Updated Aug. 24 at 10 p.m. The National Labor Relations Board ruled Tuesday that graduate students at Columbia qualify as employees of the institution and therefore have the right to unionize. “It’s definitely a celebration,” said Anne Gray Fischer GS and member of Stand Up for Graduate Student ...
Faculty members have approved a winter term, called Wintersession, that will feature 10 accelerated courses in January 2017. Spanning three weeks, the courses are not “standard semester courses,” but rather “innovative courses that can benefit from the intensive time structure that Wintersession ...
With the fall semester a mere two months away, four individuals will begin their positions as University administrators July 1. Tricia Rose MA’87 PhD’93, director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America and professor of Africana studies, will assume the part-time role of associate ...
As the Class of 2016 walked out of the Van Wickle Gates last weekend, Brown was preparing for the classes of 2021 and beyond to walk through them. Logan Powell has been named the next dean of admission, according to a community-wide email from Provost Richard Locke P’17 sent Tuesday. The appointment, ...
Updated June 1, 2016 at 6:35 p.m. The fate of an anonymous John Doe remains unclear after a federal district court judge rejected the University’s decision to suspend him for two years for sexual misconduct in April, according to court documents. Though the University found Doe responsible for ...
In the week since the death of Victor Yoon Chul Chang ’16, it seemed that echoes of his hearty laugh can still be heard across campus. “If something made him chuckle and he was on the other side of the house, it would echo throughout the entire house,” said Greg Chang, Victor’s brother. Victor, ...
Corporation members joined faculty members, students, staff members, neighbors and Mayor Jorge Elorza Wednesday to celebrate the topping off of the new School of Engineering at the May meeting of the Corporation, President Christina Paxson P’19 wrote in a campus-wide email Friday. The Committee on ...
Updated May 16, 2016 at 3:15 p.m. This story is breaking and will be updated with further details as we receive them. Victor Yoon Chul Chang ’16 has died, wrote Dean of the College Maud Mandel, Associate Dean of the College and Interim Assistant Vice President for Campus Life and Student Services ...
The University recently announced its selection of eight scholars and intellectuals to be given honorary degrees this May during the 248th commencement ceremony, according to a University press release. Among them are a surgeon, a Nobel Prize-winning economist and a leading Shakespeare expert, all to ...
Data from a recent Herald poll indicated that 85 percent of business, entrepreneurship and organizations and economics concentrators and 91 percent of athletes have hooked up with someone during their time at Brown, compared to 76 percent of overall students. The poll defined hooking up as “making ...
Each semester, many classes from a variety of departments fill up quickly during pre-registration for the following semester — sometimes leading to packed classrooms, other times to empty seats on the first day of class. With pre-registration for the fall 2016 semester currently underway, The Herald ...
Updated on Saturday, April 30, 2016 at 10:55 a.m. Across college campuses nationwide, administrators have grappled with how to address the demands of students calling for increased support regarding issues of diversity and inclusion. Their reactions include responses as disparate as the “muted response” ...
The Undergraduate Council of Students is placing the final touches on one of its most active years to date. But as the semester draws to a close, it faces a familiar dilemma: convincing its general body members, who are overwhelmingly underclassmen, to stay on for another year. Historically, UCS has ...
The Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan, released by President Christina Paxson P’19 in February, includes the intention to create and expand upon mentoring resources at Brown for students of color, LGBTQ+ students and first-generation college students. The document refers to Women’s Launch Pad, ...
Moshe Safdie, one of the most prominent architects in the world, gave a lecture on his work in Salomon 101 Monday night. Safdie began his lecture by saying there are “two central themes that I think generate my work. The first is a kind of passion for trying to do everything I know to humanize ‘megascale,’” ...
Students from China constitute the largest portion of Brown’s international undergraduate body. In 2007, 144 students from China applied to Brown, comprising less than one percent of all applicants. Last year, that number jumped to 1,146 applicants and quadrupled that percentage, wrote Jim Miller ...
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-VT, and Donald Trump emerged victorious in Rhode Island’s presidential primary Tuesday, winning 13 and nine delegates in the state’s Democratic and Republican races, respectively. Sanders won 55 percent of the vote compared to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s ...
Though the University is starting to see significant changes on campus following the release of the revised Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan in February, the 67-page plan contains the word “undocumented” three times. Some students have been discontent with the exclusion of undocumented students, ...
After nine years, two presidents and dozens of corporation meetings, Chancellor Thomas Tisch ’76 P’18 and Vice Chancellor Jerome Vascellaro ’74 P’07 will end their third and final terms as leaders of the University’s Corporation in May. Outside of being leaders of the Corporation, Tisch serves ...
Each year, the University chooses two seniors as the commencement speakers for the graduating class, rather than inviting outside orators who may not completely understand the Brown experience. Sabrina Imbler ’16, a former Herald features editor, and Jamelle Watson-Daniels ’16 have been chosen to ...
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