Dean of the College Katherine Bergeron announced to the Brown community Sept. 5 that the University will launch two pilot programs of online courses "to help advance our understanding of online environments and their creative potential for enhancing the Brown curriculum." The University will begin offering ...
I'm not a parent. I have no plans to be a parent in the near future. But if I did, I would definitely have some core concerns about my childcare options should I choose to study or work at Brown. I'm aware of the struggles that working parents and student parents face in finding convenient, affordable ...
To the Editor: Start on the right foot, Mrs. President.
To the Editor: Start on the right foot, Mrs. President. I encourage President Christina Paxson to right one of the few wrongs of former president Ruth Simmons' tenure: Allow Reserve Officer Training Corps back on campus. The U.S. Military and President Obama have shown remarkable leadership in revoking ...
Hard times tend to produce radical ideas, and the current economic crisis is no exception. Many observers have noticed the hardships faced by recent college graduates - limited job prospects, crushing student loan burdens - and suggested that the current American educational paradigm of college for ...
Last week, the popular liberal magazine Mother Jones released online the now infamous videotape of Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney speaking at a fundraiser in May. At the private campaign event in Boca Raton, Fla., a confidential source secretly recorded Romney candidly expressing his views ...
Last week, an editorial in The Herald criticized Chicago's teachers for putting their own interests in front of those of students by striking ("Have your apple and eat it, too?" Sept. 18). The editorial portrays Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, on the other hand, as "trying to end something that clearly ...
When the 2,700-page Affordable Care Act stepped up to the plate and was passed two years ago, grand promises of increased coverage, lower costs and better outcomes that accompanied its passage all inspired a sense of hope. A few years removed from that excitement, deeper consideration of the act's long-term ...
Obamacare attempts to address the three major shortcomings in the American health care system - lack of access, high costs and mediocre quality of care. While there remains work to be done, repealing Obamacare would be a major economic and moral setback for the United States.
A column in Tuesday's Herald suggested not only that study abroad programs are relatively frivolous, but also that circumventing State Department travel advisories is an acceptable way to have a meaningful international encounter ("Want a real international experience? Take time off," Sept. 18). Katie ...
There is no place like home, and the Dorothies of the West Bank will tell you - there is no raging tornado like the State of Israel. Other tornadoes eventually run their course and allow their victims to heal and rebuild. But this whirlwind of violence and dispossession does not subside and disappear, ...
Hundreds of Brown students study abroad each year, often with the intention of learning a language. They join other American students as they jet off on mass-booked planes, fidget through orientation sessions, drink supermarket wine from the box and roam their new cities toting backpacks of phrase books ...
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