{"id":1678,"date":"2021-05-13T10:00:15","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T14:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/brown\/?p=1678"},"modified":"2021-10-12T14:28:26","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T18:28:26","slug":"changes-to-the-university-calendar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/brown\/changes-to-the-university-calendar\/","title":{"rendered":"Changes to the University Calendar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May 13, 2021<\/p>\n<p>Dear Colleagues,<\/p>\n<p>As part of our commitment to make Boston University the diverse, equitable, and inclusive community that best embodies our values, I asked Senior Diversity Officer Andrea Taylor to engage with our Antiracism Working Group (AWG) to consider whether the holidays we celebrate as a community reflect those values.<\/p>\n<p>The AWG convened a subcommittee chaired by Christine McGuire, Vice President and Associate Provost for Enrollment &amp; Student Administration, to take on this task. Among the changes to our calendar that the subcommittee proposed and the AWG endorsed are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"padding:0 0 10px 0;\">to add Juneteenth, traditionally celebrated on June 19, as a University holiday to celebrate and reflect on the meaning of the day in 1865 when the last enslaved people in the United States were told that they were free.<\/li>\n<li>to rename the holiday that we traditionally celebrate in October as Indigenous Peoples\u2019 Day to acknowledge and reflect on our complicated colonial history and celebrate the traditions and achievements of Native Americans.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These proposals were endorsed by University Council. I am pleased to announce that we will adopt both.<\/p>\n<p>We will begin the recognition of Juneteenth starting this summer. Because the holiday falls on a weekend, we will celebrate Juneteenth on Friday, June 18.<\/p>\n<p>Communications will follow from Human Resources about pay policies and reporting for this holiday.<\/p>\n<p>I want to thank the Antiracism Working Group and the subcommittee led by Christine McGuire for their thoughtful and informed deliberations on these changes. The membership of the subcommittee is listed below.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/marcom\/html-emails\/common\/rabsig.gif\" alt=\"Robert A. Brown signature\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t            Robert A. Brown<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t            President<\/p>\n<hr style=\"margin:40px 0px;\"\/>\n<p>\n<span style=\"font-size:16px; font-weight:bold;\">Antiracism Working Group Subcommittee<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Christine McGuire<\/strong>, Chair<br \/>\nVice President and Associate Provost<br \/>\nEnrollment &#038; Student Administration<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kenneth Elmore<\/strong><br \/>\nAssociate Provost and Dean of Students<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kenneth Freeman<\/strong><br \/>\nVice President ad interim, Human Resources<\/p>\n<p><strong>Suzanne Kennedy<\/strong><br \/>\nAssociate Provost ad interim, Undergraduate Affairs<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ayse Parla<\/strong><br \/>\nAssistant Professor of Anthropology<br \/>\nCollege of Arts &#038; Sciences<\/p>\n<p><strong>Linda Sprague Martinez<\/strong><br \/>\nChair of Macro Practice &#038; Associate Professor<br \/>\nSchool of Social Work<\/p>\n<p>Ex-officio:<br \/>\n<strong>Andrea L. Taylor<\/strong><br \/>\nChair of the Antiracism Working Group and Senior Diversity Officer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 13, 2021 Dear Colleagues, As part of our commitment to make Boston University the diverse, equitable, and inclusive community that best embodies our values, I asked Senior Diversity Officer Andrea Taylor to engage with our Antiracism Working Group (AWG) to consider whether the holidays we celebrate as a community reflect those values. 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