Just one year after the University almost revoked the program house status for Harambee House — a living space for those interested in African culture — the group is hosting its greatest number of residents in recent history this semester. With this growth, Harambee has become a focal point for ...
“India has the promise, has the potential,” said Nirupama Rao, the former Indian ambassador to the United States, in a conversation Tuesday on the foreign relations of China and India. Rao discussed foreign affairs with Richard Locke, director of the Watson Institute for International Studies and ...
The University agreed in December to join the Say Yes Higher Education Compact, an initiative that offers to provide up to 100 percent of college tuition costs to eligible low-income high school students. The compact ensures that students with a family income at or below $75,000 living in the greater ...
After the initial period for course registration closes today, the Office of the Registrar will manage the late addition of classes entirely on Banner for the first time, following guidelines the office announced in a community-wide email Jan. 17. The new system requires that students enter an instructor ...
The New Scientist Program is training 25 mentors for the Graduate-Undergraduate Mentoring Initiative this semester, giving undergraduates another outlet through which to seek mentorship and advice. While students and administrators lauded the University’s multitude of existing advising options, they ...
Brown Dining Services workers and their union, United Service and Allied Workers of Rhode Island, reached an agreement on a new contract with the University in late December. The major financial issues under consideration in the contract negotiations — which began in October 2013 — included wage, ...
Following the announcement of Provost Mark Schlissel’s P’15 departure — effective July 1 — the Undergraduate Council of Students received 10 applications from students hoping to be the undergraduate representative on the committee to select his successor, UCS leaders said. After Schlissel was ...
“The proper way to celebrate the King Day is to do something that takes you beyond the common boundaries of comfort,” said Pulitzer Prize-winning author Taylor Branch during the University’s 17th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture Thursday. Branch spoke about King’s legacy and the fight ...
President Christina Paxson announced details about the University’s semiquincentenary opening celebration and formally launched the website “Imagine Brown 250+” dedicated to the 250th anniversary in an email to the student body Tuesday afternoon. Scheduled to begin March 7-8, the University’s ...
The Undergraduate Council of Students discussed the new Andrews Commons eatery and future residence hall renovations during a conversation with Richard Bova, senior associate dean of residential and dining services, and J. Allen Ward, senior associate dean for the Office of Student Life, at its general ...
The Campus Safety Task Force’s interim report, released Dec. 19, recommended continuing the piloted expansion of Brown University Shuttle’s OnCall service and maintaining 10 “yellow jacket” security officers at fixed positions on campus. The report also calls for increasing funding for security ...
The Watson Institute for International Studies is developing a China Initiative over the coming year that aims to build on faculty research, provide opportunities for student fellowships and create long-term partnerships with Chinese institutions, administrators said. After the University’s Year ...
Chancellor at U. of Illinois faces criticism Online controversy has flared around the chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s decision to keep the university open Monday despite cold temperatures, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported Tuesday. Students posted comments ...
President Obama emphasized reducing income inequality and expanding opportunity, in part through increased access to higher education, in his fifth State of the Union address Tuesday night. He also stressed job creation, the United States’ reduced military presence in the Middle East and his commitment ...
Graduate students at New York University voted last month to become the only graduate assistants at an American private university to be represented by a union, another development in a continuing debate about the merits of unionization in graduate education. But while graduate students at Brown said ...
The Alpert Medical School MD Curriculum Committee passed a motion last month to grade all preclinical courses — the entirety of the first two years of medical study — solely Satisfactory/No Credit, beginning with the MD class of 2017. The school’s previous policy graded all preclinical courses ...
The first time Pedro Dal Bo taught microeconomics — as a teaching assistant 20 years ago to students in Argentina — it was with the traditional blackboard and chalk. But last semester, after years of teaching in a conventional manner, Dal Bo decided to conduct an experiment. Though Dal Bo, associate ...
When Provost Mark Schlissel P’15 departs for the University of Michigan presidency July 1, he will leave behind a legacy that includes leadership of an expansive strategic planning process, an accredited School of Public Health, tough financial decisions and enhanced environmental teaching and research. Upon ...
Provost Mark Schlissel P’15 was named the next president of the University of Michigan Friday morning, priming him to leave Brown after three years in the top administrative post. He will remain at Brown for the rest of the academic year, taking the helm at Michigan July 1. Schlissel, who came to ...
News of Provost Mark Schlissel’s P’15 departure precipitated a range of reactions throughout the Brown community this weekend, including uncertainty about losing a top administrator, pride in a University leader rising to a high-profile position and hope for a new voice on College Hill. ‘A ...
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