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.
The Boston University Institute for Early Childhood Well-Being, which will research and develop new approaches to sustain young children’s health, well-being and education, is set to officially launch at a two-hour Zoom event for staff and faculty Thursday.
BU’s unionized faculty, staff and students are demanding that BU overhaul some of its policies through the letter, “A Call for BU to Dismantle Institutionalized White Supremacy Culture.”
Cars, pedestrians and bikers took to Commonwealth Avenue Thursday afternoon to rally against BU’s reopening plan. Those who weren’t present in person tuned into the multimodal event via Zoom.
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In this episode of East to West, we cover the School of Social Work’s CADER program renewing their funding grant, plans for Boston to introduce central...
BU School of Social Work’s Center for Aging and Disability Education and Research renewed funding from the Retirement Research Foundation towards senior center staff training in mental health and aging.
