New Management Advisory Council

Ever-seeking excellence in education and further curriculum enhancements, Curry College recently established a Management Advisory Council. The newly formed council will continue to build strong collaborations between Curry College and area businesses and business leaders. Many notable leaders in the local business community have agreed to participate as council members. Mr. James P. McDonough, former President of Abington Savings Bank and current Chairman of the South Shore Chamber of Commerce chairs the new Management Advisory Council at Curry. Council companies and organization’s include Caritas Carney

Hospital, Citizens Bank of Massachusetts, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Industrial Communications, Integrated Media Networks, Inc., Mass Envelope Plus, Reardon Associates, Smith Barney, South Shore Chamber of Commerce, South Shore Hospital, St. Elizabeth's Medical Center of Boston, Wainwright Bank & Trust Company, The Welch Corporation, the City of Boston and the County of Norfolk.

The Management Advisory Council has met twice thus far and plans to assist Curry in understanding emerging industry trends and issues and provide insight and energy in the development

of new academic programs. The College expects to explore potential partnerships for training or workforce development with council member companies, and to design internship opportunities for Curry students to take on company-based projects.

Additionally, as Curry continues to proceed through the approval process for the MBA program recently submitted to the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education, council member companies anticipate a positive outcome and hope to partner with specific cohorts within the program once approved and launched.

Curry Hosts Fulbright Scholar

Curry College has been selected to host Fulbright Visiting Scholar Patrick Bernard O’Neill from Canada for the 2004-2005 academic year.

Patrick Bernard O’Neill

Patrick O’Neill is one of approximately 800 outstanding foreign faculty and professionals the Fulbright Scholar Program will bring to the U.S. to teach and do research. Established in 1946 under legislation introduced by the late Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, the program’s purpose is to build mutual understanding between the people of the United States and other countries.

Mr. O’Neill, Professor in the Department of Speech and Drama at Mount St. Vincent University, Halifax, Canada, will research the inter-relationship between Canadian and American Theater Practices and History.

The Fulbright Program, America’s flagship international educational exchange activity, is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Over its 58 years of existence, thousands of U.S. faculty and professionals have studied, taught, or done research abroad, and thousands of their counterparts from other countries have engaged in similar activities in the U.S. They are among more than 250,000 American and foreign university students, K-12 teachers, and university faculty and professionals who have participated in one of the several Fulbright exchange programs.

Recipients of Fulbright awards - both U.S. and foreign - are selected on the basis of academic or professional achievement and because they have demonstrated extraordinary leadership potential in their fields.