Students who qualify will receive emails with details about their aid package, with amounts of $500, $1,000 or $1,400 awarded depending on financial need — more than 9,000 students qualify for these “technology subsidy” funds to assist with additional costs of remote learning.
International students returning to campus for the Spring semester have reported varying degrees of difficulty in traveling back to the United States because of delays in receiving paperwork from the International Students and Scholars Office.
From fears of losing their student visas over the summer to waking up in the middle of the night for classes halfway across the world, international students at BU have faced many challenges over the past few months.
The Learn from Anywhere hybrid model has changed the makeup of a typical Boston University classroom. Some professors who previously had a full lecture hall now find themselves teaching to a room of 20, with the rest of the class on a computer screen. For others, everything is online.
The Official Boston University International Students Group was formed last May as a space for international students to share their questions, concerns and opinions.
BU announced Thursday it is joining an amicus curiae brief in support of Harvard and MIT's lawsuit against the ICE for recent federal guidance that would cause remote-learning international students to lose their student visas.
BU students remain scattered across the globe without much of their belongings. After the school released a residence packing policy that does not offer postal shipping to international addresses, some are now petitioning to request a reevaluation.
BU released Friday two options for students to retrieve on-campus belongings: having the school pack then either store them or ship them to a continental U.S. address, or eventually returning in-person to pack up their residences.
A BU alumna of the COM journalism master’s program was unexpectedly required to pay thousands for a required summer internship while studying four years ago, according to the alumna herself.
