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Internship, employment site updates navigability

The Center for Careers and Life After Brown has launched a new version of the Job and Internship Board designed to make discovering new opportunities more efficient and intuitive for students, said Matthew Donato, director of CareerLAB. This marks the first major interface update to the JIB in five ...


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Providence faces potential teacher shortage

Providence — along with three other cities — is “among the large urban school districts having trouble finding teachers,”the New York Times reported Aug. 10, citing the Council of the Great City Schools, an organization composed of large urban schools. CGCS identified Providence as a school ...


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R.I. Department of Youth looks to reform services

The Department of Children, Youth and Families is undergoing a major overhaul after a recent Rhode Island Office of Administration audit revealed the agency to be embattled with financial and accountability issues. When Gov. Gina Raimondo took office, she immediately identified that DCYF was in need ...


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Governor’s task force to take measures against opioid overdose

Gov. Gina Raimondo has formed a task force to address the opioid epidemic that claimed the lives of 239 Rhode Islanders in 2014. The task force will build on efforts to curb the epidemic made by legislation and research. The Rhode Island Department of Health has named the 32-member task force as their ...


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This Week in Higher Ed: Oct. 7, 2015

Nine killed in Oregon community college shooting Eight Oregon community college students and one teacher were killed, and nine were wounded Oct. 1 after a 26-year-old male gunman opened fire on classrooms at Umpqua Community College, the New York Times reported. Students were evacuated to Douglas County ...


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Brown to unveil new course registration site

The University is creating a new website for scheduling courses that will replace the current online course scheduler tool. The new system will be ready by summer 2016 and will make it easier to search and register for courses, have a mobile design and feature a modern, user-friendly interface, said ...


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Provost proposes initiative to bring refugees to Brown

Working with the Institute of International Education’s Scholar Rescue Fund, the University is launching an initiative to potentially bring four or five scholars displaced by conflicts in the Middle East to Brown, said Provost Richard Locke P’17 at a faculty meeting Tuesday. Locke chaired the meeting, ...


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Segui leads BCSC as interim director

The Brown Center for Students of Color is operating under new leadership this semester at the midway point of its five-year restructuring plan. Joshua Segui assumed the role of interim director of the BCSC Aug. 1. The leadership change resulted from administrative reshuffling this summer. Former Vice ...


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Tougaloo student exchange connects campuses

The partnership between Brown and Tougaloo College, a historically black college located near Jackson, Mississippi, continues to advance exchange programs and research opportunities for undergraduate students and faculty and staff members, said Maitrayee Bhattacharyya ’91, associate dean of the College ...


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Science & Research

Panel surveys Providence Talks’ impact

Mayor Jorge Elorza joined three other panel members, including University of Chicago Professor of Surgery Dana Suskind, to discuss Providence Talks — a 2013 initiative designed to improve children’s vocabularies — at a policy forum in Petteruti Lounge Monday. The panel members focused on the necessity ...


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Aid recipients navigate contribution expectations

Features of student financial aid packages, including outside scholarship reporting and summer earnings requirements, can cause financial and logistical challenges for students. The Office of Financial Aid is working with the Undergraduate Council of Students to address these challenges through the ...


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Plans for winter session inch forward

Dean of the College Maud Mandel and Dean of the Faculty Kevin McLaughlin P’12 will present an initial proposal for a winter term at Tuesday’s faculty meeting, Mandel said. The proposed Winter Session will feature “a handful of intense, creative experimental courses in January” that span three ...


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University clarifies role of responsible employees

Updated October 7, 2015 at 10:30 p.m. The University has clarified the designation of Residential Peer Leaders, Brown University Dining Services student supervisors and Meiklejohn Peer Advisors as “responsible employees,” dictating that they must report any knowledge of cases of sexual misconduct ...


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Brown joins coalition backing Common App alternative

Brown and more than 80 other institutions have joined a new coalition that aims to provide high school students with an alternative to the Common Application. The Coalition for Access, Affordability and Success will offer applicants a set of online tools starting in January 2016 in the hopes of “leveling ...


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Naval War College partnership grows

The University and the U.S. Naval War College have continued to strengthen their partnership established last June, focusing on greater collaboration in research and teaching as well as the creation of a new fellows program. Since the partnership formed, both institutions have hosted panels and lectures ...


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EmPower concert ties social, environmental justice

Through a live concert, speakers and a conference this weekend, student environmental group emPOWER worked to raise awareness of environmental issues related to climate change and social justice. The concert, hosted in partnership with the national organization Know Tomorrow, was held in Salomon 101 ...


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