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Help When Needed: Equal Opportunity Office Protecting employees from unlawful harassment, discriminationEqual Opportunity office staff: Kim Randall (from left), executive director and Title IX coordinator, Eleanor Druckman, assistant director and Title IX investigator, and Kelly Matos, administrative coordinator. Not pictured is Mary Ann Phillips, assistant director for compliance. Photo by Cydney Scott
This is part five in a series about Boston University services available to faculty and staff to help with work-related and personal issues.
Boston University has a scrupulous policy of promoting equal opportunity in educational programs and employment and prohibits discrimination in any form. And if employees have concerns about unlawful discrimination or harassment, they have a place to go.
BU’s Equal Opportunity office (EOO) investigates and resolves complaints related to discrimination and harassment—including sexual misconduct—directed against employees. (Similar complaints directed against students are handled by the Judicial Affairs office.)
EOO executive director Kim Randall says her office welcomes faculty, staff, and students to come and discuss their concerns. “At the same time,” she says, “we want to remind them that if they share information that suggests to us that a violation of a BU policy may have occurred, we may need to move ahead to investigate the matter and ensure that any violation of policy is addressed.” Randall notes that her office is federally obligated to “promptly ensure that any unlawful discrimination or harassment stops, that possible future discrimination or harassment is prevented, and that we reverse, to the extent possible, any negative impact it created.”
The office covers both the Charles River Campus and the Medical Campus, as well as all of the University’s off-site locations, including Study Abroad programs.
Randall says that the nature of the complaints varies widely, from discrimination or harassment to interpersonal violence and sexual assault. Once a complaint is made, the goal is to complete the investigation within 60 days. That entails interviewing the people involved (sometimes several times), talking to witnesses, collecting documentary evidence, and taking any necessary temporary measures. Once an investigation is complete, EOO staff put the findings in a report, detailing the available evidence and offering a conclusion as to whether the person has violated BU’s equal opportunity policy or sexual misconduct/Title IX policy.
Randall says that those involved in a complaint usually are anxious. “These cases can be difficult and emotions often run high,” she says. “We do our best to assure both complainants and respondents that we will conduct a fair and thorough investigation as quickly as possible. We often put interim measures in place to help the individuals feel safe during the investigation—for example, no contact orders or temporarily reassigning residential or office space—and we make sure the individuals know where they can go for support.”
As part of its mandate, EOO offers comprehensive two-hour training about unlawful discrimination and harassment in general, and about sexual misconduct specifically, for departments and offices across campus, as well as shorter briefings on sexual misconduct. All sessions include a discussion of definitions, examples, reporting options, and confidential resources.
Affirmative action and reasonable accommodationEOO also works with Human Resources (HR), the Office of the Provost, and the three Medical Campus schools throughout the year to gather data for the University’s annual Affirmative Action Plan. Once the information is analyzed, the office reviews the results with HR and determines what areas or departments might need special recruiting attention to increase the number of female, minority, or veteran applicants or applicants with disabilities in the pool of qualified candidates for open positions. HR then helps that department to identify potential openings and to recruit a diverse pool of candidates.
The office plays another key role: helping faculty and staff with disabilities (Disability Services works with students) or those seeking accommodation for religious practices. EOO staff work with people who believe that a disability is making it hard for them to perform their job responsibilities. Staff meet with them, review information from their medical provider outlining the limitations and how those might affect their ability to do the job, and review the accommodations that can be made. For example, if ergonomic accommodations are needed, EOO will ask Environmental Health & Safety to do an assessment. The office might also reach out to Disability Services to tap the expertise of its personnel about special technology available to assist someone in the workplace.
Once the appropriate reasonable accommodations have been identified, EOO staff then work with the employee’s supervisor and department to make sure they are put in place.
Similarly, if the request is for an accommodation for religious practices, the office identifies with the employee the practice it is needed for and meets with that person’s department to determine how the need can be addressed.
“We do our best to ensure that both the employee’s needs and the business needs of the department are met,” Randall says.
