As a Jewish-Israeli scholar, I feel compelled to voice my moral and political dissent from the agreement that Brown University signed with the federal government on July 30. While I recognize the extraordinary pressure our leadership faced, I cannot remain silent about the implications of what has been ...
I read with great regret the faculty’s decision last spring to eliminate the option of course performance reports, starting in the 2025–26 academic year.
A familiar buzz has returned to College Hill: the wheels of moving bins scraping against the pavement, families filing into stores and restaurants on Thayer Street, students ignoring traffic laws every time the campus bell rings. It’s almost like we never left.
After a resounding defeat in the 2024 presidential election, members of the Democratic Party — from high-level strategists to registered voters — have had nearly a year to lick their wounds and regroup ahead of the next series of elections. But I fear that such reflection and reckoning ...
After Hurricane Katrina, widespread flooding caused significant damage to roads, power lines and other utility systems across several states. Tasked with rebuilding American cities, many companies turned abroad. One company, Signal International, a marine and fabrication firm based in the U.S. Gulf ...
Last summer, Brown continued its expansion into downtown Providence, beginning construction on a seven-story lab with the approval of the Downtown Design Review Committee. This new construction, which followed several other Jewelry District projects, aligns with a greater vision that Providence leadership ...
Over the past few weeks, The Herald solicited reactions from community members — students, alumni, parents and staff — to show how those affiliated with Brown are feeling about the settlement.
We write today with sincere disappointment and disgust at the news that Brown has voluntarily reached a deal with the Trump administration to restore federal research funding and thereby open the University to federal compliance reviews.
On July 30, Brown announced an agreement with the Trump administration to end three spurious investigations into the University and reclaim over $50 million in unpaid federal research grants. In President Trump’s preferred parlance, they ‘made a deal.’ But a deal is a voluntary agreement ...
On Wednesday, July 30, President Christina Paxson P’19 PMD’20 announced the University had come to an agreement with the Trump administration. She struck a reassuring tone: “The agreement preserves the integrity of Brown’s academic foundation, and it enables us as a community to move forward ...
My colleagues on the editorial page board have described Brown’s agreement with the Trump administration as a “win” for pragmatism and preservation, on the basis that Brown has “traded little in exchange for the restoration of its research funding.” This outlook mirrors the framing offered ...
Almost four months after the Trump administration announced plans to cut more than half a billion dollars in Brown’s federal research funding, the University has reached an agreement with the government to restore funding and eligibility for future awards.
Since our last editors’ note, Brown University has been shaken by federal actions threatening to remake American higher education.
As another academic year comes to a close, it seems like only yesterday that I mailed my annual letter to incoming Brunonians. Maybe you remember receiving or reading it? Now, I send a final grateful goodbye through the pages of The Herald. Though in my retirement, the situation on College Hill will ...
Imagine a bandit breaks into your house. He terrorizes your family, eats your food and then refuses to leave. When you attempt to force him out, he enlists help from the local government, which evicts you instead. Left without your home and most prized possessions, you fall into poverty. Meanwhile, ...
As we approach finals and contend with an unhalting news cycle, it feels as though the world has turned sideways. In these slanted days, when my mind has grown heavy with noise and my body runs on instinct alone, I have felt the urge to reorient. By infusing my days with little rituals — gestures ...
In anticipation of move-in day, I giddily perused the Google Maps Street View of Providence. By the time I carried my suitcases into Andrews Hall, I had a full itinerary of Providence attractions — coffee shops, running paths, stores and parks.
This academic year, defined by unprecedented hostility between the federal government and elite universities, has been no less eventful than the last. The torrent of recent developments at Brown, from a student’s visa revocation to an investigation by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, ...
As an alum, I have watched with growing concern as Brown clings to outdated admissions practices that undermine its mission and tarnish its legacy. Over the years, I have written to President Christina Paxson P’19 P’MD’20 and published three op-eds in The Herald with suggestions for making the ...
During the holiday of Passover, Jews around the world retell the Exodus story — the Israelites’ passage from bondage in Egypt to freedom, from narrow places of fear and intimidation to a more expansive world. As Michael Walzer taught in his book “Exodus and Revolution,” Passover serves as a ...
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