The Online Teaching and Learning committee’s interim report recommended the University develop online education initiatives by encouraging faculty members to create online courses, outlining policies regarding ownership of courses taught online and determining a stance on Brown’s place in the larger ...
The University published interim reports Friday for the six strategic planning committees that are expected to guide President Christina Paxson’s tenure, offering preliminary recommendations and soliciting community involvement in the coming months. The committees — which concern financial aid, ...
The Committee on Faculty Recruitment, Career Development and Retention advised the University to prioritize recruiting talentedfaculty members, nurturing them as scholars and educators, and maintaining their commitment to Brown in the face of recruitment efforts by other institutions, according to its ...
Consultants will submit bids at a Board of Contract and Supply meeting in City Hall this afternoon for a project spearheaded by a committee of College Hill stakeholders to focus on the commercial and residential development of Thayer Street and the surrounding area. A committee headed by the City of ...
Listings are categorized into user-friendly links, said Geoffrey Greene, director of informational technology support services. “It’s a lot easier to use and better organized because you can just click on the links instead of having to scroll down all the way,” said Crystal Acevedo ’15. Some ...
The Rhode Island House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill last night to legalize same-sex marriage — the first time a branch of the General Assembly has approved such a measure — but the bill’s fate remains to be determined. The bill passed 51-19 — with 14 Democrats joining five ...
In response to last December’s shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., President Christina Paxson will sponsor a series of forums this spring intended to provoke a campus-wide dialogue concerning the causes and prevention of campus shootings. The plan represents a stronger response to ...
The English Department is evaluating the effects of three recently introduced concentration requirements, ENGL 0210, ENGL 0410 and ENGL 0610, said Stephen Foley ’74 P’04 P’07, department director of undergraduate studies and associate professor of English. These requirements — established in ...
This year’s flu outbreak has been responsible for more deaths and hospitalizations in Rhode Island than any influenza virus within the past 10 years. Rhode Island recorded 90 cases of the flu during last year’s season but has reported 458 cases as of Jan. 17, said Dara Chadwick, chief officer of ...
After years of falling membership and decreasing member activity, Art House, a program house located in Harkness House on Patriots Court, will cease to exist as an organization at the end of this semester. Art House leaders chose to opt out of the housing process this year, making their space in Harkness ...
In response to this year’s particularly severe flu season, Brown has implemented several measures to prevent the spread of the flu and to care for those infected, Health Services administrators said. Health Services sent an email to all students last week about the recent outbreak, outlining how ...
Expanding the University’s financial aid to be need-blind for all students — a recommendation the Committee on Financial Aid is considering making — would be unsustainable under the current University budget, said Beppie Huidekoper, executive vice president for finance and administration. The ...
The Rhode Island House of Representatives will vote today on a bill to legalize same-sex marriage, marking the first time such a bill has been put to a floor vote in either chamber. Legislation to legalize same-sex marriage in Rhode Island has been introduced unsuccessfully for more than a decade. ...
The Undergraduate Council of Students has made financial aid a key priority this academic year, in part due to the results of its fall undergraduate poll and the campus dialogues spurred last spring by the formation of the student group Brown for Financial Aid. As President Christina Paxson develops ...
Though Spring Weekend will coincide with the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival for the third year in a row, Brown Concert Agency has booked and confirmed the acts that will be performing this year. Spring Weekend’s coincidence with the festival has caused booking complications in the past, ...
Rhode Island’s minimum wage increased from $7.40 to $7.75 Jan. 1, the first time the state has enacted an increase since 2007. Among the 10 states that instituted similar hikes this year, Rhode Island saw the largest increase. Rhode Island’s minimum wage increase was mandated by legislation passed ...
Rhode Island’s population has been steadily decreasing since 2004, according to a recent report from the U.S. Census Bureau. Sixteen of Rhode Island’s 32 cities and towns lost residents, according to data from the 2010 census. Middletown and Newport experienced the greatest population declines, ...
Legal pollution emissions increased in Rhode Island by nearly 0.5 percent in 2011, according to data from the Environmental Protection Agency, while there was a 0.09 percent overall decrease in New England. The region emitted 18.96 million pounds of legal pollutants last year, according to the EPA. “The ...
Gov. Lincoln Chafee ’75 P’14 proposed no tax increases of any kind in his State of the State address Jan. 17, despite having spent much of his first two years in office plagued by an ailing economy and confronting budget deficits. Toward the end of the speech, Chafee reiterated his desire to see ...
More than 50 students and faculty members gathered this weekend to discuss the value of a Brown education at a “Re-Orientation Boot Camp,” organized by the Brown Conversation. Through a series of two-hour discussion blocks with upperclassmen, faculty members and other community members affected ...
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