3 Authors’ Reception 8 They Met at MET 9 Digging the Big Dig 10 New Online Degree 12 Savoir Faire 13 Professor Retires 14 Alumni Gatherings 14 Class Notes 15

Plus! Digging the Big Dig with MET’s Project Management Meet New MET faculty Faculty We talk to Vladimir Zlatev and Yuting Zhang. See page 4.

Prison Education Endowment $1.5 million toward women in MET’s Prison Education Program. See page 6. Dear MET Community, I sometimes think MET years are more like dog years than typically academic. We compress a lot into a brief period of time, and move at a pace otherwise uncommon in universities. The Metropolitan forces us to catch our breath and A message from take a snapshot to capture the breadth and depth of this remarkable enterprise. Dean Halfond This particular issue takes you behind the scenes—and shares some of the people, milestones, and activities that make us who and what we are. At Metropolitan College you can gain insight, knowledge, expertise, inspiration, a powerful credential, and, as you’ll see from those who met at MET, even love. Without any promises, of course, the classroom can be a venue for romance and relationships to blossom. (I look forward to the day when two distance learning students meet online and marry—hopefully in person.) As clichéd as this might seem, MET is about community—faculty, students, alumni—and commitment to teaching, learning, and each other. This is a workaholic culture—faculty and staff toil many hours to earn their salaries, and students do likewise to earn their degrees. Even if love doesn’t always emerge in the classroom, other rewards certainly do— reflection, growth, camaraderie, achievement, and satisfaction. The results of this hard work can be measured in our macro-success—through the enrollment of highly motivated students and the recruitment of highly qualified faculty and staff—and our micro-success, or the everyday moments of personal accomplishment and innovation. This is the tenth year of our emerging leadership in distance learning—a shining example of just how much can be accomplished in a MET decade. Though we strive to retain balance, online education has truly been transformative for Metropolitan College and reverberates in all that we do. Had Metropolitan College been complacent with its portfolio of programs a decade ago, our student population would be hardly half its current size—and we would be a bare skeleton of the enterprise we are now. I cope with the workaholic nature of the MET deanship by staying systematically connected with our full array of internal and external stakeholders. Just as we move at an exceptional pace, MET is unique in its gamut of academic programs, student cultures, units, and disciplines—each with its own special characteristics and nuances, and all worthy of understanding and attention. I am routinely humbled by how much there is to learn, and how much more there is to strive for—even in MET years. I hope you enjoy this opportunity to stay connected with Metropolitan College.

Dean Halfond on With my best wishes, Today’s Academic Issues

In his monthly column for The New England Journal of Higher Education, Jay A. Halfond Dean Halfond considers current issues Dean in higher learning, including challenges posed by for-profit universities, the importance of full-time faculty, and evolving areas of study in academic institutions.

You can keep up with his thoughts

by visiting nebhe.org. Photos by BU Photography and members of the BU community, except where noted. Cover photo of prison by RIRF Stock/Shutterstock.com

2 WINTER 2012 First Chadwick METrics 1,500,000 Amount Fellows pledged by Karin Addison AFTER A COMPETITIVE selection process, the Jack (MET’08) to establish first two recipients of MET’s Patricia W. Chadwick the Addison Female (MET’75) Fund for Professional Development Prisoners Education Fund. were announced in May. Established by alumna Patricia Chadwick, the fund provides grants to one Rob Haley (staž) and Enrique Silva (faculty) are the 41 Average age of MET faculty and one staff member annually, covering first to receive grants from the Patricia W. Chadwick students earning their professional development, research, and related (MET’75) Fund for Professional Development. bachelor’s in the Prison travel that may not be funded otherwise by MET. Education Program. The staff Fellowship was presented to Robert “It was an honor to have my research on Haiti’s Haley, senior media producer for Distance reconstruction efforts recognized as work befitting 401 Number of students Education. For his “Online Student Video Profile the Fellowship’s mission,” Silva states. “It was a pursuing a graduate Series,” Haley is in the process of documenting relief to be granted funds that will be critical in certificate or master’s days in the lives of up to six current online students. larger efforts to secure resources for a long-term degree in Project Creating a separate video for each subject, Haley engagement in Haiti.” Management or IT Project will portray how distance learners balance their Silva will follow up with a presentation to Management, fall 2011. studies and their day-to-day responsibilities. the BU community, as well as a grant proposal “The Chadwick Fellowship has enabled me to for long-term research funds on post-disaster 200 Percentage of growth, learn about the efforts and dedication of our online planning, at least one manuscript for submission from 2006 to 2011, in students,” notes Haley. “I am looking forward to to a peer-reviewed journal, and a syllabus for a the number of articles interacting with more of them, and sharing a bit new MET graduate course, International Planning published by MET faculty. of their lives through the finished series. I hope Studio: Planning Haiti, Planning for Disasters. “The this project will be instrumental in helping us to Fellowship is a great opportunity for MET faculty 44 Number of members on continue our innovation in meeting their needs.” interested in expanding their research and teaching the MET Dean’s Advisory On the faculty side, Dr. Enrique Silva, assistant activities,” says Silva. Board—BU’s largest. professor of urban affairs and city planning, was Dean Halfond agrees. “We have outstanding awarded a Fellowship for his proposal, “Connecting faculty and staff at MET. Patricia’s gift helps a few each 1,500 Approximate the Dots: Haiti and the Multiple Sites of Planning year to step out of the day-to-day and unleash their number of steps from Research and Pedagogy.” Having been engaged in creativity, taking on projects of personal significance Fenway Park to the MET reconstruction and planning efforts in Haiti since and of value to the College as well.” M Dean’s Ošce. the catastrophic 2010 earthquake, Silva will use his funds for travel to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, as well as See More on Rob Haley’s ongoing 16,225 Total inquiries Miami and Washington, D.C., where he will work Video Profile Series, as well as footage answered by the MET info on policy formation and planning initiatives toward of Dr. Silva’s first post-earthquake visit center in 2011. reconstruction. to Haiti, at .com/metcollegebu.

