Chancellor at U. of Illinois faces criticism Online controversy has flared around the chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s decision to keep the university open Monday despite cold temperatures, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported Tuesday. Students posted comments ...
President Obama emphasized reducing income inequality and expanding opportunity, in part through increased access to higher education, in his fifth State of the Union address Tuesday night. He also stressed job creation, the United States’ reduced military presence in the Middle East and his commitment ...
As part of Providence’s master plan to expand bicycle travel, the city is negotiating a contract for a new bike share program that would link downtown with College Hill, Federal Hill, the Jewelry District and various places on the east and west sides, wrote Toby Shepherd, director of policy in the ...
A new teacher evaluation bill introduced by Rep. William O’Brien, D-North Providence, could spell the end of annual assessments of teachers in Rhode Island. Under the new system proposed by O’Brien, only teachers with poor efficacy ratings would be evaluated yearly. Teachers deemed “highly effective” ...
Graduate students at New York University voted last month to become the only graduate assistants at an American private university to be represented by a union, another development in a continuing debate about the merits of unionization in graduate education. But while graduate students at Brown said ...
The Alpert Medical School MD Curriculum Committee passed a motion last month to grade all preclinical courses — the entirety of the first two years of medical study — solely Satisfactory/No Credit, beginning with the MD class of 2017. The school’s previous policy graded all preclinical courses ...
Following an eight-month battle of demonstrations and boycotts against the Renaissance Providence Downtown Hotel, the success of employees hoping to unionize now hinges on a National Labor Relations Board complaint, with a formal hearing scheduled for March 31 in Boston. Hotel workers and the labor ...
The first time Pedro Dal Bo taught microeconomics — as a teaching assistant 20 years ago to students in Argentina — it was with the traditional blackboard and chalk. But last semester, after years of teaching in a conventional manner, Dal Bo decided to conduct an experiment. Though Dal Bo, associate ...
When Provost Mark Schlissel P’15 departs for the University of Michigan presidency July 1, he will leave behind a legacy that includes leadership of an expansive strategic planning process, an accredited School of Public Health, tough financial decisions and enhanced environmental teaching and research. Upon ...
Provost Mark Schlissel P’15 was named the next president of the University of Michigan Friday morning, priming him to leave Brown after three years in the top administrative post. He will remain at Brown for the rest of the academic year, taking the helm at Michigan July 1. Schlissel, who came to ...
News of Provost Mark Schlissel’s P’15 departure precipitated a range of reactions throughout the Brown community this weekend, including uncertainty about losing a top administrator, pride in a University leader rising to a high-profile position and hope for a new voice on College Hill. ‘A ...
Sitting atop the new Building for Environmental Research and Teaching, the Plant Environmental Center — the University’s new greenhouse and conservatory — houses innovative technology for research on climate change and other leading areas of study. The rooftop building — a metallic, crown-shaped ...
Following its first general body meeting of the semester this past Wednesday, the Undergraduate Council of Students is preparing to pursue several projects this spring, including addressing lingering student concerns about coal divestment and facilitating President Christina Paxson’s internship initiative. The ...
Eighteen juniors returning from study abroad are living in temporary housing while awaiting permanent on-campus housing assignments this semester. Another approximately 40 juniors returning from study abroad were granted off-campus housing permission for the spring semester, even though the Office of ...
Many students returning to campus this week had to change their travel plans and missed the first few classes of the semester, as Tuesday’s winter storm blanketed much of the Northeast, depositing six inches of snow in Providence. Though the University canceled classes before 10 a.m., some professors ...
Undergraduate students congregated for a series of panels and networking opportunities with Brown alums last week at the third annual January Career Laboratory, or JanLab, hosted by the Center for Careers and Life After Brown. About 60 alums and 138 students attended this year’s event, which ran ...
The Building for Environmental Research and Teaching opened its doors to students this week, replacing Hunter Laboratory after over a year of construction. The $35 million project entailed an overhaul of the building’s interior, the installation of a new greenhouse on the roof and an extension of ...
Assistant Professor of English Vanessa Ryan was named associate dean of the Graduate School earlier this month, Dean of the Graduate School Peter Weber wrote in an email to The Herald. Her new position was created as part of an initiative in President Christina Paxson’s strategic plan to improve doctoral ...
With election season shifting into full force, gubernatorial and mayoral candidates articulated their visions to reduce violence through poverty alleviation, nonviolence education and an increased police presence to a packed audience at the Martin Luther King Jr. Day forum hosted by the Institute for ...
Gov. Lincoln Chafee ’75 P’14 P’17 delivered the annual State of the State and budget address last week, marking the beginning of his fourth and final year as the Ocean State’s governor. Focusing on the fundamental factors that will drive economic growth and prosperity in Rhode Island, Chafee’s ...
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