The end of this semester marks the completion of the University’s two-year transition to replace MyCourses, the Blackboard-based learning management system, with Canvas. The transition to Canvas comes amid concerns from some faculty members and students that the functions of the University’s digital ...
A crowd of nearly 200 students, state residents and state legislators gathered Wednesday to support a bill for housing vouchers at a “Wizard of Oz”-themed rally. The bill — introduced in the House in February and currently pending review by the House Finance Committee — seeks $3 million for ...
Jessica Lam ’03 was working at a private investment fund in Hong Kong four years ago when she had the idea for her own company. “I didn’t think I was really adding value to my work,” Lam said. “I wanted to figure out a way to leverage my finance and consulting experience but still do what ...
Cold-blooded murderers, rock-and-roll has-beens and undercover spies are among the diverse individuals featured in this year’s Ivy Film Festival selections. IFF released its annual screening and event lineup, which will run April 8 to 14, on the group’s website Wednesday. The keynote speaker this ...
Five members from the Student Labor Alliance traveled to Florida to take part in a march held March 14-18 to protest corporations’ alleged abuse of farm workers in the state. The students joined the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a pro-workers’ rights advocacy group, to walk part of the coalition’s ...
The Undergraduate Council of Students appointed two new members to its elections board at its general body meeting Wednesday. Ian Eppler ’13, a former Herald opinions columnist, and Mikala Murad ’16 will help facilitate the process for this month’s elections. They will join Caleb Miller ’16, ...
The Graduate Student Council unanimously passed a resolution Thursday evening calling for the expansion of the ombuds office’s jurisdiction to serve all graduate students and for the ombudsperson position to become a full-time post. The resolution will be given to President Christina Paxson and Provost ...
Background checks Legislation that would require individuals interested in volunteering in the state’s public and private schools to undergo criminal background checks passed in the House of Representatives Thursday. Previously, this requirement only applied to school employees, but the bill — ...
The University may convert the ombudsperson position to full-time and expand access for students and some employees starting in 2014, a move the Faculty Executive Committee recently voted to support. Ruth Rosenberg was hired to the post last year and currently works part-time, offering services for ...
The Rhode Island General Assembly earned a grade of D on a transparency report card released last month by the Sunlight Foundation, a nonprofit devoted to increasing government openness. The report graded data presented on the websites of all 50 states’ legislatures using six criteria — thoroughness, ...
The 18th-century philosopher Adam Smith is frequently described as the father of capitalism and is well known for praising what he called the market’s “invisible hand.” But he also developed complex theories of justice, said Daniel Klein, an economics professor at George Mason University, in a ...
Working in Mali during the country’s ongoing civil war has been a “challenging context … but also a fascinating one,” said Kris Ansin, executive director of the Mali Health Organizing Project, in a talk Tuesday night. Ansin said he hopes MHOP can take advantage of the unique timing to make ...
Yale formalizes online education program Yale’s President-elect Peter Salovey signed an agreement March 13 formalizing a partnership between Yale and an online education program to encourage “global education” and increase accessibility to international internships, the Yale Daily News reported ...
The University’s Technology Ventures Office announced a partnership with the Lifespan health care system March 25 that would help Lifespan commercialize new research discoveries. The TVO also expanded its existing partnership with Care New England to cover discoveries made in two more of the company’s ...
Faculty members voted to revise the timeline and standardize procedures for promotion from associate to full professor at Tuesday’s faculty meeting. About 80 faculty members took part in the deliberations, which resulted in the passage of two motions to amend the Faculty Rules and Regulations. Faculty ...
All admitted students of color from the class of 2017 — including, for the first time, Asian Americans — will receive phone calls this week from student volunteers congratulating them on their acceptances and answering any of the prospective students’ questions. Forty-five percent of the accepted ...
University policy allows administrators to request searches of student and faculty email accounts for life and safety issues, legal affairs and court orders or urgent University business, but many students are unaware of this provision of the University’s email policy. Who checks, and when? “Brown ...
The Violence Against Women Act, reauthorized earlier this year after contentious national debate, spurred conversation in a panel discussion in the Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center Tuesday afternoon. President Obama’s signature on the legislation last month extended resources and added new provisions, ...
A law decriminalizing marijuana in Rhode Island went into effect yesterday. Under the new law, individuals caught in possession of less than one ounce of marijuana will face a civil fine of $150 instead of the criminal charges possible under previous laws. If an individual is caught with the drug three ...
Student groups can anticipate increased funding and new policies for the upcoming academic year, the Undergraduate Finance Board announced in a community-wide email last month. Beginning next year, student groups will be able to request increased conference funding, funds for service groups and funding ...
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