Connell School of Nursing

The Connell School of Nursing awards undergraduate, master's and doctoral degrees, while offering a continuing education program for practitioners in the field.

In 1948, Rita P. Kelleher , who held degrees in nursing from Columbia and Boston University, was named dean following Maher's brief tenure.

The school reached a milestone when a Ph.D. program began in 1988, making Boston College the first Jesuit university to offer a doctorate in nursing.

[9] Each year, Connell School graduates who enter into the nursing field receive a nursing pin, which depicts the official Boston College seal and is inscribed with the words "For Religion and the Liberal Arts" in Latin, during a pinning ceremony that can be traced back to Florence Nightingale's service during the Crimean War.

[10] The school's Pinnancle Lecture Series brings a widely recognized leader in the field of nursing to Boston College each semester to address an issue at the forefront of health care.