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 ...
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: Saturday night A suspect entered a student’s unlocked room in Goddard House around 8:30 p.m. and left with her iPhone. ...
Mayor Angel Taveras proposed a plan at a press conference Wednesday to strengthen the city’s economy by attracting and retaining new business developers. The 20-step plan is organized through five key courses of action, which Taveras said are all effective immediately. The plan outlines measures ...
As the national dialogue regarding same-sex marriage engulfs Rhode Island politics — including a marathon 12-hour hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee two weeks ago — the Supreme Court heard a case last week that could render irrelevant the entire debate. For the first time in U.S. history, ...
Last month the University completed the shift to Workday, an online human capital management software for employees on campus — including student workers, faculty members and support staff — which integrates hour logs and payroll tracking. Physical worksheets have been completely replaced by the ...
President Christina Paxson signed a petition last month supporting same-sex marriage in Rhode Island on a personal basis and as a local business leader, but she did not attach the University’s official support. “I’m not at all timid about expressing my views on things that I think are really ...
Federal authorities arrested a former portfolio manager at SAC Capital Advisors Friday on charges of fraud, the latest in a string of similar insider-trading indictments against former employees of the hedge fund founded and owned by University trustee Steven Cohen P’08 P’16. The allegations against ...
The University admitted 9.2 percent of applicants to the class of 2017, the second-lowest acceptance rate in Brown’s history. A total of 2,649 out of 28,919 applicants received acceptance letters to the University’s 250th incoming class, according to a University press release. This year’s acceptance ...
Family members, friends and law enforcement officers have identified surveillance camera footage possibly depicting Sunil Tripathi walking south, away from his apartment, in the early morning of March 16, according to a Friday statement from the family. The footage, pulled from Department of Public ...
The Alpert Medical School and Johnson and Wales University’s new Center for Physician Assistant Studies will share resources, including some faculty and facilities, according to a March 27 University press release. JWU’s physician assistant program, which is in its final stages of development before ...
Renowned Nigerian writer and Professor of Africana Studies Chinua Achebe died the evening of March 21, multiple national news sources reported. He was 82. Achebe died in Boston, according to a University press release. The author of “Things Fall Apart” and other literary works, Achebe joined the ...
The FBI has joined the search for Sunil Tripathi, a former member of the class of 2012 who went missing Saturday morning. An agent met with family members Thursday night to discuss the case and move forward in conjunction with the Providence Police Department and the Department of Public Safety, Tripathi’s ...
Employers say college graduates are unprepared for their careers, according to a study published by the Chronicle of Higher Education earlier this month. Brown’s curriculum and liberal learning equip students with broader skills that may not translate directly to a specific job, said Andrew Simmons, ...
“Firearms are an indelible element of U.S. culture,” said Craig Whitney, author and reporter for the New York Times, at “Guns in America: Cultural Legacy,” the second lecture in a three-part Janus Forum miniseries. Whitney explored the intersection of culture and gun violence in America alongside ...
The Senate Judiciary Committee heard testimonies from dozens of opponents and supporters of two same-sex marriage measures Thursday night. One, which passed in the House of Representatives in January, would legalize same-sex marriage. The other would let Rhode Island voters decide the issue through ...
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