Last Thursday, The Herald reported that the University is moving to establish "professionally oriented master's programs" by fall 2012. According to Karen Sibley, dean of continuing education, most of the instruction will be done online save for "intensive periods" of actual class time at the very beginning ...
At the beginning of this month, the state Senate took up an uncontroversial bill that would start the process of setting up a state health care exchange. The legislation is necessary to comply with the federal health care reform law President Obama signed last year. In fact, the Providence Journal reported ...
It's nearing that time of the school year again — the end, that is. A quarter of us are leaving for good, but most of us will be back in the fall — and those of us who aren't from the area will need somewhere to store our stuff over the summer.
On Monday, the fourth and final candidate for director of the Third World Center gave a presentation at the Sharpe Refectory. As evidenced by the fact that each candidate gave a presentation, the search process for the new director is placing a high priority on student input.
As the Alpert Medical School prepares to make its transition to the Jewelry District, we are pleased to see that it is looking to make other expansions as well. Thanks to a generous grant of over $87,000 from the Rhode Island Foundation, the Med School is capable of funding new initiatives to get students ...
A committee in the Rhode Island State Senate heard a bill late last month that would require businesses with at least three employees to use E-Verify, an online database that checks a job applicants' eligibility to work in the United States. The bill is meant to discourage businesses from hiring unauthorized ...
Over the last several weeks, a significant amount of downtown land in Providence was freed up when the state began the final stages of removing the ancient vestiges of Interstate 195's former path through the city. This is the culmination of a 10-year construction project, known as the Iway, whose astronomical ...
Beginning today at 12 p.m., students will have two full days to vote on MyCourses for leaders of the Undergraduate Council of Students and Undergraduate Finance Board. We encourage students to support Ralanda Nelson '12 for UCS president.
Beginning tomorrow at noon, students will have 48 hours to vote for chair of the Undergraduate Finance Board. We strongly encourage students to read up on the campaign and cast a ballot. As the organization in charge of apportioning funds to student groups, UFB plays a major role in our lives on campus. ...
Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan visited the University of New Hampshire Monday, the same day President Obama officially announced his campaign for re-election. But this visit was no campaign rally. Instead, Biden and Duncan kicked off an effort to remind public schools ...
As Brown's admissions statistics for the class of 2015 roll in, current students may find themselves wondering if they would have survived the selective cut had they been high school seniors applying this year. In the face of a shrinking acceptance rate, it's no secret that one's chances of getting ...
Over the last several months, you may have heard unsettling stories of the ongoing political skirmishes in far-off states like Wisconsin and Ohio. Particularly in Wisconsin, whose capital is home to a large university, students have played large roles on both sides of the ongoing protests.
Things are heating up — but not too much in Providence, unfortunately. This past weekend, Congress continued a hotly partisan battle over federal spending for the rest of this year, providing a preview of the even worse fighting over next year's budget yet to come. As lawmakers continue to skirmish, ...
Ever since the Spring Weekend lineup was finalized last week, we have been hearing murmurs on campus. Some have already seen TV on the Radio perform in Providence. Some have never heard of any of the supporting acts. Others have billed Diddy a washed-up celebrity rather than performer. So we feel it ...
It is easy to forget that the University Library, occupying multiple locations and offering a staggering array of books as well as computers and study spaces, had humble beginnings. Brown's first president, James Manning, wrote in 1772, "At present we have but about two hundred and fifty volumes and ...
It hardly needs to be reiterated that the country is going through tough times and that government bottom lines at every level throughout the nation have been battered by the resulting loss in revenue and increase in welfare expenses. Rhode Island has been particularly hard-hit, with the fourth highest ...
Earlier this month, The Herald reported that the Office of Residential Life is considering a reorganization of on-campus housing that would concentrate first-year dorms and dining around either Keeney or Pembroke campus. Though these plans are only in the preliminary phase, we applaud this effort to ...
We, like the rest of the international community, are horrified by the destruction in Japan. Search and rescue teams continue to work around the clock to find missing people while the country deals with emergencies at its nuclear power plants. Just yesterday, the chair of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory ...
Last February, the ad hoc Organizational Review Committee released its recommendations for how Brown could reduce its budget by $14 million. The committee's charge implied a commitment to cutting out excesses, rather than eliminating services important to students' needs.
One of the major sources of student unrest during the Vietnam War was this simple injustice — although 18- to 20-year-olds could be forcibly shipped off to fight in a foreign war, the vast majority could not vote at home. In 1971, Congress and the states, recognizing the unfairness of preventing ...
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