Editing Boston University (section)

===Special academic programs===
====BU Hub====
[[File:Hotel Sheraton on Boston's beautiful Charles River Esplanade, away from the noise yet near the main traffic routes, 91 Bay State Road, Boston (61118).jpg|thumb|[[Kilachand Hall]], formerly Shelton Hall and home of BU's Kilachand Honors College, viewed from the [[Charles River]]]]
BU Hub, the university-wide undergraduate core curriculum, requires courses and learning experiences that develop six essential capacities. These essential capacities include: philosophical, aesthetic, and historical interpretation; scientific and social inquiry; quantitative reasoning; diversity, civic engagement, and global citizenship; written, oral, and multimedia communication; and an intellectual toolkit that includes critical thinking, collaboration, and creativity.<ref>{{Cite news |title=University-Wide General Education Program Proposed |url=https://www.bu.edu/today/2016/university-wide-general-education-program-proposed/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170405170209/https://www.bu.edu/today/2016/university-wide-general-education-program-proposed/ |archive-date=April 5, 2017 |access-date=April 4, 2017 |work=BU Today}}</ref>

====Kilachand Honors College====
Boston University's [[Honors colleges and programs|honors college]] matriculated its first class in 2010. In 2011, it was renamed Arvind and Chandan Nandlal Kilachand Honors College following a $25 million donation from alum and [[billionaire]] businessman, [[Rajen A. Kilachand|Rajen Kilachand]]. The Kilachand Honors College is a university-wide community of faculty and students dedicated to preserving, renewing, and rethinking classic ideals of liberal education: love of learning, intellectual curiosity, self-discovery, empathy, clarity of thought and expression. It rests on three pillars: an integrated, four-year curriculum; an extensive series of co-curricular events that include site-visits to leading cultural institutions as well as talks and readings by leading figures in the arts, sciences, and professions; and, finally, a "living and learning" community that offers students the personal atmosphere of a small liberal arts college and fosters responsibility and citizenship.<ref>{{Cite web |title=What is Kilachand Honors College? » Kilachand Honors College &#124; Boston University |url=http://www.bu.edu/khc/about/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130327192008/http://www.bu.edu/khc/about/ |archive-date=March 27, 2013 |access-date=April 22, 2013 |publisher=Boston University}}</ref>

In 2013, Kilachand donated an additional $10 million to fund a renovation of [[Kilachand Hall]], where first year students in the honors college are required to live.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kilachand Honors College Students Get Their Own Home |url=https://www.bu.edu/bostonia/winter-spring13/kilachand-honors-college-students-get-their-own-home/ |access-date=December 8, 2023 |website=Bostonia}}</ref> Kilachand would go on to become one of Boston University's largest benefactors upon donating $115 million to bolster the university's research at the intersection of the life sciences and engineering in 2017. The gift created the Rajen Kilachand Center for Integrated Life Sciences & Engineering and a $100 million endowment that advances, in perpetuity, groundbreaking research at the intersection of the life sciences and engineering.<ref>{{Cite web |date=September 14, 2017 |title=Rajen Kilachand: Generations of Philanthropy Behind BU Gift {{!}} BU Today |url=https://www.bu.edu/articles/2017/rajen-kilachand-philanthropy/ |access-date=December 8, 2023 |website=Boston University |language=en}}</ref>