In her March 18 column, Herald Staff Columnist Arya Vishwakarma ’29 refused to respond to two recently published Brown Spectator articles about anti-U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement protests in Providence. Instead, Vishwakarma chose to attack The Spectator’s editorial standards, baselessly ...
On March 3, the faculty voted to remove Paxson from her post as presiding officer at University faculty meetings. The chair of the Faculty Executive Committee will now run faculty meetings rather than the University president. This change ends a longstanding tradition at Brown — one that I have witnessed ...
On March 3, faculty members voted to replace the University president with the Faculty Executive Committee chair as the presiding officer at faculty meetings. This motion was brought to the faculty without substantial prior discussion, and there was not yet a robust, shared understanding of the proposed ...
When I was a graduate student studying public policy at Brown, I was an anomaly: an active-duty Coast Guard officer and an Army Iraq combat veteran surrounded by some of the country's brightest civilian intellectuals. I brought my military experience into the classroom — the weight of combat decisions, ...
Parking garages. Escalators. Fast food. Screaming children. These are just some of the staples of the American mall that are in danger of disappearing in Providence. In late 2024, it was reported that the Providence Place Mall, the state’s largest shopping center, was ordered into receivership, a ...
Last Thursday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents entered a Columbia-owned residence to detain Elmina Aghayeva. The agents allegedly impersonated the New York Police Department and ignored the requests of a Columbia public safety officer. While immigration operations have not yet been documented ...
Between 2010 and 2023, 3,992 pedestrians and cyclists were hit by motor vehicles, leading to 35 deaths. Campus safety is of utmost importance to our community, and traffic safety does not get the attention it deserves. As Brown community members are exposed to busy streets around the College Hill area, ...
During my first Democratic National Committee youth council meeting, a leader of the DNC told us to stop waiting for the Avengers to show up and save us all because the Avengers that will move the party and nation forward were in that very room. He was pointing to us, the youngest leaders of the party. ...
One of the gems in the crown of Brown’s Open Curriculum is the Satisfactory/No Credit grading option. It helps to foster creative exploration of courses far afield from a student’s main interest, and can embolden students to take courses that they would not otherwise attempt. However, S/NC does ...
In December 2006, I finished my last semester as a student at Brown and made a career choice that made me unpopular on campus: I went to work for the University’s Department of Public Safety. Overnight, longtime friends became distant, and the group of alums I’d planned to live with pulled their ...
This summer, when I began my new role as Brown’s vice president for campus life, I shared with students and families that my sense of belonging at Brown was formed in my residence hall. My first-year floormate and I came from entirely different worlds, yet the community we built together shaped my ...
Before coming to Brown, I knew that higher education was under threat from an increasingly polarized political climate. But, before beginning my tenure as first-year representative on the Undergraduate Council of Students, I did not anticipate how deeply students themselves could shape an institution. ...
I graduated from Brown last spring with a triple concentration in modern culture and media, literary arts and English. Every semester, someone would ask why I would willingly take on five classes of work to fulfill my requirements. My answer was simple: I like learning these subjects, and I’m using ...
Well before you jam into trains and cars and planes for the holidays, please get your flu shot, and your COVID-19 shot, too.
Everyone worried it might rain, but the night of Nov. 7 was crisp and clear, as beautiful an evening as you can imagine in New England. Under a tent on Pembroke Field, Cantor Lizzie Shammash ’91 sang Shalom Aleichem and Rabbi Ayelet Cohen ’96 recited Motzi and Kiddush — the Jewish blessings for ...
On Nov. 11, The Herald reported that residential theme and program house leaders will no longer be allowed to select their residents, with the current system being replaced by a lottery starting next year. As current and former presidents of Harambee House — “a place where Black scholars and allies ...
Between 2010 and 2020, Rhode Island experienced the highest growth of multilingual language learners in the nation, according to a recent report from the Rhode Island Department of Education. MLL enrollment more than doubled statewide between 2013 and 2023, while some urban core districts, such as North ...
In the coming months, a committee of faculty, staff and students will draft an important framework for the University’s future — one which will define a campus where every member of our community enjoys the benefits of opportunity, belonging and access, and where we collectively value and respect ...
Brown is currently facing two deficits: one of accounting and the other of accountability. While many are preoccupied with the current crisis about whether Brown will sign the compact presented by the Trump administration, we must not lose sight of the ongoing crisis of the University budget. In their ...
After Brown’s decision this summer to strike a “deal” with the Trump administration, I unhappily predicted that Trump would soon return with more demands. It didn’t take long.
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