Providence College announced it will pay $3.84 million to the city in additional funds over the next 10 years, joining several other local tax-exempt institutions that provide voluntary aid to help ameliorate Providence’s financial strife. The private school has agreed to contribute $1 million of ...
City police officers voted to approve their union’s deal with the city Dec. 13, accepting pension and healthcare cuts in order to help the city stave off bankruptcy. The deal saves the city $18.5 million in fiscal year 2013 and reduces the unfunded pension liability by $170 million, according to ...
Students and alums gathered for a weekend of networking and career exploration at the second annual January Career Laboratory, or JanLab. The workshop, hosted by the Center for Careers and Life After Brown, was held on campus Jan. 17-19. This year, 150 students and 85 alums attended the event, an increase ...
The University took initial steps toward charting new paths for the curriculum with the release Friday of the interim report of the Committee on Educational Innovation. The set of preliminary recommendations included a three-year bachelor’s degree, 250 online courses, a reconfiguration of the Program ...
The Committee on Doctoral Education released an interim report Friday with recommendations for improving the University’s commitment to graduate studies. The report highlighted initiatives specifically centered around achieving two objectives — excellence and distinctiveness — for graduate programs. ‘Bottom ...
The Committee on Reimagining the Campus and Community stressed ideas regarding the creation of shared, collaborative spaces between departments, renovations to existing classrooms, further expansion into the Jewelry District and the construction of several new facilities in its interim report released ...
The Committee on Financial Aid endorsed need-blind admission for all undergraduate applicants as a long-term goal for the University in its interim report released Friday. As part of the strategic planning process, the committee also proposed reducing the student summer earnings expectation, simplifying ...
The Online Teaching and Learning committee’s interim report recommended the University develop online education initiatives by encouraging faculty members to create online courses, outlining policies regarding ownership of courses taught online and determining a stance on Brown’s place in the larger ...
The University published interim reports Friday for the six strategic planning committees that are expected to guide President Christina Paxson’s tenure, offering preliminary recommendations and soliciting community involvement in the coming months. The committees — which concern financial aid, ...
The Committee on Faculty Recruitment, Career Development and Retention advised the University to prioritize recruiting talentedfaculty members, nurturing them as scholars and educators, and maintaining their commitment to Brown in the face of recruitment efforts by other institutions, according to its ...
Consultants will submit bids at a Board of Contract and Supply meeting in City Hall this afternoon for a project spearheaded by a committee of College Hill stakeholders to focus on the commercial and residential development of Thayer Street and the surrounding area. A committee headed by the City of ...
Listings are categorized into user-friendly links, said Geoffrey Greene, director of informational technology support services. “It’s a lot easier to use and better organized because you can just click on the links instead of having to scroll down all the way,” said Crystal Acevedo ’15. Some ...
The Rhode Island House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill last night to legalize same-sex marriage — the first time a branch of the General Assembly has approved such a measure — but the bill’s fate remains to be determined. The bill passed 51-19 — with 14 Democrats joining five ...
In response to last December’s shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., President Christina Paxson will sponsor a series of forums this spring intended to provoke a campus-wide dialogue concerning the causes and prevention of campus shootings. The plan represents a stronger response to ...
The English Department is evaluating the effects of three recently introduced concentration requirements, ENGL 0210, ENGL 0410 and ENGL 0610, said Stephen Foley ’74 P’04 P’07, department director of undergraduate studies and associate professor of English. These requirements — established in ...
This year’s flu outbreak has been responsible for more deaths and hospitalizations in Rhode Island than any influenza virus within the past 10 years. Rhode Island recorded 90 cases of the flu during last year’s season but has reported 458 cases as of Jan. 17, said Dara Chadwick, chief officer of ...
After years of falling membership and decreasing member activity, Art House, a program house located in Harkness House on Patriots Court, will cease to exist as an organization at the end of this semester. Art House leaders chose to opt out of the housing process this year, making their space in Harkness ...
In response to this year’s particularly severe flu season, Brown has implemented several measures to prevent the spread of the flu and to care for those infected, Health Services administrators said. Health Services sent an email to all students last week about the recent outbreak, outlining how ...
Expanding the University’s financial aid to be need-blind for all students — a recommendation the Committee on Financial Aid is considering making — would be unsustainable under the current University budget, said Beppie Huidekoper, executive vice president for finance and administration. The ...
The Rhode Island House of Representatives will vote today on a bill to legalize same-sex marriage, marking the first time such a bill has been put to a floor vote in either chamber. Legislation to legalize same-sex marriage in Rhode Island has been introduced unsuccessfully for more than a decade. ...
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