Scattered across three continents, Jonathan He '20 and his friend group tuned in to watch Sunday's Virtual Degree Conferral ceremony together. They were expecting the event, which began at 1 p.m. EST, to last hours. It ran for just over 20 minutes. His friend Dorian Charpentier '20, who believed that ...
As an organizer for Sunrise Providence, Emma Bouton ’20 planned to participate in a mass strike on Earth Day to protest the lack of political action taken to combat climate change. But before that could happen, the coronavirus pushed the United States indoors and the movement’s organizing online. So ...
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 recent months, Brown students have been leading a nationwide food redistribution effort to help farms whose usual supply chains have been disrupted. With the COVID-19 pandemic restricting businesses, decreased demand from restaurants and stores has made selling produce difficult for commercial farms, ...
Updated 3:16 p.m. May 23, 2020 At a special faculty meeting Wednesday, Provost Richard Locke P’18 detailed a potential tri-semester model for the 2020-2021 academic year, but also explained that the University is preparing for the possibility of a fully remote fall semester. To accommodate the ...
As the impact of COVID-19 continues into the summer, the University has canceled its sponsored Fall 2020 study abroad programs for undergraduate students. The difficult decision impacts 142 University students who intended to spend next semester scattered across the globe, according to OIP Director ...
On May 6, the U.S. Department of Education released long-awaited regulations that will change how schools can address complaints of sexual misconduct on college campuses under Title IX. Title IX, a federal law passed in 1972, “prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in any education program ...
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 ...
On April 19 and 20, 110 seniors were elected to the University’s Phi Beta Kappa chapter, wrote Chapter Administrator Mary Jo Foley ’75 in an email to The Herald. Phi Beta Kappa is one of the oldest academic honors in the country that recognizes “outstanding academic accomplishment in the course ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Steering Committee on Equity and Diversity’s three-year review, released May 1, recommended new measures to increase awareness and better responses to Title IX and Gender Equity incidents. To help inform the new recommendations, the review evaluated trainings related to the issue, the current ...
The Office of Title IX and Gender Equity received 12 more reported incidents for the 2018-2019 year compared to the previous year, according to their Annual Outcome report for 2018-2019 released May 1. Between July 1, 2018 and June 30, 2019, the office received 104 allegations of prohibited conduct ...
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 ...
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