Boston College Front Row

Why arent we being recruited as aggressively to commit to teaching for two years in our highest poverty communities as we are to commit two years to work on Wall Street, says Wendy Kopp, echoing the question that led her to found Teach for America, the teaching corps that began as Kopps undergraduate thesis at Princeton in 1989 and has grown to place more than 9,000 recent college graduates in classrooms in 43 low-income urban and rural communities across the country.

Kopp addresses the Lynch Leadership Academy and discusses her recent book, A Chance to Make History: What Works and What Doesnt in Providing an Excellent Education for All.

Curtis J. Evans, assistant professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Chicago Divinity School, delivers this lecture as part of the New Directions in African Diaspora Studies Series.

Curtis J. Evans, assistant professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Chicago Divinity School, delivers this lecture as part of the New Directions in African Diaspora Studies Series.

Daniel Chowning, O.C.D., a Carmelite writer, lecturer and retreat leader, delivers a lecture about Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity, the Carmelite nun and writer who lived from 1880 to 1906 and was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1984.

Daniel Chowning, O.C.D., a Carmelite writer, lecturer and retreat leader, delivers a lecture about Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity, the Carmelite nun and writer who lived from 1880 to 1906 and was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1984.

Dan DiLeo of the Catholic Coalition on Climate Change discusses the Churchs teaching and message on climate change and environmental stewardship.

Dan DiLeo of the Catholic Coalition on Climate Change discusses the Churchs teaching and message on climate change and environmental stewardship.

"A growing number of 20- and 30-somethings have come to view living alone as a key part of the transition to adulthood," says NYU sociology professor Eric Klinenberg, editor of the journal Public Culture, and author of the forthcoming book Alone in America. Klinenberg traces the history and sociology of solitary living in urban America, from the days of immigrant boarding houses at the turn of the 20th century, to today, when 40 percent of unmarried people ages 20 to 29 live away from their parents.

"A growing number of 20- and 30-somethings have come to view living alone as a key part of the transition to adulthood," says NYU sociology professor Eric Klinenberg, editor of the journal Public Culture, and author of the forthcoming book Alone in America. Klinenberg traces the history and sociology of solitary living in urban America, from the days of immigrant boarding houses at the turn of the 20th century, to today, when 40 percent of unmarried people ages 20 to 29 live away from their parents.

Lectura Dantis, an ongoing public reading of Dantes Divine Comedy, presents "Paradiso 14" with Adoyo Owuor, teaching fellow in Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. The presentation of the text is in English, and the reading in Italian.