During Wednesday’s Back2BU, Repopulating Campus Faculty & Staff Town Hall, BU President Robert Brown urged employees to get vaccinated and addressed a wide range of questions about the return to campus, including the anxiety many faculty and staff are feeling.
London-based rater evaluates higher education globally
Cited University for research breakthroughs
Boston University is “creating breakthroughs in everything from African Studies to zebrafish genetics” on “three city campuses [that] are always humming,” global education evaluator QS says. Those strengths and others led the London-based rater to grade the University as the 20th best “doctoral university” in the United States in its 2021 rankings.
BU stepped up one notch from last year’s number 21 ranking. QS also deems BU the 17th best private university in the nation, also one step up from last year, and 3rd among the 16 Massachusetts universities that were graded, the same spot as in 2020.
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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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