The University’s cohort tenure rate — the percentage of tenure-track junior faculty members hired in the same academic year who are granted tenure eight years later — has declined 20 percent, from 81 percent for those hired in 1999-2000 to 61 percent for those hired in 2005-06, the year for which ...
The University plans to balance its $10 million structural operating budget deficit over the next three to five years, Provost Vicki Colvin announced to a crowd of about 100 at a University Resources Committee open forum Thursday in the Petteruti Lounge. The forum, as opposed to regular URC meetings, ...
Ari Shavit, senior correspondent for the liberal Israeli newspaper Haaretz and author of the 2013 book “My Promised Land,” spoke to an overflowing Wilson 102 Wednesday night about Israel’s past, present and future. His wide-ranging lecture touched on Zionism, his personal experiences living in ...
In response to the University’s decision to conduct an external review of two unionized mailroom workers’ driving routes, the Brown Student Labor Alliance hosted a demonstration outside J. Walter Wilson Wednesday. About 50 students, staff and community members rallied to show solidarity for University ...
Undergraduates and other community members voiced concerns and suggestions about the University’s sexual assault policies in a two-part forum Wednesday night co-sponsored by the Undergraduate Council of Students and the Coalition Against Sexual Assault and Relationship Abuse. The first part of the ...
President Christina Paxson announced at a faculty meeting Tuesday that she aims to double the percentage of underrepresented minority faculty members within the next decade. Faculty members and administrators discussed faculty diversity at length during the meeting while also touching briefly upon ...
Davida Ross-Coulibaly, information and services specialist for the Office of Financial Aid, died Thursday, President Christina Paxson wrote in a community-wide email Tuesday. Ross-Coulibaly offered “guidance and common sense advice with warmth, humor and wisdom,” Paxson wrote, adding that her colleagues ...
Yale School of Medicine faces criticism over sexual harassment case handling Faculty members at the Yale School of Medicine have voiced concern over the school’s handling of a sexual harassment allegation, the New York Times reported Saturday. The university announced last week that Michael Simons, ...
Updated Tuesday, Nov. 4 at 11:55 p.m. The University’s efforts to better comply with the federal Title IX act have been delayed, as the deadlines for a final report from the Task Force on Sexual Assault and the addition of a Title IX Program Officer have been extended. The task force, charged with ...
When Caitlin Trujillo ’12 disagreed with the way Kansas legislators were handling issues of concern to constituents, she knew she wanted to take matters into her own hands. Lawmakers “were advancing legislation that I felt was detrimental to the state of Kansas and overlooking issues that we really ...
The Jewelry District’s South Street Power Station, commonly known as the Dynamo House, will undergo an extensive renovation starting in December or January, the Corporation announced following its October meeting. In the following weeks, the University will sign a lease with private developer Commonwealth ...
Brown community members who seek to access material from libraries at peer institutions now have that ability, following the launch of the BorrowDirect Plus initiative last month. An extension of the BorrowDirect program, the new initiative allows Brown students, faculty and staff to borrow items ...
About 43 percent of the student body has received University-provided flu shots this year, said Unab Khan, medical director of Health Services, and no cases of the flu have been confirmed so far on campus. Over the last three weeks, Health Services provided free flu-shot clinics at the Stephen Robert ...
Counseling and Psychological Services is considering signing on to the Jed and Clinton Health Matters Campus Program, a four-year commitment to reducing substance abuse and preventing suicides among college students, said CAPS Director Sherri Nelson. Since the program’s launch in June, 56 colleges ...
The shutdown of former New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly’s guest lecture by student and community member protesters cemented the events of Oct. 29, 2013 in Brown’s collective memory. The discourse that followed shook the foundation of the campus, pushing many to reassess and verbally ...
Sara Overstreet ’16 has died, President Christina Paxson announced in a community-wide email Thursday afternoon. Paxson’s email did not specificy a cause of death. A native of San Jose, California, Overstreet was an international relations and English double-concentrator. She was interested in ...
See accompanying article. 1. Do you approve or disapprove of the way Christina Paxson is handling her job as president of the University? 8.5% Strongly approve 33.4% Somewhat approve 35.5% No opinion 18.1% Somewhat disapprove 4.4% Strongly disapprove 2. Do you approve ...
The University received approximately twice the number of applicants for the number of spots available in the 2015 TRI-Lab by the Oct. 19 deadline, a statistic consistent with past semesters, said Allen Hance, director of the TRI-Lab. Spring 2015 will mark the start of the third iteration of the TRI-Lab, ...
Please click the picture to view the matrix. A Herald poll of undergraduates conducted last week found that about 82 percent of the student body supports some form of student representation on the Corporation, the University’s highest governing body, while undergraduate opinion of President Christina ...
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