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Hariri Institute, Wheelock collaborate to research AI’s impact on education

Xiaoya Shao November 8, 2023
The Boston University AI and Education Initiative brought experts on AI and its impact on education and life at BU.
The annual ASL Ball. The Deaf Studies Club organized the ball to promote a positive space for the Deaf community and people learning American Sign Language. DIEGO CAZORLA-GARCIA/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

ASL Ball highlights unity between Deaf Studies faculty, students

Diego Cazorla-Garcia November 6, 2023
Students and faculty gathered together for the Deaf Studies Club's ASL ball, an annual event in which almost everyone speaks exclusively American Sign Language.
East to West: Sept. 10, 2021

East to West: Sept. 10, 2021

Veronica Thompson September 10, 2021

Content warning: this episode contains discussion of sexual assault. Cloudy days! Today on East to West, we cover sexual harassment accusations against a CFA professor, discuss the current standings...

empty classroom in the college of arts and sciences

Online learning poses new challenges, advantages for faculty with disabilities, those in the Deaf community

Emily Stevenson March 22, 2021
Those with disabilities and in the Deaf community had more flexibility, restraints with pandemic.
A student in professor Andrew Bottom’s American Sign Language 5 class practices signing. Boston University’s College of Arts and Sciences will count ASL as any other second language for its foreign language requirement. SOFIA KOYAMA/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

CAS changes requirements for ASL as second language

Damian Walsh October 25, 2018
Boston University’s College of Arts and Sciences has enacted a new policy updating the conditions for American Sign Language to fulfill CAS’s second language requirement.
The Hechinger Report releases an article detailing a disparity among students with disabilities that receive college degrees. PHOTO BY JENNA MANTO/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Students with disabilities face dismal graduation rates, but not at BU

Camille Fowler November 14, 2017

A recent report found that about two-thirds of students with disabilities who attend a four-year college do not graduate within eight years — a trend that Boston University has attempted to remedy...

Students in BU's Deaf studies program cheer for the women's soccer team at a game against Harvard University Wednesday night. PHOTO BY BETSEY GOLDWASSER/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Women’s soccer celebrates Deaf Night with ASL community

Rishabh Krishan October 12, 2017

On the night of the Boston University women’s soccer game against Harvard University Wednesday, the team collaborated with the BU American Sign Language community to host Deaf Night, inviting the...

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