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.
Plant City has expanded from its original home in Providence, having recently opened a new location in Barrington.
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.
Twenty-four state attorneys general are urging Brown to reject a proposal to divest from companies with ties to Israel, they wrote in a letter addressed to University officials Monday.
Sylvia Carey-Butler, Brown’s vice president for institutional equity and diversity, will step down from her post on Oct. 31 after three years with the University, according to a press release.
On Monday, the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education resolved a Title VI Shared Ancestry complaint filed against the University in January that alleged an inadequate response to antisemitism on campus. The OCR’s investigation raised broader concerns on how the University responded ...
The Muslim Legal Fund of America, a civil rights nonprofit, filed a Title VI complaint against the University with the U.S. Department of Education in June.
Brown agreed to invest $150 million in Rhode Island’s largest hospital system over seven years.
Administrators, faculty and alumni from Brown and Tougaloo College, a historically black college in Jackson, Mississippi, gathered on June 6 at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Brown-Tougaloo Partnership Program.
On June 6, the Providence City Council heard an ordinance that would prohibit the city from investing its assets in Israeli bonds. The ordinance would also prevent Providence from reinvesting currently held sovereign bonds upon their maturity.
Estes oversaw more than 20 departments, offices and centers that work to build and support the campus community.
The Corporation, Brown University’s highest governing body, met with 10 students to discuss a proposal for divestment from companies affiliated with Israel and approved the establishment of a School of International and Public Affairs, President Christina Paxson announced.
In 2019, before the now-graduating class of seniors began their journey at Brown, it appeared that Stand Up for Graduate Student Employees — now the Graduate Labor Organization — was in danger of ending theirs.
A committee of University faculty will now evaluate the severe sanctioning of any faculty member, including suspension from regular service, following a vote at a Tuesday faculty meeting.
The Graduate Labor Organization and the University reached a settlement on May 13 regarding a grievance GLO filed Feb. 6, which called on the Graduate School to provide Tabassum Tamanna GS with an extension of paid leave through the spring semester.
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