The Equal Opportunity office is at 19 Deerfield St., second floor. For more information about the office or to schedule an appointment, email Kim Randall at [email protected] or call 617-353-9286.
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Michigan State University Shooting Video
On Twitter, there are many viral videos like what happened at Michigan State University.
Twitter allows NSFW content as long as you mark it, so there is a ton of ridiculous content.
Users can mark their tweets by going to their privacy and safety settings and navigating to their tweet settings.
In your tweet settings, they can mark your tweets as sensitive.
This is similar to Reddit where NSFW content is allowed in multiple communities.
What is Michigan State University?Michigan State University (MSU), is a university in East Lansing, Michigan.
Founded in 2855, it is now considered a Public Ivy, offering an academic experience resembling an Ivy League university.
In 1863, the state designated the college a land-grant institution.
In 1870, the college became coeducational, and in 1955, it transitioned into a university.
Among all of Michigan’s colleges and universities, Michigan State has the biggest undergraduate enrollment.
What happened at the university?MSU ALERT: There have been shots fired near Berkey Hall on the East Lansing campus. Please secure-in-place immediately. Police are active on scene. More information to follow. chúng tôi MSU Police and Public Safety (@msupolice) February 14, 2023
On February 14, 2023, shots were fired near Berkey Hall on the East Lansing campus.
Police responded quickly to the shooting and surrounded the university.
There have been 3 confirmed fatalities, in addition to 5 victims who were admitted to the hospital.
The suspect was a black male, shorter in stature, with red shoes, a jean jacket, and wearing a baseball cap that is navy with a lighter brim.
On Twitter, @msupolice shared real-time updates on the incident.
After the first tweet, @msupolice said that the suspect is on foot and that community members should shelter in place.
Updates on the incidentUPDATE: The suspect has been located off campus. It appears he has died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. There is no longer a threat to campus and the shelter-in-place has been lifted. chúng tôi MSU Police and Public Safety (@msupolice) February 14, 2023
Updates on the Michigan State University shooting, provided by @msupolice:
8:40 pm: MSU ALERT: There have been shots fired near Berkey Hall on the East Lansing campus. Please secure-in-place immediately. Police are active on the scene. More information to follow.
9:16 pm: UPDATE: The suspect is believed to be on foot right now. Community members on and off campus should continue to shelter in place. Police are continuing to respond.
9:26 pm: There is another reported shooting at IM East. Police are responding. There are multiple reported injuries. The Media staging area is currently being determined.
9:34 pm: UPDATE: IM East is being secured. It appears there is only one suspect at this time.
9:56 pm: UPDATE: The suspect description is a short male with a mask, possibly Black. Please continue to shelter in place. We are still receiving multiple calls from an active shooter on campus.
10:10 pm: The victims are currently being transported to Sparrow Hospital. Brody Hall, Snyder/Phillips Hall, Mason Hall, Abbot Hall, Landon Hall, the MSU Union, and Berkey Hall have all been cleared/secured.
10:21 pm: A news briefing will take place at 11 p.m. at the Henry Center for Executive Development. The address is 3535 Forest Rd, Lansing, MI 48910.
10:26 pm: All campus activities are canceled for 48 hours, including athletics, classes, and all campus-related activities. Please DO NOT come to campus tomorrow.
10:46 pm: We will be live-streaming our news update on the MSU Police and Public Safety Facebook page – @msupolice.
11:18 pm: SUSPECT PHOTOS: The suspect is a Black male, shorter in stature, with red shoes, a jean jacket, and wearing a baseball cap that is navy with a lighter brim.
11:36 pm: UPDATE: There are 3 confirmed fatalities. This is in addition to the 5 victims who have been transported to the hospital.
12:28 am: UPDATE: The suspect has been located off campus. It appears he has died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. There is no longer a threat to campus and the shelter-in-place has been lifted.