New Members of the Dean’s Advisory Board

MET welcomes the following individuals to the Dean’s Advisory Board: Steven Akers (MET’94), Robert Glovsky, Esq. (LAW’76, LAW‘79), Kimberly Grant (MET’10), Lawrence Hsu (MET’05), Brian Inselberg (CGS’83, MET’85), and Major General (retired) Gale S. Pollock (MET’84). Dean Halfond is pictured with several members of the Advisory Board. Standing, l-r: Dean Taylor (MET’78), Cynthia Cohen (MET’77), Steven Akers (MET’94), Robert Stott, Lawrence Read More about BU deans’ advisory Hsu (MET’05), R.H. Groce (CGS’80, SMG’82, MET’84), Andrei Soran (MET’92). Sitting, l-r: boards at bu.edu/today/2011/where-deans- René Beil (SHA’97, MET’04), Linda McCutcheon (DGE’75, MET’77), Dean Halfond, Howard go-for-guidance. Williams (MET’86, SED’89), Brian Inselberg (CGS’83, MET’85).

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programs as they relate to best-business to coordinate a very complex and unique theories and practices in the management project for the Bulgarian tourist industry. of international tourism companies and Their vision was to develop a sustainable destinations. and competitive model of destination. The Introducing… European Union provided the money, and Metropolitan: You have actually been I was the project leader. I designed a lot of MET welcomes two new teaching at the College for a while. educational tools for the local authorities. full-time faculty to its ranks. I have broken the University record for I have always sought to combine work teaching consecutive semesters in one with teaching, researching, and publishing. particular field—Going International: I started at MET approximately ten years Vladimir Zlatev (Administrative Import and Export Operations. I also ago, as instructor. Sciences) and Yuting Zhang teach Market and Economic Research and (Computer Science) bring Analysis and Quantitative and Qualitative How do you characterize the strengths valuable expertise to their Decision-Making. of MET’s Administrative Sciences respective departments. department? Tell us a little about your background. We offer a very balanced, structured I am originally from Sofia, Bulgaria, but approach to the future. Students are I was trained and educated in various looking for a different type of education, places. My field was industrial engineering and that is one of our advantages—you and management. I was advised by my can take courses as a military specialist in father to select a field where you have to Afghanistan, or as a marketing executive be very good in several areas—including in California. We have face-to-face, online, engineering, management, and working and blended classes, so you can keep with people. working while learning. The software and At Dresden University of Technology, tools we are using for education are the I wrote my doctoral dissertation in most advanced in the world. “system dynamics”—still one of the hot topics in the world. After, I was hired by How do you advise your students to achieve the largest computer manufacturer of their goals? the Eastern Bloc. I became a member of Nowadays, managers are living in a the board when I was in my thirties. An very tough environment, and do not important lesson I learned, dealing with have the luxury of making mistakes. managers who are ten or twenty years That’s a message I try to convey: You older, is to be a team player. will have to work very hard to predict what will happen to you, your company, Associate Professor of the How did you end up at MET? your environment, your competitor, and Practice of Administrative Another lesson I learned is that it’s the market. Sciences Vladimir Zlatev is not important to work for a company with I am a true believer that all my students exactly a new face on campus. the freedom to choose its clients. The are overachievers, so I design my classes for After a decade as a part-time computer manufacturer was working for overachievers. The critical characteristics faculty member, he recently the Russian market, and when the Russian for the overachiever are eagerness to transitioned to full-time. market collapsed in the late 1980s, our learn and a high level of competitiveness. company also collapsed. And sustainability is the final element for An experienced educator and That was a reason to think about success; you have to be a marathon runner, entrepreneur, Zlatev has a distinguished emigration to the , and I was and the distance is not 43 kilometers, but background in industrial engineering fortunate to come to the right place at the 40 years. Your personal preparation for this and corporate management. He focuses right time. In the U.S., I started working marathon is extremely important. M on marketing research and competitive at high-tech companies with great analysis based on specific industries scientists from different countries. For the and market segments, companies, and past ten years, I have also been working technologies. He also serves as project for my own company, offering high-tech leader in a European Union-financed services in the area of corrosion protection “ I am a true believer initiative on the design, management, of metal structures. that all my students are and implementation of educational In the last several years, I was asked overachievers...”

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improve the quality of service (QoS). Her research has been published in more than a dozen conference proceedings and journals.

Metropolitan: What attracted you to MET’s computer science department? One of the things that drew me to MET is collaborative research, especially BU’s “ One of the things that Center for Reliable Information Systems drew me to MET is and Cyber Security (RISCS), and their collaborative research...” research on the soft phone and cloud computing. Both topics are closely related to my research background. game in real time on your computer, it How did you get into resource management might just mean that the picture is not of systems and applications? as clear as before. The challenge is how I have always been interested in the to provide predictable service: How mysteries of how computer systems work. many missed deadlines are tolerable My master’s thesis was in the computer without degrading the quality of service architecture area, and I have worked in too much? Assistant Professor of Computer the systems area at several companies in Science Yuting Zhang grew up Beijing. When I came to BU for my PhD, How does this fit into virtual machine in a small town in Anhui I started my formal journey in systems systems? Province, China, where both resource management research. Virtualization software enables you her parents were teachers. to run multiple virtual machines on Her own passion for teaching What is this area of study about? a single physical machine, each with emerged in childhood, when she Computer systems have many resources: its own operating system. Therefore, often entertained herself with the CPU, memory, disk, and network many small physical servers can be a chalkboard and an imaginary bandwidth, among others. Also, there replaced by virtual servers running on audience of rapt pupils. are multiple applications you need to one large physical server—increasing run simultaneously—Word, Internet the utilization and reducing cost. This Zhang earned her bachelor’s and master’s browsers, email, MP3, video, all different is currently the hottest trend in the IT degrees in computer science at the things. industry, and a critical component in University of Science and Technology Usually, the operating system manages cloud computing. Beijing. She came to BU for her doctorate all the resources shared by various Since these virtual machines share in computer science, after researching applications, such as scheduling the CPU, one host machine, resource management top U.S. universities. Zhang has taught allocating memory, and handling input/ is still a big issue. at Allegheny College in Pennsylvania, output requests. The challenge is how , and Wentworth to manage these system resources for How do you view the future of technology? Institute of Technology. Last fall, she different applications, to obtain their The computer gives you power. You joined the full-time computer science required quality of service, such as time, can do anything you can think of—if faculty at MET, teaching Software throughput, and, especially, security. you think it, you can make it. And new Engineering and two sections of technology is always coming, so you Operating Systems. Does this relate to real-time systems? always have lot of challenges. M Zhang’s research mainly focuses Real-time systems have time constraints. on resource management in soft real- In a “hard” real-time system, every time systems, virtual machine systems, deadline has to be met—and, usually, each and Internet end-systems, though her task has its own deadline. If a deadline interest spreads to all areas of computer is missed, the whole system could crash systems. Zhang is engaged in the design or die. For example, the brake in your and development of new scheduling car has to respond immediately. With a algorithms and feedback-based control “soft” real-time system—a smartphone, mechanisms in order to derive better for example—it is tolerable to miss some solutions to resource management and deadlines. If you’re streaming the Red Sox

