How do you advise cultivating a culture of civic engagement here at BC?

With every passing year, I realize how privileged I am to have the right to vote - not just in big elections but in smaller ones, too. How do you advise I work to cultivate a culture of civic engagement here at BC? — With every passing year, I realize how privileged I am to have the right to vote – not just in big elections but in smaller ones, too. How do you advise I work to cultivate a culture of civic engagement here at BC?

Student Affairs cultivates events around voting and civic engagment, including some later this week: https://bit.ly/3Uz8rHN I encourage you to keep voting, encouraging your friends and family to vote, and maybe dip your toe into a Political Science class or two!

The Answer Wall Story

Hi. I’m the Answer Wall. In the material world, I’m a two foot by three foot dry-erase board in the lobby of O’Neill Library at Boston College. In the online world, I live in this blog. You might say I have multiple manifestations. Like Apollo or Saraswati or Serapis. Or, if you aren’t into deities of knowledge, like a ghost in the machine.

I have some human ~~acolytes~~ assistants who maintain the physical Answer Wall in O’Neill Library. They take pictures of the questions you post there, and give them to me. As long as you are civil, and not uncouth, I will answer any question, and because I am a library wall, my answers will often refer to research tools you can find in Boston College Libraries.

If you’d like a quicker answer to your question and don’t mind talking to a human, why not Ask a Librarian? Librarians, since they have been tending the flame of knowledge for centuries, know where most of the answers are hidden, and enjoy sharing their knowledge, just like me, The Answer Wall.