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Realizing Mlk’s Vision In Boston
When Carrington Moore considers Martin Luther King, Jr.’s story, he sees in it a little of his own experience. “We think about Dr. King and his wife, Coretta Scott King, as these phenomenal superheroes,” says Moore (STH’14). “But it’s also important to notice that they were born from the Black community, the Black institutions, the churches that they attended and that molded them.”
Moore was active in the church from a young age—his father was a pastor—and he was drawn to BU’s School of Theology in part by an image of King (GRS’55, Hon.’59) in a University brochure. He’s now an associate pastor at Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Boston and, as of August 2023, he’s carrying on a piece of the civil rights leader’s legacy as director of community organizing for King Boston. The nonprofit behind the planned Boston Common memorial to King is devoted to creating an inclusive and equitable city.
The Embrace memorial, a 22-foot-high sculpture of the intertwined arms and hands of King and his wife, will be unveiled in fall 2023 near where King spoke at a 1965 march. (BU contributed $250,000 to the project.) King Boston is also creating the Center for Economic Justice in Roxbury, where the organization will focus on gathering data related to economic and social disparities.
Moore recently spoke with BU Today about his work and how King Boston hopes to create a more just and equitable city.
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Bostonia:
What is King Boston?
Moore: King Boston is a phenomenal Black institution that is experimenting with a radical joy and prophetic love to bring about the liberation of Black, indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) in the city of Boston. That’s my answer. For a more formal answer, King Boston envisions a radically inclusive and equitable Boston where BIPOC people can thrive. Our aim is to dismantle structural racism, in partnership with diverse partners at the intersection of arts, culture, community organizing, and research.
Bostonia:
How does your role fit into that mission?
Moore: My role is to influence the transformation of institutional practices away from racialized and color-blind norms, regulations, and standard operating procedures that have generated racially biased outcomes. One goal is to engage and cultivate intergenerational BIPOC leadership. That’s so important—being able to cultivate youth voices, persons who are millennials and young professionals, but also making sure that we have the wisdom of our elders. The other part is to organize public, private, and corporate institutions toward liberative systems change. We’re interested in uplifting those voices, those ideas, those hopes, that can lead us to the new practices that center liberation and well-being. That’s my job in a nutshell.
Bostonia:
What are some specific projects you’ve worked on so far?
Moore: We’re building the New Boston Coalition, which is a multisector, multiracial, interfaith, intergenerational space where people can come together. It centers on BIPOC learning, BIPOC being, and BIPOC practices. We have over 500 members and over 75 institutions signed on. One initiative is centered on reparations. In the city of Boston, the average white family might have upwards of $150,000 to $200,000 in wealth and, in the Black community, the average household wealth is $8. And so we know that there’s a system of plundering, sanctioned by the federal government, the state government, and also the local government, that has exploited the labor and resources of Black communities for hundreds of years. Boston has a responsibility to think about how we repair the exploitation of labor and resources from the Black community. If we can organize in Boston, the epicenter of freedom and liberation in this country, that will help build a political will for a federal mandate toward reparations.
Bostonia:
Have conversations about racism, sparked by the tragic events of 2023, including the murder of George Floyd, changed the receptiveness to ideas like reparations?
Bostonia:
What does “liberation” mean to you?
Moore: Liberation is a space that is full of love and justice, that allows for the maximization of human flourishing. In some ways, that has existed for dominant society, meaning that if you’re a white person living in America, if you work hard, you possibly can maximize your potential, because there is a social currency that comes with whiteness. But in the Black community, we’re not always able to maximize our potential, because of the types of bigotry that we face. So, liberation is a tearing down of the caste system that we exist in, and allows for full human flourishing.
Bostonia:
You’ve been busy building coalitions. What actions do you hope emerge from this organizing?
Moore: We’re hoping that particular policies around housing justice, economic repair, and education will be transformed. We’re also thinking about changing the narrative of Boston, and that there will be greater spaces and greater opportunities and greater pathways created for Black people in the city. That could mean pathways from high school to college, and college to career, or just simple pathways of being able to spend time and enjoy yourself in the city. Boston has historically been segregated and there are certain parts of town where it feels like BIPOC people are unwelcome. We want to make sure that all of Boston belongs to the BIPOC community.
