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Senior Diversity Officer Andrea Taylor delivers a welcome statement at SDO’s Critical Race Theory panel. SDO, in collaboration with other Boston University schools and departments, hosted a panel discussing CRT after it was banned from being taught in 24 states. AMANDA CUCCINIELLO/DFP STAFF

Senior Diversity Office hosts panel to educate students on Critical Race Theory

Daily Free Press Staff February 15, 2022
A panel on Feb. 10 by the BU SDO discussed critical race theory to give “context, clarity and resources” on CRT to students.
BU students want gender-neutral restrooms on campus

Students call for more gender-inclusive bathrooms on BU campus to accommodate transgender, non-binary community

Zoe Tseng January 20, 2022
Difficulties in finding all-gender bathrooms on campus have made transgender students feel unsafe in the past.
BU President Robert Brown

President Brown reflects on the return to in-person and more with The Daily Free Press

Madhri Yehiya December 8, 2021
Brown shared aspirations and responded to concerns surrounding BUPD, campus sexual assault and more.
Boston University students and clubs seek transparency from BU Police Department

Campus organizations call for increased efficiency, transparency at BUPD, otherwise abolition

Tanisha Bhat December 2, 2021
Campus clubs raised issues with BUPD's policing, calling for greater transparency or its abolition.
Boston University Umoja at the 2019 Culture Cookout

Umoja through the years — a home for Black students at BU

Anne Jonas February 18, 2021
Umoja, Boston University’s Black Student Union chapter, was founded in 1967 as an organization and home for Black students on campus. More than 50 years later, Umoja has evolved into what is now an ever-growing umbrella organization that brings together other Black student groups at BU.
In a Tuesday email to the Boston University community, President Brown announced that the University is introducing two new groups to help promote antiracism as well as diversity and inclusion efforts. LAURYN ALLEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

BU establishes working group, diversity committee to continue efforts against racism

Claire Williams October 1, 2020
BU will introduce two new groups to continue the University’s efforts against racism, President Robert Brown announced in an email to the BU community Tuesday.
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