As Brown’s divestment vote nears, community members lobby advisory committee
By Elena Jiang | September 10A Brown advisory committee has less than three weeks to issue a recommendation on divestment to be voted on in October.
A Brown advisory committee has less than three weeks to issue a recommendation on divestment to be voted on in October.
In 2023, Brown became a founding member of the Small Town and Rural Students College Network. Since then, the University has continued to expand its support for rural students, including creating a rural-specific orientation group this year.
What do Cotton Eye Joe, cereal and limbo have in common? Between dances and dinners, mentors and first-years from different corners of the world found common ground over the little things in life at the four-day International Orientation program.
Whether you’re an overwhelmed first-year wading through endless seas of class options on Courses@Brown or a senior panicking about what your final courses at Brown will be, it’s safe to say everyone could use a bit of guidance during shopping period. To help, The Herald went straight to the specialists: ...
Five students brought their case against divestment from 10 companies with ties to the Israeli military before Brown’s advisory committee on Monday evening.
Elvy, a Labrador retriever and member of Brown’s Department of Public Safety, has left College Hill for Mount Pleasant.
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.