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Highway to Health: Florida’s Parental Rights in Education bill endangers health, well-being of LGBTQ youth

Bailey Salimes March 31, 2022
No student — no matter what age — should be prohibited from exploring who they are and identifying themselves.
"Don’t Matter How Raggly The Flag, It Still Got To Tie Us Together” by Thornton Dial

BU talk shows how ‘Visual Thinking Strategy’ can help guide future medicine practitioners

Nicole Bartuch April 12, 2021
VTS — an inquiry based learning strategy — can help medical professionals to embrace uncertainty.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

EDITORIAL: Journalists don’t need to go to college to study journalism, but it provides an advantage

Editors March 1, 2021
Should journalists go to college? The answer is: maybe. It’s an individual choice, but there will unfortunately always be an advantage to higher education.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

EDITORIAL: The University’s ‘diversity’ marketing is misleading, hurtful

Editors February 18, 2021
BU’s marketing — and the handful of diversity victories — it clings to is not representative of its reality. Though it may be implementing anti-racist policies, the change is not visible in classrooms, on campus or at an administrative level.
Sophia Flissler/DFP STAFF

A Room With a View: What do you want to do with your life?

Antonia Lehnert February 16, 2021
Most fresh graduates feel they are drowning in a sea of indecision and distress. In reality, the sea is only a pool, and all of our peers are also trying to keep their heads above water.
Boston-based Director Thato Rantao Mwosa’s “Memoirs of a Black Girl.” The coming-of-age film was featured in the Boston Globe’s Black History Month Film Festival. ILLUSTRATION BY HANNAH YOSHINAGA/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Roxbury coming-of-age film celebrating Black girlhood featured in Boston Globe film festival

Ramsey Khalifeh February 10, 2021
The Boston Globe's "Black History Month Film Festival" featured Thato Rantao Mwosa's "Memoirs of a Black Girl" — a coming-of-age film made to be representative of Mwosa's students in Roxbury.
Boston University’s Student Employment Office. SEO offered remote jobs and created new positions this year, but some students still feel work-study job availability has decreased. HANNAH YOSHINAGA/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Work-study persists despite pandemic

Yiran Yu February 4, 2021
Boston University operations were forced to dramatically adjust upon COVID-19 — and its work-study program is no exception. Despite the pandemic, BU's Student Employment Office says students are still able to work remotely or in a hybrid model, though some have been forced to find new roles.
Boston University’s Wheelock College of Education and Human Development hosted a virtual panel on Thursday entitled, “Meeting the Moment: Teaching During Periods of Social Change,” in which Boston teachers and professors discussed the need for changing how the education system handles race. LAURYN ALLEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Boston teachers, professors examine need for racial diversification in education system

Rachel Do October 18, 2020
In a time of great racial unrest, Boston educators gathered at Wheelock to discuss changes within their classrooms and among their students.
Boston University’s College of Fine Arts hosted a virtual webinar titled “Critical moments in CFA: Interventions into Pedagogy,” which examined the way collegiate art programs have changed since March. HANNAH YOSHINAGA/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

CFA professors share personal impact of COVID-19 on themselves, their students

Molly Farrar October 12, 2020
When classes often rely on group performances, remote instruction becomes much more difficult. On Wednesday, CFA professors spoke about how this hybrid learning shift has changed their curriculums.
Boston University students and instructors are struggling to adapt to the Learn from Anywhere hybrid learning model. PERRY SOSI/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Students, professors struggle to adjust to multi-format classes

Emily Stevenson September 27, 2020
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.
EDITORIAL: We must address racist fundamentals of American education system

EDITORIAL: We must address racist fundamentals of American education system

Editors September 24, 2020
Racism and hatred are learned behaviors, and we must do everything in our power to teach against them in the classroom.

Professors avoid advertising political beliefs

Daily Free Press Admin September 25, 2012

A number of professors at Boston University said they have the academic freedom to profess their political beliefs, but need to act responsibly in how they address the topic to students. “Everyone that...

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