Last month, a lawsuit alleged that the University and 15 other schools did not maintain the need-blind admissions policies required for a legal antitrust exemption and therefore fixed “the net price of attendance,” according to a Jan. 10 press release from the plaintiffs’ legal team. Court ...
The Brown Center for Students of Color held its annual Soul Food Night at the Sharpe Refectory Thursday afternoon. The event featured music, performances and a soul food-themed dinner menu. The event has been planned collaboratively between the BCSC and Brown Dining Services for the past 12 years ...
Next week, the 10 groups comprising the University’s Intergalactic Community of A Cappella will host their annual round of spring semester auditions. These spring auditions come after a tumultuous fall semester for the IGCAC community after racist and sexualizing comments made on audition ...
On Jan. 26, classes for the second semester of the 2021-2022 academic year officially began. The semester started amid uncertainty across the country about how universities should be operating in regards to the Omicron variant. The Herald spoke with multiple University faculty members about teaching ...
In the wake of the Jan. 29 blizzard that brought over 21 inches of snow to Rhode Island, students and professors experienced difficulty navigating campus on icy or blocked paths. For those with mobility impairments or mobility-related disabilities, the snowstorm merely compounded previous ...
The Undergraduate Council of Students hosted special elections for the position of Undergraduate Finance Board at-large representative at its first general body meeting of the spring semester Wednesday evening. The majority of the UCS general body abstained from voting in favor or against ...
The U.S. Attorney Office agreed on a settlement with Brown Dermatology Jan. 20, resolving allegations that Brown Dermatology violated the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 by failing to accommodate patients who are deaf or hard of hearing. Brown Dermatology, while able to use the ...
The Graduate Labor Organization and the University continued their annual contract reopener negotiations over stipend increases in their second bargaining committee meeting Feb. 9. At the meeting, GLO formally presented its proposal for increasing graduate student stipends, which entails a 25% raise ...
The Sarah Doyle Center for Women and Gender announced its new director, Felicia Salinas-Moniz MA ’06 PhD ’13, Jan. 19. According to the Sarah Doyle Center’s newsletter, Salinas-Moniz worked as a graduate student coordinator for the center during her time as a doctoral candidate in American ...
A new social media app has arrived on campus and is encouraging students to show off their unfiltered lives. Unlike classic social media platforms that can be curated and edited, BeReal users take an uncurated snapshot of their day no matter what they’re doing — whether they’re studying, ...
The University’s spring semester began amid a period of high transmission of the Omicron variant of COVID-19, forcing some students who tested positive for the virus to participate in the two-week “shopping period” remotely. In an announcement to the University community Jan. 14, Provost ...
For most students at Brown, shopping period marks an eventful start to the semester. Chemistry students get to drop into poetry workshops, English concentrators visit language classes and engineers try playwriting. But for Visual Art concentrators, the process has become a source of anxiety.
The Undergraduate Teaching and Research Awards transitioned to a progressive funding model in an effort to provide more equitable opportunities for faculty-guided undergraduate research, according to Oludurotimi Adetunji, associate dean of the College for undergraduate research and inclusive science. ...
During the week of Jan. 27 to Feb. 2, 117 students and 31 employees tested positive for COVID-19, according to a Feb. 4 Today@Brown announcement. Although positive cases among students increased by 50 from the previous week, it "feels very manageable," said Executive Vice President for Planning and ...
After beginning the semester with two weeks of an altered dining hall schedule, Brown Dining Services announced that it would resume regular hours at its eateries in a campus-wide email sent to students Wednesday evening. The final decision to implement these restrictions was made in early to mid-January, ...
At the Graduate Student Council’s first meeting of the semester Wednesday evening, members approved a budget of $81,193 for the spring semester, voting to nearly double previous fund allocations toward the food insecurity program for graduate students in need.
From Black students trailblazing firsts in the late 19th century to students planning walkouts and protests to increase campus diversity in the civil rights movement of the 1960s, Brown has a long history of Black student activism. College campuses during the civil rights movement were “convulsed ...
A new residential student position called Community Coordinator will replace aspects of the current Residential Peer Leader system moving forward, according to a Jan. 19 Today@Brown announcement. The University will also introduce new and altered identity-focused roles that are housed under identity ...
Andrews Commons and Josiah’s will return to normal hours of operation beginning Friday, Feb. 4, Brown Dining Services announced in a Feb. 2 email to the University community.
Members of the University’s faculty and administration opted to postpone a vote on the establishment of a proposed Philosophy, Politics and Economics Center at the first faculty meeting of the semester Tuesday. The vote will instead be held at the next faculty meeting March 1.
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