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Korn Ferry is hired to review management processes and recommended best practices
Six weeks after a shakeup at Boston University’s Center for Antiracist Research (CAR), BU officials say a number of steps are either completed, or well underway, that will help the center successfully pivot toward its new direction. One key step that’s finished, an internal audit, found no issues with how CAR’s finances were handled, showing that its expenditures were appropriately charged to their respective grant and gift accounts.
When the center’s restructuring is done, CAR will operate with a staff about half its original size. It will move away from staff and faculty executing CAR projects and programs and into a structure in which fellows will be in residence at BU for nine months conducting their own individual projects, while participating in public events and contributing to The Emancipator, a digital publication focused on “explaining and identifying solutions to structural racism.”
The new focus for CAR comes after its founding director
