The Engaged Scholars Program will launch its pilot phase this spring, marking the implementation of a proposal in President Christina Paxson’s P’19 strategic plan. The program will offer a new means of incorporating community service into the curriculum of four departments. “At the heart of the ...
Rhode Island may soon be among the first states in the country to ban the use of disposable plastic checkout bags at retail establishments. If passed, the bill would require large-scale retailers with total annual retail sales of at least $5 million to stop using plastic checkout bags by Jan. 1, 2016. ...
For the first time in University history, the Corporation’s February meeting this weekend will feature small group discussions with undergraduates about campus issues, in addition to the normal vote on the budget and tuition and fees, said Executive Vice President for Planning and Policy Russell Carey ...
New Year, new session, new ideas With the General Assembly session in full swing, representatives are submitting new bills every day. It is the third or fourth time that some bills — such as one proposal to offer tax credits on student loan payments — are being introduced for consideration. Diverse ...
Vice President for Campus Life and Student Services Margaret Klawunn fielded questions and concerns about the University’s interim alcohol policy and the clarification email sent Friday at the Undergraduate Council of Students general body meeting Wednesday. Tim Shiner, director of the Stephen Robert ...
Following a contentious debate, faculty members voted 35-29 in favor of developing new partnerships with Navy ROTC and Air Force ROTC units based at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. The new association with Holy Cross will build upon existing Navy ROTC partnerships with other ...
A first draft of a strategic plan for the Rhode Island Department of Education was released Monday by the newly-formed Ambassador Design Team. The team comprises 26 community members, including high school students, parents and educators, who were chosen to determine state public education goals for ...
Applications opened Jan. 13 for the Gift for a Sexual Assault-Free Campus, a fund that offers grants to student groups working to combat sexual assault on campus.
About 30 graduate and undergraduate students called for improvement in grad students’ working and living conditions at a rally Tuesday in freezing conditions on the Main Green. The rally focused mostly on issues of health care, housing, childcare and funding for post-fifth year research. But it also ...
The number of applicants to the University’s graduate programs has remained relatively consistent compared to this time last year, rising by less than 1 percent. As of Jan. 23, the Graduate School had received 8,639 applications, marking a slight dip from the 8,699 applications received by the same ...
Dartmouth cracks down on hard liquor, fraternities’ role in party culture Dartmouth banned student possession of any alcoholic beverage stronger than 30 proof Thursday, the New York Times reported. The ban was one of several new measures intended to curb the dangers of Dartmouth’s party culture, ...
Featuring stories of magicians, teen crushes and loneliness, Now Here This — a new website created by Sophie McKibben ’16, Liza Yeager ’17 and a team of Brown students — provides a platform for student voices. “It started when me and Liza had coffee together one day in October,” McKibben ...
The flow of federal research funding to the University is only now starting to recover from the 2013 federal sequestration. As a result of the sequester, the total pool of research funds at the University decreased by 13.7 percent between 2013 and 2014, said Vice President for Research David Savitz, ...
In an effort to improve the Ocean State’s retention of college graduates, local representatives recently introduced the “Stay Invested in R.I. Tax Credit” bill, which would offer a financial incentive to reside and work in Rhode Island, in the form of a tax credit on student loan payments. College ...
The University will engage in regular operations for the entire day Monday, despite a city parking ban declared by Mayor Jorge Elorza effective at 2 a.m., wrote Russell Carey ’91 MA’06, executive vice president for planning and policy, in a campus-wide email Sunday. “As a residential academic ...
In the early evening of Jan. 29, the statehouse dome glowed bright yellow for School Choice Week. Earlier that day, as both chambers of the General Assembly met, the rotunda bustled with uniformed schoolchildren, school administrators, religious officials and concerned parents. Though their dress code ...
Of 160 juniors returning from study abroad in the fall, 11 students were assigned to temporary housing in kitchens and lounges before the semester began, compared to 18 students last year, said Richard Bova, senior associate dean of residential life. Four students who studied abroad in the fall are ...
Following student concern, the Office of Campus Life and Student Services released a campus-wide email Friday clarifying that the the interim policy changes announced Jan. 19 ban alcohol service at large organized events, not informal or individual alcohol consumption by those of legal age, in residence ...
Stanley Aronson, co-founder of the Alpert Medical School, died Jan. 28 at the age of 92, leaving behind a legacy of innovations and the admiration of countless colleagues and students. After conducting groundbreaking research on the rare genetic disorder Tay-Sachs disease, Aronson co-founded the Med ...
Four courses offered in 2015 will feature travel components enabled by the second inaugural Global Experiential Learning and Teaching grants, according to a Jan. 23 University press release. A total of seven 2015 GELT grants were awarded, marking a slight decrease from last year, when nine grants were ...
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