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This week in higher ed: April 3, 2013

Yale formalizes online education program Yale’s President-elect Peter Salovey signed an agreement March 13 formalizing a partnership between Yale and an online education program to encourage “global education” and increase accessibility to international internships, the Yale Daily News reported ...


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U. partners with hospitals to help market research

The University’s Technology Ventures Office announced a partnership with the Lifespan health care system March 25 that would help Lifespan commercialize new research discoveries. The TVO also expanded its existing partnership with Care New England to cover discoveries made in two more of the company’s ...


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Faculty promotion process revised

Faculty members voted to revise the timeline and standardize procedures for promotion from associate to full professor at Tuesday’s faculty meeting. About 80 faculty members took part in the deliberations, which resulted in the passage of two motions to amend the Faculty Rules and Regulations. Faculty ...


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Students volunteer to phone minority admits

All admitted students of color from the class of 2017 — including, for the first time, Asian Americans — will receive phone calls this week from student volunteers congratulating them on their acceptances and answering any of the prospective students’ questions. Forty-five percent of the accepted ...


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UFB increases funding for student organizations

Student groups can anticipate increased funding and new policies for the upcoming academic year, the Undergraduate Finance Board announced in a community-wide email last month. Beginning next year, student groups will be able to request increased conference funding, funds for service groups and funding ...


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Weekend crime update: March 29-31, 2013

The following is an account of crime events that took place this weekend, reported to The Herald by Deputy Chief of Police for the Department of Public Safety Paul Shanley:   Saturday night A suspect entered a student’s unlocked room in Goddard House around 8:30 p.m. and left with her iPhone. ...


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U. goes paperless with online payroll system

Last month the University completed the shift to Workday, an online human capital management software for employees on campus — including student workers, faculty members and support staff — which integrates hour logs and payroll tracking. Physical worksheets have been completely replaced by the ...


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Paxson navigates advocacy, leadership

President Christina Paxson signed a petition last month supporting same-sex marriage in Rhode Island on a personal basis and as a local business leader, but she did not attach the University’s official support. “I’m not at all timid about expressing my views on things that I think are really ...


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Manager of U. trustee’s company arrested

Federal authorities arrested a former portfolio manager at SAC Capital Advisors Friday on charges of fraud, the latest in a string of similar insider-trading indictments against former employees of the hedge fund founded and owned by University trustee Steven Cohen P’08 P’16. The allegations against ...


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Possible leads arise in missing student case

Family members, friends and law enforcement officers have identified surveillance camera footage possibly depicting Sunil Tripathi walking south, away from his apartment, in the early morning of March 16, according to a Friday statement from the family. The footage, pulled from Department of Public ...


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Med School and JWU will collaborate, share resources

The Alpert Medical School and Johnson and Wales University’s new Center for Physician Assistant Studies will share resources, including some faculty and facilities, according to a March 27 University press release. JWU’s physician assistant program, which is in its final stages of development before ...


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FBI involved in missing undergrad case

The FBI has joined the search for Sunil Tripathi, a former member of the class of 2012 who went missing Saturday morning. An agent met with family members Thursday night to discuss the case and move forward in conjunction with the Providence Police Department and the Department of Public Safety, Tripathi’s ...


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Employers lament recent grads’ capabilities

Employers say college graduates are unprepared for their careers, according to a study published by the Chronicle of Higher Education earlier this month. Brown’s curriculum and liberal learning equip students with broader skills that may not translate directly to a specific job, said Andrew Simmons, ...


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Search for missing undergrad expands

Family members, friends and police officers are still searching for Sunil Tripathi, a former member of the class of 2012 who went missing Saturday morning. “Unfortunately, there are no leads yet,” wrote Tripathi’s mother Judy Tripathi in an email to The Herald, describing the search as “ongoing ...


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Billionaire supports U. coal divestment

Tom Steyer, billionaire and founder of the hedge fund Farallon Capital Management, urged the University to divest from coal companies in a letter presented Thursday to President Christina Paxson’s office by members of the Brown Divest Coal group. Steyer wrote that the choice to invest in coal companies ...


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