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This Week in Higher Ed: Nov. 4, 2015
By Emma Harris | November 4Costumes and cultural appropriation
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Panelists discuss context of Syrian refugee crisis
By Melissa Cruz | November 4Political posturing is responsible for the Syrian refugee crisis, said Stephen Kinzer, senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, beginning a discussion of the crisis with an overview of the tensions that led to the international sociopolitical turmoil. The hour-long ...
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Paxson addresses campus climate initiatives with faculty
By Drew Williams | November 4Updated Nov. 4, 2015 at 2:16 p.m. The campus climate around freedom of speech featured prominently in remarks from both President Christina Paxson P’19 and Provost Richard Locke P’17 at a faculty meeting Tuesday. Paxson underscored Brown’s complementary roles as a place of open inquiry and an ...
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Brown supports UT Austin in affirmative action case
By Kate Talerico | November 4The University filed an amicus brief along with 12 other schools Monday in support of the University of Texas at Austin’s use of race in its admission decisions, which is to be challenged in an upcoming Supreme Court case. Oral arguments for the case, Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, are ...
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ACLU criticizes school resource officer role
By Mei Novak | November 4Steven Brown, executive director of the Rhode Island chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, wrote a letter to the Pawtucket School District urging it to reconsider the presence of school resource officers in its schools, as well as the current Memorandum of Understanding between the school district ...
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Winter internship program expands to four cities
By Aileen Seo | November 4Innovate Winter Break, a program offering a two-week internship for students interested in working with social enterprises and nonprofit organizations, will expand this year to include opportunities in New York, Boston, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. This year, about 60 employers — including ...
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Guidebook to assist first-gen students
By Julia Choi | November 3The student group First-Gens@Brown will release a guidebook by the end of winter break aimed at helping first-generation students navigate some challenges of college. “We wanted to support all first-gen college students on campus,” said Brandon Le ’18, a leader of the project. Manuel Contreras ...
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Watson Institute receives $50 million gift
By Lauren Aratani | November 3The Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs has received a $50 million gift from three donors, the University announced Monday evening. The joint gift, which is part of the BrownTogether comprehensive campaign’s $3 billion early fundraising efforts, was awarded by Chancellor Thomas Tisch ...
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Brown unveils Palestinian Studies fellowship
By Alex Skidmore | November 3The Department of Middle East Studies has introduced a new postdoctoral fellowship in Palestinian Studies as part of the new initiative “New Directions in Palestinian Studies.” The initiative seeks to “take stock of the scholarship produced on the Palestinians over the past generation,” said ...
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Profs offer opinions on presidential race
By Elena Renken | November 3With municipal elections Tuesday and the race for the Democratic and Republican presidential nominations gaining steam with a series of debates in recent weeks, faculty members in public policy weighed in on this year’s election cycle. There are three candidates seeking the Democratic nomination and ...
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New Amazon center to open by fall 2016
By Isabelle Doyle | November 3Amazon.com, Inc. is building a 1 million-square-foot fulfillment center in Fall River, Massachusetts, that will open in roughly one year. Workers broke ground on the center — which will receive, process and fill incoming orders from Amazon — on Oct. 19. Amazon hopes to accomplish as much construction ...
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Website supports Latino entrepreneurship
By Isabela Karibjanian | November 3As part of a statewide economic development strategy, Gov. Gina Raimondo and the Rhode Island Commerce Corporation launched a website specifically aimed at empowering Latino entrepreneurs, according to an October press release. The website features a resource directory with information on Latino-run ...
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Forum addresses Haitian deportation crisis
By Kyle Borowski | November 3In an effort to raise local awareness of the challenges that Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian ancestry face in the Dominican Republic, Bernard Georges, founder of the nonprofit New Bridges for Haitian Success Inc., hopes to involve the University in future discussions. An Oct. 23 forum, New Bridges’ ...
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Students, faculty push diversity to center stage
By Lauren Aratani | November 2“Places!” The excited chatter that filled Stuart Theater immediately started to die down as the four-hour rehearsal began. “Let’s have a good one, y'all,” Professor of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies Kym Moore said from the middle of the theatre. A couple of seconds later, a series of ...
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JWW’s gender-inclusive bathroom relocates
By Suvy Qin | November 2The gender-inclusive bathroom in J. Walter Wilson has moved to the third floor due to the mailroom renovations, said Kelly Garrett, program director of the LGBTQ Center. Before the renovations last summer, a gender-inclusive bathroom was located at the end of the hallway near the old mailboxes, Garrett ...
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BrownTogether campaign to fund campus renovations
By Anica Green | October 30The University plans to raise $600 million for campus development under the “BrownTogether” comprehensive campaign. The most significant coming projects are the new School of Engineering building, an expansion of the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs that will allow it to house ...
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BrownConnect 2.0 to feature funding search tool
By Olivia Katcher | October 30The Center for Careers and Life After Brown will launch BrownConnect 2.0 — a revamped version of the University’s internship search and alumni mentoring site — Nov. 5. The improvements will focus on aggregating various funding opportunities in one space, said Aixa Kidd, director of BrownConnect. Since ...
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Panelists examine sustainable development potential in Latin America
October 30Of the many roads to achieving economic and environmental goals, experts on sustainable development and climate change repeatedly mentioned the need for suitable incentives to reach energy goals by 2030 and for greater investment in fiscal and human capital at a panel discussion Thursday. Spurred by ...
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This Week in Higher Ed: Oct. 29, 2015
By Drew Williams | October 29U. of Mississippi takes down state flag The University of Mississippi removed the Mississippi state flag from campus grounds Monday, following student and faculty protests against a symbol that features the Confederate flag, NPR reported. The University of Mississippi is steeped in Confederate tradition, ...
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Paxson highlights investments in people
By Matthew Jarrell | October 29President Christina Paxson P’19 emphasized the importance of investment in students, faculty and staff in a discussion of the “BrownTogether” comprehensive campaign with the Undergraduate Council of Students Wednesday. “When I think about a university, I know that the most important thing is ...
