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Chestnut Hill, MA-based Boston College has Promoted Leo V. Sullivan as Senior Advisor to the President
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Boston College was founded in 1863 by the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) to educate Boston`s predominantly Irish, Catholic immigrant community. It opened its doors on September 5, 1864, in a building on Harrison Avenue in Boston`s South End, a “small streetcar college” for commuting students. When it outgrew the limitations of the space, then-president Rev. Thomas I. Gasson, S.J., bought 31 acres of the former Lawrence Farm in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, and broke ground in 1909 on a new campus, today fondly known as “the Heights.” BC began as an undergraduate liberal arts college, but as its aspirations grew, it added graduate programs and professional schools fulfilling its charter as a university.
About the Person
Leo V. Sullivan is the Senior Advisor to the President at Boston College. Prior to that, Leo served as Vice President for Human Resources at Boston College. Sullivan, a nationally recognized innovator in human resources management and a popular administrator well-known for his familiarity with and unwavering support of BC employees, had planned to retire from Boston College by the end of this academic year before he was presented with the opportunity to serve as Senior Advisor to the President. A graduate of Northeastern University with a master’s degree from Boston College, Sullivan was a personnel officer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before joining a two-person human resources staff at Boston College that served 800 employees.
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