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The Daily Free Press

The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University.

The Daily Free Press

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COVID-19 open letter, students want hybrid learning option

SPH students call for hybrid learning options in petition, open letter amid rise in COVID-19 cases

Phil London January 24, 2022
Students called into question BU's decision to remain fully in-person, decrease quarantine period
hallway in the college of arts and sciences at boston university

BU faculty express hopes, doubts on return to in-person classes

Jesús Marrero Suárez April 29, 2021
Professors described their hopes for a return to normality, admitted some changes may be permanent.
academic affairs report in a boston university student government meeting

StuGov presents annual update on academics, confirms Representation Oversight Committee

Anna Vidergar April 6, 2021
The Academic affairs presentation discussed LfA, student mental health and study space usage.
socially distanced classroom at boston university

Faculty discuss challenges, mental toll of hybrid teaching

Emily Stevenson March 11, 2021
As the one year anniversary of the transition to online teaching approaches, Boston University faculty are reflecting on the mental and emotional impacts of their new teaching styles.
Student laboratory in Boston University's Metcalf Science Center

BU STEM majors express difficulty with COVID-19 restrictions on labs, learning

Connor Allen February 25, 2021
The Learn from Anywhere model has affected all BU students, but some STEM students reflect on additional challenges to their learning experience.
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Diamonds and Rust: The current value of a college education

Joel Herbert February 10, 2021
A non-traditional approach to higher education is much needed right now. If we as students take control of our education and learn from this adversity, we may find our college pandemic experience is worth more than it appears.
2,600 Massachusetts students with disabilities became eligible to receive free and reduced-price meals and qualify for Pandemic-EBT benefits this month. COURTESY OF HENRY KELLNER VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

Massachusetts expands free, reduced lunch benefits for BPS students

Tanisha Bhat February 8, 2021
The extension of benefits comes almost a year after the outbreak of COVID-19, which forced many schools to transition to hybrid and remote learning — a change that has been uniquely impactful to students who relied on subsidized lunches to eat.
Dearborn STEM Academy. High-priority Boston Public Schools students returned to in-person instruction Thursday. FELIX PHILLIPS/ DFP FILE

High priority students return to Boston classrooms

Sam Trottenberg February 5, 2021
Students with disabilities, students learning English and students experiencing homelessness were allowed back into classrooms for the first time this year Thursday.
ANGELA YANG/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Capturing 2021: a Spring preview of FreeP photography

Hannah Yoshinaga January 19, 2021
Last semester, The Daily Free Press continued reporting under the constraints of the pandemic. This Spring, the photo section plans to continue our efforts to inform the Boston University community.
Boston University hosted the second installment in this Fall’s “Remote and Hybrid Teaching and Learning Lightning Talks,” allowing professors to share their experiences under the University’s hybrid learning model. LAURYN ALLEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Professors share experiences with LfA environment, voice positive outcomes

Madeline Humphrey December 10, 2020

While college campuses would normally be bustling during the fall, the COVID-19 pandemic has changed everything from the way students communicate to the way they learn. At Boston University, that’s no...

Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

Final Word: A letter from the editor

Angela Yang December 10, 2020
When I took the helm of the FreeP at 18 years old, I knew it would be the toughest journey of my life. I was right.
With the first semester under Boston University’s Learn from Anywhere model coming to an end, faculty and students are not sold on hybrid classes. PERRY SOSI/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Faculty, students say hybrid classes don’t work

Kate Sandage December 10, 2020
A range of community members share their thoughts on how LFA can improve for the semester to come.
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