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| Fall 2022
DEI Distinction: For the second year in a row, Suffolk University has received a Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award from INSIGHT into Diversity magazine, which cited our “outstanding commitment to diversity and inclusion.”
Helping others move up is what we do best: U.S. News & World Report has ranked Suffolk among the top 100 universities in the country for social mobility, and among the top 5 in Massachusetts.
Working with the Boston nonprofit Project Citizenship, students helped immigrants complete applications for US citizenship and recorded their oral histories as part of English Professor Leslie Eckel’s Immigrant Stories course.
Read all about it: The fall 2021 issue of Suffolk University Magazine earned a national Award of Excellence from the Academy of Interactive & Visual Arts—one of six Communicator Awards that Suffolk publications, podcasts, and videos received.
Leaps and bounds: The Sawyer Business School has risen more than 25 spots in the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings of Best Undergraduate Business Schools. Over the past four years, it’s climbed nearly 100 spots, making it one of the country’s fastest-rising business schools.
20,000: That’s how many times citizens in Massachusetts and beyond have completed smart, mobile-friendly court forms designed by Suffolk Law’s LIT Lab—earning the team national headlines and a global award for legal visionaries from the College of Law Practice Management.
Communication, Journalism & Media Professor Jonas Kaiser was recently appointed to Spotify’s newly formed Safety Advisory Council. Kaiser, who studies how social media and algorithms contribute to radicalization, will help develop policies and products that protect users from misinformation while respecting creators’ expression.