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“ I think in today’s knowledge-based society, academic skills and competencies are life or death.” A Path to

Sam Williams (MET’92) is currently pursuing Redemption his Master of City Planning at MET.

In August, Metropolitan College the end of 2010. Female offenders are more received the largest donation of likely than males to have histories of physical or its almost-five-decade history— Enforcement Act eliminated Pell grants for sexual abuse. As of 2006, close to three quarters highlighting a unique initiative prisoners, causing most other colleges to cancel of women in state prisons had symptoms that seldom finds itself in the their prisoner education initiatives. Despite the or a diagnosis of mental illness. Five percent spotlight: the Prison Education cuts in federal funding, BU continued to offer reported being pregnant during incarceration, Program. a complete undergraduate degree, donating the while a 2004 survey showed almost 60 percent cost of faculty, books, and materials. Today, the had children under the age of 18. KARIN ADDISON JACK (MET’08), a graduate Bachelor of Liberal Studies in Interdisciplinary Fewer than half of all inmates in federal, of the College’s online Master of Criminal Studies is available to inmates at MCI–Norfolk, state, and local prisons finished high school— Justice program, has committed to establish MCI–Framingham (since 1991), and Bay State and less-educated prisoners are more likely to the Addison Female Prisoners Education Fund Correctional Center (since 1989). become recidivists. at , through an endowment Learning that BU had been funding Kerrin (MET’08), who was accepted gift of $1.5 million. The gift will underwrite prisoner education from its operating into the Prison Education Program (PEP) the operating expenses of BU’s bachelor’s budget, Jack explains, “I was immediately while serving 12 years at MCI–Framingham, program at MCI–Framingham, ’ interested in supporting the women’s underscores this point. “There are not enough only all-female corrections facility. program, guaranteeing it will never be a programs to help females learn how to reenter “For about four decades, Boston University casualty of budget cuts or lack of available society. When I got out of Framingham, I really, has demonstrated a daring altruism by funding. Knowing the low recidivism rates for really struggled. After doing so much time in providing liberal arts education to qualified graduates of the program, I am convinced that prison, that is all you know. That becomes your students in prison,” comments Dean Halfond. BU’s program provides the answer to a serious life. If there aren’t groups and support systems “This has been a significant investment in their national issue.” to help people reenter society, they go back to education and transformation. I am now proud Jack began to focus on women in the prison.” to see that the women’s portion of our program criminal justice system while engaged in her Dr. Jenifer Drew (GRS’78, GRS’84), will be supported in perpetuity—thanks to MCJ studies at MET. “I gravitated to research director of BU’s Prison Education Program Karin’s generosity and social conscience.” on female juvenile offenders, trends in female and associate professor of justice studies “When I discovered BU’s Prison Education criminality and incarceration, the history of and sociology at Lasell College, argues that Program,” says Jack, “my first reaction was female criminality, and differences between by providing an education, BU is offering tremendous pride in the University for male and female offending. Of particular prisoners the means to rise out of this cycle its commitment to educating deserving concern to me is the recent rise in the permanently, and perhaps help others. “If you prisoners, and sustaining the program even as incarceration of women, and problems related don’t give prisoners opportunities to educate all other similar programs across the U.S. were to how the criminal justice system deals with themselves, they re-enter the community being discontinued.” female offenders.” worse off—no skills, no job, no place to live, The University’s first prison education Reports by the U.S. Department of Justice and possibly no family,” she says. “Programs courses were established at MCI–Norfolk in Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) indicate that such as BU’s can empower women to emerge 1972, by activist and BU instructor Elizabeth the number of women imprisoned nationwide stronger for having been through prison. Our “Ma” Barker, with support from incoming grew by 2.2 percent between 2000 and 2010, graduates are doing the kind of work that BU president John Silber. Twenty-two years with 112,797 women under the jurisdiction of college graduates typically do. People are more later, the Violent Crime Control and Law federal and state correctional authorities at willing to give them a second chance.”

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Dr. Jenifer Drew (GRS’78, GRS‘84) is director of BU’s Prison Education Program.

