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 ...
Earlier this month, the Trump administration broke news about plans to freeze $510 million of Brown’s federal funding. The threatened cuts are nothing short of extortion, an attempt to use the power of federal research dollars to force universities like Brown into policy changes that would destroy ...
Over the past two weeks, I’ve had the pleasure — if you can call it that — of attending a series of consulting career events on campus. Every student I met seemed exceptionally eager and their questions to the recruiters were practically dripping with their anxious sweat. How’s the work culture? ...
As Indigenous Oklahoman Joy Harjo writes, “in a sense, we never leave Oklahoma, or maybe it would be better said that Oklahoma never leaves us.” Even though I now attend college over 1,000 miles away, it doesn’t change this fact: Oklahoma is an intrinsic part of me and directly alters how I view ...
In this fraught moment for higher education, student government is more important than ever. The upcoming Student Government Association elections — and particularly that of the Undergraduate Council of Students — are an opportunity for our student body to influence how we are represented both on ...
Brown faculty must reject or revise the recent “Draft Statement on University Values” to ensure that it includes strong, explicit protections for shared community governance in every aspect of University operations.
Two weeks ago, I learned that spaghetti for 25 people isn’t a great camping meal.
After U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) delivered a 25 hour-long speech to Congress in protest of President Trump’s executive actions, internet users claimed the appearance lacked substance. Some people argued Booker’s speech was a virtue signal that was impractical and accomplished nothing. Others ...
On January 11, 1908, Theodore Roosevelt designated the Grand Canyon as a national monument, declaring: “You cannot improve on it. But what you can do is keep it for your children, your children’s children and all who come after you.”
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