Michigan State relieves professor of teaching duties after politically charged comments A creative writing professor at Michigan State University was suspended from his teaching responsibilities after making controversial statements on the first day of class. A student captured the remarks on a video ...
Twelve years ago today, students, faculty members, administrators and staff members were reeling from the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. Below are some of their reactions. “We need to be enormously open to each other, and good to each other, and not traffic in stereotypes.” — University ...
Nearly 11 months after President Christina Paxson announced the formation of two ad hoc working groups to focus on campus master planning and digital technology, the campus planning task force has completed its work, while the digital technology committee has been in a holding pattern, wrote Marisa ...
After 97 percent of potential hires who were offered tenured or tenure-track positions in the 2012-13 academic year accepted their positions at Brown, the University will try to curtail its hiring push in the coming year while looking to grow faculty diversity, a priority previously emphasized in President ...
The Office of the Dean of the College has launched a search committee to select a new English as a Second Language Coordinator in the Writing Center, said Douglas Brown, director of writing support programs in the Writing Center. The search comes in the wake of former ESL Coordinator Ashley Ferranti’s ...
Several cultural groups — that in recent years have felt underfunded by the Undergraduate Finance Board — are supplementing their official UFB funding with unreported cash to afford putting on festivals and events, The Herald learned from interviews with cultural group leaders. Though the board ...
Students who are children or legal dependants of same-sex couples may gain access to more generous federal financial aid in the wake of the Supreme Court’s June decision striking down the Defense of Marriage Act, though the University’s financial aid policy will not change. The Court’s decision ...
Six new faculty members will join the School of Engineering this year as part of an ongoing expansion. The new hires will arrive following the University’s April announcement of a new $160 million campaign to grow the School of Engineering, which will include investments in personnel and building ...
Thirty-one graduates from the class of 2013 joined the Teach for America corps this year, compared to 36 members of the class of 2012 last year, according to data from TFA and CareerLAB. The number of Brown students entering TFA places Brown 10th among mid-sized schools, or institutions with between ...
A Brown student who was assaulted on Thayer Street in May has returned home and is recuperating after having spent nearly two months in the hospital with severe head injuries. Joseph Sharkey ’15 had been placed on life support at Rhode Island Hospital following the May 12 assault, which left him ...
The Syrian civil war “is not a clear-cut situation of right and wrong,” said Beshara Doumani, director of Middle East Studies and professor of history, Monday afternoon while introducing a teach-in on the crisis sponsored by the Middle East Studies program. The teach-in, designed to explain and ...
A partially naked male was allegedly seen masturbating on the lawn of a home on John Street near Brook Street by four students just before 10 p.m. Saturday, wrote Paul Shanley, deputy chief of police for the Department of Public Safety, in an email to The Herald. Shira Atkins ’14 was part of the ...
Dean of the College Katherine Bergeron’s planned departure from the University this December marks the latest in a spate of high-level administrative changes at the University. When Bergeron vacates the deanship this winter, 10 of 19 senior staff positions — including the presidency — will have ...
Two masked men robbed four students early Saturday morning near the intersection of Cooke and Benevolent streets, the Department of Public Safety announced in a community-wide email Saturday. Earlier the same night, the suspects allegedly stole a laptop from a student’s house. The crimes mark the ...
The Undergraduate Council of Students will hold internal elections this fall to fill vacant executive board and liaison positions. The internal elections — which will take place Sept. 18 at the council’s first general body meeting — will allow first-years to gain key student leadership roles if ...
The decades-long saga of the University’s missing Civil War-era sword can finally be put to rest. The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia ruled June 4 that a sword that disappeared from the University’s archives in the 1970s be returned to campus. The ruling ended a two-year ...
Twenty-four classes were held without power, and 10 were moved from Sayles Hall to alternate locations between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. Wednesday, wrote Marisa Quinn, vice president of public affairs and University relations in an email to The Herald. Fifteen campus buildings lost power due to a damaged ...
Featuring sunshine and post-summer reunions, this year’s first day of classes presented an extra complication beyond the usual challenges of shopping period, as Wednesday evening marked the beginning of the Jewish holiday Rosh Hashanah. Because of the conflict between the first days of classes and ...
University administrators are slated to undergo a standard review the Student Code of Conduct. This comes in the wake of a large increase in code violations over recent years. The review process — which occurs every five years and examines the code’s rules governing students’ academic and social ...
The University launched its first executive education program last month with the new Executive Master of Health Care Leadership, a course of study focused on innovations and changes in health care. As Brown’s first executive education program, the EMHL comes amid administrators’ plans to consider ...
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