The number of students studying abroad this semester has spiked 27 percent from last fall amid an improving economy and continued interest in overseas study programs, administrators said. Two hundred eighty-one students are enrolled in study abroad programs this semester, an increase from 206 participating ...
Brown University Dining Services will continue service at the Sharpe Refectory for students on meal plan through the Thanksgiving holiday for the first time this year, offering a Thanksgiving supper that will replace the meal traditionally hosted at the Third World Center. Other dining halls and eateries ...
Recent enrollment surges in computer science courses have put a strain on department resources, resulting in teaching assistant shortages and insufficient computing space, students said. Introductory courses such as CSCI 0150: “Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming and Computer Science” and ...
The University’s current $4.3 million deficit remains a concern as administrators plan the next fiscal year’s operating budget, said Provost Mark Schlissel P’15 at an open forum hosted Thursday by the University Resources Committee. The University ended the last fiscal year with a deficit of ...
Evelyn Sanchez ’14 was not always sure whether her friends visited her room to see her — or her vibrator. A member of the Sexual Health Awareness Group at Brown, Sanchez won the group’s title of “Sexpert of the Month” earlier this year for excellence in responding to anonymous student texts ...
Members of Brown Divest Coal and other students gathered Thursday in University Hall to read a letter to President Christina Paxson and Corporation members and to stage a silent sit-in. Students convened on the Main Green at noon to organize before entering University Hall. About 60 students participated ...
President Christina Paxson will form a committee to review actions surrounding the cancellation of New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly’s Oct. 29 lecture after protestors halted his speech, Paxson wrote in a community-wide email Wednesday. The Committee on the Events of October 29th will also ...
Turkey bans mixed-gender university housing Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared in a speech Tuesday that he will not allow male and female university students to live in the same dorms, the Wall Street Journal reported this week. Mixed-gender university dorms and private houses will ...
“Brown University occupies a unique educational position. It is set apart from all but a very small group of institutions by the fact that it is a university-college,” wrote former President Henry Wriston in “The University College,” a 1946 pamphlet from the Corporation to alums. More than ...
The Undergraduate Council of Students grappled with the Third World Center’s name and role on campus in a conversation with Mary Grace Almandrez, TWC director and assistant dean of the College, at the UCS general body meeting Wednesday. The center recently embarked on a strategic planning process, ...
The number of flu vaccinations administered by Health Services has more than doubled in the past five years, with 3,100 shots this year compared to 1,475 administered in the 2008-2009 academic year, said Infirmary Coordinator Monica Kunkel. The increase could be the result of changing attitudes about ...
Expansion in the Jewelry District will be a focus of the University’s growth over the next decade, based on the vision articulated in President Christina Paxson’s strategic plan. While undergraduate teaching will remain based on College Hill, the proposed development of administrative offices, research ...
See accompanying article. 1. Do you approve or disapprove of the way Christina Paxson is handling her job as president of the University? 12.7% Strongly approve 34.8% Somewhat approve 24.2% No opinion 22.3% Somewhat disapprove 5.9% Strongly disapprove 2. How much influence ...
The University has begun to implement proposals outlined in President Christina Paxson’s strategic plan after the Corporation approved the document at its Oct. 26 meeting, Paxson said at a faculty meeting Tuesday. Faculty members and administrators also discussed the University’s decision not to ...
Presidential campaigns are often most remembered for video clips or soundbytes that come to define candidates’ personas for voters. During the 2012 campaign, Republican presidential nominee and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney was plagued by a video of himself speaking at a private fundraiser ...
Though Brown Dining Services has implemented several changes this semester in favor of more animal-friendly practices and better accomodations for students with dietary concerns, questions persist over some posted ingredients — such as the food byproduct rennet — that some students said the University ...
The Corporation approved a new doctoral program in the Behavioral and Social Health Sciences during its meeting at the end of last month. The program will welcome its first class of up to four doctoral students next fall, said Professor and Chair of Behavior and Social Sciences Christopher Kahler, ...
Brown Dining Services workers may begin negotiating a new labor contract with the University this week after more than two months of delays, said Karen McAninch, business agent for the United Service and Allied Workers of Rhode Island. BDS employees’ most recent contract expired October 2012, and ...
See full results and methodology. Roughly three-quarters of undergraduates do not support the protests inside List Art Center 120 that caused a scheduled lecture by New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly to be canceled last week, according to the results of a poll The Herald conducted ...
Rebecca Mears ’15, president of the College Democrats of Rhode Island and Justin Braga ’16, chairman of the College Republican Federation of Rhode Island, engaged in a public debate Tuesday to discuss topics ranging from the recent U.S. government shutdown to national poverty. The event marked ...
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