The AAPI journey to liberation through activism, advocacy, and solidarity
A conversation with Asian American scholars on the work of increasing visibility and advancing justice for Asian Americans and the role of allyship in this work. Speakers included: Aaron James Parayno– Tufts University Takeo Rivera– Boston University Janelle Wong– University of Maryland, College Park
Emerging Scholars Program Fund Recipients and Great Topics Program for 2021-22
Seven BU Academic Departments Will Support Underrepresented, Early-Career Scholars On Wednesday, March 24, 2021, Boston University Diversity & Inclusion (BU D&I) announced the seven departmental recipients of Emerging Scholars Program funds in the 2021-2022 academic year (listed alphabetically): The Department of Anthropology, two Emerging Scholars Programs (College of Arts and Sciences) The Department of Biology […]
Not the Queen’s English Department
English departments rethink what to call themselves in light of how diverse they’ve become.
Boston Honors Trailblazing School of Medicine Alum Rebecca Lee Crumpler (MED 1864) Monday
First Black woman to graduate from a US medical school will be recognized with weeklong MED Symposia.
Maria Dykema Erb Was a First-Generation Student. Now She’s Here to Help BU’s First-Gens
Newbury Center inaugural director: “I want to be the person I needed back then.”
Angela Onwuachi-Willig among Five Black Women Law Deans Honored for Efforts to Bring Antiracist Reform to Legal Education
Together, they launched a project to engage law schools in fight for racial justice.
Holding BU to Account on Race
Hayden Scholar Delice Nsubayi helped UMOJA, BU’s Black student union, become a powerful voice for racial equity.
St. Mary’s College of Maryland unveils memorial to enslaved people on its campus
From Absence to Presence: The Commemorative to Enslaved Peoples of Sothern Maryland, a commemorative slave quarter created to honor the enslaved peoples of southern Maryland stands on the St. Mary’s College of Maryland campus.
Teaching Racial Justice Isn’t Racial Justice
There is a place for education in the fight against racism, but we shouldn’t confuse it for the fight itself.
POV: BU Should Join the GRE Exit
The standardized test has been shown to be a poor predictor of graduate student achievement.