Kerrin agrees. “If you don’t change the person, then recidivism just continues. Some women go into Framingham for petty crimes, and just learn worse crimes in prison. The PEP gives the women in Framingham something productive to do, and puts them back on the street better educated and more positive. It’s just a great opportunity. And having that money donated to the program, it’s a gift to all those women who didn’t have a chance. Now “ Perhaps the greatest gift they have a chance for a better life.” my BU education has Those who complete the Prison Education offered me is a clear sense Program receive a BU bachelor’s degree of personal responsibility.” in Interdisciplinary Studies. Encompassing literature, foreign languages, the arts, philosophy, mathematics, and the physical and social sciences, the curriculum introduces a continuum of human experience, learning, Incarcerated at age 16, Douglas Wilson (MET’07) says his BU education and intellect through the ages. Students build marked a new chapter in his life. lifelong skills and perspective. “The liberal arts,” notes Drew, “change the PEP faculty as “godsent.” She goes on by how prisoners see themselves in the world, Did you know? explaining, “They treat us like human beings. and especially, how they see others. One 95 percent of state prisoners will We’re really in a college setting. We know that prisoner summed it up by saying they teach us eventually be released from prison. we are in BU. It’s just something that gives the right way to be. That’s the benefit of the liberal 840,700 adults were on parole at people in the program a positive outlook. arts—they put prison students in touch with the end of 2010. The program changed me for the better.” real-world norms and values.” 10 MET Department of Correction A similar testimonial is offered by Richard Former inmate Douglas Wilson (MET’07) Academic Scholarships are available Smith (MET’08), a student services professional recalls learning as much about life as he did to Massachusetts DOC employees. and adjunct professor in the criminal justice about the classics. “The professors who I 100 percent of MET tuition is covered department at SUNY Empire State College. “None worked with helped rebuild my sense of self, of my professional accomplishments would have by each Department of Correction and my concept of personal responsibility. I been possible if it weren’t for my participation in Academic Scholarship. found a purpose, and a desire to help others.” the Prison Education Program,” says Smith, who He credits the “soft skills that a rigorous spent nearly ten years behind bars, starting the PEP college education provides” with enabling him during a three-year stint at MCI–Norfolk. After to land a job within a month of his release “The beauty of the BU program is that the his release, he continued his studies on campus from prison, despite a difficult economy and prisoner earns the opportunity to participate,” at MET, earning a BS in Sociology, Cum Laude; he a criminal record. “Since graduating, I earned says Jack. “Their liberal arts studies provide received his master’s in Africana Studies from a diploma in paralegal studies and transferred them with the credentials they need to be SUNY–Albany in 2009. “Since I have been home, the lessons that I learned in college to other productive and financially independent I have been fortunate to have many opportunities academic pursuits. I’ve written articles on following their release. That the program to live out my purpose—serving others who the criminal justice system, and I’ve worked represents what is likely to be the end of a have been deprived of the resources necessary to with at-risk youth in the hope that by sharing released inmate’s reliance on federal funding actualize their potential.” my own life experiences, others might avoid is nearly impossible to argue against.” This sense of altruism—giving back—is suffering as I have. I also plan on attending Kerrin, who is preparing to start a master’s not unusual for PEP students. “All of my peers graduate school next fall.” degree program at UMass Boston, describes from the BU PEP have not only stayed out of

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prison, they have used their education to greater things. I truly believe that every human become active in their communities,” Smith being has the capacity to reverse whatever his goes on to say. “They serve in the capacities of or her situation is, and to do incredible things educators, community organizers, program in this world.” directors, at-risk youth counselors, business Today, Williams is a vocal advocate for owners, and even pastors. The program not prison education. “If you have two million- “ The professors only lowers recidivism rates, it empowers men plus people institutionalized in prisons across educed our true and women to change their communities, and this country, and you’re not figuring out how intellectual capacity, even the world.” to really develop them in powerful ways so despite our own This observation is embodied by Sam they can come back and contribute to the doubts.” Williams (MET’92), currently chief operating larger society—to the economy—then we are officer with the Unitarian Universalist wasting a valuable resource.” Urban Ministry in Roxbury. Williams, who Williams connects this thought to his Richard Smith (MET’08) is coordinator of is completing his Master of City Planning at own past. “When I look back, I was a mess. student services at SUNY Empire State College. MET, was in prison for a little over a decade. I’m sure people probably said, ‘That kid, Today, he can point to an exemplary, 15-year nothing great is going to come from him.’ almost fifty years, awarding more than 250 career in the field of human services. It requires a lot of time, and work, and bachelor’s degrees and providing liberal arts “I think in today’s knowledge-based serious commitment, and psychological and coursework to hundreds of other prisoners. society, academic skills and competencies are emotional rewiring, to really heal and reverse “Those students are profoundly affected life or death,” observes Williams. “People who a lot of the early damage that is done. But I by the transformative power of liberal arts are educated while in prison have a more know it’s possible, because I did it.” education, and so many of them continue to favorable chance of being able to take care of Drew concludes by noting that BU has pay it forward,” she says. “The opportunity BU themselves and their families, and go on to do supported the Prison Education Program for provides amazes me and makes me proud.”M

MET Authors’ Reception

EVERYBODY ENJOYS a good party—especially to celebrate the accomplishments of our own prolific faculty. On October 27, the Office of the Dean hosted a reception to recognize three faculty members with books on the market. As faculty and staff mingled with the authors and enjoyed refreshments, Associate Dean for Academic Programs Tanya Zlateva noted that MET authors’ receptions “are becoming Honoring the authors, from left: John Day (with Assistant Professor Anatoly Temkin); a tradition, and the occasions are more Joseph Boskin; Stu Jacobs. Far right: emcee and Associate Dean Tanya Zlateva. frequent—which is great.” Two of the books were written by Stuart Jacobs—Computer Science lecturer and the mission. Syracuse Press describes the members of MET’s Computer Science a recognized expert in computer and network book as “a keenly observed narrative that faculty. Lecturer John Day, drawing from security—applies the concepts of systems delivers both the absurd and the sublime in his four decades of pioneering work in the engineering to the issues of information equal measure.” Boskin noted that he was development of network architecture, offers security, examining the life cycle of providing fortunately promoted to sergeant before the the first “unified theory of networking” systems security, from design through book was published. in Patterns in Network Architecture: A Return to deployment to decommissioning. Addressing the evening’s guests, Fundamentals (Prentice Hall). Examining the In Corporal Boskin’s Cold Cold War: A Comical Dean Halfond congratulated the authors, history of networking from the ARPANET Journey ( Press), Professor commenting on the significance of having (the original Internet) forward, Day reveals Emeritus of History Joseph Boskin recounts “faculty who are notable and exceptional, the overlooked patterns in protocols that point his stint as army historian for a top-secret whose work is being recognized publicly. the way to a simpler, more powerful network scientific military expedition to northern Our research and scholarly productivity structure and, perhaps, the “Internet 2.0.” Greenland during the Korean War in 1953. has doubled or tripled over the last few In his new textbook, Engineering Information Assigned to compile and transmit regular years. These books represent the tip of that Security: The Application of Systems Engineering Concepts progress reports, Boskin was privy to the whole process.” M to Achieve Information Assurance (Wiley-IEEE Press), very human dramas that unfolded during

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They Met We have always said that Metropolitan College offers many opportunities to make close connections—with business associates and knowledgeable industry pros, of course. at MET But it turns out that some of our students have connected in other ways, too.