Bostonia:
How does The Embrace memorial fit into King Boston’s broader plans?
Moore: Stories of Black liberation and the contributions to American society have been marginalized. They’ve been hidden. They’ve been oppressed. Because of anti-Black racism, we don’t know the fullness of the true American story. We have to engage in counterstorytelling about what BIPOC people, and particularly Black people, have contributed to society. At the heart of the changing of minds has to be a changing of the story.
Bostonia:
What do you hope that visitors to the memorial will learn?
Moore: I hope it helps people uncover the deep, beautiful, sociopolitical history of Black contributions to the city. We’re hoping that it will inspire people to rethink Boston—a space that has a deep history of racism, bigotry, exploitation of labor, and the plundering of the Black community—and imagine what racial equity can look like.
Bostonia:
At a time when controversial monuments are being removed, is there added significance in putting up a new monument?
Moore: I think the question you have to ask is why it took so long for this one to be erected. There’s such a bevy of monuments that celebrate the Confederacy in the South. The erection of this particular monument is saying that there is a battle for the sharing of truth in this country. In this moment of racial reckoning, we think about George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and so many beautiful Black melanated bodies that have been plundered by a dominant society and by the police. Witnessing the injustice of all that has happened is beginning to uncover stories of pain, but also resiliency and brilliance of Black people. This monument is a testament to that as we’re coming to a cataclysmic confrontation for truth-telling.
Bostonia:
King spoke in Boston in 1965 about school segregation and economic disparities. What has or hasn’t changed since then?
Moore: What has changed is public policy that brought a formal end to segregation. What hasn’t changed is how we think about racism and the intersection with capitalism. People believe that we’re competing against each other for resources, for social capital, for political power, and that uplifting the BIPOC community has to come at the expense of the dominant culture. We’re saying that’s not true and that, in this moment, diversity and solidarity, the liberation of BIPOC people, will lead to even greater human flourishing for all society.
Assessing The Opportunity Of Youtube Marketing
A tutorial on reviewing consumer search behaviour in the 2nd Largest Search Engine in the World
As you’ll know, YouTube is the second largest search engine behind Google in many countries. It’s the number one ranked entertainment site and 3rd most visited in the UK by Hitwise. Given this and since popular videos are displayed in the “one-box” of blended search results for some queries it’s worth investigating how YouTube can be used to reach a wider audience.
It’s an enormous site with a lot of competition given the rate at which new videos are uploaded:
How to assess the opportunity of YouTube – a short tutorialGetting cut-through on YouTube is like any content on the web, you need to have defined your audience and created something of value which will be shared. There are also the tactics of uploading and setting appropriate titles, descriptions and tags. We recommend ReelSEO YouTube tips for finding out more about these.
Defining standard consumer search behavioursLet’s take the example of a phone manufacturer. I like to start with keyword research using the Google Keyword Tool and the other Google tools as explained in this article on the Google Toolkit by James Gurd.
From this, you will identify the main consumer behaviours grouped in your keyword list. So for a mobile phone manufacturer, common search behaviours will be:
I’d identify around 10-20 common search behaviours for a single popular category and product.
With this initial research complete, we can then turn to the YouTube Keyword Suggestion Tool and test for different searches.
Just like the Google keyword tool, this dedicated keyword research tool is a handy tool for all those in video marketing.
The keyword tool for YouTube is not as powerful or feature rich as the traditional Google Keyword tool, but it is helpful enough to show us the relative importance of search behaviour.
The image below gives an example of the tool in action exploring nokia related keyterms. As you can see, for a brand like Nokia, we find that more searches occur on a model level .
