This Week in Higher Ed: March 17, 2016
Drop in humanities degrees The number of undergraduates receiving humanities degrees is dropping, according to Insider Higher Ed. A study conducted by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences reported ...
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Drop in humanities degrees The number of undergraduates receiving humanities degrees is dropping, according to Insider Higher Ed. A study conducted by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences reported ...
Video released of Princeton professor’s arrest The Princeton, NJ Police Department released a video Feb. 11 showing the arrest of a black Princeton professor, Imani Perry, for speeding and having several ...
Researchers propose aberrant genes as cure for ALS After six years studying amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, an incurable neurodegenerative disease, a team of five University faculty members received a ...
Updated Jan. 21 at 10:45 a.m. Abbott “Tom” Gleason, professor emeritus of history and Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs faculty member, is remembered by friends and colleagues ...
A March 2-3 Herald poll showed that first-generation students experience greater feelings of inadequacy than their peers in a variety of areas. Approximately 54 percent of first-generation students indicated ...
About 50 students and alums took advantage of their rights under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 by sending requests for personal records to the Office of Admission and the Office ...
The University offered admission to just under 8.5 percent of applicants to the class of 2019, breaking last year’s record-low acceptance rate of 8.6 percent, said Dean of Admission Jim Miller ’73. Out ...
“Our criminal justice system is a bias and a broken system,” said Chris Burbank, chief of police at the Salt Lake City Police Department, during a panel entitled “Police Profiling: Causes and Consequences” ...
Freezing cold temperatures and large accumulations of snow this semester have affected a number of University buildings, including Graduate Center E, Diman House and T.F. Green — the building that houses ...
With admission notification dates on the horizon, international applicants to medical school likely have more to worry about than their domestic counterparts. Need-aware admission processes, high tuition ...
A new working group comprising faculty members, staff members and students will convene this semester to discuss the possibility of a winter term at Brown, Provost Vicki Colvin announced in a campus-wide ...
Valentine’s Day — the heart- and cherub-filled holiday that inspires love, dread and excuses for chocolate — is just around the corner. From planning romantic getaways to buying tickets to “Fifty ...
More than 500 University employees, students and community members gathered in Salomon 101 Tuesday to celebrate the achievements of staff members at the annual Brown Employee Appreciation and Recognition ...
About 30 graduate and undergraduate students called for improvement in grad students’ working and living conditions at a rally Tuesday in freezing conditions on the Main Green. The rally focused mostly ...
“Dig below the rather simplistic media headlines describing Charlie Hebdo,” said Maud Mandel, professor of history and Judaic studies and dean of the College, capturing the essence of “France’s ...
Updated January 25, 2015 at 9:09 p.m. Approximately 30,360 students applied to the class of 2019, marking a slight increase from previous years, according to a University press release. This constitutes ...
In an effort to increase interaction between students and the administration, President Christina Paxson is preparing to hold virtual office hours next semester. The virtual access will provide an additional ...
When the doors opened, the walls of the Providence Art Club were fully masked behind experiments in feathers, local landscapes and three-dimensional still lifes. But 10 minutes into Sunday’s opening ...
Ari Shavit, senior correspondent for the liberal Israeli newspaper Haaretz and author of the 2013 book “My Promised Land,” spoke to an overflowing Wilson 102 Wednesday night about Israel’s past, ...