Professor Joyce Wong to Step Down as Director of BU ARROWS; Call for Nominations and Applications for Next Director

From Dr. Kenneth Lutchen, University Provost and Chief Academic Officer ad interim Dr. Joyce Y. Wong, who has served as the inaugural director of BU ARROWS (Advance, Recruit, Retain & Organize Women in STEM) since the program’s inception in 2014, has announced that she will be stepping down from her leadership role at the end […]

2023 University Lecture

From Dr. Kenneth Lutchen, University Provost and Chief Academic Officer ad interim You are cordially invited to the 2023 University Lecture: Unifying Concepts: Critical Race Theory, Academic Freedom of Speech, and Democracy   Jasmine Gonzales Rose Professor of Law; Associate Dean for Equity, Justice & Engagement Wednesday, November 29, 2023 7 pm Tsai Performance Center […]

Announcement of the Search Advisory Committee for the Dean of the Wheelock College of Education & Human Development

From Dr. Kenneth Lutchen, University Provost and Chief Academic Officer ad interim As we begin the process of selecting the next dean of the Wheelock College of Education & Human Development, the first step is to constitute the search advisory committee. The BU Faculty Handbook specifies that: “the advisory committee shall consist of three faculty […]

Absences for Religious Observances

From Dr. Kenneth Lutchen, University Provost and Chief Academic Officer ad interim During the course of the academic year, members of our community may request excused absences from attending classes or participating in examination, work, or study requirements in order to accommodate the observance of their religious faiths. A full reading of the University’s Policy […]

2023-2024 Career Development Professorship Awardees

From Dr. Kenneth Lutchen, University Provost and Chief Academic Officer ad interim Each year, Boston University has the pleasure of awarding Career Development Professorships to several talented junior faculty members emerging as future leaders in their fields. Presented to promising junior faculty early in their careers at BU, these awards are made possible through the […]

Standardized Student Course Evaluations Being Adopted for Fall 2023

From Dr. Kenneth Lutchen, University Provost and Chief Academic Officer ad interim In 2018, then-University Provost Jean Morrison charged a faculty and staff task force to examine how we approach course feedback from students, among other broader teaching evaluation issues. With regard to end-of-instruction student evaluations, there is significant scholarship about tools that minimize or […]