A core aspect of the Center for Student Formation's mission is to partner with faculty, staff and university departments to increase the amount of formational opportunities on campus. Collaborations often vary in scope. Ranging from advice and guidance on how to improve an existing initiative, to designing and implementing brand new programs to meet student needs in a particular area, the Center for Student Formation tailors its support to the needs of the partner. 每次合作的最终目标是合作伙伴最终承担项目的全部所有权，以确保其长期可持续性.
How can I collaborate with the Center for Student Formation?
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If you're interested in collaborating with the Center for Student Formation please contact the Executive Director, Mike Sacco at saccomi@dctdsj.com. Since its inception, 学生形成中心与来自大学各个角落的广泛合作伙伴合作，开发独特的形成项目. We encourage you to consider inquiring about a potential partnership if you have formational needs or ideas. Collaborations are considered on a case by case basis and depend on available resources at the time of inquiry.
Collaborations
Asian Caucus FFP (Freshmen Formation Program)
This partnership mainly consisted of giving advice to student leaders who run a retreat for first year Asian students as part of the Asian Caucus. The Asian Caucus is a particularly well run student organization that provides a tremendous amount of support for its student participants. For this reason, 许多亚洲学生只参加亚洲核心小组项目，我们对学生领袖的帮助是为了与其他大学项目建立一座桥梁.
Partner: Asian Caucus
CTP Parent Welcome
A partnership with the Learning to Learn office to redesign their Parent Orientation. The project was undertaken to reduce redundancy between the CTP Parent Welcome and the University Orientation, and to provide new ideas to CTP on how best serve the parents of their first generation students
Partner: Learning to Learn
CTP Retreat
An overnight retreat was created for students participating in the College Transition Program (CTP). The program previously did not include this important initial bonding experience and as such lacked cohesion. 一个晚上，学生们对CTP校友的高年级学生进行了演讲，这为现有项目的其他部分增加了大量内容.
Partner: Learning to Learn
Compass Program
A mentorship program for first year students of color. The program was designed to provide immediate support of students of color when they come to campus in the fall. There are many resources for students of color on campus, but it often can take weeks or months to identify them. Compass groups begin on the very first day of school to help upperclassmen connect to mentors of color.
Partner: First Year Experience
Connell School Nurse Practitioner Program
The nurse practitioner program in the Connell School is highly intensive and has a mix of young graduate students and older adults. 学生形成中心帮助他们为这些学生设计了一个为期一天的静修活动，以帮助两个非正式的学生群体融合在一起, and to provide vocational discernment support by featuring faculty and alumni speakers.
Partner: Connell School of Nursing
Conversation Project
This program was designed to provide students who get in trouble a conversation partner from outside of the conduct process. These types of conversations had been happening informally for years at BC, but the Conversation Project sought to provide the infrastructure to expand the number of these conversations.
Partner: Office of the Dean of Students
Ella Baker Mentoring Program
A partnership with student leaders for day-long mentoring program off campus. 该项目的目的是让有色人种的教职员工与学生分享他们的经历，并为回到校园后建立长期的指导关系奠定基础.
Partner: Kevin Suggs (student leader)
Ever to Excel
This partnership with the Institute of Advanced Jesuit Studies sought to provide infrastructure and programming support to a new pilot program for high school students. 该计划的目的是将高中生带到校园进行为期一周的计划，通过各种节目和接触BC本科导师来探索他们的信仰. 学生形成中心帮助提供后勤支持和创造性的见解，什么类型的活动最适合参与者.
Partner: Institute of Advanced Jesuit Studies
GPS: Navigating Graduate Student Life at BC
An overnight retreat for graduate students to introduce vocational discernment since many grad students come from undergraduate institutions that do not provide that type of service. 该项目以学生演讲为特色，突出了电子游戏正规平台生生活的挑战，以支持第一年的电子游戏正规平台生参与者并帮助培养社区.
Partner: Office of Graduate Student Life
Graduate Foundation Seminars
This group of seminars was created for graduate students to better inform them about Jesuit education and Boston College. 该项目背后的想法是，当电子游戏正规平台生作为退修会协调员或服务旅行参与者与本科生密切合作时，他们往往是与本科生接触最多的人. 通过给电子游戏正规平台生一个耶稣会教育的形成经验，他们有望将其传递给本科生，并在他们的电子游戏正规平台生教育中受益.
