The University has seen an escalation in cyber-attacks in recent months and is spotting thousands of attacks from foreign sources every day, said Chief Information Security Officer David Sherry. Though he declined to give a more precise estimate, Sherry said the number of attempts to breach the University’s ...
Student leaders from all eight Ivy League institutions gathered on campus this weekend to share ideas for improving their universities’ student governments at the 14th annual Ivy Leadership Summit. The two-day conference, which focused on a theme of “The Digital Future,” featured addresses by ...
The Meiklejohn Leadership Committee launched a Facebook page called “Brown Advisors” Aug. 30 in order to create a digital forum for students to ask their peers questions related to Brown academics, extracurriculars and social life. Brown Advisors allows students to ask questions anonymously and ...
The number of reported forcible sex offenses and robberies at Brown increased significantly from 2011 to 2012, while the number of reported burglaries fell by almost 50 percent, according to the 2013 Annual Security Report released by the Department of Public Safety last week. The number of total reported ...
A proposal addressing environment and society has been chosen as one of the University’s two Signature Academic Initiatives to be supported under the strategic plan, serving as major hubs of scholarship and research, Provost Mark Schlissel P’15 wrote in an email to the faculty last month. The Humanity-Centered ...
The Office of Residential Life plans to remove gender-neutral signs outside restrooms in Keeney Quadrangle and reinstate gender-specific restrooms, a decision that has been met with pushback from some students. Gender-neutral signs outside the restrooms were mistakenly put up during renovations this ...
Responding to student and faculty feedback, President Christina Paxson said at an open forum Wednesday she will revise her strategic plan to use the term “university-college” and explicitly commit to advising. The forum was part of the Undergraduate Council of Students’ weekly general body meeting. Paxson’s ...
Visiting mathematics graduate student Yongfei Ci, arrested for allegedly stabbing his ex-girlfriend to death last Friday, was arraigned Monday. He will face a preliminary hearing Oct. 22, said Nedra Lafenhagen, clerk at the Champaign County Satellite Jail in Illinois, where Ci is currently in custody. Ci ...
The University may add as many as 70 new faculty positions over the next decade to maintain the student-faculty ratios while increasing the size of the student body, Dean of the Faculty Kevin McLaughlin P’12 said. If President Christina Paxson’s strategic plan — released Sept. 18 — is approved ...
Graduate School departmental metrics, graduate student summer funding and improving the Graduate School’s image surfaced as dominant issues at Wednesday’s Graduate Student Council meeting, which featured President Christina Paxson and other top administrators. Provost Mark Schlissel P’15, Dean ...
Providence City Council passed a resolution 11-1 in June that committed the city to divestment from any of its holdings in the top 200 fossil fuel companies in the next five years, making Providence the first capital city in the United States to do so. Councilman Seth Yurdin, Ward 1, lead sponsor of ...
Rhode Island’s Commissioner of Education Deborah Gist discussed a variety of public education issues, from standardized testing to the implementation of the new Common Core curriculum, with Rhody Young Republicans at an event the organization hosted Wednesday night. Gist introduced a series of focal ...
Explosion hits UC Berkeley Following an explosion on the University of California at Berkeley campus, officials declared a state of emergency and called for a campus-wide evacuation around 6:40 p.m. Monday. Dan Mogulof, executive director of public affairs at UC Berkeley, told the Daily Californian ...
Administrators addressed potential concerns regarding President Christina Paxson’s strategic plan at the Brown University Community Council meeting Wednesday evening. Provost Mark Schlissel P’15 presented on various aspects of the strategic plan, including financial aid, diversity, the humanities ...
As plans to revitalize Thayer Street continue to develop, commercial changes are already affecting students. Almost a year after the Tedeschi Food Shop shut its doors, its former storefront remains vacant. The owners posted a sign on their door indicating they “lost (their) lease” and declined ...
The tension was palpable in Sayles Hall yesterday as coal divestment advocates Bill McKibben P’16 and Christian Parenti locked horns with former Duke Energy CEO James Rogers in a Janus Forum event held just weeks before the Corporation is due to vote on coal divestment. McKibben, founder of 350.org, ...
This summer Rhode Island joined the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, a group of states attempting to reform the presidential election process. Gov. Lincoln Chafee ’75 P’14 P’17 signed the legislation in early July, putting the compact more than halfway toward the number of electoral ...
The University saw a 12.6 percent return on its endowment over the past fiscal year, a number expected to maintain Brown’s current endowment-centered rankings in the Ivy League. The endowment is controlled by the Investment Office, which manages the now $2.86 billion long-term pool that consists ...
The Office of Residential Life’s Community Directors program expanded this year to encompass new class-specific responsibilites complementing the University’s new housing model based on students’ grade levels. ResLife brought on six community directors, two more than last year and the highest ...
Faculty members voiced concerns over President Christina Paxson’s strategic plan draft at a faculty meeting Tuesday, taking issue with the absence of the term “university-college,” its commitment to growing the faculty and student body populations and its emphasis on globalization and rearranging ...
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