Benefits, problems of remote work are the main topics
Administration will make final decision on committee recommendations
Work from home? Spend a full week at the office? Or split the difference?
The Committee on the Future of Staff Work is trying to determine what role remote work can or should play for more than 5,000 of Boston University’s nonfaculty employees, as a well-vaccinated BU returns to a more normal life this fall after more than a year of historic impact from the COVID-19 pandemic.
All staff will receive an email from the Office of the Provost today, Monday, May 3, announcing a brief online survey that will be available starting tomorrow, Tuesday, May 4. Faculty who supervise or engage frequently with staff will also be notified about the survey by leadership at their schools and colleges. The survey will be open for two weeks. The questions ask about the impacts of working remotely on productivity and communication during the pandemic. While some demographic q
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Two weeks after Boston University’s decision that it would require COVID-19 vaccinations for students enrolled in the fall semester left many international students concerned that vaccinations received in their home countries might not be accepted, University health officials now say all COVID-19 vaccines will satisfy the BU requirement.
And in another bit of good news for international students, who comprise 25 percent of BU’s student population, Jean Morrison, BU provost and chief academic officer, says that BU is working with other universities across the country to ensure that incoming and continuing students are able to get visas and return to their studies in Boston. “We remain hopeful that the federal government will move this effort along in the coming weeks, but we will continue to work with our state and federal representatives until the visa issue is resolved,” says Morrison. Her hope stems in part from a recent US State Department decisio