Upper-middle-income families are bearing the brunt of a national increase in student loan debt, the Wall Street Journal reported this summer. Families with incomes between $94,535 and $205,335 saw the largest increase in the percent of borrowers and the average amount borrowed in student loans between ...
Professor of Economics George Borts recently signed his name to a statement of support for Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney's proposed economic policy, joining more than 640 economists, including six Nobel Laureates, on the list titled "Economists for Romney." The statement of support outlines ...
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The Nanjing-Brown Joint Program in Gender Studies and the Humanities marked its fourth year with the opening of the Center for Gender Studies and the Humanities at China's Nanjing University this summer. To commemorate the center's establishment, seven Brown faculty members and a postdoctoral fellow ...
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The University continues its search for a permanent director of the Watson Institute for International Studies after appointing Peter Andreas, professor of political science and international studies, as interim director in May. The institute has cycled through six directors in the last eight years. ...
Two alums competed on the world stage this summer, representing their home countries in the 2012 London Summer Olympics. Craig Kinsley '11, a former javelin thrower and volunteer coach on the Brown men's track and field team, and Nikola Stojic '97, who rowed men's crew for Bruno, represented the United ...
The University's laundry system underwent a series of drastic changes over the summer, including the introduction of new machines, a price increase, a revamped infrastructure and more efficient energy standards. The changes were implemented after consistent urging by the Admissions and Student Services ...
Though yesterday's weather was damp and dispiriting, President Christina Paxson's Convocation address roused the class of 2016 as she welcomed them to Brown's 249th academic year. The weather forced the address from the Main Green to the Pizzitola Center, and the traditional first-year walk through ...
President Christina Paxson introduced some of her broad goals for the first year of her presidency during Tuesday's faculty meeting, the first of the academic year. Plans to improve financial aid and strengthen the University's resources figured prominently in the priorities she outlined.
President Christina Paxson announced the selection of Kimberly Roskiewicz, former associate dean for operations at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, as assistant to the president in a news release Aug. 10.
The newly elected executive board of the Undergraduate Council of Students will serve in a year of transition as members work with President Christina Paxson in her first year as the University's leader while also seeking to implement projects that have a direct impact on student experience.
First-years meandering through the Main Green at noon yesterday were treated to an unorthodox orientation event as 200 workers, union members and their advocates rallied to support unions and fair labor policies in honor of Labor Day. "I'm sure we'd all rather be grilling right now, but we have to make ...
President Christina Paxson announced the selection of Kimberly Roskiewicz, associate dean for operations at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, as assistant to the president in a news release Friday. ...
This article was updated August 1.
Updated July 17. On the heels of a report commissioned by Penn State that implicates Penn State's former head football coach Joe Paterno '50 in the cover up of a sexual abuse scandal involving assistant coach Jerry Sandusky, the University has decided to rename the Joseph V. Paterno '50 award, ...
Christina Paxson was officially sworn in July 2 after being named the University's 19th president in March. The former dean of Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs has made several visits to College Hill in recent months - including a trip to campus for Commencement ...
President Ruth Simmons has been named to the Princeton Board of Trustees, Princeton announced Tuesday morning. She will begin her four-year term as a trustee July 1 and was among seven new members elected to the 40-person board. Simmons served as Princeton's vice provost from 1992 to 1995, in addition ...
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