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This week in higher ed: Sept. 16, 2015

Baruch students face murder charges for hazing death Five students from Manhattan’s Baruch College will face murder charges for the December 2013 death of Chun Hsein Deng, almost two years after a hazing incident for the fraternity Pi Delta Psi led to Deng’s fatal head injury, the New York Times ...


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Malala doc takes human look at girl behind a movement

“It is better to live like a lion for one day than to live like a slave for 1,000 years,” Malala Yousafzai says over the beautiful opening sequence of, “He Named Me Malala.” The quote comes from Malalai, her namesake and a girl who led Afghani forces over the British Empire in 1880. This name ...


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Hack halts first-year sexual assault training

The University’s new online sexual assault prevention training for first-years was hacked last month. As a result, the website was taken down Aug. 26, and some first-years have not completed the program, said Ravi Pendse, vice president for Computing and Information Services. The program, called ...


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Professors speak in strong support of Iran nuclear deal

“Iran could have had a bomb in a few weeks or a few months without this agreement,” said Leon Cooper, professor of physics, at a Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs teach-in Monday afternoon. The event focused on the controversial foreign policy agreement and featured five panelists: ...


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Mail Services streamlines operations, revamps look

As students returned to campus last week, familiar move-in routines like trips to pick up packages at Alumnae Hall, standing in line in the lobby of J. Walter Wilson and memorizing mailbox combinations were noticeably absent. The University mailroom, housed in J. Walter Wilson, was renovated this summer, ...


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Med School goes tobacco-free

Students at the Alpert Medical School are breathing easy after the school’s administration approved a ban on tobacco products on the school’s premises this summer. The ban — which covers all tobacco products, including e-cigarettes — was a “no-brainer,” said Kris Cambra, director of biomedical ...


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Summer B-Lab nurtures student business ventures

Mobile-app developers, fashion designers, engineers and Ph.D. candidates alike came together to participate in the University’s inaugural Summer B-Lab — known in full as the Breakthrough Lab — held at the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts June 8–July 31. The program gave 17 ...


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Lack of textbook info violates federal law

More than half of courses this semester have no textbook information listed on Banner, violating a federal law that requires colleges receiving federal support for financial aid to make such information available to students during registration. The Higher Education Opportunity Act states that “an ...


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University identifies steps to reduce budget deficit

A set of actions has been finalized to reduce the University’s $10 million structural deficit in three years, wrote Provost Richard Locke and Executive Vice President for Finance and Administration Barbara Chernow ’79 in a campus-wide email Thursday. The action plan outlined in the email came after ...


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Waitlist admissions see huge jump for class of 2019

The University extended offers of admission to 196 students on the class of 2019 waitlist, a drastic increase from previous admission cycles, said Dean of Admission Jim Miller ’73. A slightly lower overall yield rate and a record-high number of students deferring admission may have contributed to ...


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U. looks to identify top VP candidates by November

The 10-person search committee working to identify Margaret Klawunn’s successor as vice president for campus life and student services hopes to submit a finalized set of candidate recommendations to President Christina Paxson P’19 in November, said Nancy Barnett, chair of the committee and professor ...


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Summer months see administrative reshuffling

Three years since Christina Paxson P’19 assumed the presidency at Brown, her senior staff continues to undergo significant turnover with two top administrators leaving their posts in recent months. Vicki Colvin stepped down as provost June 30 after only one year in the role, remaining a professor ...


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Brown preserves faculty, staff benefits

The newly released recommendations from the Deficit Reduction Working Group, headed by Provost Richard Locke, plan to resolve the $5 million dollar structural deficit without eroding benefits or laying off employees, Locke said at a Tuesday faculty meeting. The deficit reduction plan, released in May, ...



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