By Brian Chan, Business & Science Editor
• May 5, 2026
When Natalie McKnight first became a professor at Boston University’s College of General Studies in 1990, she was only intending to be an emergency replacement for one semester.
“Thirty-six years...
After their trips were canceled because of the pandemic, CGS students from the Class of 2023 and 2024 have a new opportunity to explore the streets of London.
College of General Studies freshmen will receive no change in tuition for their six-week Summer semester following the cancellation of the Boston-London program, said Dean of CGS Natalie McKnight in an online town hall Tuesday night.
Good luck with midterms! Today on East to West, we cover plans for BU’s 2021 Commencement Ceremony, developments in the South Campus break-ins, the cancellation of the CGS Boston-London Program,...
Dean of the College of General Studies Natalie McKnight announced the cancellation of the Boston-London Program for the CGS Class of 2024 in an email Monday, nearly a year after the suspension of the program for the previous class.
I’m not giving up on this or any other initiative my fellow senators and I are pursuing. On precedent alone, the University has respected and gone through with Senate-driven initiatives. Now more than ever, when a quarter of the student population put us in office, the University is all the more obligated to negotiate with us.
BU released Friday two options for students to retrieve on-campus belongings: having the school pack then either store them or ship them to a continental U.S. address, or eventually returning in-person to pack up their residences.
This year’s spring-admit freshmen spent only 49 days on campus, and they will now also forgo a summer in London — a long-time CGS tradition — while paying full sticker price.
President Robert Brown announced many changes in the array of programs slated to take place this summer as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in an email to students Monday.
