About 56 percent of students oppose the University considering race when hiring faculty members, while 35 percent support the policy, according to a Herald poll conducted this fall. The remaining 60 percent of students said the University should not consider demographic factors in faculty decisions. ...
The Herald sat down with Nigerian -German singer Nneka, who is visiting campus as part of this year's Achebe Colloquium. The Colloquium, which will take place today and tomorrow, features panels and discussions centered on the theme "Governance, Security and Peace in Africa." Nneka will perform 8:30 ...
"The president has shown himself to be an administrator careful in his choice of words and slow in his choice of actions," The Herald wrote May 9, 1969, the day Ray Heffner, the University's 13th president, announced his resignation. Heffner, who died last week at the age of 87, presided over three ...
The Undergraduate Council of Students doubled the budget for its recently-created New Initiatives Fund to $1,000 this semester. UCS started the grant last semester to support newer Category I groups that have "feasible, interesting" plans, said UCS Treasurer Stacy Bartlett '14.
The number of citizens in need of food aid in November was the highest recorded in state history, according to the Rhode Island Community Food Bank's "2012 Status Report on Hunger in Rhode Island" released last month. The report showed approximately 24 percent of Rhode Island households are recipients ...
Amnesty International at Brown is participating in the international 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence campaign from Nov. 25 to Dec. 10 to end violence against women across the world. Sponsored by the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, the U.N. branch dedicated ...
The University spent $36,253 on congressional lobbying in the first three quarters of 2012 on issues including higher education, biomedical research, science issues and health care issues, according to Senate lobbying disclosures. The University lobbied institutions including the National Institutes ...
Six months after the University settled negotiations with Providence Mayor Angel Taveras - through an agreement that increased Brown's voluntary contributions to the city in lieu of taxes, amid criticism from both students and city residents - the administration released a comprehensive report last ...
The University is sponsoring the first-ever "Brown Shops Local!" event today as part of a larger city initiative to support local merchants. A free shuttle service will take students, faculty and staff to four different shopping locations around Providence from 4 to 8 p.m.
Brown students took home six out of 10 cash prizes, including first place, at the seventh annual Rhode Island Elevator Pitch Contest last night.
Despite the progress made by President Obama's health care reform law, the United States still faces significant challenges in improving the quality of its health care, according to three panelists who spoke at a forum on the future of health care reform last night. Christopher Koller, Rhode Island ...
The University's net assets decreased to $3.16 billion at the end of fiscal year 2012, a decrease of about 2 percent from last year's total of $3.23 billion, according to financial statements released last month. Implying that the tough national economic climate is continuing to have an effect on elite ...
Across the country, the number of international students has increased significantly in the last few years, contributing additional revenue to colleges and state economies, according to a November report by the National Association for Foreign Student Affairs. Rhode Island was no exception - in the ...
Three leading voices in Rhode Island media discussed the state of local and national politics in a panel discussion organized by Common Cause Rhode Island and the Providence Athenaeum Tuesday evening.
MunchCard, a student-owned Thayer Street restaurant discount program, went inactive when it was bought by a Chicago-based company earlier this semester. With the acquisition now complete, the new ownership plans to enact a series of changes to the MunchCard system before reactivating it. "There's no ...
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