See full results and methodology. A Herald poll of undergraduates conducted March 3-4 found both approval and disapproval of President Christina Paxson’s job performance have each declined since November. A plurality of undergraduates endorsed providing financial aid for middle-income students ...
Undergraduate Council of Students members raised issues regarding Psychological Services’ commitment to student confidentiality, the hiring of minority staff members and student outreach at the UCS general body meeting Wednesday featuring Sherri Nelson, director of Psychological Services, Maria Suarez, ...
PopUp Providence, a tactical urbanism program that introduces inexpensive and temporary installations designed to engage its residents and invigorate the area is now accepting proposals from the community. The program is a partnership between the Providence Redevelopment Agency and the Providence Department ...
“The fraction of the As is getting pretty high — too high for comfort,” said President Christina Paxson, adding, “It’s clear that there has been grade inflation” at Brown and its peer institutions. Across the Ivy League, university administrators are grappling with skyrocketing grades. Harvard ...
With the number of high school students taking Advanced Placement courses more than doubling over the last 10 years, some of Brown’s peer institutions have stopped accepting AP and International Baccalaureate test scores for course credit. And while the University does not grant course credit for ...
A new position in the Graduate School — the associate dean of master’s education, created last month — is seeking to improve master’s students’ experiences as this segment of the Brown student body becomes its fastest-growing. Don Operario, associate professor of public health and director ...
Rep. Joseph Almeida, D-Providence, introduced legislation to the Rhode Island General Assembly Feb. 25 that would form the 1696 Historical Commission. The commission, named for the year enslaved Africans were first documented to have arrived in Rhode Island, would create a comprehensive curriculum ...
As the national unemployment rate inches back toward pre-crisis figures, Rhode Island’s rate has followed the general trend. But the state’s stubbornly high unemployment distinguishes it from national progress. As lawmakers attempt to identify the cause of the Ocean State’s struggles, a range ...
Approval of the finalized Thayer Street Planning Study in late January marked the conclusion of exploratory research on potential Thayer Street improvements, signalling a transition into the plan’s implementation phase. Following months of revision, the approved outline calls for the long-term development ...
The Undergraduate Council of Students is set to consider another resolution in support of Brown Divest Coal, said Todd Harris ’14.5, UCS president. After Council leaders attended a Divest Coal meeting earlier this month, Divest Coal members are drafting a resolution to present to a UCS “working ...
Prince Karim Aga Khan IV ’96 hon. P’95 said during a lecture Monday that the hardest part of speaking at Brown again since delivering the baccalaureate address in 1996 was “that you have to explain what you got wrong the first time.” It was hard to imagine that the thorough, well-spoken 49th ...
The dean of the College search committee completed its first phase of interviews with nine applicants out of a pool of 53 and is currently re-interviewing a subset of the original interviewees, wrote Marisa Quinn, vice president of public affairs and University relations, in an email to The Herald. The ...
Eight students are currently enrolled in MGRK 0400: “Intermediate Modern Greek,” taught by Senior Lecturer in Modern Greek Studies Elissavet Amanatidou, but only seven of them live on College Hill. The eighth student is a graduate student at Cornell, Eilis Monahan, who joins the class by video conference ...
“It’s like magic, right?” Eve Ornstedt, executive director for the Office of the 250th Anniversary, reflected as she stood in the center of the Main Green Friday afternoon watching years of celebration-planning unfold in front of her. The weekend’s celebrations marked the 250th anniversary of ...
The governors of Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Delaware and Vermont — three of whom are alums — joined Wendy Schiller, associate professor of political science and public policy, at the first of five events Saturday that together composed the President’s Colloquium on the Virtues of a Liberal Education. ...
“I didn’t have any idea that I was going to become the Secretary of Labor someday, … but what I did have an idea of was that I wanted to make a difference,” said U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez ’83 in his keynote address, part of Saturday morning’s opening celebration of Brown’s 250th ...
“If you are here today, and if you graduate from Brown, you are ready to tackle just about anything — don’t be fearful,” said World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim ’82 in a lecture delivered Friday afternoon to a packed Salomon 101. Kim’s talk, part of the Stephen A. Ogden ’60 Memorial ...
The noontime Sharpe Refectory rush was especially crowded Friday, as around 300 seventh and eighth graders from middle schools throughout Rhode Island swarmed campus for the “250+ Day of Academic Discovery.” The program kicked off with a welcome from student leaders, including Undergraduate Council ...
Deborah Willis, chair of the department of photography and imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University presented the 2014 Debra L. Lee Lecture on Slavery and Justice to a half-filled Smith-Buonano 106, entitled “Visualizing Freedom: Photography and Emancipation.” Willis has been ...
The University will distribute a survey in the coming months to assess Brown’s reputation with scholars, students and others both abroad and within the United States. The survey is meant to provide a “full and complete baseline assessment of the awareness and perceptions of Brown among various ...
Solutions by The State News
