Suffolk University News

06/02/2023

03/28/2021

The University announced that it will celebrate its 2020 and 2021 Commencements at Fenway Park in May.
https://www.suffolk.edu/news-features/news/2021/03/08/16/18/commencement-announcement-2021

02/10/2021

02/10/2021

Graduate marketing students helped CARE better understand how the pandemic has affected women around the world. Here's what they uncovered.

Sawyer Business School marketing students uncover COVID’s global toll on women’s mental health

08/12/2020

"The idea that a pandemic would threaten our national security has been a known threat for many years. The only questions were when, in what form, how bad and how do we prepare?" Tune in today to learn more
https://www.wgbh.org/events/how-will-covid-19-change-national-security-virtual

The idea that a pandemic would threaten our national security has been a known threat for many years. The only questions were when, in what form, how bad and how do we prepare?

08/03/2020

“It’s not surprising that police agencies do not want to divulge disciplinary records,” says Suffolk Professor Brenda Bond-Fortier. The issue of officer privacy vs. transparency is complex, but transparency is important to trust. An annual report, summarizing investigations or discipline for the year, but not identifying officers, could be a solution, she suggested. https://www.milforddailynews.com/news/20200802/record-request-behind-story

08/03/2020

“Municipal leaders should be expected to be as active in this conversation about police reform, because they’re involved around a lot of the decisions.” — Public Administration Professor Brenda Bond-Fortier https://www.metrowestdailynews.com/news/20200801/police-chiefs-reform-needed-but-we-should-be-included

Local police say their departments already have access to an accreditation system. Police chiefs have kept the formerly state-run Massachusetts Police

08/03/2020

Tune in as Donny Porcaro, Class of 2020, does play-by-play for 3 Futures Collegiate Baseball League games after making the league’s first major television deal--with NESN.

While professional baseball has returned to our television screens, many collegiate players, still suffering from the cancellation of their spring seasons, have not experienced the usual amount of summer playing time due to COVID-19. But one Suffolk University alumnus has been instrumental in gettin...

07/30/2020

Who will staff the polls this year? With “a tremendous number of unemployed people at the moment. The people power…does exist. It’s just a matter of matching the people through the process and getting them there to do work that needs to be done.” Professor Rachael Cobb https://carolinapublicpress.org/36797/nc-2020-election-poll-workers-pandemic-recruitment/

Dynamics of 2020 election in NC are increasing the need for poll workers, but fears of the pandemic are making those workers harder to find, with many of the older workers who have served as polls previously worried about high risk for COVID-19.

07/28/2020

“In our research we find that just living in a household with one person who doesn’t have papers is just as stressful and anxiety-provoking [as] being undocumented yourself. It’s because of the threat of separation, which is a traumatic experience.” —Psychology Professor Amy Marks, Suffolk University, in conversation with author https://www.health.com/mind-body/first-generation-american-mental-health-immigrant-paradox

In honor of Minority Mental Health Awareness Month, writer Jonathan Borge describes his experience of what researchers refer to as the "immigrant paradox."

07/27/2020

"Partisanship v Pandemic — Common Enemy, Disjointed Response." Join the conversation. Suffolk University and partners offer “Politics in the Time of Global Pandemic” online https://wgbh.zoom.us/webinar/register/1615954369143/WN_4rQNA11CQTS6WUkje1PdUw

Times of crisis require governments to cooperate and coordinate large-scale responses. Yet Congress and the President are inherently partisan actors in a federal system—negotiating the competing pressures of obtaining concrete results for constituents, but not being seen as too accommodating of po...

07/27/2020

The Dem and GOP conventions this year will be "anti-climactic and dull" predicts Suffolk polling director David Paleologos —unless Biden can hold off on announcing his VP pick

A national party convention balloon drop is normally followed by a nominee polling surge, and as President Trump trails Joe Biden, he could use all the help he can get.