BC Law’s renowned faculty members help students develop intellectually, personally, and ethically, which has created the distinctive BC Law experience for generations. What attracts outstanding faculty to BC Law and then keeps them here? The promise that they can do their best work—including through faculty support and endowed professorships. And when BC Law invests in the very best faculty, the student experience becomes richer and the school’s reputation grows.
Thanks to the generosity of Robert Trevisani, a Triple Eagle and BC parent who graduated from BC Law in 1958, the Law School has its first endowment specifically targeted toward a faculty fellowship. This is also the first gift impacted by the University’s faculty match, an effort in which an anonymous donor has offered a two-to-one matching challenge that can amplify the impact of a gift to a faculty fund.
Trevisani’s is the first BC Law gift impacted by the University’s faculty match, an effort in which an anonymous donor has offered a two-to-one matching challenge that can amplify the impact of a gift to a faculty fund.
Trevisani credits his BC undergraduate professors for opening up his world to see how vast and wide it truly was—beyond the city of Boston. His BC Law professors then “taught me to think independently and realize that no challenge was too great,” he says. “As a consequence, a rewarding and fulfilling professional career took me to countries throughout the world. During stressful and challenging professional times, the discipline and inspiration inculcated by the Law School faculty would ‘carry the day.’”
For a time, Trevisani also paid it forward in the Law School classroom, where he served as an adjunct professor of international mergers and acquisitions and enjoyed fielding questions from “the very bright student body,” he says.
“This is just the beginning,” says Odette Lienau, inaugural Marianne D. Short, Esq., Dean. “With our alumni’s help, Soaring Higher will carry forward the momentum achieved by Boston College’s scholarly enterprise, add faculty to its roster, and further the integration of innovative ideas and research with top-notch teaching.”
