The Graduate Labor Organization and the University reached a settlement on May 13 regarding a grievance GLO filed Feb. 6, which called on the Graduate School to provide Tabassum Tamanna GS with an extension of paid leave through the spring semester.
Katherine Kim ’24, the former president of Brown’s Kappa Delta chapter, often receives texts from girls interested in rushing a sorority asking for advice on what to wear during recruitment. But Kim, who rushed KD entirely on Zoom in 2021, frequently finds that she doesn’t have much fashion advice ...
As students across campus occupied libraries to prepare for their fall finals last December, Isabella Garo ’24 and 40 other members of the Brown Divest Coalition were occupying University Hall.
For a select few, an extra recommendation from a member of the University’s inner circle — a current or former Corporation member, high-ranking administrator or donor — can earn them favorable treatment during the application review process.
This morning, five Brown Divest Coalition representatives presented their proposal for divestment before five members of the Corporation. Corporation members will vote on the proposal in October following an agreement between organizers of a main green encampment and University administrators.
It was July 7, 2020, and the COVID-19 pandemic was still creeping across the world when Brown’s class of 2024 received the news that their first semester at Brown would be virtual.
Coming to Brown during lockdown was “honestly a nightmare” for Meghan Spangenberg ’24.
The University will award nine honorary doctorates at Commencement to a Nobel Prize winner, renowned artists and University donors among others, according to a University press release.President Christina Paxson P’19 P’MD’20 will confer the degrees, which are awarded by the Corporation, the University’s ...
Marielle Buxbaum ’24: Being ambitious about friendshipMarielle Buxbaum ’24 did not write her Commencement speech locked away in the library. Instead, she was with friends watching “Riverdale.”On a tight deadline to submit a speech for consideration, Buxbaum hoped that watching the show would ...
On Thursday, five students will present a divestment proposal to a select group of Corporation members as the first step in the agreement between protesters and administrators that ended the encampment on the University’s Main Green.
In a final hearing Tuesday afternoon, the city court closed the case against the 41 students arrested in a December University Hall sit-in by providing them a six-month not guilty filing. Provided the students are not rearrested within the six-month period, the case will be dismissed and the students ...
As of May 3, the Labor Organization of Community Coordinators has completed six bargaining sessions with the University. Since its formal recognition in the fall, LOCC has proposed sixteen contract articles. The University has proposed one new article which outlines the roles and tenets of the Community ...
185 seniors and 62 juniors were elected to the University’s chapter of Phi Beta Kappa this spring, according to Stephen Merriam Foley, associate professor of English and comparative literature and the secretary of the University’s chapter.
At approximately 1:40 p.m. on Thursday, all participants in a Rhode Island School of Design sit-in for dissociation from Israel exited 20 Washington Place, known as Prov-Wash. Approximately 30 rallying protestors entered the building and escorted the sit-in demonstrators out.
On Wednesday, faculty affiliated with two departments at the Rhode Island School of Design released statements in support of the ongoing student demonstrations at 20 Washington Place, better known as Prov-Wash.
RISD President Crystal Williams released information regarding the college’s investment portfolio and responded to student protestors’ demands in a Tuesday evening email sent to students and faculty.campus-wide email.
At around 10 a.m. Tuesday, civilians in the Providence Superior Court and nearby buildings were told to evacuate by the Providence Police Department.
The 24 Rhode Island School of Design students staging an occupation of the second hall of 20 Washington Place, better known as Prov-Wash, have been given until 8 a.m. Tuesday to clear out their demonstration, student protestors announced early Tuesday morning. Administrators have not announced consequences ...
A group of 21 students at the Rhode Island School of Design announced an indefinite “building occupation” on the first floor of 20 Washington Place Building, the administrative building better known as Prov-Wash.
More than 300 students, faculty and community members rallied at the Rhode Island School of Design Wednesday morning, initiating a pro-divestment strike from classes that was organized by RISD’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine.
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