Rhode Island Lt. Gov. Elizabeth Roberts ’78 was nominated as Secretary of the Executive Office of Health and Human Services, Governor-elect Gina Raimondo announced at a Dec. 7 press conference. The appointment is pending confirmation from the General Assembly in January. “The lieutenant governor’s ...
Just over 150 students graduated in the Midyear Completion Celebration Saturday afternoon, marking the 25th year that the University has honored students set to graduate at the end of the fall semester. Enthusiastic students, parents and alums packed Salomon 101 to cheer on the graduates. A smaller ...
The Meiklejohn Peer Advising program will expand next semester to include the Code Advising Meiklejohn Program, an initiative aimed at helping advisees navigate the disciplinary process. The subprogram will “deal directly with issues related to the Student Code of Conduct and the Academic Code,” ...
City activists and law enforcement officials are considering the steps needed to address local concerns over police officers relations with people of color in the wake of the Michael Brown and Eric Garner cases. Protests responding to the national debate over police brutality and racism in the criminal ...
Riffing on facial hair, bread and his penis, Nick Offerman — known for his role as meat-eating, libertarian woodsman Ron Swanson on the NBC comedy “Parks and Recreation” — didn’t stray too far from his well-known character in his Lecture Board talk Thursday night. Offerman spoke to a full ...
As RISE Mayoral Academy and Engineering Early College Academy prepare to open in fall 2015 as Rhode Island’s 26th and 27th charter schools, respectively, those involved in the state’s education policy continue to examine how the increase in nontraditional schools meshes with larger education plans. Rhode ...
The opening of 257 Thayer, a luxury student apartment complex, will mark a major development in College Hill living next fall. Currently under construction, the four-story complex will house 267 tenants, mostly students, in furnished apartments with single bedrooms, private bathrooms, living rooms and ...
Fossil Free Brown, the student group formerly known as Brown Divest Coal, has launched a petition to divest the University’s endowment from the top 200 global fossil fuel companies. Since the Corporation’s decision not to divest from the top 15 coal companies last October, the student group has ...
Employees at Gourmet Heaven on Meeting Street arrived for their shifts Wednesday to learn that the store would be closing indefinitely starting that night, according to a staff member who wished to remain anonymous because she was not authorized to speak by the store’s management. The Gourmet Heaven ...
A new committee is discussing possible changes to next year’s First Readings program, which requires incoming first-years to review the same book or film and discuss their thoughts with a faculty member and peers. Since Dean of the College Maud Mandel announced the committee’s creation in a Nov. ...
Updated Monday, Dec. 8 at 6:12 p.m. The third in a three-part series exploring race and racism at Brown. At a faculty meeting last month, President Christina Paxson announced her plans to double the percentage of underrepresented minority faculty members within the next decade — a goal Paxson calls ...
Over the past year, the administration has touted Brown’s 250th anniversary celebrations as opportunities to rally school spirit and reflect on the institution’s history. But the festivities also serve another purpose: an impetus for the whirlwind of fundraising and alum outreach currently underway ...
For the fifth consecutive year, Brown’s graduating class in 2013 had the highest student loan debt per borrower in the Ivy League. Students in the class who borrowed money graduated with an average $24,382 in debt, according to a report published by the Institute for College Access and Success, a ...
Rhode Island’s Medicaid program decided in September to ration the delivery of Sovaldi, a prescription drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration last year to cure chronic Hepatitis C, due to the drug’s high cost and the relatively high prevalence of the virus among Medicaid enrollees ...
The Episcopal Diocese of Rhode Island recently approved a plan to open the nation’s first museum devoted to examining the Episcopal Church’s historical role in slavery in northern states, including Rhode Island. The new museum would be built inside a renovated Cathedral of St. John, located on North ...
The second in a three-part series exploring race and racism at Brown. As leaders of classroom discussion, pedagogues and advisers, faculty members often must navigate their students’ beliefs and backgrounds, in many ways defining some students’ college experiences. But because white students and ...
With the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, “when you can’t solve everything, that doesn’t mean you solve nothing,” said David Makovsky, director of the Project on the Middle East Peace Process at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, in a lecture Wednesday night. Makovsky served as an adviser ...
The Undergraduate Council of Students reviewed the projects that members worked on this semester at the UCS general body meeting Wednesday night, including committee reports on improvements to faculty diversity, mental health and sexual assault policy. UCS President Maahika Srinivasan ’15 briefed ...
This series will explore racism at Brown. This story, the first of three, will look at the role racism plays in relationships among students. Updated Wednesday, Dec. 3 at 11:59 a.m. “I feel like malicious racism is hard to find on campus, but there’s a large range of what people would consider ...
A crowd of about 30 students gathered Tuesday night in front of the steps of Faunce House to conclude a day of silence in memory of victims of police brutality. Many participants wore black clothing and a piece of tape over their mouths to symbolize their solidarity with individuals like Michael Brown ...
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