The University has extended the length of the African, Latino, Asian and Native American Mentoring Program from two to three semesters, according to a September update to the Plan for Academic Enrichment.
In 1946, President Henry Wriston wrote in a letter to the Corporation that Brown's defining feature was its status as a "university-college" — an undergraduate-centric institution focused on the liberal arts with the resources of a large university.
Gov. Lincoln Chafee '75 P'14 and Christine Gregoire, governor of Washington, filed a petition with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to request that marijuana be reclassified as a Schedule II controlled substance, allowing it to be prescribed in states that legalized medical marijuana.
In response to the recent pepper spraying of students at the University of California at Davis by campus police, the University Council of Students passed a statement defending students' "inalienable right to peaceful assembly" during its final general body meeting of the semester last night.
Corner office or a corner in your parents' basement? Students reported varying levels of confidence in their ability to obtain a desirable job after graduation in a recent Herald poll. According to the poll, 28.4 percent of students are somewhat worried about obtaining desirable jobs after graduation, ...
Service-oriented students already have an umbrella organization for their groups — soon, they could get a roof.
Students discussed the need for a community-based University mission statement at last night's Janus Forum Town Hall event, "The Search for Brown's Next President."
Food insecurity in Rhode Island is at its "highest level on record," according to the Rhode Island Community Food Bank's annual Status Report on Hunger. The report, released last week, documents a continued rise in hunger and food insecurity — uncertainty about finding one's next meal — ...
Interested in Swahili? Armenian? Well, the Brown Language Society is interested in you.
The Rhode Island Board of Elections is revising a proposal to ban voters and poll workers from carrying political paraphernalia — such as T-shirts, buttons and pins — within 50 feet of state polling places.
One professor said he was scared — "scared of the University's being asked to bear another financial risk." A few months earlier, Mark Spilka, then chair of the Department of English, had said he was worried the University seemed to be drifting away from the humanities, establishing itself as a "science-oriented ...
The University hopes to announce both the inaugural director for the planned center for the study of slavery and justice and a replacement director for the Office of Institutional Diversity by the end of the academic year, administrators said at the Brown University Community Council meeting yesterday. ...
It's bad enough catching a cold during midterms week or spraining an ankle in a satellite gym. But when students get sick abroad, they can end up grappling with an administrative headache.
Thirty years ago, having a portable writing machine meant lugging a typewriter across campus. But today, nearly all students own a laptop, and almost 65 percent own a smartphone. According to the most recent Herald poll, 97.5 percent of students indicated they own a personal laptop and 64.3 percent ...
Students who took to the skies over Thanksgiving break had new options for getting to T.F. Green Airport. In addition to the usual smattering of taxis and shuttles lined up at Faunce Arch, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority almost doubled service from the Providence train station to the ...
In contrast to the frenzied Black Friday rush that kicks off the holiday gift-buying season for most shoppers, the inaugural Downcity Providence Holiday Market offered residents a more leisurely experience Saturday. The outdoor market — which will be open every Saturday until Dec. 17 from 11 a.m. ...
A shift in health insurance compensation to incentivize higher quality care is occurring at many of Rhode Island's top hospitals, some of which are partnered with Alpert Medical School.
The University mission statement grew out of its charter, a document bold enough to create a governance structure for a school with no home, professors or students. The motley crew of New England Baptists and intellectuals that gathered in Newport in 1764 — the original Corporation — had their charter ...
Roughly 30 members of various neighborhood and education groups gathered at the State House Monday morning to protest the proposed Providence mayoral academy. The charter school would be operated by Achievement First, a nonprofit organization that runs 20 academies in New York and Connecticut.
Two years after becoming the first black president of an Ivy League university, President Ruth Simmons appointed a committee to investigate the University's formative ties to the Atlantic slave trade. In 2007, responding to the report submitted by the Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice, which ...
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