Boston University has suspended a dozen graduate programs in humanities and social sciences, weeks after graduate students ended a months-long strike. For the 2025 to 2026 academic year, the school ...

In what it’s calling a “temporary pause,” Boston University has suspended admissions to several PhD programs in the humanities and social sciences in the 2025-26 academic year, as well as paring down ...

Gregory Kalscheur, S.J., dean of the Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences, has announced that Boston College’s 2025-26 doctoral student stipend will rise to a nine-month rate of $33,750—plus one ...

Boston University has suspended admissions to a dozen PhD programs in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. And there’s disagreement on whether or not the new contract between the university and ...

In reading the latest news about Boston University and its decision to diminish and cut several PhD programs in the humanities, I have to wonder about the state of higher education (“BU’s deep cuts ...

Casey Grippo thought there was more time. Typically, the philosophy department at Boston University funds PhD candidates for up to seven years. Grippo, who uses they/them pronouns, started PhD ...

Eleonora Mancuso felt that her graduate cohort was building a community. “I grew up in this environment where I had people that mentored me, that helped me,” Mancuso, a fifth-year doctoral candidate ...