Partner: Intersections
Graduate School of Social Work Retreat
A retreat for students in the graduate school of social work for fall 2018. 社会工作学院与学生形成中心联系，为他们的学生提供一种体验，帮助他们建立联系和建立社区.
Partner: Graduate School of Social Work
OTE Preceptor Training
Talk coaching is provided OTE Preceptors who lead all the first year OTE students during their summer program. 支持OTE的学生群体是非常重要的，学生形成中心很高兴与OTE的工作人员合作，帮助导师进行有效的演讲.
Partner: Thea Bowman AHANA Office
POD programs
A collaboration with faculty members for the Core renewal. The POD programs have 10 student leaders run a weekly small group of fifteen first year students in a 6 credit course on climate change. 这些小组的目的是将向大学过渡的个人指导与气候变化主题的智力指导结合起来.
Partner: Core Renewal Office
Prison Arts Outreach
For many years a professor in the Theater Department, Crystal Tiala, ran a program that brought small groups of students interested in the arts to local women’s prisons. 学生培养中心协助建立基础设施和营销，以增加该计划的参与者人数.
Partner: Professor Crystal Tiala
R.I.D.E.: Racial Identity Development Experience
A two night retreat for students of color about racial identity that integrated an intellectual and personal approach to conversations on race. 对于学生来说，参与种族和身份问题的机会永远都不够，这个特殊的项目将学术方法和个人方法相结合，为学生们参与关于多样性的对话提供了独特的体验.
Partner: Thea Bowman AHANA Student Programs
Residence Life Personnel
This collaboration involved providing support to the director and associate director of Reslife to aid in the recruitment, selection and training of reslife personnel. 学生形成中心制作了一个招聘视频，突出了BC大学的多样性，并展示了当前ResLife人员的推荐书，以促进招聘工作.
Partner: Associate Vice President of Reslife and Associate Director of RA Formation and Training
Scrubs
A weekend retreat for the sophomore class of the Connell School of Nursing. 院长苏珊·詹纳罗(Susan Gennaro)想要一个项目，在护理专业的学生中建立社区，而这次静修的目的是帮助学生们彼此建立联系, faculty, and young alumni.
Partner: Connell School
Spectrum
While there are many students who identify as LGBTQ on campus, there was not really a space for them to discuss their experiences with their identity. The Center for Student Formation designed a retreat for LGBTQ students to provide just such a space.
Partner: Dean of Students Office
Spirituality, Religion and College Student Experience Course
Professor Michael James, of the Lynch School of Education, wanted to expose undergraduates to the study of spirituality, religion, and higher education. The Center for Student Formation helped support the academic course in several ways, 包括进行市场营销以吸引本科生选修这门课程，并为选修这门课程的本科生设计一个静修地，以开启他们的学术体验.
Partner: Professor Michael James
Summer Football Program
Student on the football team have a highly demanding, year-long schedule that often precludes them from taking part in any formational programs during the school year. As such, the Center for Student Formation worked with athletics to create 3, 2 week long, concurrent seminars for each class of the football program on the history of BC and Boston, leadership, and vocation. Each class (sophomores, juniors, seniors) spent 2 weeks hearing lectures from BC faculty and visiting guests, participating in workshops, and going on field trips in and around Boston to give football players a short, but intense experience with a variety of formational programming.
Partner: Athletics
Self-Knowledge and Discernment: The Experience of Pilgrimage
A 3-credit philosophy course for 10 students that takes place while walking the Camino de Santiago. The program was designed to help students grow intellectually, socially and spiritually. The purpose of this unique academic experience, a 3 credit course taken while hiking across northern Spain on a centuries old pilgrimage route, 是为那些需要时间和空间来思考关于自己和世界的重大问题的学生提供一种智力沉浸体验.
Partner: Professor Jeff Bloechl and the philosophy department
Thrive
Thrive was created in partnership with the Women’s Center as a mentorship program to provide an opportunity and space for sophomore women to discuss their experience.
Partner: Women’s Center
Voices of Transformation
Retreat talks by students are often very powerful and instructive for student participants. The Center for Student Formation partnered with student actors who then performed actual retreat talks, given by BC students in the past, at Arts Fest. The purpose of the program was to connect the student experience and student culture, as expressed through retreat talks, in an innovative and artistic way.
Partner: Professor Crystal Tiala
Xcel
Xcel is a leadership retreat for varsity athletes. This 3 day, 2夜校外项目是专门为学生运动员设计的形成体验，因为他们的运动时间表通常没有足够的时间让他们参加许多非运动员可以参加的项目.
Partner: Athletics