Sustain BC is a student/faculty committee dedicated to promoting greater actions towards sustainability on campus. The organization is a great opportunity to for students to collaborate with administrators and faculty interested in the environment at Boston College. This committee helps sponsor events and uses their leadership role to enact real change towards sustainability at Boston College. Its members have developed a Green Course Checklist and a Green Checklist for Sustainable Events in order to outline simple and effective ways to put sustainable practices into action across campus.

Each spring Leadership for Change recruits a learning community of participants who integrate responsible and accountable leadership skills into their workplace. Each cohort of twenty-five working professionals meets for eleven monthly learning modules, workshops, and team meetings starting in September. Participants of Leadership for Change represent several levels of management and different sectors of business and society that include race, ethnicity, culture, age and gender. Such diversity and collaboration of experiences and skills create a microcosm of society and a strong learning community. Participants enhance their personal skills, gain diverse perspectives and experience collaborative leadership for the common good. They learn through each other as well as from faculty members who facilitate discussions, assignments, and activities that illustrate collaborative and responsible leadership practices. Leadership for Change engages accomplished faculty from the Boston College Carroll School of Management and the Department of Sociology; Harvard Graduate School of Education and The Work and Learning Center at Northeastern University with business practitioners from the greater Boston area. All are engaged with the participants as members of the learning community. As a result, learning occurs from the individual, group, organizational, and societal perspectives. The Leadership for Change learning community models inclusion, empowerment and collaboration and encourages innovative solutions. These applied solutions or work-based projects empower individual learning and benefit both the organization and its stakeholders. With this partnership between business, education, and participants, each cohort develops a distinctly different experience based on research, innovative practices, participant feedback and external factors such as corporate governance, political shifts and environmental issues.

The Chambers Lecture Series brings high-profile speakers to campus for public programs and student-focused activities. The Chambers Lecture Series offers perspectives and guidance designed to shape ethical leaders of the future.

This program explored the key elements of successful volunteer program planning and provided participants with a clear understanding of how such programs are structured to support business strategy. Participants were introduced to a step-by-step program planning model - a model which can be applied across a variety of community involvement programs.

The Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College, founded in 1985, provides leadership in establishing corporate citizenship as a business essential, so that all companies are able to act as economic and social assets to the communities they impact. The center functions as an educational institution, a think tank, a consulting firm, and an information resource all in one place, and all focused on fundamentally and measurably improving your ability to build and leverage citizenship efforts.

The Winston Center was established in 2006 with the dual mission of conducting compelling research of interest and use to scholars and practitioners and offering programs that engage scholars, executives, and students in an intellectual exploration of leadership and ethics in business and society. The center’s organizational structure reflects its dual mission.

For our research, we have an orientation to studying leadership and ethics that is rich and expansive. We draw from a variety of intellectual orientations, such as the humanities, social sciences, and physical sciences to examine the organizational and social contexts, relationships, and dilemmas in which leadership occurs and the role that ethics plays. Our approach is not simply about leaders having the right ethics but about how leaders act in situations that challenge those ethics.

Two flagship speaking forums, the Clough Colloquium and the Chambers Lecture Series highlight our programmatic offerings. David McCullough launched the Clough with an historical perspective on the leadership of the Founders and Colonel Eileen Collins identified the leadership challenges she faced in becoming NASA’s first female commander of the Space Shuttle in a recent Chambers Lecture. We also offer a range of other programs, from symposia to film and lecture series, with the intent of touching many facets of the university community. We’re active in seeking out collaborators from across the university and we are devoting significant resources to enhancing undergraduate student leadership development. In the future, we hope that many of our programs, whether in text, audio or video, will be available on the site.

Invest 'N Kids is an on-campus tutoring and mentoring program run by Boston College MBA students for Brookline middle school students from disadvantaged homes. BC MBA tutors and students meet one-on-one for 8-10 sessions per semester to work on a variety of academic subjects. The program serves to support and develop the students’ skills in math, reading, and science while exposing them to a college environment. Parents, teachers, and students have praised the program for its demonstrated success in developing students’ academic skills, social skills, and self-esteem. During each two-hour Thursday session, tutors spend one hour helping their student with homework. During the other hour, students learn about investing through a stock market game and about starting a small business through the Biz World program.