The Admission Office outlined its goals to diversify incoming classes and its own office in its diversity and inclusion action plan. The plan was originally released in April, and a progress update was submitted in September. The departmental DIAP is part of the University-wide requirement that each ...
Last Wednesday, Mayor Jorge Elorza announced that Providence is expecting a $10 million surplus for fiscal year 2017. In a press release, the mayor said that 2017 was the second year in a row that Providence has had a fiscal surplus, this year’s estimated at $10,206,604. The Elorza administration ...
In response to the online sale of John F. Kennedy Jr.’s ’83 student file, the University filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California on Friday, seeking court orders to block the sale of the documents and to mandate their return. The complaint names the defendant ...
The University says that the application of John F. Kennedy Jr. ’83 — recently posted for sale online — was stolen, and its General Counsel is actively working to secure its return. Online seller Gary Zimet posted the application documents for sale at $85,000 on his website, “Moments in Time,” ...
Providence kicked off its initiative to renovate public school facilities with the first “All In: Our Learning Spaces” workshop held at Hope High School on Tuesday. The workshop asked members of the Providence community to provide feedback on the existing state of public schools in the city and ...
At 11 a.m. in the Watson Institute for International Affairs and Public Relations, Tom Perez ’83 P ’18 sits calmly at his desk wearing thick black frames and a shadow of a goatee that complement his academic surroundings. However, his office is just across the street from a place with slightly less ...
In this month’s community-wide conversation Wednesday between Mayor Jorge Elorza and Providence residents, the mayor reiterated his administration’s four priorities: budget, infrastructure, education and accessible public officials. After taking office three years ago, Elorza started his “City ...
Douglas Elmendorf, dean of Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, discussed economic inequality in a lecture titled “Make America Fair Again,” sponsored by the economics department as part of its “Economics in the Real World” lecture series. Elmendorf — who served as the director ...
The National Labor Relations Board voted in a 3-1 decision to overturn the 2004 Brown University decision that graduate students at private universities were ineligible to unionize with the verdict regarding Columbia students Aug. 23, 2016. But the window of opportunity for graduate students unionization, ...
The Department of Public Safety released its Annual Security Report, which documents crime trends on campus for 2016, in a community-wide email Sept. 29. This year’s report reported higher numbers of rape, dating violence and hate crimes, while burglary has continued to decrease. According to the ...
University researchers can now walk on the surface of the moon, analyze the footprints of a dinosaur and study molecular structure — all in the same place, thanks to the YURT, the new virtual reality theater at the Center for Computation and Visualization. The YURT is one of CCV’s two virtual ...
The Undergraduate Council of Students held an ideation session in its weekly general body meeting Wednesday night, as the group’s committees begin to create goals and plans for the year. UCS president Chelse-Amoy Steele ’18 also announced several changes to the organization’s tampon initiative. Since ...
Funded by a grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts, Gilad Barnea, associate professor of neuroscience, will partner with Ben Stanger, associate professor of medicine at Penn, in an attempt to utilize specialized methods for tracking substances between nerve cells to study how cancer cells move. The two ...
In a discussion titled “UndocuKnowledge: A DACA Teach In and Community Conversation,” a panel of students, faculty and staff highlighted the importance of leaving the “good immigrant bad, immigrant” mentality behind in exchange for a movement that uplifts all 11 million undocumented immigrants ...
Prerna Singh, professor of political science at the Watson Institute, and Matthias vom Hau, a professor at the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals, received the 2016 Best Paper Award from the Comparative Political Studies Journal for a paper that challenged the idea that “ethnic diversity ...
The Tenement Museum sits on Orchard Street in the Lower East Side of New York City. From the outside, it looks like most of the other apartment buildings on the street. Inside, however, the museum tells the stories of many of the 7,000 immigrants who have lived there. Museum staff have restored six ...
With the growing popularity of the business, entrepreneurship and organizations concentration, there is increasing concern among sociology concentrators that the number of sociology-specific classes offered each semester is decreasing. Multiple sociology concentrators, some who chose to stay anonymous, ...
The beginning of the semester always kicks off with similar conversations: boasting about internships, complaining about your living situation and groaning about the ever-increasing price of dining hall food. This year, students handed over $3.00 for Blue Room iced coffee and sacrificed their points ...
Last month, a bill that would cap the proportion of registered sex offenders in homeless shelter beds at 10 percent for shelters whose capacity exceeds 50 people passed in the Rhode Island State House. A coalition of activists are now asking via petition that Gov. Gina Raimondo veto the bill, arguing ...
Following the release of a viral video that showed former Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies Anila Daulatzai being forcibly removed from a Southwest Airlines flight, Brown community members have circulated a petition demanding Daulatzai receive justice for her treatment. On Sept. 26, Daulatzai ...
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