Undergraduate students at Brown can choose from almost 1,000 courses to create their schedules this semester. While picking the right courses can be difficult, Brown makes the whole process a bit easier by allowing students to “shop” classes during the first two weeks of each semester.
In a Herald poll of incoming first years, the share of Black students in Brown University’s class of 2028 decreased by nearly one half compared to last year, while the percentage of Hispanic respondents declined by one-third.
On Tuesday, the class of 2028 marked their entry into Brown by walking through the Van Wickle Gates.
On April 16, roughly 20 architecture concentrators walked into List Art Building for a meeting expecting pizza and exciting announcements. Instead, they were served some bad news: the department will no longer house the architecture concentration starting in fall 2028.
The Graduate Student Council voted in favor of a decreased budget at its first monthly meeting of the semester Wednesday night. The Council also elected a new vice president of advocacy, chair of student life and chair of technology to its executive board.
On Wednesday, six students affiliated with the Brown Divest Coalition made the case for divesting from 10 companies with ties to Israel to a University advisory committee.
Colorful containers of snacks, condiments and grocery staples populate a downtown Providence corner, as bright lights and bustling dishes usher in packs of passersby. This is Maruichi Japanese Food and Deli: a local market specializing in Japanese produce, pantry items and other goods.
On Tuesday afternoon, a pipe band harmonizing with the bell tower’s ring led incoming classes through the Van Wickle gates during Brown’s 261st Convocation ceremony.
Looking at the lighter patches of grass left behind by the tents from last spring’s encampment for Palestine, some might have thought that student activism on campus would start to lose its steam. But some key moments are still to come this fall semester, as activist groups and University administrators ...
Student activists are taking the fight over legacy admissions to the State House.
Plant City has expanded from its original home in Providence, having recently opened a new location in Barrington.
The Labor Organization of Community Coordinators voted on Friday afternoon to end its strike over alleged unfair labor practices and deadlocked contract negotiations. The strike started three days ago when hundreds of first-year students moved into campus.
The Labor Organization of Community Coordinators began an indefinite strike Wednesday morning, spending their first day of work on the picket line instead. Meikeljohns, Bruno Leaders and a hastily raised group of “Move-In Volunteers” helped first years and their families check into their residence ...
Ashish Jha, the dean of Brown’s School of Public Health and a leading voice during the COVID-19 pandemic, will deliver the keynote address at Convocation Sept. 3.
The indefinite strike follows months of negotiations between Brown and the Labor Organization of Community Coordinates, which have come to an impasse over issues including compensation details.
Twenty-four state attorneys general are urging Brown to reject a proposal to divest from companies with ties to Israel, they wrote in a letter addressed to University officials Monday.
Sylvia Carey-Butler, Brown’s vice president for institutional equity and diversity, will step down from her post on Oct. 31 after three years with the University, according to a press release.
On Monday, the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education resolved a Title VI Shared Ancestry complaint filed against the University in January that alleged an inadequate response to antisemitism on campus. The OCR’s investigation raised broader concerns on how the University responded ...
The Muslim Legal Fund of America, a civil rights nonprofit, filed a Title VI complaint against the University with the U.S. Department of Education in June.
Brown agreed to invest $150 million in Rhode Island’s largest hospital system over seven years.
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