Warren Simmons will leave his position as executive director of the University’s Annenberg Institute for School Reform, which conducts research on education reform policy, on June 30, the institute announced Tuesday. Simmons, who became the institute’s second director in 1998, said he feels it ...
The Watson Institute for International Studies will launch a newly designed, one-year Master of Public Affairs program this summer following its merger with the Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions, pending final approval from the Graduate Council this month. An open house is ...
A painting hangs in Abbott Gleason’s living room — a piece his wife calls his best work. A view of Florence from the hills outside the city, the landscape combines Cubist form with the pastoral, earthy colors of Paul Cézanne. There’s something organic about the painting: It straddles the border ...
In response to a current structural operating budget deficit of approximately $10 million, the administration has convened a Deficit Reduction Working Group comprising faculty members, staff members and students with the task of increasing efficiency and cutting campus expenses, President Christina ...
Vice President for Public Affairs and University Relations Marisa Quinn will join the Watson Institute of International Studies as director of communications and outreach effective Jan. 1, wrote President Christina Paxson in an email Wednesday to faculty and staff. “I’ve worked with Watson in a ...
The Corporation will review the ongoing implementation of President Christina Paxson’s strategic plan and consider the construction of a new Division of Applied Mathematics building at its meeting this weekend, said Marisa Quinn, vice president for public affairs and University relations. This weekend ...
Chancellor Thomas Tisch ’76 addressed the potential difficulties of adding a student representative to the Corporation at an open forum hosted by the Undergraduate Council of Students Wednesday night. In addition to Tisch, other Corporation members present at the meeting included young alumni trustee ...
A report on race and traffic stops released by the Rhode Island Department of Transportation Wednesday found that “in 24 Rhode Island communities, minorities were more likely to be pulled over than whites for a traffic stop given census population data from 2010.” The report, compiled by the Institute ...
As part of a forced three-day “hiatus” of the Rhode Island College athletics program following an “uptick” in alcohol-related incidents on campus, RIC Athletic Director Don Tencher hosted two mandatory alcohol education sessions for all student-athletes at the school earlier this month. The ...
No election law violation for Raimondo The Board of Elections ruled last Wednesday that the Rhode Island Democratic Party did not violate a state campaign finance law after it spent $90,000 of party funds on a campaign commercial for U.S. Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., that featured gubernatorial candidate ...
A survey released this month by personal finance networking website WalletHub ranked Providence the worst in terms of livability for people with disabilities out of 150 U.S. cities. The survey ranked cities in three categories, which were then compiled into an overall ranking. The economic environment ...
In the two weeks since the Rhode Island Attorney General’s Office hosted the National Association of Attorneys General Conference on Sexual Assault on College Campuses in Providence Sept. 30 to Oct. 1, local law enforcement officers, attorneys general, Rhode Island educators and “victim advocates” ...
“The next mayor of Providence faces daunting challenges,” said James Morone, director of the Taubman Center and professor of political science and urban studies, as he introduced the three mayoral candidates — Independent Vincent “Buddy” Cianci, Democrat Jorge Elorza and Republican Daniel ...
A panel of seven white administrators and faculty members spoke about white privilege in a panel discussion titled “Race, Accountability and Allyship” to a full List 120 Wednesday night. The teach-in was the first event in the Transformative Conversations@Brown Project, an initiative devoted to ...
After 36 years of publication, the Providence Phoenix, an alternative weekly newspaper, is releasing its final issue Thursday. The paper began in March 1978 as the NewPaper under the leadership of Ty Davis before merging with the Phoenix Media/Communications Group in 1988, said Lou Papineau, the Phoenix’s ...
As the 2014 election season ramps up, a number of Brown alums vying for office are demonstrating that Rhode Island captured their hearts and interests during their time on College Hill. Alums running to assume new positions include Seth Magaziner ’06 for Rhode Island general treasurer, Daniel Harrop ...
“You can’t choose your family,” the saying goes. But kin relations are inevitably defined by participants and outside sources, said philosopher and gender theorist Judith Butler in a Tuesday lecture entitled “Fallible Recognition: The Politics of Kinship in the Bacchae.” Butler, a professor ...
A female Providence College student who accused two Brown students of sexual assault last year filed a civil rights complaint with the U.S. Department of Education Saturday against the University for allegedly mishandling her case, the Providence Journal reported Tuesday. The Education Department’s ...
No referee off the field for FSU football players A New York Times investigation published Friday revealed a pattern of action by Tallahassee, Fla. police designed to protect Florida State University football players accused of crimes. The most prominent of the cases involves star quarterback Jameis ...
After several years of significant decline, the number of students studying abroad has rebounded modestly over the past two years. From 2007-08 to 2012-13, the number of students studying abroad during the academic year fell from a high of 565 to a low of 381 — a 33 percent drop over five years, ...
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