I was quoted twice this week in BU publications.
In a story in the Freep on the challenge of online teaching
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.
And, I nominated my boss as an unsung hero of the BU pandemic for a BU Today story.
Kate designed and taught a series of lectures that allowed all students taking COM 201 to meet in person once a week. Every Saturday in the fall semester, she taught three, one-hour in-person classes in a row in the GSU. This semester she does the same thing at Morse Auditorium.
Someone from a group called BU Parents United added this comment
Faculty deserve a medal for all they were asked to handle with little support from BU in terms of at least lessening the well being challenges of students who were both LFA and in person. Many faculty felt the impact of stress and struggles emotionally for themselves and their students. We look back and wonder why simultaneously more support for wellbeing and mental health was not given despite pleas from all areas – parents, students, staff while still maintaining safety for all.
To every BU faculty member – enormous thanks for your sacrifices and resilience. And to each of you who asked how our terriers were feeling and reached out / thank you for remembering they were human beings struggling like you