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Corporation requests tenure updates

Initial step taken in Hunter renovations

The Corporation's Committee on Budget and Finance approved the search for an architect to renovate Hunter Laboratory at its meeting this weekend. The Committee on Facilities and Design, which is in charge of the search, hopes to have a recommendation for the Corporation in time for its May meeting, ...

In R.I. and Hawaii, institute trains leaders

From Rhode Island to Hawaii, high school students are learning environmental leadership through programs offered by the Brown Leadership Institute, a pre-college program that teaches high school students interested in global issues to take action in their own communities.

Schaefer '13 remembered: A year later, legacy remains

A year has passed since the death of Avi Schaefer '13, but the words he published early in his first year still stand strong. Schaefer's death has had a more lasting impact on the Brown community than most.

Banner criticizing Corporation removed by students

A banner reading "Corporate Criminals Run Brown" appeared on Wayland Arch facing Wriston Quadrangle Friday evening, a day before this weekend's meeting of the Corporation. Less than 24 hours later, the banner had been taken down.

Watson increases required IR courses

The Watson Institute for International Studies announced Friday that requirements for international relations have changed for students who declare for the concentration in the future. Students who have already declared will not be affected by the changes, according to an e-mail from Mark Blyth, director ...

Scandals hound Corp. members

Trustees and fellows of the Corporation make their greatest impact on the University during the three weekends a year they convene to set policy, but the off-campus activities of some members have caught nationwide attention with a series of scandals in the financial world.

Donors honored in inaugural ceremony

Martin Granoff P'93, the largest donor for the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, has been involved with Brown for years. Though neither of the Granoffs attended Brown — Martin attended New York University and Perry attended the University of Michigan — their daughter ...

Financiers loom large on Corporation

In 2008, Chancellor Thomas Tisch '76 — who leads the Corporation — admitted to The Herald that the Corporation has often been accused of being a bunch of "dead white males."

Electronic concentration forms available today

Beginning today, students will be able to declare their concentrations electronically using a new feature on Advising Sidekick, the web-based tool run by the Office of the Dean of the College. 

Community celebrates arts center

About 350 attendees explored the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts at its dedication ceremony last night, taking in the wide variety of student artwork — incorporating visual art, sound, video, dance and sculpture — that adorns the latest addition to the campus. The building ...

Swearer Center brings student pay in line with labor law

This semester the Swearer Center for Public Service will pay its program coordinators by the hour, rather than with a stipend, in order to bring its compensation polices in line with the Fair Labor Standards Act.

Faculty remains mostly male, white

About two-thirds of the faculty are male and about four-fifths identify as white, according to statistics published on the Dean of the Faculty's website. The faculty continues to lack racial and gender diversity despite concerted institutional efforts in recent years to increase it.

'Jockapella' receives UCS approval

The Undergraduate Council of Students elected an Ivy Council liaison and approved the formation of four new student groups, including "Jockapella," last night.

Corporation to approve 2012 budget this weekend

With few major capital projects left on its plate, the Corporation will meet this weekend to discuss various University policies and vote on next year's budget.

Psych Services reports no increase in visits from freshmen

Though in a newly-released national survey college freshmen rated their emotional health at a record low, Psychological Services has not seen a significant change in visits from first-year students, Director of Psych Services Belinda Johnson said.

Alums run student trips to North Korea

Few Westerners have visited North Korea in recent memory. Yet for the past two years, the Pyongyang Project has brought groups to the region both despite and because of its political significance.

Study: Elite firms target 'elite' Ivys

What does a Brown degree mean in the job market today? According to Lauren Rivera, not much.

Q&A with Ronald Ferguson

Renowned scholar Ronald Ferguson gave the 14th Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture Tuesday afternoon. Before the lecture, he sat down with The Herald to talk about a social movement for equity in education.

MLK lecture tackles achievement gap

Ronald Ferguson, a scholar of the racial achievement gap in education, argued for a social movement to ensure educational equality yesterday. He delivered his remarks in Sayles Hall for the 14th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture.