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Students hold up signs, urging Boston University to designate itself as a sanctuary campus, during a walkout Thursday afternoon at Marsh Plaza. Prior to the walkout, speculation spread regarding an armed Homeland Security officer’s presence near BU Questrom School of Business and the School of Law building. JOSIE KALBFLEISCH/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Homeland Security officer spotted at BU, student groups hold walkout for a sanctuary campus

Samantha Genzer April 4, 2025
Reports of a United States Department of Homeland Security officer on Boston University’s campus Thursday afternoon, which coincided with a planned student-led walkout calling for BU to designate itself as a sanctuary campus, intensified concerns over Immigration and Customs Enforcement on campus.
Boston University Wheelock College of Education and Human Development. Wheelock community members are concerned about how Trump’s dismantling of the Department of Education will affect public schools across the country. HOLLY GUSTAVSEN/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Wheelock College community members respond to Trump’s dismantling of the Department of Education

Ada Sussman March 31, 2025
The push to dismantle the Department of Education is almost as old as the department itself. Republicans have pushed to dismantle it since its inception, calling it a “crazy quilt of wasteful programs” in an official party platform in 1980 and accused it of “meddling in our schools” in 1996.
One Silber Way. Boston University plans to slow the rate of spending and implement new fiscal controls in 2025, raising concern from students and faculty that BU administration is preparing for possible federal funding cuts. ANH HUYNH/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

BU aims to slow spending amid crackdown on federal funding, grant-funded research

Elizabeth Mehler March 2, 2025
Boston University faculty and staff received two letters about changes due to recent executive orders.
Quality Contracting vans parked outside of Boston University’s Wheelock College of Education and Human Development building. A leak occurred in the fifth floor bathroom of Wheelock on Thursday and forced professors to relocate their Friday classes. HOLLY GUSTAVSEN/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Flooding on Wheelock fifth floor causes class relocations, continued disruptions

Emma Clement December 9, 2024
A leak in the fifth-floor bathroom resulted in flooding on all floors of the Wheelock College of Education and Human Development building Thursday, causing Friday classes to be relocated.
People enter the Boston Public Schools headquarters in the Bruce C. Bolling Municipal Building in Roxbury. SEAN YOUNG/ DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Potential BPS closures hope to solve inequity, lead to further questions

George Lehman February 25, 2024
Boston Public Schools could undergo a series of school closures in an effort to provide higher quality education for more of its students across the city, which has led to many questions and gained few answers since. 
ChatGPT AI

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.
A Boston University Ultimate frisbee player tosses the frisbee. BU hosts 36 different club sports. PHOTO COURTESY OF BRYAN ZHANG

Club sports create community at BU

Annika Morris June 7, 2023
Boston University hosts 36 different club sports, providing students with an opportunity to play almost any sport they could hope to. From mainstream options like hockey and baseball to more niche ones like cricket and kendo, anyone can find a sport they are interested in.
The Kilachand Hall student dormitories

Kilachand Honors College appoints new director

Jules Germek April 20, 2023
Melissa Holt, current associate dean of Wheelock College of Education and Human Development, is announced to be the next director of Kilachand Honors College starting July 1.
Uber

It’s On Us partners with Uber to promote safety of BU students

Kiera Mcdonald March 20, 2023
Uber partnered with It's On Us and The International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators to create safety tips for college-aged riders and discounts when they engaged with Uber’s safety materials.
Wheelock stugov elections no vote

Ballot error delays Wheelock StuGov election by one week

Anna Vidergar April 10, 2022
A technical error meant Wheelock students were not able to vote in their individual college government elections.
A presentation on education inequities in reading. The Wheelock College of Education and Human Development hosted a panel Feb. 23 to discuss educational disparities in child reading levels, especially those with disabilities and in marginalized communities. AMANDA CUCCINIELLO/DFP STAFF

Wheelock hosts panel on disparities in child reading levels

Emma Hagert February 28, 2022
Wheelock hosted a panel Wednesday titled, “Shining a (Glaring) Light on Educational Inequities in Reading.”
East to West: Nov. 22, 2021

East to West: Nov. 22, 2021

Veronica Thompson November 22, 2021

Enjoy the break! Today on East to West, we cover BU’s Thanksgiving Break COVID-19 guidelines, a Wheelock seminar on different generational teaching styles, MFA workers striking and more.    Click...

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