Julia + Jesse Gale + Douglas Karen + Daniel

Jesse Lopez (MET’11) + Major General (Retired) Gale Elkan “Daniel” Sanders (MET’91) + Julia Kopytova (MET’11) Pollock (MET’84) + Lieutenant Karen Corbett Sanders (MET’91) Status: Engaged to be married, Colonel (Retired) Douglas L. Status: Happily married April 2012 McAllaster (MET’84) Where they met: Where they met: Status: Happily married MS in Business Administration BS in Management Studies Where they met: and Management program, program, Boston campus MS in Business Administration Brussels campus and Management program, Heidelberg campus Jesse tells the story: We did not have any classes together until Gale tells the story: our final year of school. We first met in I had traveled to Frankfurt for a class and did They tell the story: Project Management. Julia came in late to not enjoy it—no one spoke to me. I decided It was definitely not love at first sight. class and sat down near the back of the room, if anyone visited our classes in Landstuhl, I Karen was president of the student body, a couple rows over from me. She looked at would be friendly. I spotted Doug when he and she wanted to hold a meeting in the me, and I looked at her. At that moment, I was a “visitor” in our class at Landstuhl. Doug student lounge. Daniel was lounging, and knew something inevitable was there. After claims that he was wowed when he talked not moving—but his interest was piqued. class, I introduced myself. Several days later, with me during class breaks. Daniel was incredibly persistent, and after six we shared another class, and I talked to her Doug was the math genius who helped weeks, Karen finally agreed to a “day date.” again. This continued for several weeks, until me and my colleagues through statistics. One She thought that would be the end of his eventually, I made a plan to ask her out. evening, our professor was trying in vain to pursuit. Instead, she was wowed by a fun Unfortunately, when the big day came, communicate a concept in that subject. All of a outing to a rugby game, followed by I overheard Julia telling the professor that sudden, Doug walks to the front of the room homemade Indonesian food. Clearly, Daniel she was leaving after the first half of class to and says to her, “If you want to sit down, I’ll was not going away. catch a plane. I was disappointed knowing I do this,” and she did! He erased all the scribble They clicked because they had the same would have to wait another week. But, when on the board and said, “This is not hard. Step values. Today, their romance includes lunch I left class for break, Julia was waiting in the one... Step two... That’s all there is to this. Does together when working from home, date hallway. She said that she was leaving for a this make sense?” I decided then that he was nights between the crazy schedules of two week, and asked for my phone number—for really smart and I wanted to know him better. high school girls, and an occasional weekend homework assignments. I said I was happy Just over two years later, we married. away at their beach house. Daniel and Karen to give her my number, especially since I had We are both glad that we decided to remain committed to BU, and have hosted been planning to ask her out. participate in the program while we were in MET events at their home. They love to She did not say ‘yes’ right away—but she —we got our master’s degrees, and support MET programs and are proud to be

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WINTER 2012 9 Project Management: the Big Dig Photo right: Israel Pabon/Shutterstock.com. Photo far right: Greg Kushmerek/Shutterstock.com. Photo by Pierdelune/Shutterstock.com.

this “distressway” would be plagued by 16-hour traffic jams (if it did not collapse “ People say it was the greatest before then). cost overrun ever,” says Green-lighted in 1991, the project also Warburton. “The initial estimate included construction of the Ted Williams was around $2.4 billion, and it Tunnel to Logan Airport, the Leonard P. ended up at $14 billion.” Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge, and the Rose For a student of project Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway. Scandalized management, there are few better by scheduling issues, tunnel leaks, design ways to grasp the intricacies flaws, allegations of corner-cutting, political he and his intrepid graduate assistant pieced of a project than by examining finger-pointing, criminal arrests, and four together their findings. “My presentation on case studies. And there are few worker deaths, for many the project’s nadir the cost estimate of the Big Dig describes better case studies than the occurred in 2006, when a ceiling panel in how we found this information,” he explains. Central Artery/Tunnel Project. the Ted Williams Tunnel crashed down into “Looking at data, we saw that I-90, I-93, Known as the “Big Dig,” the traffic, killing a local woman. and the interchange under Chinatown were world’s biggest, and possibly most For Warbuton, a former astrophysicist responsible for 95 percent of the total expenses. notorious, inner-city mega-project and supply chain innovator whose And in those three elements, only a small is just a short distance from BU. specialty is earned-value analysis, this percentage of the contracts accounted for 90 tragedy brought to light something more percent of the money. They knew early on what As Associate Professor of Administrative controversial. the cost was—and did not tell the public.” Sciences Roger Warburton says, “Nothing “People say it was the greatest cost With all the complexity—and drama— was simple about the Big Dig.” A marvel of overrun ever,” he says. “The initial estimate necessary to illustrate the art and science of structural engineering and innovation, the was around $2.4 billion, and it ended project management, the Big Dig serves as a project’s objective was to bury the major up at $14 billion. But the truth is that magnificent teaching tool in MET’s project interstate highways that converged on Boston’s engineers in the late 1980s already knew it management core curriculum. Offered on gritty, elevated Central Artery. This unsightly was a $12 to $14 billion project. They told campus and online through the Department behemoth funneled north-south traffic (I-93), everybody who would listen—including of Administrative Sciences, the four-course east-west Turnpike traffic (I-90), and Logan the politicians—and those people kept it curriculum can be completed as a graduate Airport traffic right through Boston, severing quiet.” certificate or as the core of the College’s the city’s waterfront from downtown. Clogged In a compelling short video for his Master of Science in Project Management. with an estimated 190,000 vehicles per day students, Warburton stands at various “The Big Dig spans all the knowledge in the 1990s—about twice what it was built locations in downtown Boston and areas covering the entire spectrum of project to handle—it was predicted that, by 2010, introduces the Big Dig, recounting how management, as defined by the Project

