The Brown Daily Herald

Money Matters

This four-part series explores the role of socioeconomic status on life before, during and after Brown, including admission, financial aid, student life and career choices.

Herald Poll

Every semester, The Herald conducts a survey of the undergraduate student body, covering a number of important issues.

Coverage of Christina Paxson

Christina Paxson, dean of Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and a prize-winning economist, will serve as the University's 19th president.

On the Rhode

"On the Rhode" is an ongoing series of features exploring local destinations that offer an alternative to life on College Hill.

Mission drift?

This series examines how the institutional shifts of the last decade impact undergrads and Brown’s future.

Occupy Providence

The movement, which began with the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York City, opposes growing economic disparity and corporate greed.

Herald Restaurant Week

In this series, The Herald brings readers reviews of local restaurants, both on and off College Hill.

For every high-achieving district like Barrington and East Greenwich, there is another like Providence, in which under half the district's 26,000 students were proficient in reading, and only one-third demonstrated proficiency in math.

Housing at Brown

Since the University became a residential college in 1951 with the completion of Wriston Quadrangle, overcrowding has been a persistent problem.

Underdog U: Sports and Money at Brown

The Department of Athletics must live up to a high standard of competitiveness to assert itself as a powerful player in the Ivy League. But with below-average salaries for head coaches and less financial aid, Brown struggles to compete.

Branding Brown

University administrators and higher education professionals are left unable to agree on a single response to a pertinent question: Why did Brown appeal to more than 30,000 students?

Town-Brown

This five-part series explores the University's multifaceted relationship with the city it calls home.

The New Curriculum at Forty

Decades after it was adopted, the New Curriculum remains the organizing philosophy of the Brown education. But how it will evolve in the future depends on a rapidly changing world and educational climate.

Spotlight on religion

In today's Spotlight, The Herald takes a look at a sampling of groups whose names might not be well-known, but that nonetheless unite students in common ground.

Zooming in on staff at Brown

The attention paid to Brown staff in the past few weeks has turned the campus' focus to a portion of the Brown community not often given much notice. Today, The Herald sheds a spotlight on the staff at Brown.