The deficit for Fiscal Year 2021 will be “significantly larger” than previous years and could range from $100 million to $200 million, President Christina Paxson P'19 announced at Wednesday’s faculty meeting. In order to cover the various costs of the COVID-19 crisis, the University will “spread ...
In early March, after Brown made the call to finish the semester virtually and cancel all events on campus, the Undergraduate Finance Board was faced with making a number of important decisions. One such decision was whether to permit service groups to donate their unused funds to the greater Providence ...
The University has canceled all of its sponsored undergraduate study abroad programs for Fall 2020 in light of the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on global health and international travel restrictions. The decision was made “in consultation with Brown’s International Travel Risk and Assessment Committee ...
On Sept. 6, 2016, members of the class of 2020 walked through the Van Wickle gates to cheers from faculty, staff, family members and current Brown students as they processed toward the Main Green, where they took in Brown’s 253rd annual convocation. Now, those students will have to wait until May ...
While all of the University’s permanent staff workers have been able to keep their jobs, seasonal and intermittent employees — including programmers, seasonal cashiers and interns and fitness instructors and trainers — have not been as fortunate. These workers, who could not continue their assignments ...
While President Christina Paxson P’19 said she is “very cautiously optimistic” that an on-campus experience split into three terms could happen for the coming academic year, the safety of community members and the observance of public health guidelines will remain priorities. At Tuesday’s faculty ...
President Christina Paxson P’19 announced three possible scenarios for the 2020-2021 academic year in light of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic at Tuesday’s faculty meeting. The semester could proceed as planned with all students returning to campus in September. But, the University is also ...
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect the livelihoods of millions of Americans, University staff members have had to adapt to changes in their work schedules and responsibilities. So far, the University has not laid off any full-time or regular staff members according to Vice President of Communications ...
Since roughly the middle of March we have all been living in a professional and social world of distance and remoteness imposed by the coronavirus public health emergency. As the Dean of the Faculty at Brown, I can confirm that we are managing to navigate the crisis at the University. The faculty has ...
Some University students are taking time out of their own remote education to help younger students as they adjust to learning outside the school building during a pandemic. One tutoring program, “CovEd,” was created by undergraduates at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in ...
President Christina Paxson P’19’s April 26 New York Times op-ed, titled “College Campuses Must Reopen in the Fall. Here’s How We Do It,” has received mixed reactions from University students and faculty. In an interview with The Herald, Paxson explained that the op-ed was intended to “raise ...
Data released by the Rhode Island Department of Health revealed that, of the 59 percent of positive test cases where race was reported, Hispanic or Latinx residents comprise 44 percent of positive COVID-19 coronavirus test cases in the state and non-Hispanic Black or African American residents comprise ...
Updated 1:20 p.m. May 1, 2020 A Brown student filed a class-action lawsuit against the University demanding a refund for tuition, fees and/or room and board he claims he was unlawfully charged for because the COVID-19 pandemic forced the University to close its campus and cancel in-person classes. The ...
Fascinated and concerned by public health crises from a young age, Rhode Island resident and University student Maddie McCarthy ’23 has put her classroom knowledge and interest in medicine into action by creating Community For COVID, a website focused on involving undergraduates with community efforts ...
Recently, Brown University announced it will temporarily house those fighting coronavirus on the front lines, namely emergency personnel and healthcare workers. This is a testament to the power the University has to do good in a global crisis. To that end, we would like to remind the institution that ...
Updated 4:50 p.m. April 26, 2020 In an April 26 op-ed published in the New York Times, President Christina Paxson P’19 detailed the importance of reopening college campuses in the fall, as well as the potential detriment to higher education and the national economy if they remain closed. Paxson ...
As COVID-19 challenges the United States with the greatest health crisis in recent history, many American news outlets have devoted a worrying amount of coverage to bickering over what to call the virus. Of course, President Donald Trump has come under fire for using — but later retracting — the ...
When Jenny Huang’s ’23 acting class transitioned to remote learning after the University canceled in-person classes and evacuated campus in March, her professor asked students to switch to performing monologues telematically. But for Huang, performing via Zoom from her apartment in Beijing, where ...
The weekend of her 21st birthday, Morgan Awner ’21 was supposed to be in Patagonia, hiking and taking in the breathtaking views of the region’s infamous glaciers, fjords and mountains, on her study abroad program’s first trip out of Santiago, Chile. “That was supposed to be my birthday trip,” ...
The University has not yet made a decision on whether it will accept over $4.8 million in federal government aid through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act. The CARES Act, a $2 trillion COVID-19 economic relief bill, allocates nearly $14 billion to higher education institutions ...
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