Vice President for Campus Life and Student Services Margaret Klawunn will serve as interim dean of the College effective Jan. 1, when current dean Katherine Bergeron will step down to become president of Connecticut College, Provost Mark Schlissel P’15 said at Tuesday’s faculty meeting. “I am ...
After congressional quarreling sent the federal government Monday night into its first shutdown since the Clinton administration, Brown students and people across Rhode Island spent Tuesday considering how the closure will affect them. The effects will be limited in the short term, but if Congress ...
State Education Commisioner Deborah Gist’s requirement that all high school students in Rhode Island obtain a score of “partial proficiency” on the NECAP examination or demonstrate improvement on their second or third attempts to graduate continues to spark debate across the state. The Rhode ...
Sojourner House, a nonprofit shelter for victims of domestic abuse, received a $300,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office on Violence Against Women earlier this month. Sojourner will use the three-year grant to improve transitional housing for victims of domestic abuse and their children. U.S. ...
Rhode Island-based Kate Coyne-McCoy, a long-time advocate for female participation in politics, said her newly-created super Political Action Committee called American LeadHERship is committed to supporting “progressive, pro-choice, Democratic women” who wish to run for governor across the country. The ...
The following is an account of crime events that took place this weekend, reported to The Herald by Deputy Chief of Police for the Department of Public Safety Paul Shanley: Early Friday morning The semester’s high incidence of laptop theft continued this weekend when three laptops were reported ...
Nine students from the Student Labor Alliance gathered on the Main Green Monday afternoon to deliver a letter to President Christina Paxson advocating stronger worker protections in the University’s contracts with businesses. Dawn Silvia, executive assistant to the president’s office, told SLA ...
After its leaders named advising a key priority for this year, the Undergraduate Council of Students is moving forward with plans intended to improve the undergraduate advising experience. UCS President Todd Harris ’14.5 said advising will be one of the Council’s top concerns this year, The Herald ...
The Center for Careers and Life After Brown has appointed Amy Tarbox, previously the manager of the Department of Computer Science’s Industrial Partners Program, as the University’s new coordinator for career fields in business, finance and consulting. In her new role, Tarbox has transitioned from ...
Faculty members who taught the University’s first three massive open online courses on Coursera this summer shared their experiences in two town hall meetings held Sept. 25 and Sept. 27. “We recognized that there was a lot of curiosity around the courses,” said John Melson, instructional designer ...
Yongfei Ci, a visitor-in-residence graduate student at the University, was arrested for allegedly stabbing his ex-girlfriend to death in her Urbana, Ill., home Friday, the Chicago Tribune reported Saturday. He is currently being held on a $10 million bond and is expected to face formal charges Monday, ...
The Pembroke Center is in the midst of a $3.5 million fundraising drive to support the growth and accessibility of its two archives: the Christine Dunlap Farnham Archive and the Feminist Theory Archive. Pembroke Center Associates Council Chair Nancy Buc ’65 LLD ’94, a former member of the Corporation’s ...
The University reported its highest fundraising results in five years, raising just over $195.4 million as of June 30, according to a press release from the Alumni Association. The money will be distributed across the University’s key fundraising priorities, as well as initiatives for the Brown Annual ...
Applicants to the class of 2018 will complete a significantly revised Brown supplement to the Common Application during the 2013-2014 admission cycle, submitting two fewer short answer responses and one fewer essay question. One previous question giving applicants the option of writing one of three ...
Palestinians will remain in a “situation of captivity and enslavement” if Israel does not move toward a two-state solution, said Hanan Ashrawi, a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization executive committee, to a half-filled Salomon 101 Wednesday. Ashrawi’s lecture — entitled “Oslo: ...
Faculty members interviewed expressed no strong opinions about President Christina Paxson’s strategic plan draft, which was released to the community last Wednesday. The plan will be presented and discussed at Tuesday’s faculty meeting before being voted on by the Corporation — the University’s ...
Environmental studies and human impact on nature were highlighted as one of seven key “integrative themes” for the University’s next decade in President Christina Paxson’s strategic plan, released last week. But changes are already underway at the Center for Environmental Studies: With a new ...
Members of the Undergraduate Council of Students critiqued President Christina Paxson’s strategic plan at Wednesday’s UCS general body meeting, saying the plan does not mention advising, does not prioritize financial aid and emphasizes graduate programs over the undergraduate experience. Council ...
Corporation Trustee Steven Cohen P’08 P’16 could find a way out of his legal troubles, as he has begun negotiations with federal prosecutors to reach a potential settlement of the charges against his hedge fund and himself, multiple news outlets reported Tuesday. The talks are still in initial ...
Harvard kicks off $6.5 billion capital campaign Harvard announced Sept. 21 that it hopes to raise a historic $6.5 billion with its new capital campaign, the Harvard Crimson reported Saturday. Achieving this target amount would make this capital campaign, known as the Harvard Campaign, the largest ...
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