{"id":45690,"date":"2020-06-19T08:15:03","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T12:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/provost\/?p=45690"},"modified":"2020-06-19T08:17:53","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T12:17:53","slug":"return-to-residential-education-process-for-requesting-workplace-adjustment-for-fall-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/provost\/2020\/06\/19\/return-to-residential-education-process-for-requesting-workplace-adjustment-for-fall-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Return to Residential Education; Process for Requesting Workplace Adjustment for Fall 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residential education is core to the mission of Boston University and to the experience of both our undergraduate and graduate students. Our long-standing commitment to residential education and the in-person engagement of faculty, students, and staff is a fundamental characteristic of our University. The pivot to remote teaching that we undertook in March of this year was a necessary short-term response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and, thanks to your hard work, it enabled our students to successfully complete the spring semester and remain on track to complete their degrees. The pivot also established a new set of capacities \u2013 most significantly the capacity to conduct some elements of our academic programs through remote technologies.<\/p>\n<p>This memo provides detailed information on the following topics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why a return to campus is important for all of us at Boston University<\/li>\n<li>Results of the recent faculty survey, which informed decision-making<\/li>\n<li>Safety measures underway to help ensure everyone\u2019s health and wellbeing<\/li>\n<li>Process and form for faculty to request a workplace adjustment, <strong>due June 25<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"\/provost\/files\/2020\/06\/JM-Memo-Workplace-Adjustment-Process-for-Fall-2020-6.18.20-FINAL.pdf\">Read Full Memo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residential education is core to the mission of Boston University and to the experience of both our undergraduate and graduate students. Our long-standing commitment to residential education and the in-person engagement of faculty, students, and staff is a fundamental characteristic of our University. The pivot to remote teaching that we undertook in March of this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15731,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,7,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/provost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45690"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/provost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/provost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/provost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15731"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/provost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45690"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/provost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45697,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/provost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45690\/revisions\/45697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/provost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/provost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/provost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}