Jeff Orleans, the man who helped draft Title IX and secure nearly perfect graduation rates for Ivy League student-athletes, announced last week that he will retire next year as executive director of the Council of Ivy Group Presidents.
Walter Hunter, vice president for administration and chief risk officer, will resign at the end of the semester to return to private law practice. Elizabeth Huidekoper, executive vice president for finance and administration, announced the resignation in a Jan. 24 e-mail to the Administrative Leadership ...
This year, the backpacks of 80 students in the Middletown school district will contain the usual notebooks, pens and pencils, along with one major addition - radio frequency identification chips. The tracking devices, which are expected to be installed in the next two weeks, are part of a pilot program ...
The Clinton Climate Initiative will now help support the colleges and universities around the country in their efforts to improve energy efficiency and reduce carbon emissions on campus - part of the only sector-wide effort to set a long-term goal of achieving climate neutrality.
When Hillel's Brown Street building first opened its doors in 2004, Brown Hillel staff intentionally refrained from hanging the Israeli flag within its structure, concerned that students would see the flag as a symbol of political partisanship.
About 130 student feminist activists from 20 colleges in the region came together at Brown on Saturday with global leaders on women's rights and members of the Providence community to share thoughts and experiences and to discuss ways to fight gender inequality. The conference, entitled the "Global ...
The recent appointment of former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld as a distinguished visiting fellow to Stanford's Hoover Institution, a conservative-leaning think tank, struck a political nerve among students and faculty on Stanford's campus.
Princeton students are receiving fewer A's than ever before - and the university could not be prouder.
Since Rhode Island's largest homeless shelter closed its doors in March, Brown students and local advocates have collaborated to revive Street Sights, a street newspaper that addresses homelessness in the state.
A report released earlier this month by two community health faculty warns about the effects of the aging baby boom generation on the nation's long-term care system.
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