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The entrance to FirstPoint Office. The U.S. Department of Education recently announced it will “penalize” schools that consider race in an array of activities, like offering scholarships, hiring faculty and more, by cutting federal funding sent to these institutions. LAUREN ALBANO/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Education Department targets race-based programs at schools, BU groups assess potential impact

Amil Coutinho Amado March 2, 2025
The United States Department of Education announced in a Feb. 14 letter that schools had until Feb. 28 to cease all efforts considering race in decisions pertaining to scholarships, hiring, administrative support and more, threatening a potential loss of federal funding to institutions that do not comply.
U.S. Department of Education website. Boston University students and faculty are split over the impacts the University community may face if an executive order to dismantle the United States Department of Education is passed. SARAH CRUZ/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

BU community assesses impact of pending Trump order to abolish Education Department

Lauren Albano February 13, 2025
Boston University students and faculty are split over impacts the University community may face if an executive order to dismantle the United States Department of Education is passed.
PHOTO COURTESY WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

EDITORIAL: Community college shouldn’t be getting such a bad rap

Editors November 1, 2017

People have a perception of community colleges as being “less than.” Their students are less smart, less driven and less capable than students at four-year colleges. It’s not any hard and fast...

The Boston University Sexual Assault Response and Prevention Center collaborates with the BU Arts Initiative to create an exhibition to showcase how student artist responses to sexual assault, how to be an ally and prevention in April 2017. Title IX, an act which concerns campus sexual assault guidelines, will be reviewed. PHOTO BY ALEXANDER NOVAKOVIC/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

DeVos’ proposed Title IX overhaul may prove harmful for Boston students

Carina Imbornone September 10, 2017

  In a speech delivered on Thursday at George Mason University, U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos said the guidance established by the Obama administration regarding sexual assault on...

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