Boston University President Robert Brown announced in an email Thursday the 2021 Commencement ceremony will be held in-person May 16. The event is subject to change and will occur in accordance with city and state guidelines.
With the CDC's new guidance encouraging tightly fit surgical masks or double-masking, BU community members agree students should continue to take additional precautions to slow the spread of COVID-19.
Since the Fall, students living in on-campus dormitories have been expected to form “households” within their residences and establish COVID-19 residential protocols on mask-wearing and social distancing based on each other's personal preferences.
However, some students were sent a stricter set of residential COVID-19 protocols by their resident assistants for the Spring semester than in the Fall.
From international travel restrictions to general uncertainties regarding domestic travel, BU students are weighing their options for Winter Intersession: go home, leave campus or make other arrangements.
Starting Thursday, BU will begin checking students’ compliance status before allowing them entry to campus spaces, senior leadership announced in an email to students Tuesday.
As remote learning cements its role in higher education, students who are transgender and nonbinary say the Zoom format presents unique challenges as well as benefits.
BU students can now reserve classrooms and other spaces in buildings across campus for personal uses, such as studying and attending online class, University leadership announced in an email Tuesday.
BU’s chapter of the professional business and economics fraternity Phi Chi Theta is on “probation,” Senior Associate Dean of Students Jason Campbell-Foster said, after a video circulated online of 15 of its members at an off-campus gathering last month.
