A 39-page memo obtained by The Herald outlines how a group of students plans to argue later today against divestment from companies with ties to the Israeli military.
Joseph Edelman, a trustee of the Brown Corporation and hedge fund manager, publicly resigned from his Brown post Sunday. He cited Brown’s upcoming vote on divestment in October.
The new COVID-19 and flu vaccines will be available to students at Brown within the next month.
Getting into courses with limited seats has always been tough. In the Department of Computer Science, registration has become far more challenging.
Organizers for four campus labor organizations — the Labor Organization of Community Coordinators, Third World Labor Organization, Brown Postdoc Labor Organization and Teaching Assistant Labor Organization — spent their summers negotiating new collective bargaining agreements with the University. ...
Not many people can say they spent their summer doing what Liza Davis GS called “toe retrieval duty.”
Despite efforts to limit the impact of the Supreme Court’s ban on race-based affirmative action, Brown’s class of 2028 has a significant decrease in Black and Hispanic domestic students compared to previous years.
Undergraduate students at Brown can choose from almost 1,000 courses to create their schedules this semester. While picking the right courses can be difficult, Brown makes the whole process a bit easier by allowing students to “shop” classes during the first two weeks of each semester.
In a Herald poll of incoming first years, the share of Black students in Brown University’s class of 2028 decreased by nearly one half compared to last year, while the percentage of Hispanic respondents declined by one-third.
On Tuesday, the class of 2028 marked their entry into Brown by walking through the Van Wickle Gates.
On April 16, roughly 20 architecture concentrators walked into List Art Building for a meeting expecting pizza and exciting announcements. Instead, they were served some bad news: the department will no longer house the architecture concentration starting in fall 2028.
The Graduate Student Council voted in favor of a decreased budget at its first monthly meeting of the semester Wednesday night. The Council also elected a new vice president of advocacy, chair of student life and chair of technology to its executive board.
On Wednesday, six students affiliated with the Brown Divest Coalition made the case for divesting from 10 companies with ties to Israel to a University advisory committee.
On Tuesday afternoon, a pipe band harmonizing with the bell tower’s ring led incoming classes through the Van Wickle gates during Brown’s 261st Convocation ceremony.
Looking at the lighter patches of grass left behind by the tents from last spring’s encampment for Palestine, some might have thought that student activism on campus would start to lose its steam. But some key moments are still to come this fall semester, as activist groups and University administrators ...
Student activists are taking the fight over legacy admissions to the State House.
The Labor Organization of Community Coordinators voted on Friday afternoon to end its strike over alleged unfair labor practices and deadlocked contract negotiations. The strike started three days ago when hundreds of first-year students moved into campus.
The Labor Organization of Community Coordinators began an indefinite strike Wednesday morning, spending their first day of work on the picket line instead. Meikeljohns, Bruno Leaders and a hastily raised group of “Move-In Volunteers” helped first years and their families check into their residence ...
Ashish Jha, the dean of Brown’s School of Public Health and a leading voice during the COVID-19 pandemic, will deliver the keynote address at Convocation Sept. 3.
The indefinite strike follows months of negotiations between Brown and the Labor Organization of Community Coordinates, which have come to an impasse over issues including compensation details.
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