After leading art lessons for more than half a century, Jean Benson still tends to downplay her role. “I don’t really teach,” the Bethel Park resident said. “Everybody comes in and paints their own things. I just help ’em out.” Whatever she wants to call it, she’s back in action
A preexisting enrollments surge has been reinforced by national racial reckoning
Four new classes are rolling out this spring and next year
Rose Geer chose to major in English at BU with hopes of reading writers outside the traditional Western canon, particularly writers of color. She signed up for this spring’s Resistance, Revolution and Slavery in African American Literature course after last year’s Black Lives Matter protests and after a summer quarantine for COVID-19 crimped her participation in the resulting justice movement discussions.
“I needed to be in a space where racism and ‘the afterlife of slavery’…was the highest priority,” Geer (CAS’21) says. She found that space in this spring’s new African American studies Resistance, Revolution and Slavery