Boston College. School of Nursing
Dates
- Usage: 2003 - present
- Usage: 1947 - 2003
Biography
Boston College School of Nursing was established at the request of Richard Cardinal Cushing, archbishop of Boston, who asked that the University begin a baccalaureate nursing program since no Catholic institution in the Archdiocese of Boston offered such a program.
The School of Nursing opened its doors on January 27, 1947, with 35 registered nurses enrolled for a bachelor of science in nursing or nursing education. The following September, a group of 27 high school graduates enrolled in the baccalaureate program. It was the first full-time undergraduate program at Boston College to accept women. The School was located at 126 Newbury Street, known then as “Boston College Intown” or the "Intown School." Nursing students commuted to Chestnut Hill on Tuesdays and Thursdays for laboratory classes held in Devlin Hall.
In 1958, the master's program was established. Cushing Hall, the School of Nursing's second home, was dedicated on March 25, 1960, and the following week nursing students and faculty officially moved to the Chestnut Hill Campus.
The Ph.D. degree program began in 1988; it was the first nursing doctoral program to be offered at a Jesuit university.
On September 12, 2003, the School of Nursing was named in honor of the late businessman and philanthropist William F. Connell, a member of the BC Class of 1959. In 2015, after more than five decades in Cushing Hall, the William F. Connell School of Nursing moved to Maloney Hall.
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
W. Seavey Joyce, SJ, President’s Office records
Collection is closed. Access with permission of office. Departmental records and faculty files containing student records, faculty tenure and promotion files, and other records containing personally identifiable information are closed due to privacy restrictions.
Michael P. Walsh, SJ, President's Office records
Collection is open for research. Series I. Admissions is closed in its entirety due to privacy restrictions, and is stored off-site. A small amount of material in other series is also closed due to privacy restrictions.
Boston College School of Nursing records
Records of the Boston College School of Nursing, primarily publications, as well as some event materials.
Collection is open for research.
Mary Rita Petkauskas papers
Contains an autobiography, certificates and albums of photographs and ephemera. Much of the material relates to Petkauskas's work as a professor in the Boston College Graduate School of Nursing and the School's Maternal and Child Health Program.
Collection is open for research.
Sigma Theta Tau, Alpha Chi chapter (Boston College) records
Records from the Alpha Chi (Boston College) Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau, the National Honor Society in Nursing, including administrative materials, newsletters, photographs, programs, and promotional materials.
Collection is open for research.
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