Trustees and fellows of the Corporation make their greatest impact on the University during the three weekends a year they convene to set policy, but the off-campus activities of some members have caught nationwide attention with a series of scandals in the financial world.
Martin Granoff P'93, the largest donor for the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, has been involved with Brown for years. Though neither of the Granoffs attended Brown — Martin attended New York University and Perry attended the University of Michigan — their daughter ...
In 2008, Chancellor Thomas Tisch '76 — who leads the Corporation — admitted to The Herald that the Corporation has often been accused of being a bunch of "dead white males."
Beginning today, students will be able to declare their concentrations electronically using a new feature on Advising Sidekick, the web-based tool run by the Office of the Dean of the College.
About 350 attendees explored the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts at its dedication ceremony last night, taking in the wide variety of student artwork — incorporating visual art, sound, video, dance and sculpture — that adorns the latest addition to the campus. The building ...
Rhode Island policymakers are hammering out the details of how to implement the health care reform bill Congress passed last March.
This semester the Swearer Center for Public Service will pay its program coordinators by the hour, rather than with a stipend, in order to bring its compensation polices in line with the Fair Labor Standards Act.
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Students pride themselves on getting involved off College Hill, and during the midterm campaign season last year, they did just that, lending support to state candidates and getting a real-world introduction to the political process.
Same-sex marriage supporters packed the State House yesterday at a Marriage Equality Rhode Island rally.
About two-thirds of the faculty are male and about four-fifths identify as white, according to statistics published on the Dean of the Faculty's website. The faculty continues to lack racial and gender diversity despite concerted institutional efforts in recent years to increase it.
The Undergraduate Council of Students elected an Ivy Council liaison and approved the formation of four new student groups, including "Jockapella," last night.
With few major capital projects left on its plate, the Corporation will meet this weekend to discuss various University policies and vote on next year's budget.
Each week, students devote hundreds of hours to teaching and mentoring Providence's disadvantaged youth. But these volunteer tutors are facing a problem that even the most dedicated may be ill-equipped to handle.
Gay marriage supporters and opponents alike gathered at the State House yesterday for the House Judiciary Committee hearing on two bills regarding same-sex marriage in Rhode Island.
Though in a newly-released national survey college freshmen rated their emotional health at a record low, Psychological Services has not seen a significant change in visits from first-year students, Director of Psych Services Belinda Johnson said.
Few Westerners have visited North Korea in recent memory. Yet for the past two years, the Pyongyang Project has brought groups to the region both despite and because of its political significance.
What does a Brown degree mean in the job market today? According to Lauren Rivera, not much.
Renowned scholar Ronald Ferguson gave the 14th Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture Tuesday afternoon. Before the lecture, he sat down with The Herald to talk about a social movement for equity in education.
Ronald Ferguson, a scholar of the racial achievement gap in education, argued for a social movement to ensure educational equality yesterday. He delivered his remarks in Sayles Hall for the 14th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture.
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