Boston University Strike

Date: April 5, 1979 • Location: Cambridge, United States

Faculty members, clerical workers, and librarians at Boston University went on strike.

Boston University (BU) is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. BU was founded in 1839 by a group of Boston Methodists with its original campus in Newbury, Vermont. It was chartered in Boston in 1869. The university is a member of the Association of American Universities and the Boston Consortium for Higher Education.