10 WINTER 2012 Project Management: the Big Dig Photo right: Israel Pabon/Shutterstock.com. Photo far right: Greg Kushmerek/Shutterstock.com. “Historically, we have what I would consider to be the best, most progressive, most advanced project management program in the country. We’re challenging the status quo. We are engaged at the cutting-edge of what’s going on in the project management field, and that is reflected in the content of our courses. What we’re offering here is not more of the same, but an opportunity to engage with the really important, innovative ideas that will make a difference in the way that people manage projects.” Leybourne, who is widely regarded to be the foremost authority on improvisation imagine running a project management within the project domain, notes that his program without the professors having actual, approach to the subject is entirely behavioral. This page, clockwise from above: Administrative real-world experience. It has no meaning “I focus on people—working in teams, how Sciences professors Roger Warburton, Steve until you can excite your students and share people lead projects, dealing with complexity Leybourne, Vijay Kanabar, and Virginia Greiman the passion that you have for making projects and ambiguity—Continued on page 13> (SED’70, LAW’03); a vestige of the elevated better. It’s one of the reasons I came to BU.” Central Artery; a segment of the Rose Kennedy In his recent article in the New England Greenway; construction of Zakim Bridge. Journal of Higher Education, Dean Halfond Big Dig Trivia observed that many schools are now offering 10 Number of lanes on the Leonard P. Management Institute,” says Vijay Kanabar, project management programs that are “not Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge, associate professor and director of MET’s taught by full-time faculty, with research- part of the Big Dig. project management programs. “Having a based doctorates, actively engaged in 75,000 Approximate number of cars real-world project based in Boston, and having scholarship.” What sets MET apart is a cadre the Central Artery was designed to faculty who have worked on it, is definitely a of full-time faculty with terminal degrees, accommodate in 1959. pedagogical advantage.” extensive professional experience, and peerless 190,000 Actual number of vehicles using Assistant Professor Virginia Greiman research qualifications. Such faculty, Halfond the Central Artery, per day, by the 1990s. (SED’70, LAW’03) was former deputy chief writes, “bring credibility and commitment— 16 Daily hours of tra¢c jams predicted counsel and risk manager for the Big Dig. and can create the gravitas that will legitimize on the Central Artery by 2010. With more than twenty years of experience and sustain project management. True $11,800,000,000 Di£erence between at the federal and state levels—including academic faculty serve on editorial boards, the stated cost of the Big Dig and the terms as U.S. Trustee for the Department of connect academic research and industry actual cost. Justice and legal counsel to the U.S. Agency needs, and generate and disseminate $500,000,000 Approximate annual for International Development, the World knowledge. This success distinguishes a world- cost savings to residents and businesses, Bank, and the U.S. Department of State—her class program from a merely competent one.” as a result of the Big Dig’s enhanced expertise is in the realm of mega-projects. Which is exactly what Warburton points tra¢c flow. “The Big Dig consisted of multiple projects out: “Our faculty have been out in the real that had to be managed as one program,” she world working on projects, and they’re says. “As deputy chief counsel, there probably academically credible. They know how to

was not an area that I didn’t deal with. I draw present the academic element and graft it onto Photo by Marcio Jose Bastos Silva/Shutterstock.com. upon expertise from the Big Dig, as well as the experience. And I think that’s a winning other projects, because it’s important to look combination.” at projects comparatively. I am absolutely According to Kanabar, “We set the intent upon teaching and utilizing lessons bar high. We prefer faculty with previous learned from all projects—not just the tools experience and with terminal qualifications and techniques, but all the important skills. in project management, as well as the Project Being a project manager is not just learning Management Professional credential. We are how to estimate cost, but how to deal with able to leverage our body of knowledge and conflict and ethical questions. I want to make present it to the students. We are proud that sure our students are well trained to manage BU is among the top five universities in this difficult decisions when faced with projects.” field—both in education and research.” As for the necessity of hands-on Assistant Professor Steve Leybourne is experience, Greiman is emphatic: “I cannot similarly forceful about MET’s reputation.

WINTER 2012 11 Online Master of Social Work Now Online– the Master of Social Work WORKING WITH BU’s School of Social Work (SSW) to launch the University’s first online Master of Social Work (MSW), MET’s Distance Education team faced a good-sized challenge: Design a successful online program in a discipline defined by site visits and face-to- face contact with people, while staying true to School of Social Work Dean Gail Steketee (in tricorne hat) christens the new online the School of Social Work’s urban focus and Master of Social Work, joined by staž from SSW and MET’s Distance Education ošce. rigorous academics. For Distance Education, this was yet choose a concentration in Clinical Social schools can claim. Recently, MET’s impeccable another occasion to push the boundaries of Work Practice, a prerequisite for advanced standards earned BU the Sloan-C Award distance learning. “We are thrilled not only professional licensure. for Excellence in Institution-Wide Online to be working with the faculty and staff of The program brings the School of Social Education and the U.S. Distance Learning the School of Social Work, but also by the Work’s nationally recognized faculty— Association Award for 21st Century Best possibilities of delivering the MSW program distinguished scholars, researchers, and leaders Practices. online,” says Nancy Coleman, director of in strengthening communities—right to the “MET has been terrifically responsive to Distance Education. “Social work is such an laptops of students around the nation. “We our specialized needs for distance education inherently face-to-face discipline. The challenge are delighted to expand our student body in social work,” Dean Steketee notes. “They of enabling effective social work-related geographically, and to work with community have developed online formats to ensure interchange online is one that will continue field agencies far and wide,” says Dean of the clear communication between professor and to help us show that distance education is a School of Social Work Gail Steketee. “For our student, and real-time role-plays that are rigorous and effective mode of delivery.” school, this increases our diversity and expands essential for clinical training. With MET as While coursework is completed online, our awareness of the many social issues facing a partner, we have been able to accomplish students are also required to engage in field the field of social work across the U.S.” our goal of providing excellent online social internships within their own communities. BU is now poised to claim national work education.” Intended for social workers with at least leadership in online social work education. The first cohort of the online MSW began two years of professional experience, the Currently one of the highest-ranked schools this past fall. M program has a holistic, integrated curriculum to offer the MSW online, BU has the added that builds the skills needed to assist diverse advantage of being an acknowledged leader Learn More about the online groups and at-risk populations. Students can in distance learning—something few other Master of Social Work at: onlinemsw.bu.edu.

