A Critical Moment to Come Together
This year’s Commencement and Alumni Weekend served as poignant reminders of the strength and resilience of the Emerson community.
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Pat Bartevian ’44: A Boylston Street Legacy
Bartevian operates the antique shop her father opened in 1910.
Changing Standards
Jae Williams’s Big Idea: Eliminate standardized testing in school to boost students’ confidence and encourage them to define themselves beyond a one-size-fits-all rubric.
Radically Changing Our Schools
Linda Nathan’s Big Idea: Rethink how we teach students and radically restructure how time is used in school and what curriculum is offered and prioritized.
Norman Lear ’44, LHD ’68: An Appreciation
When TV legend Norman Lear passed away on December 6 at the age of 101, he was remembered as the man who forever changed television with such socially conscious 1970s sitcoms as All in the Family, Maude, Good Times, The Jeffersons, and One Day at a Time.
Mitigating Climate Change by Making Green Tech Cheaper
Evan Chapman’s Big Idea: Close the cost gap between clean technologies and those that emit greenhouse gasses to make choosing climate-friendly options more viable.
Ode to Boston and to the Arts’ Transformative Power
The arts will forever be a force for good, a beacon of hope, and an instrument of change.
15 Lessons on Theatre from Maureen Shea
Maureen taught that heightened stories, lives, and circumstances are attainable through the tools of symbolism, naturalism, and poetry.
In (Banned) Books We Trust
How Emersonians are taking action
to protect free speech. One book at a time.
Commencement CHATter
ChatGPT and generative AI technology have taken the world by storm.
Meet Emerson’s 13th President: Dr. Jay Bernhardt
Bernhardt is leaving his position as dean of Moody College of Communication at the University of Texas at Austin and professor of communication studies.
20 Questions with Bill Gilligan
In June, Bill Gilligan will retire as interim president of Emerson College. He began his career at Emerson in 1982 as an adjunct teacher.
Embraceable You
The Embrace, a sculpture memorializing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King and their time in Boston, was unveiled in January.
The Invisible Hand
The company’s name, Invisible Hand, was born in part because Genevieve Roth enjoys working behind the scenes.
The Risks and Rewards of Diplomacy
For the last 20 years, as a foreign service officer for the US Department of State, Aaron Snipe’s world has stretched through time zones and war zones.