This series will explore the first 1,000 days of Christina Paxson’s presidency. This story, the final of three, will look at how Paxson interacts and contends with alums. As the public face of the University, President Christina Paxson P’19 must appeal to a number of varied interests. One major ...
Updated April 2, 2015 at 5:00 a.m. The search for a new director of the Writing Center recommenced March 20 following an unsuccessful search effort in the fall. The University hopes to place the director by the start of next academic year, said Kathleen McSharry, associate dean of the College for writing ...
Updated April 1, 2015 at 2:25 a.m. Hyoun Ju Sohn GS died Tuesday after falling through a 12th floor window of the Sciences Library just before noon. Sohn was a first-year physics doctoral student from South Korea, President Christina Paxson P’19 wrote in a community-wide email Tuesday evening. He graduated ...
This series will explore the first 1,000 days of Christina Paxson’s presidency. This story, the second of three, will look at how the University’s female leadership team represents, motivates and responds to students. Brown is the only Ivy League school where both the president and the provost, ...
The University offered admission to just under 8.5 percent of applicants to the class of 2019, breaking last year’s record-low acceptance rate of 8.6 percent, said Dean of Admission Jim Miller ’73. Out of the 30,397 students who applied — the second largest pool in University history — 2,580 ...
Justice Gaines ’16, Sazzy Gourley ’16 and Zachary Nelkin ’17 will vie for the presidency of the Undergraduate Council of Students, while Alana Bhatla ’16 and Ryan Lessing ’17 will face off for the UCS vice presidency. Candidates submitted their official applications at a UCS Elections Board ...
This series will explore the first 1,000 days of Christina Paxson’s presidency. This story, the first of three, will look at the way her policies have affected the University’s identity. As Christina Paxson’s P’19 presidency passes its thousandth day, a debate that has been brewing since before ...
Elections start this week for the Undergraduate Council of Students and the Undergraduate Finance Board, but past races have run into hiccups due to occurrences ranging from joke campaigns to candidate withdrawals. Joke campaigns Eric Mukherjee ’09 did not know he had run for UCS president until after ...
Rhodes Scholarship eligibility to expand Individuals from China will soon be eligible for Rhodes Scholarships, the New York Times reported Monday. The change is part of a larger plan to expand into additional countries, marking the first major growth of the program since the 1970s, when women became ...
A Herald poll of undergraduates conducted March 16-17 found that more than two-thirds of students disapprove of the University’s decision to cancel a hearing for a student accused of serving a drink with GHB at an October Phi Kappa Psi party. In addition, over 60 percent of respondents disapproved ...
See accompanying article. Please click the image to access the poll chord diagram. 1. Do you approve or disapprove of the way Christina Paxson is handling her job as president of the University? 6.4% Strongly approve 35.0% Somewhat approve 33.6% No opinion 21.7% Somewhat disapprove 3.4% Strongly disapprove 2. ...
See accompanying article. Please click the image to access the poll chord diagram. 1. Do you approve or disapprove of the way Christina Paxson is handling her job as president of the University? 3.3% Strongly approve 30.2% Somewhat approve 30.2% No opinion 28.7% Somewhat disapprove 7.6% Strongly disapprove 2. ...
“I stand with Nan-Hui because our women and children should be protected and supported at all costs.” These are just some of the words of empowerment that Brown Asian Sisters Empowered collected from Brown community members during its four-day #DearNanHui letter-writing campaign. Other tributes ...
The Engaged Scholars program will expand to five more concentrations next year, adding to the five concentrations piloting the program this year, said Kathleen McSharry, associate dean of the College for writing and curriculum. Business, entrepreneurship and organizations and contemplative studies, ...
“Mike Brown is no Rosa Parks, and he ain’t Emmett Till either,” said Glenn Loury, professor of economics, at a discussion on “Black Communities and the Police: The Meaning of Ferguson” at the Watson Institute for International Studies Thursday night. Approximately 30 graduate students, faculty ...
Ask a group of undergraduates why they applied to Brown and most will give similar answers: the open curriculum, high-quality faculty or an affinity for Providence, among others. Though many students enjoy their time on College Hill, most use their undergraduate experience as a gateway to future careers. ...
President Christina Paxson P’19 sent a letter Wednesday to the Task Force on Sexual Assault endorsing the student movement Act4RJ’s demands for sexual assault policy change, said UCS President Maahika Srinivasan ’15 at the UCS general body meeting Wednesday. Srinivasan said she and Sazzy Gourley ...
College presidents: Sexual assault happens, but not on my campus An Inside Higher Ed survey of U.S. college presidents found that 32 percent of them agreed or strongly agreed that sexual assault is “prevalent” on college campuses, according to an online report released by the organization. Forty-two ...
1964 In anticipation of St. Patrick’s Day, 700 college students, including several from Brown, gathered at the Commodore Hotel in New York City for a “sex orgy,” The Herald reported at the time. Students engaged in “drinking and brawling” and threw Bibles, lamps, ashtrays and other furnishings ...
A custodial staff member was stuck in a malfunctioning elevator in Health Services in Andrews House Tuesday around 2:30 p.m., said Paul Shanley, deputy chief of police for the Department of Public Safety. At 2:26 p.m., DPS received a call that a fire alarm had sounded in Health Services and “there ...
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