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12 WINTER 2012 Savoir Faire

The Big Dig, continued from page 11> Savoir Faire and that is a really big area in the project management field, at the moment, for academics. Project managers have to manage people who are dealing with, experiencing, Highlights of recent faculty and staff honors, and, indeed, actually driving forward change grants, presentations, and publications. within organizations—and that can be quite complicated. We’re often dealing with things such as ambiguity and complexity.” Kip Becker, associate professor and chair year as part of the Dance/Draw exhibition at Musing on measuring the overall, long- of Administrative Sciences, was named Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art. term success of a controversial project like the technology and business editor of the Journal of Computer Science Associate Professor Big Dig, Kanabar offers an analogy. “At the end Euromarketing, and continues to edit the Journal Eric Braude and lecturer Dino Konstantopoulos of the day, completing a project on schedule of Transnational Management. Becker was also had their paper, “A Mashup Framework and within budget is good—but the most appointed to the Institute for Market Research for Composable Resources in the Presence important thing is that long after a project is and Strategy (iMARKE) at the University of of Unreliability,” accepted for January’s finished, people just remember the quality. Minho, Portugal. International Conference on Advances in When we offer our graduate degree and Roger Warburton, associate professor of Computing and Management in Pune, India. certificate in project management—whether Administrative Sciences, and former MET Shea Cronin, assistant professor of it’s on campus or online—we emphasize lecturer Stephen Disney had their paper, Criminal Justice, had his article, “Maintaining that quality comes first and should never be “On the Lambert W Function: Economic Order under the Rule of Law: Occupational sacrificed. Because we know that long after Order Quantity Applications and Pedagogical Templates and Police Use of Force,” accepted students complete the project management Considerations,” accepted by the International for publication in the Journal of Crime & Justice. curriculum and earn that piece of paper, Journal of Production Economics. Coauthored by Robert Kane (Arizona State what they will remember is the quality of Assistant Professor of Administrative University), the article was also included on a our program. That is what will distinguish Sciences Steve Leybourne was appointed to panel at the American Society of Criminology us as having the best program in project the editorial board of the Journal of Project, Conference in November. management in the country—if not the Program, and Portfolio Management. His paper, A paper by Assistant Professor of world.” M “Improvisation and Project Management: Administrative Sciences Irena Vodenska, What, When and How,” was presented at the “Identifying Influential Directors in the Learn More about MET’s project PMI® Global Congress 2011—North America. United States Corporate Governance management programs at bu.edu/met/ Gastronomy Assistant Professor Rachel Network,” was accepted in the Physical Review E programs/project-management. Black and Visiting Professor Carole Counihan Journal. The paper was written in collaboration contributed to the inaugural 2011 Rochester with faculty from BU’s College of Arts & See More about the Department of Institute of Technology Conable Conference in Sciences physics department and Bar-Ilan Administrative Sciences at youtube.com/ International Studies: Cuisine, Technology & University, Israel. metcollegebu. Development. Black presented “Vino Naturale: Stu Jacobs, lecturer in Computer Science, Tensions between Nature and Technology had his paper, “WiMAX Subscriber and in the Glass,” and Counihan delivered the Mobile Station Authentication Challenges,” keynote on “Food Activism, Cuisine, and published in the November 2011 issue of Technology in Italy’s Slow Food Movement.” the IEEE Communications Magazine. Jacobs also Daniel Ranalli, associate professor and published Engineering Information Security: The director of Arts Administration, participated Application of Systems Engineering Concepts to Achieve Photo courtesy of Infosys. in the exhibition New and Recent Work by 13 Information Assurance (Wiley-IEEE Press). Massachusetts Cultural Council Award Recipients in John Day, lecturer in Computer Science, Doing Business in and with India Painting and Drawing, at the presented “Bounding the Router Table Size in Art Gallery. Ranalli also showed in The Tides an ISP Network Using RINA,” at the Second In January, 16 graduate students in MET’s of Provincetown: Pivotal Years in America’s Oldest International Conference on the Network Administrative Sciences course “Doing Continuous Art Colony, at the New Britain of the Future, Université Pierre et Marie Business in and with India” attended classes Museum of American Art, Conn. (July– Curie, , November 2011. The paper was on the Infosys campuses in Bangalore and October 2011), the Westmoreland Museum of coauthored with Associate Professor Lou Mysore. Alumnus S.D. Shibulal (MET’88) American Art, Penn. (October 2011–January Chitkushev and several other faculty from is co-founder and CEO of the $6.8 billion 2012), and the Wichita Art Museum, Kans. Boston University and elsewhere. M company, which employs 145,000 people (February–April 2012). Ranalli concluded the in over 30 countries.

