An RA signed her contract for the following year. Then, she was fired. Guensly Desir was all set to RA for the 2023-24 academic year. That was until she got fired less than a week before the semester started due to the enforcement of a GPA policy.
Part-time faculty consists of adjuncts, lecturers and instructors. Collectively, part-time faculty unionized in 2015 and are still raising awareness about their current job instability, low wages and lack of institutional support as they feel that BU is unresponsive to their needs.
Boston University Children’s Center teachers unionized in an effort to address understaffing and low pay and to achieve a voice on the job in August 2022.
By Mara Mellits, Editor-in-Chief
• November 20, 2023
The BU Cheerleading Team and BU Dance Team have a different experience than teams that exist within BU Athletics, as BUCT and BUDT live in a murky limbo area thanks to their classification as Spirit Squads.
Ibram X. Kendi responds to allegations mismanaging the Center for Antiracist Research's funds, after a financial audit conducted in partnership with the University found "no issues" with the CAR's finances.
Ibram X. Kendi, director of Boston University’s Center for Antiracist Research, responded to written questions from The Daily Free Press following mass layoffs and allegations of mismanagement of funds. The email interview has been edited according to The Daily Free Press and Associated Press Style punctuation and spelling guidelines but otherwise published in full.
Boston University hired Ibram X. Kendi to lead its new Center for Antiracist Research in 2020, a year marked by a global pandemic and nationwide racial tension. Three years later, after at least $43 million in grants and gifts and what sources say has been an underwhelming output of research, the Center for Antiracist Research laid off almost all of its staff last week.
Adam Boyajy and Tina McDuffie completed their first semester as the new faculty advisors for BUTV10, following Christopher Cavalleri’s departure due to allegations.
The Daily Free Press spoke to 51 individuals, 35 of which are current and former students. Many allege Cavalieri sexually harassed and verbally abused them.
