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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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Finals will soon come and go, and we will all move on from what has felt like an exhausting academic year. Before then, however, we have to make it through finals week, which means studying, studying, and more studying. When it comes time to stick your head in the books, it’s important to find a place where you can concentrate. For some, that place may be your room, for others, it may be the GSU. With that in mind, here’s a list of the best places to study on campus during finals week.
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It was still February, but Fiorella Duarte, who would be graduating from the Questrom School of Business at the end of the semester, decided that it was not too early to start looking for a job. Duarte (Questrom’21), enrolled in the Master of Science in Management Studies (MSMS) program, signed into BU’s new networking platform, BU Connects, and followed the cues to find a mentor.
The person she found was Oracle employee Leanne Quinn (Pardee’20), and Quinn was happy to help. She set up a Zoom call and explained how things work at Oracle, from the interview process to the corporate culture. Three days later, Duarte was meeting with an Oracle recruiter, and two weeks after that she was offered a job as a business development consultant.
Graduate degree recipients attend the morning ceremony, undergraduates the afternoon ceremony
Government COVID-19 gathering limits preclude single ceremony on Nickerson Field
The 148th Boston University Commencement on May 16 already historically reconfigured by COVID-19 is getting another unprecedented makeover: it will now consist of two separate ceremonies, a morning one for graduate degree recipients and an afternoon gathering for bachelor’s degree recipients, both on Nickerson Field.
The change, announced Friday in a letter to candidates for graduation by President Robert A. Brown, was necessitated by anticipated high attendance, based on a survey of graduating students. City and state limits on gathering sizes make it impossible to accommodate both graduate degree and undergraduate degree recipients on Nickerson Field simultaneously, even with previously announced restrictions that prevents families and guests of graduates from attending.