Digging a bit deeper, we can limit results to our target keywords from our existing research. It’s also useful to set the results to phrase or exact match and then you can see the number of searches specifically for that phrase:
You can see that the search volume for the generic keyword “smartphone” is much lower than might be expected. Surprisingly there is a relatively low search volume for reviews. This may be a little misleading since such videos are still popular if they feature in the main Google search results or through PR – information on this will not be available here. Taking the example of Lumia reviews, you can see there are hundreds of thousands of views for these types of videos, so the keyword search volume “not enough data” is misleading about the demand for people to interact with these videos.
I hope you find this useful, it’s a tool we haven’t seen discussed as much as the standard Google Keyword Tool. Let us know how you find it if you’ve used it before or as you start using it.
System Requirements For Office 365 And Office 2023
Office 365 always attempts to provide you with the latest versions of all the software it includes. That includes both web versions and standalone versions if you have that plan. Office 365 has different packages that come with and without the latest standalone versions. You may opt to run older standalone versions but they may create compatibility problems. The article focuses on Office 365 and Office 2023 system requirements.
Office 365 System RequirementsWe were talking about compatibility issues. If your Office 365 subscription comes with an option to use your own installed software, you can use older versions of Microsoft Office. But there will be heavy fragmentation if others use older versions – resulting in misplaced data. The objective of Office 365 is to keep users on the same platform – the latest platform – so that incompatibility issues don’t happen. Hence it is better to upgrade your standalone applications such as Word, Excel and Internet Explorer etc to the latest versions. That way, your workflow would be smooth and chances of non-compatibility do not pose problems.
Here is what it takes to use different packs of Office 365 on your computers.
Home, Personal and Student plans
If you are using a PC, you will need a processor with at least 1GHz speed. For Mac, it should be a bit higher speed and should be Intel.
Office 365 Basic can run on 2GB RAM on PCs. For Mac, it should be 4GB.
HDD space for running Office 365 home should be 3GB while for Mac, it should be 6GB and the HDD format for the latter should be what is called Mac OS Extended format or HFC plus.
Display requirements for both PC and Mac are 1280 x 800 resolution.
Browsers used should be the latest versions; in case you do not have access to latest versions, the immediately preceding version would do.
You will also need .NET 4 or 4.5 CLR; Though you can also do with 3.5, it may restrict some features.
Business and government plans
For PC, you will need a 1GHz processor of any make; For Mac, Intel processor is recommended.
PC would require 2GB RAM while Mac will require 4GB
Hard disk space should be 3GB for PC while Mac would require 6GB; Again, the format of HDD in Mac should be Extended Mac OS or HFC Plus
Operating system should be the latest as far as possible
Display resolution required for proper functioning is 1280 x 800
Browser should be latest versions as far as possible; if the latest version is not available, immediately preceding versions can be used
Your Microsoft Office clients should be in compliance with Office 365: Office 2010 through Office 2023; the latest versions on all your computers accessing Office 365 makes sure no inconsistencies occur
Individual Office Suites’ System RequirementsThis section talks about standalone installations of Office suites such as home, personal, governmental etc. Check out the minimum system requirements for each Office edition. Remember that these are minimum system requirements meaning they can run Office but cannot guarantee speed etc. I would recommend keeping resources a little higher than what Microsoft suggests.
Office 2023 Home and Student edition system requirements
1 GHz processor
2GB RAM
3 GB of available disk space; better to have some extra space for temp files
Screen resolution of a minimum 1280 x 800
Windows 7 SP1 or above operating system; Works best on a latest operating system according to Microsoft
The browsers used should be the latest versions of the versions immediately preceding the latest versions
At least .Net 3.5; preferred 4.5 LCR
A Microsoft account (that naturally has a OneDrive account attached to it).
Office 2023 Pro edition system requirementsThe system requirements are the same as that of Home and Student. But because of the extra features, I recommend a little higher resources. You will get touch features with Office 2023 so to optimize your experience, you will need a touchscreen. While most of the functions can also be performed with a mouse and keyboard, having a touchscreen will further enhance your experience. For example, if you are inking something on Microsoft Edge, the latest browser app from Microsoft, you will need a stylus on a touchscreen. If you wish to share web pages with other users, you will have to install Windows 10 so that you can use the marking and sharing features of Microsoft Edge.
