Climate & Health, Anthony Jack, Affirmative Action
YOU’RE INVITED
Building Equitable Resilience to Climate Events
Join Boston University on July 20th for an in-person Capitol Hill briefing with experts from the American Cancer Society and the Mystic River Watershed Association about the detrimental effects of climate change on vulnerable populations, and how communities are mobilizing to address the impacts of climate change.
FACULTY EXPERT
Sociologist and Scholar Anthony Abraham Jack’s Mission: Create a More Welcoming Campus
The award-winning higher education scholar and author of The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students is joining the BU Wheelock College of Education & Human Development and will be the inaugural faculty director of BU’s Newbury Center for first-generation students.
ON THE CHARLES RIVER
Disappointed and Determined, BU Community Reacts to SCOTUS Affirmative Action Ruling
BU officials vow to remain committed to building a diverse student body, with no intention of “rolling back the clock” to a time when diversity and equity issues did not matter.
Read their reactions
THOUGHT LEADERS
In Case You Missed It…
Robert Tsai of the BU School of Law explains how recent Supreme Court decisions were shaped by “movement judges” in Politico… Benjamin Sovacool and Rebecca Pearl-Martinez of the BU Institute for Global Sustainability are partnering with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory to bring an environmental justice lens to tackling today’s energy challenges… The BU Initiative on Cities published a new policy brief examining “Policing and the Punitive Politics of Local Homelessness Policy”… Nicolette Manglos-Weber of the BU School of Theology discusses how moral panic is a common theme in the spread of anti-LGBTQ+ laws globally in The Conversation.