In a special meeting today, the Brown University Community Council voted to recommend that five student representatives “conducting activism for divestment” be allowed to present their case for divestment from “companies which profit from human rights abuses in Palestine” before the Corporation. ...
The Office of Student Conduct and Community Standards has notified approximately 130 students of potential conduct violations for encampment-related activities as of Thursday, University Spokesperson Brian Clark wrote in an email to The Herald. Some of the students who received the OSCCS email claim ...
For first-years admitted in the fall of 2023, Brown’s acceptance rate for male applicants was 6.9%, and the acceptance rate for female applicants was 4.2%, according to the University’s Common Data Set.
In 1969, women were required to wear skirts on Brown’s campus and the class president helped co-author the Open Curriculum. That year, Kathryn Spoehr ’69 received her degree in mathematical psychology.
Over the past few weeks, the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority has held public hearings across the state, giving community members the opportunity to comment on the association’s plan to reduce formerly proposed service cuts.
U.S. representative Ayanna Pressley (D-MA 7th District) discussed her upbringing, activism and response to the war in Israel and Palestine at a Brown Dems event on Wednesday.
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On Wednesday evening, President Christina Paxson P’19 P’MD’20 reaffirmed that the University’s response to the ongoing encampment would “rely on appropriate codes of conduct to address violations of policy” in a community-wide email.
At 1:55 p.m., multiple students whose ID information was recorded by the Department of Public Safety officers during the encampment were notified that the Office of Student Conduct and Community Standards was processing a student conduct violation, according to an email shared with The Herald.
The Brown University Community Council is set to vote on two motions concerning student calls for divestment at a special meeting Thursday afternoon.
Matthew Guterl, a professor of Africana studies and American studies, and Laird Hunt, a professor of literary arts, were among the 188 individuals selected from around 3,000 applicants for a 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship.
Approximately 80 students began an indefinite encampment on the Main Green at around 6:20 a.m. Wednesday in a call for the University to divest from companies linked to the Israeli government. The encampment follows similar developments across the U.S. in the past week, most notably at Columbia, Yale ...
The Undergraduate Council of Students released a statement Tuesday evening calling on President Paxson P’19 P’MD’20 to drop the criminal charges against the 41 Brown students who were arrested in a Dec. 11 sit-in or “to consider an alternative resolution pathway outside the criminal justice ...
Hundreds of community members packed into Salomon DECI auditorium Tuesday night to hear political activist Angela Davis discuss social movements, history and Palestine at an event hosted by the Brown Center for Students of Color. The talk, titled “No one is free until we are all free: discussion on ...
Provost Francis Doyle sent an email to community members about University policy surrounding encampments on Tuesday afternoon. The email comes amid a series of national protests calling for a ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas and on universities to divest from weapons manufacturers and companies ...
This article is part of an Earth Month series exploring environmental issues, climate initiatives and community stakeholders throughout Providence and Rhode Island.
Panelists ranging from Brown researchers to former public school students spoke Monday evening about state and school accountability at the R.I. Senate Education Summit, an event hosted by the Community College of Rhode Island and moderated by State Senators Sandra Cano (D-Pawtucket) and Hanna Gallo ...
Following an uptick in sixth-year PhD students reporting that their requests for a yearlong COVID-related funding extension had been partially denied by the University, Graduate Labor Organization leaders are accusing the University of violating “the spirit” of a clause in a 2023 side letter to ...
R.I. House Speaker Joseph Shekarchi (D-Warwick) spoke at a Politics and Policy Lunch hosted by the Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy in Stephen Robert ’62 Hall on Monday.
A swath of admitted students paraded Brown’s campus during A Day on College Hill last Friday. The annual event was hosted twice — April 12 and April 19 — and saw a turnout of over 1,000 students, according to a University press release.
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