Fall 2021 Vaccination Information for International Students
From Dr. Jean Morrison, University Provost and Chief Academic Officer and Dr. Judy Platt, Director, Student Health Services As President Brown announced earlier this month, in order to safely return to a residential, in-person experience in the fall, Boston University will require all students enrolled in classes on our campuses to be vaccinated for COVID-19 […]
Policy on University-Sponsored Travel for Summer 2021
From Dr. Jean Morrison, University Provost and Chief Academic Officer and Gary Nicksa, Senior Vice President for Operations As the end of the academic year draws closer, we are writing to briefly update you on BU’s policy on University-sponsored travel for the summer 2021 term. As you know, last spring, BU instituted restrictions on University-sponsored […]
Creation of Pandemic Fund to Ensure PhD Student Completion
From Dr. Jean Morrison, University Provost and Chief Academic Officer The COVID-19 pandemic has created many stresses for PhD students. Perhaps most significantly, disruptions to research progress whether in the lab, field, studio, or archive may lead students who were otherwise making appropriate academic progress to need an additional semester or year to […]
Student Information System Renewal Update
From Dr. Jean Morrison, University Provost and Chief Academic Officer I am pleased to share an important update on BU’s Student Information System (SIS) Renewal Program. The SIS Renewal Program is a major University-wide effort to modernize the IT systems that support and store student data from application to graduation. At BU, the most visible […]
Scheduling of Final Exams
From Dr. Jean Morrison, University Provost and Chief Academic Officer As we begin a new semester, I would like to remind everyone that, per University policy, the final examination for a course must be given only during its scheduled exam period and time slot and not during a regular class meeting or on a reading […]
Announcement of Two “Wellness Days” in Spring 2021 Semester
From Dr. Jean Morrison, University Provost and Chief Academic Officer As you know, in the fall we announced that the spring 2021 academic calendar would be adjusted to start one week later than normal (on Monday, January 25, 2021) and would not include a spring break recess. While these adjustments were made to […]
Surveys of Student and Faculty Experience with Learn from Anywhere
From Dr. Chris Dellarocas, Associate Provost for Digital Learning & Innovation, Sue Kennedy, Associate Provost ad interim for Undergraduate Affairs, and Dr. Daniel Kleinman, Associate Provost for Graduate Affairs As the pandemic reached Boston in March 2020, BU faculty moved rapidly and successfully to remote instruction for the second half of the spring semester. As the spring […]
Category 4 Testing During Holiday Break
From Dr. Jean Morrison, University Provost and Chief Academic Officer and Gary Nicksa, Senior Vice President for Operations With the holidays approaching and the vast majority of undergraduate students leaving campus for winter break, our COVID-19 testing system will have extra capacity. As a result, for a limited time during the holiday break, […]
Updated Student Compliance Policies
From Dr. Jean Morrison, University Provost and Chief Academic Officer As you have read in recent weeks, we have seen an uptick in the number of COVID-19 cases on campus. In response, earlier this week Dean of Students Kenneth Elmore announced a set of changes to student compliance protocols to ensure that all […]
Opening of the Newbury Center; Appointment of Maria Dykema Erb as Inaugural Director
From Dr. Jean Morrison, University Provost and Chief Academic Officer and Crystal Williams, Vice President and Associate Provost for Community & Inclusion Each year, many of Boston University’s talented graduates have the added distinction of being the first in their families to have attended college. These students arrive from vastly varied backgrounds and are consistently […]