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In a letter sent Friday to students responding to their concerns about Boston University’s policies and actions around sexual assault accusations, Jean Morrison, BU provost and chief academic officer, outlined a series of new commitments BU is making to help prevent sexual assaults from happening on campus and to improve policies around reporting and investigating processes for assaults.
“Boston University should be a place where all feel safe and welcome, and we are committed to doing the work to achieve this goal,” Morrison writes. “While we will continue to discuss opportunities for improvement, I am hopeful that these initial commitments will be meaningful steps in the right direction in ensuring a safe and healthy environment for all members of our community.”
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Boston University students gathered virtually Tuesday night to discuss how the administration is handling sexual assault cases and what steps the campus community needs to take to better support survivors. Titled #BUHasAProblem, the event was organized and moderated by the College of Arts & Sciences Student Government, and it came two weeks after more than 600 students fanned out across the Charles River Campus, with posters and chalk, on February 7 to raise awareness of campus sexual assaults and make five demands of the administration.
Student organizers extended an invitation to President Robert A. Brown, Jean Morrison, University provost, and Kenneth Elmore (Wheelock’87), dean of students and associate provost, to attend Tuesday night’s event, but they declined. In an email sent to the organizers and posted to the CAS Student Government Instagram page prior to the event, Elmore said he hoped that the administration could arrange a meeting with leader