WINTER 2012 13 Alumni Gatherings Longtime MET Faculty Member Find us on Facebook: Alumni Gatherings facebook.com/METBU Ed Brookner Retires The assistant professor See footage of of liberal studies Dean Halfond at bids adieu to MET. a recent alumni event in N.H. Visit LAST SPRING—after 45 years of youtube.com/ teaching liberal arts at MET— metcollegebu. published poet, award-winning photographer, and longtime painter Ed Brookner formally announced his retirement. Brookner started his sojourn at MET as a creative writing teacher in 1966, just one year after the College opened its doors. “When A fond farewell: Retiring faculty I came, I didn’t know that I was member Ed Brookner at a reception in at the beginning,” laughs in his honor, October 2011. Brookner. “I assumed MET had been in existence for forty years. respect of his students. “Each I assumed that they had taught student is an individual,” says creative writing right along, Brookner. “I know it’s corny, but Ï New York Top, l-r: Clyde Morris (MET’11), current student but now I realize maybe I was that’s how I look at it. There were Ahmed Farooq, and Peter Korzenik (MET’89). Bottom, l-r: Justin Holden the first one.” Over the course so many students I respected (CFA’01, MET’04) with student CJ Zoccali and guest; Yvette Bernal of his career at MET, Brookner and liked, and who did excellent (MET’11) and Stephanie Burke (MET’11). taught dozens of literature and work for me. I have a large pile of liberal arts courses in the day and student essays, poems, and stories evening, including many in the I retained because of their quality, undergraduate Accelerated Degree or what they taught me.” Completion Program and the Reflecting on this, Brookner Prison Education Program. For continues the thought: “I don’t twenty years, he also coordinated have a philosophy of teaching, English Composition at MET. other than it be non-authoritarian “Ed has been a pillar at MET and show respect for the students. for more than four decades— When I taught creative writing, Ï Atlanta From left, Master of Criminal Justice alumnae Jennifer and provided the foundation there was always a line in a poem, Waindle (MET’10) and Sharon Reddick (MET’10), with current MCJ for developing the writing there was always an image that students JaNina Milligan, Alia El-Sawi, and Ebony Holmes. skills students need to do their was worthwhile, something a academic and professional student could build on. That’s work,” says Dean Halfond. a much better approach than a “He has interacted with negative one.” thousands of students over his Dean Halfond recalls time at MET—one student and developing the Accelerated Degree one paper at a time—and had a Completion Program a decade profound impact on their lives. ago. “I turned to Ed to be the first He also had the artistic integrity faculty coordinator—I knew he and sense of purpose to balance would have the academic and Ï Health Communication Conference, Atlanta his own writing and photography personal qualities that students During last August’s CDC National Conference in Health Communication, with his commitment to would value.” MET faculty members Pauline Hamel and Domenic Screnci hosted Boston University.” “The Degree Completion an event for 24 Health Communication students and alumni. Pictured Easygoing, with a pleasing Program was very exciting,” says (l-r): student Margaret Delaschmit with Pauline Hamel; Jane Hildebrandt hint of irreverence, Brookner Brookner. “It was a great idea. (CAS’89, MET’11) and student Amy Hall with Barbara Noble (MET’11); exhibits a generous spirit—an We had testimonials from people student Sheena Haynes and Alane Bearder (MET’11). attitude that earned the deep Continued on page 15>

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Î Submit class notes to: Gary Grossman (MET’75) is a from colleges—tracking whether Matthew Reno (MET’10) was Boston University Dean’s Advisory Board member students get jobs related to their appointed by the governor of Metropolitan College Alumni Ošce and a multiple Emmy Award- major of study. Learn more at Michigan to serve a four-year 755 Commonweath Avenue, B5 winning television producer. As collegeminer.com. term on the state’s Construction Boston, MA 02215 co-owner of Weller/Grossman Code Commission. The bu.edu/alumni/classnotes Productions and his successful Becky Kelly (MET’96) (née Commission was created by the new company, World Media Hickson) of Longmont, Colo., Stille-Derossett-Hale Single State Claritza Abreu (MET’03) of Strategies, he has produced more married Chris Kelly in Boulder Construction Code Act (Act 230) Randolph, Mass., is assistant chief than 9,000 television shows on August 20, 2011. Kelly also of 1972, in order to improve the information officer of analytics for 36 networks. Grossman is recently transitioned to market quality of housing for Michigan and business intelligence at the author of two non-fiction books segment manager of IBM’s residents while assisting the Massachusetts Office of Health that explore television history, Software Group after working housing industry. and Human Services. She is and two international thrillers 14 years in IBM’s Integrated also program coordinator and now available through Diversion Technology Delivery organization. Horst Schenk (MET’83) recently senior professor in the Health Books: Executive Actions and Executive published Recollections from Care Informatics Program at Treason (the latter featuring an Tom Laszewski (MET’02) of My Five Lives, a collection of Cambridge College School of appearance by our very own Dean Hampton, N.H., has co authored several volumes of memories, Management. Recognized in Halfond). Visit garygrossman.com two books: Migrating to the Cloud including anecdotes told from 2009 as one of Massachusetts’ for more information. (Syngress Press) and Oracle the perspective of his first pet. most influential Latinos and Information Integration, Migration, and His books can be viewed at community leaders, Abreu was Matthew Harris (MET’10) recently Consolidation (Packt Publishing, lulu.com/spotlight/horstschenk. among Mass High Tech’s “Women launched an Internet startup packtpub.com). to Watch” in 2011. She received called “College Miner.” Originally that year’s Massachusetts an idea for a project in his MET Paul Peralez (MET’10) was Excellence in Technology Award, Data Mining course, College admitted to the PhD program and was among Alumni of the Miner provides reporting tools in Criminal Justice at Texas State Year recognized by INTEC in the that enable students and parents University, fall 2011. Dominican Republic. to research student outcome data

More Alumni Gatherings Ï Brookner, continued from page 14> Health Communication about how it changed their APHA, Washington, D.C. Health lives. At the end of the program, Communication faculty member Pauline Hamel people thanked you with tears in presented a poster and greeted students their eyes. It meant a lot to them.” and alumni at the American Public Health As for life after retirement? Association’s annual meeting in October. “With the exception of having From left: Hamel with APHA 2011 Rising Star more time to pursue my interests, Award winner Raed Mansour (MET’11); the it’s pretty much the same as poster, with Amy Ramsay (MET’11) and Hamel. it was before. I write most mornings. I enjoy photography Ï PMI Conference, Dallas Project Management and explore the woods of Rhode faculty members Vijay Kanabar, Steve Leybourne, and Island with my camera. When Roger Warburton welcomed BU alumni and current online I hit a wall with the writing, students at the PMI® Global Congress last October. I dabble with paint and canvas. The important thing is to get it done and to have it there. You work and you stay honest.” M

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