The University will release a working document of a diversity and inclusion action plan Friday, President Christina Paxson P’19 wrote in a community-wide email Monday. Administrators will invite community feedback through an online form that will be available for two weeks before releasing the plan ...
Students, faculty members and community members got a glimpse of Providence’s street art as part of the second installment of the annual Urban Studies Program Bus Tour Series. Led by Stefano Bloch, a postdoctoral fellow in urban studies, Friday’s one-and-a-half-hour tour examined street art — ...
Students shifted the tone of the question-and-answer portion of a talk on racial health disparities by President Christina Paxson P’19 Monday night, posing questions and concerns about institutional racism. Paxson’s talk was followed by a speech by Nicole Alexander-Scott MPH’11, assistant professor ...
In just three years, the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs has gained 13 new faculty members, established postdoctoral and faculty fellows programs, integrated with the Taubman Center for American Institutions Politics and Policy and increased its endowment by more than $30 million. With ...
PARIS — After a Friday night babysitting shift, Maria Jose Herrera ’17 was walking through Saint Lazare, one of the busiest metro stations in Paris, when she received the call from a friend also studying abroad here: Explosions had shaken the outside of the city’s football stadium, and shootings ...
“This has never been a safe space for us,” said Junot Díaz, referring to the social climate on college campuses across the nation and in society at large. “White supremacy has guaranteed us zero safety.” Díaz, currently a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, won a Pulitzer Prize ...
Updated Nov. 15, 2015 at 7:42 p.m. Geovanni Cuevas, a Dartmouth student and senior delegate to this weekend’s Latinx Ivy League Conference, was assaulted late Friday evening outside of a Spanish House event by a Department of Public Safety officer, according to Cuevas and several witnesses. The incident ...
Updated Nov. 15, 2015 at 7:42 p.m. Geovanni Cuevas, a Dartmouth student and senior delegate to this weekend’s Latinx Ivy League Conference, was assaulted late Friday evening outside of a Spanish House event by a Department of Public Safety officer, according to Cuevas and several witnesses. The incident ...
Several hundred students, faculty members and administrators dressed in black gathered on the Quiet Green between University Hall and the Van Wickle Gates Thursday afternoon to show solidarity with the black victims of hate speech and threats of racialized violence at the University of Missouri. Following ...
A combination of tighter enforcement, social suspensions and changing priorities has led to a shift in Brown’s social scene. Many of these changes have come as a result of the interim alcohol policy regulations implemented last January in response to concerns about sexual assault and alcohol abuse. ...
The next iteration of the TRI-Lab, titled “Designing Education for Better Prisoner and Community Health,” will explore health issues affecting incarcerated individuals and seek to develop concrete interventions to address these issues, said Bradley Brockmann, executive director of the Center for ...
Outreach workers examined issues that homeless people in Providence struggle with on a daily basis, such as employment prospects and police discrimination, at a panel Wednesday night. Approximately 40 students attended the event, which was held in Wilson Hall 102 and hosted by Health Leads Providence ...
Wilson Hall is a “nemesis” of Student and Employee Accessibility Services due to its lack of handicapped access, SEAS Director Catherine Axe ’87 told the Undergraduate Council of Students at its general body meeting Wednesday. Axe discussed student support services with the council along with ...
Early decision applications to Brown’s Program in Liberal Medical Education dropped from 410 last year to 250 for the class of 2020, said Dean of Admission Jim Miller ’73. The drop was expected, given a change in the early decision policy for PLME applicants, he said. The PLME applicants join a ...
“Texas is a state built by both conquest and slavery” in which anti-Mexican racial violence was legally justified by pre-existing anti-black racial violence, said Monica Martinez, professor of American studies and ethnic studies. In a Tuesday lecture entitled “Mapping Violence: Elucidating Constitutive ...
Missouri protests spark president’s resignation Following months of student and faculty protests that reached a peak in the last week, the University of Missouri saw the resignation of President Timothy Wolfe and a promise from Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin to step down to a research position at the ...
This story is the first in a three-part series about mental health at Brown and students’ attempts to navigate the gaps in treatment and understanding. Allie couldn’t breathe. She had experienced panic attacks before but never like this. Though she had been battling depression since high school, ...
Click here to view correlations between questions. 1. Do you approve or disapprove of the way Christina Paxson is handling her job as president of the University? 9.2% Strongly approve 33.7% Somewhat approve 38.3% No opinion 15.7% Somewhat disapprove 3.1% Strongly disapprove 2. How many times have you ...
The Number — a campus delivery service designed by three undergraduates — went live Monday after weeks of extensive research and promotion. The new company’s premise is simple: Students can text a number and have anything within a specified radius delivered. The Number’s creators — Isabella ...
Six administrators and students grappled with the University’s presentation and circulation of information during times of crisis at a panel Monday evening. The panel marked the first installment in a two-part series centered on the University’s response to emergencies, tragedy, trauma and unrest. The ...
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