Thousands of BU students use Google Drive daily for class assignments, extracurriculars and personal projects. By capping their storage so low at 15 gigabytes, students will be forced to remove files from their drives to fit the quota or face losing any data that pushes storage over the limit.
Boston University Information Services and Technology notified students Sept. 14 about a new data storage quota for all BU Google accounts starting early next year. In an email to BU students, BU IS&T wrote that “after a decade of free services,” Google is now “charging all higher education institutions for the amount of storage used.” BU’s existing Google storage is significantly over the maximum level that has been negotiated, according to BU IS&T.
Upper Bay State Road residents were left in the dark after a power outage started around 8 p.m. Sunday night. BU RAs and ResLife have sent multiple communications since then, informing students of possible times the power could be restored.
StuGov fleshed out in a Monday night meeting a series of events focusing on student well-being, as well as a bill to create more transparency in requests for funding and meeting minutes.
