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To:\u00a0 GMS Faculty, Staff and Students <\/p>\n In the last few days there has been some misrepresentation about Boston University\u2019s plans for the 2020 fall term in the press, and I want to ensure that you understand how GMS and the University is preparing for a return to in-person courses. \u00a0BU\u2019s recovery planning is focused on the fall semester, with the goal of resuming our on-campus, in-person programs in late August.\u00a0 We are planning accordingly and will incorporate the best public health practices into those plans so that members of the BU community will feel comfortable and safe on campus upon their return for fall semester.<\/p>\n If for some reason public health authorities do not allow universities to re-open their residential campuses at that time, our planning will explore other alternatives.\u00a0 In fact, we are already discussing many possible strategies for resumption of on-campus research and classroom operations based on different pandemic scenarios.\u00a0 How and when this will happen is just not known yet, but we are being proactive and thoughtful.\u00a0 These potential strategies are geared toward providing our customary excellence in education and research while safeguarding the health and safety of all.<\/p>\n It is worth noting here that you– faculty, staff and students — have successfully transitioned to remote learning and operations, incorporating our community\u2019s richness of diversity, creativity, and quality scholarship in new and exciting ways.\u00a0 You have quickly adopted strategies that were unheard of several months ago for how to teach, learn and research.\u00a0 Our community continues to participate in classes, workshops, webinars, lab meetings, grand rounds, research lab rotations, and more in order to meet the academic curriculum.\u00a0 We\u2019re just doing it differently.<\/p>\n Thank you all for your continued patience and resilience as we work though these times together.<\/p>\n With warm regards,<\/p>\n Debbie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" To:\u00a0 GMS Faculty, Staff and Students From:\u00a0 Deborah Stearns-Kurosawa, PhD, ad interim Associate Provost and GMS Associate Dean Date: April 15, 2020 RE:\u00a0 Recent Press Releases In the last few days there has been some misrepresentation about Boston University\u2019s plans for the 2020 fall term in the press, and I want to ensure that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16806,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72696"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16806"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72696"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72981,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72696\/revisions\/72981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFrom:\u00a0 Deborah Stearns-Kurosawa, PhD, ad<\/em> interim<\/em> Associate Provost and GMS Associate Dean
\nDate: April 15, 2020
\nRE:\u00a0 Recent Press Releases<\/p>\n