Background checks Legislation that would require individuals interested in volunteering in the state’s public and private schools to undergo criminal background checks passed in the House of Representatives Thursday. Previously, this requirement only applied to school employees, but the bill — ...
The University may convert the ombudsperson position to full-time and expand access for students and some employees starting in 2014, a move the Faculty Executive Committee recently voted to support. Ruth Rosenberg was hired to the post last year and currently works part-time, offering services for ...
The Rhode Island General Assembly earned a grade of D on a transparency report card released last month by the Sunlight Foundation, a nonprofit devoted to increasing government openness. The report graded data presented on the websites of all 50 states’ legislatures using six criteria — thoroughness, ...
The 18th-century philosopher Adam Smith is frequently described as the father of capitalism and is well known for praising what he called the market’s “invisible hand.” But he also developed complex theories of justice, said Daniel Klein, an economics professor at George Mason University, in a ...
Working in Mali during the country’s ongoing civil war has been a “challenging context … but also a fascinating one,” said Kris Ansin, executive director of the Mali Health Organizing Project, in a talk Tuesday night. Ansin said he hopes MHOP can take advantage of the unique timing to make ...
Yale formalizes online education program Yale’s President-elect Peter Salovey signed an agreement March 13 formalizing a partnership between Yale and an online education program to encourage “global education” and increase accessibility to international internships, the Yale Daily News reported ...
The University’s Technology Ventures Office announced a partnership with the Lifespan health care system March 25 that would help Lifespan commercialize new research discoveries. The TVO also expanded its existing partnership with Care New England to cover discoveries made in two more of the company’s ...
Faculty members voted to revise the timeline and standardize procedures for promotion from associate to full professor at Tuesday’s faculty meeting. About 80 faculty members took part in the deliberations, which resulted in the passage of two motions to amend the Faculty Rules and Regulations. Faculty ...
All admitted students of color from the class of 2017 — including, for the first time, Asian Americans — will receive phone calls this week from student volunteers congratulating them on their acceptances and answering any of the prospective students’ questions. Forty-five percent of the accepted ...
University policy allows administrators to request searches of student and faculty email accounts for life and safety issues, legal affairs and court orders or urgent University business, but many students are unaware of this provision of the University’s email policy. Who checks, and when? “Brown ...
The Violence Against Women Act, reauthorized earlier this year after contentious national debate, spurred conversation in a panel discussion in the Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center Tuesday afternoon. President Obama’s signature on the legislation last month extended resources and added new provisions, ...
A law decriminalizing marijuana in Rhode Island went into effect yesterday. Under the new law, individuals caught in possession of less than one ounce of marijuana will face a civil fine of $150 instead of the criminal charges possible under previous laws. If an individual is caught with the drug three ...
Student groups can anticipate increased funding and new policies for the upcoming academic year, the Undergraduate Finance Board announced in a community-wide email last month. Beginning next year, student groups will be able to request increased conference funding, funds for service groups and funding ...
The following is an account of crime events that took place this weekend, reported to The Herald by Deputy Chief of Police for the Department of Public Safety Paul Shanley: Saturday night A suspect entered a student’s unlocked room in Goddard House around 8:30 p.m. and left with her iPhone. ...
Mayor Angel Taveras proposed a plan at a press conference Wednesday to strengthen the city’s economy by attracting and retaining new business developers. The 20-step plan is organized through five key courses of action, which Taveras said are all effective immediately. The plan outlines measures ...
As the national dialogue regarding same-sex marriage engulfs Rhode Island politics — including a marathon 12-hour hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee two weeks ago — the Supreme Court heard a case last week that could render irrelevant the entire debate. For the first time in U.S. history, ...
Last month the University completed the shift to Workday, an online human capital management software for employees on campus — including student workers, faculty members and support staff — which integrates hour logs and payroll tracking. Physical worksheets have been completely replaced by the ...
President Christina Paxson signed a petition last month supporting same-sex marriage in Rhode Island on a personal basis and as a local business leader, but she did not attach the University’s official support. “I’m not at all timid about expressing my views on things that I think are really ...
Federal authorities arrested a former portfolio manager at SAC Capital Advisors Friday on charges of fraud, the latest in a string of similar insider-trading indictments against former employees of the hedge fund founded and owned by University trustee Steven Cohen P’08 P’16. The allegations against ...
The University admitted 9.2 percent of applicants to the class of 2017, the second-lowest acceptance rate in Brown’s history. A total of 2,649 out of 28,919 applicants received acceptance letters to the University’s 250th incoming class, according to a University press release. This year’s acceptance ...
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