Updated Thursday, Jan. 22 at 12:08 p.m. Following the University’s ban on alcohol service at residence hall parties announced Monday, many students have expressed support for the administration’s emphasis on ensuring student safety and preventing sexual assault. But others have reacted with frustration ...
Updated January 25, 2015 at 9:09 p.m. Approximately 30,360 students applied to the class of 2019, marking a slight increase from previous years, according to a University press release. This constitutes the second-largest applicant pool in University history, exceeded only by the class of 2015, which ...
Updated January 21, 2015 at 1:50 a.m. Registered events with alcohol will be banned in residential areas, including Greek and program houses, while the Division of Campus Life and Student Services reviews the University’s alcohol policies this semester, wrote Margaret Klawunn, vice president for ...
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded the University a $1.3-million grant to support the digital scholarship initiative in President Christina Paxson’s P’19 strategic plan, according to a Jan. 12 press release. The funds will help Brown return to the “original mission of the University during ...
The Undergraduate Council of Students will focus on sexual assault and mental health resources, Corporation accountability and faculty diversity this semester, UCS leaders told The Herald. Following the Sexual Assault Task Force’s release of its interim report at the end of last semester, UCS aims ...
Following nearly three months of negotiations, unionized library workers unanimously agreed to the University’s proposed contract earlier this month, said Karen McAninch, business agent for the library workers’ union, United Service and Allied Workers of Rhode Island. The old contract expired Sept. ...
Cass Cliatt, vice president for communications at Franklin and Marshall College, will come to Brown as vice president for communications April 1, President Christina Paxson P’19 announced in a community-wide email Friday. Cliatt will succeed Marisa Quinn, vice president for public affairs and University ...
The Task Force on Sexual Assault released an interim report with short-term recommendations for improving the University’s sexual assault and prevention policies, President Christina Paxson P’19 wrote in a community-wide email Wednesday. The report — compiled by a group of 17 administrators, ...
Barbara Chernow ’79 will succeed Beppie Huidekoper as the next executive vice president for finance and administration effective March 1, President Christina Paxson P’19 announced in a community-wide email Friday. The appointment concludes a search that began in August, when Huidekoper announced ...
Updated Dec. 11 at 8:45 p.m. The University accepted 20 percent of early decision applicants to the class of 2019, admitting 617 students to the largest early decision class since the program was instated for the class of 2006, wrote Dean of Admission Jim Miller ’73 in an email to The Herald. The ...
Just over 150 students graduated in the Midyear Completion Celebration Saturday afternoon, marking the 25th year that the University has honored students set to graduate at the end of the fall semester. Enthusiastic students, parents and alums packed Salomon 101 to cheer on the graduates. A smaller ...
The Meiklejohn Peer Advising program will expand next semester to include the Code Advising Meiklejohn Program, an initiative aimed at helping advisees navigate the disciplinary process. The subprogram will “deal directly with issues related to the Student Code of Conduct and the Academic Code,” ...
Riffing on facial hair, bread and his penis, Nick Offerman — known for his role as meat-eating, libertarian woodsman Ron Swanson on the NBC comedy “Parks and Recreation” — didn’t stray too far from his well-known character in his Lecture Board talk Thursday night. Offerman spoke to a full ...
The opening of 257 Thayer, a luxury student apartment complex, will mark a major development in College Hill living next fall. Currently under construction, the four-story complex will house 267 tenants, mostly students, in furnished apartments with single bedrooms, private bathrooms, living rooms and ...
Fossil Free Brown, the student group formerly known as Brown Divest Coal, has launched a petition to divest the University’s endowment from the top 200 global fossil fuel companies. Since the Corporation’s decision not to divest from the top 15 coal companies last October, the student group has ...
Employees at Gourmet Heaven on Meeting Street arrived for their shifts Wednesday to learn that the store would be closing indefinitely starting that night, according to a staff member who wished to remain anonymous because she was not authorized to speak by the store’s management. The Gourmet Heaven ...
A new committee is discussing possible changes to next year’s First Readings program, which requires incoming first-years to review the same book or film and discuss their thoughts with a faculty member and peers. Since Dean of the College Maud Mandel announced the committee’s creation in a Nov. ...
Updated Monday, Dec. 8 at 6:12 p.m. The third in a three-part series exploring race and racism at Brown. At a faculty meeting last month, President Christina Paxson announced her plans to double the percentage of underrepresented minority faculty members within the next decade — a goal Paxson calls ...
Over the past year, the administration has touted Brown’s 250th anniversary celebrations as opportunities to rally school spirit and reflect on the institution’s history. But the festivities also serve another purpose: an impetus for the whirlwind of fundraising and alum outreach currently underway ...
For the fifth consecutive year, Brown’s graduating class in 2013 had the highest student loan debt per borrower in the Ivy League. Students in the class who borrowed money graduated with an average $24,382 in debt, according to a report published by the Institute for College Access and Success, a ...
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