The Undergraduate Council of Students reflected on its interactions and relationship with the Corporation, which were on display at its open forum last week featuring Corporation members, at its general body meeting Wednesday night. The open forum last week included guest speakers Chancellor Thomas ...
Harvard law school professors criticize new sexual harassment policy A group of 28 current and former Harvard law school professors wrote a letter published in the Boston Globe Oct. 14 lambasting the university’s new sexual harassment policy. The criticism comes as Harvard is being investigated ...
A squirrel that climbed into a metal pipe and made contact with an electric current in the Manchester Street Power Station, located in the Jewelry District, caused more than 4,500 Providence National Grid customers to lose power for about two hours Tuesday morning. Power outages usually occur in ...
Financial aid emerged as the top priority for respondents to the Undergraduate Council of Students’ fall poll for the second year in a row, with sexual assault policy reform claiming second place, said UCS President Maahika Srinivasan ’15. Advising and off-campus safety were also high-ranking issues ...
Neel Virdy ’17 didn’t tell his parents when he decided to take Hindi during his first semester at Brown. Both his parents were born in India, and his mother speaks the language, so they were both delighted when Virdy came home for break and surprised them by stringing together sentences in the language. “They ...
Four professors and two Providence community members will receive support for research tied to public engagement as the inaugural recipients of the Public Humanities Fellowship for the 2014-2015 academic year, according to a University press release this month. The fellowship provides recipients with ...
The University’s three-year cohort default rate on federal direct student loans for students who began repaying their loans in 2011 decreased by about 35 percent from the previous year according to data released Sept. 22 by the U.S. Department of Education. During fiscal year 2011, 1.3 percent ...
The Corporation green-lighted construction of a new Division of Applied Mathematics building, received updates on the University’s efforts to combat sexual assault and considered the structural budget deficit at its meeting this weekend, President Christina Paxson announced Sunday in a community-wide ...
Following the Department of Public Safety’s release of the Rave Guardian Campus Safety App at the beginning of the semester, the app has been downloaded over 1,100 times, said Paul Shanley, deputy chief of police for DPS. The Rave Guardian app allows users to send tips about suspicious behavior, ...
Warren Simmons will leave his position as executive director of the University’s Annenberg Institute for School Reform, which conducts research on education reform policy, on June 30, the institute announced Tuesday. Simmons, who became the institute’s second director in 1998, said he feels it ...
The Watson Institute for International Studies will launch a newly designed, one-year Master of Public Affairs program this summer following its merger with the Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions, pending final approval from the Graduate Council this month. An open house is ...
A painting hangs in Abbott Gleason’s living room — a piece his wife calls his best work. A view of Florence from the hills outside the city, the landscape combines Cubist form with the pastoral, earthy colors of Paul Cézanne. There’s something organic about the painting: It straddles the border ...
In response to a current structural operating budget deficit of approximately $10 million, the administration has convened a Deficit Reduction Working Group comprising faculty members, staff members and students with the task of increasing efficiency and cutting campus expenses, President Christina ...
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 ...
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