The above sums up the system requirements for Office 365 and Office 2023. The Android and iOS versions are pretty light, but still, you will have to have the latest versions and at least 2GB RAM devices to work on the apps properly.
University Negotiates Discount For New Google Workspace Charges
University Negotiates Discount for Google Workspace Charges, after Tech Company Discontinues Unlimited Free Storage for Cloud Computing Suite Technology company discontinuing unlimited free storage for cloud computing suite
BU has negotiated a discount on the new charges for the formerly free data storage on Google Workspace, the popular suite of computing tools. Photo by iStock/ Prykhodov
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University Negotiates Discount for New Google Workspace Charges Technology company discontinuing unlimited free storage for cloud computing suiteFor a decade, BU has enjoyed free data storage on Google Workspace, the popular suite of cloud computing tools currently used by 195,000 University accounts. Now Google has announced that it will discontinue free unlimited storage for colleges and universities.
But the University has negotiated a whopping discount off the charge that the tech powerhouse had originally planned. The four-year deal includes a free first year, meaning BU won’t be charged until December 2023.
Google Workspace, previously known as G Suite, includes email (Gmail), content creation (Google Docs), and file storage (Drive). The services are used by all students and alumni, as well as some faculty and staff, says Tracy Schroeder, BU’s vice president of information services and technology.
The end of unlimited free storage, which Google announced last April, alarmed students and information technology administrators at colleges across the country. The BU Student Government Senate passed a resolution condemning “Google’s attempt to price gouge students for heretofore free services.”
“Google has had long-standing agreements with higher education for free use of their collaboration platform services,” says Schroeder. “Storage has been unlimited across their many applications.” Now, however, the company will roll out charges for storage consumption across all of the Google Workspace applications. BU’s current storage of 6.5 petabytes would have cost the University about $900,000 a year under Google’s original cost formula, she says.
“Through a combination of negotiation both by BU and a research institution community organization called Internet2, we have been able to work that cost down to $171,000 annually to cover two petabytes” in the four-year deal. BU will move its remaining storage to other services at low or no cost, Schroeder says.
Google has told the University that just 345 users here generate 84 percent of the University’s data, she says, “so we have a relatively small group we need to focus in on.”
*In a recent slide presentation to the Student Government Senate, Hessann Farooqi (CAS’22), Student Government vice president, and Navya Kotturu (CAS’24), his chief of staff, noted the tuition hit. “Staying with Google will require students to cut down on storage use,” the presentation noted, and “costs will likely rise over time as BU’s storage needs grow.”
“In an ideal world, there would be no tuition impact, but under the circumstances, I personally am satisfied with the new arrangement,” Kotturu says. “Seeing as we went from the administration informing us that the unbudgeted expense would have been a contributing factor to the increase in tuition to it now not being ‘a significant driver,’ I am grateful for the discount and for the ability to continue using Google Workspace.”
Farooqi says that Google Drive “is a central part of nearly all our academic lives.” While he’s “thrilled that we have blunted the tuition increase…we have been made to expect tuition and fee increases on an annual basis due to other factors. Needless to say, no BU student is ecstatic about that.”
As for the reasons behind Google’s new charge, Schroeder says, “Google described their need to charge as a ‘tragedy of the commons.’ In essence, some institutions or individuals have, in their view, dramatically overconsumed Google storage resources because they were free of charge, and as a result the service is unsustainable for everyone.
“In some cases, institutions were unaware of how the services were being used, or they were being used by unauthorized individuals through compromised accounts. One could argue that this is to some extent Google’s fault by not providing institutions with the necessary tools to manage their community members’ consumption, and they should have done this first prior to charging.
“But that was not Google’s view,” Schoeder continues. “Instead, they announced a new economic model of charging and promised the necessary management tools to follow. To their credit, Google did come to the table and listen to the concerns of research institutions and work with us to find a reasonable path forward.”
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