Vice President for Public Affairs and University Relations Marisa Quinn will join the Watson Institute of International Studies as director of communications and outreach effective Jan. 1, wrote President Christina Paxson in an email Wednesday to faculty and staff. “I’ve worked with Watson in a ...
The Corporation will review the ongoing implementation of President Christina Paxson’s strategic plan and consider the construction of a new Division of Applied Mathematics building at its meeting this weekend, said Marisa Quinn, vice president for public affairs and University relations. This weekend ...
Chancellor Thomas Tisch ’76 addressed the potential difficulties of adding a student representative to the Corporation at an open forum hosted by the Undergraduate Council of Students Wednesday night. In addition to Tisch, other Corporation members present at the meeting included young alumni trustee ...
A panel of seven white administrators and faculty members spoke about white privilege in a panel discussion titled “Race, Accountability and Allyship” to a full List 120 Wednesday night. The teach-in was the first event in the Transformative Conversations@Brown Project, an initiative devoted to ...
“You can’t choose your family,” the saying goes. But kin relations are inevitably defined by participants and outside sources, said philosopher and gender theorist Judith Butler in a Tuesday lecture entitled “Fallible Recognition: The Politics of Kinship in the Bacchae.” Butler, a professor ...
A female Providence College student who accused two Brown students of sexual assault last year filed a civil rights complaint with the U.S. Department of Education Saturday against the University for allegedly mishandling her case, the Providence Journal reported Tuesday. The Education Department’s ...
No referee off the field for FSU football players A New York Times investigation published Friday revealed a pattern of action by Tallahassee, Fla. police designed to protect Florida State University football players accused of crimes. The most prominent of the cases involves star quarterback Jameis ...
After several years of significant decline, the number of students studying abroad has rebounded modestly over the past two years. From 2007-08 to 2012-13, the number of students studying abroad during the academic year fell from a high of 565 to a low of 381 — a 33 percent drop over five years, ...
As deadlines approach for many higher education institutions’ early admission programs, more elite universities have decided to allow applicants to use either the Common Application or an online alternative following widespread technical problems last year for the Common App. But the University has ...
“Staff, stuff and systems” are the keys to remedying the recent Ebola outbreak, said Sheena Wood ’13, a strategist for the nongovernmental organization Partners in Health, at a teach-in about the disease Thursday evening. The roadblock to the remedy, she added, lies in the fact that most Ebola ...
Following its founding last year, the Outreach and Advocacy Committee of the Undergraduate Council of Students has established a plan for the semester, which will include facilitating student groups’ communications with administrators, prioritizing those groups’ needs and continuing to pursue last ...
When most students begin the search for on-campus jobs, they head to the libraries or dining halls. But some select students follow their entrepreneurial spirit, juggling small businesses and full courseloads. By setting up service-based businesses, students can work according to their own schedule ...
One year after the Corporation decided not to divest the University’s endowment from the country’s 15 biggest coal companies, the Brown Divest Coal Campaign is redoubling its efforts, changing its name to Fossil Free Brown and altering its mission to divesting from the top 200 fossil fuel companies ...
Though several of the world’s current human rights crises can be attributed to several potentially valid explanations, “a big part of the problem has been a seeming pragmatism that Obama has sometimes been championed for, but has too often degenerated into a short-sightedness that has repeatedly ...
Princeton ditches grade deflation policy Princeton’s faculty voted to repeal the university’s controversial grade deflation policy after sustained criticism of its effectiveness, the Daily Princetonian reported Monday. Administrators implemented the policy 10 years ago to combat what they saw ...
The University will replace the online student group platform MyGroups with a more efficient software in January, said Timothy Shiner, director of student activities and the Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center, at the Undergraduate Council of Students general body meeting Wednesday night. Undergraduate ...
After an external review of the administrative structure last spring found widespread dissatisfaction among faculty, staff and departmental agencies, the Office of the President has launched new initiatives to rethink the structure of the budgeting process to advance the goals of President Christina’s ...
Faculty members and administrators debated the University’s response to the Reports on the Events of October 29 at Tuesday’s faculty meeting. Attendees also discussed the University’s fiscal performance, the renaming of the Watson Institute for International Studies and a possible new classification ...
Responding to the recent deaths of Michael Brown, Eric Garner and Ezell Ford at the hands of police, student activists on Ivy League campuses have mobilized to coordinate a response. Armani Madison ’16, president of Brown’s National Association for the Advancement of Colored People chapter, and ...
“We are closing a political, economic and social cycle in Latin America, and therefore, we are about to begin a new way of looking at things,” said former Chilean President and Professor-at-Large Ricardo Lagos in a lecture Tuesday night entitled “Quo Vadis, Latin America? What Lies Ahead for the ...
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