A memo from Brown’s diversity oversight board calls on Brown for transparency and public engagement on its reinstatement of test-mandatory policy, demographic data from admissions and anti-discrimination policies.
After a year of sitting in ninth place, Brown fell to 13th in the 2025 US News Best Colleges Rankings. It was the only school to fall out of the top 10 this year.
Many high schoolers whose top college choice is Brown apply under its binding early decision program, which has a higher acceptance rate.
Last spring, Brown’s QuestBridge student group — one of hundreds of clubs receiving its annual funding from the Undergraduate Finance Board for 2024-25 — was given $517.73, one-third of its annual funding from the prior year.
When the Supreme Court ruled in June 2023 that colleges and universities could no longer employ race-based affirmative action, administrations nationwide scrambled to interpret a dense, 237-page ruling that would dictate the future of the admission process at their respective institutions.
After tens of thousands of applications are evaluated and admission decisions are sent out, Brown’s Office of Undergraduate Admission waits to see how many students take them up on their offer. If too many students accept, it creates logistical headaches for the University. But too few, and Brown ...
Last year’s Spring Weekend — a one-day concert featuring five acts — left many students dissatisfied. This spring, Brown Concert Agency hopes to change that.
The Office of Military-Affiliated Students has found a new home: 12-foot tall ceilings, sweeping windows, lounge areas and a caffeine-stocked kitchenette all accented with design elements paying homage to Brown’s history of student veterans.
With U.S. elections coming up this November, Brown wants to give eligible students every avenue to cast their ballots. Brown Votes, a University initiative, is helping simplify the process.
Even though Mark Tracy ’95 graduated from Brown with high salary offers from traditional banks and consulting firms, he chose to work in sustainability and agricultural rights.
When Genesis Torres ’28 was preparing to open her college decision letters last spring, it was “very nerve-wracking,” to say the least.
With a surge in on-campus protests since the start of the Israel-Hamas war last fall, many students across the country have come face-to-face with university policies governing free expression and demonstrations. Students have also navigated rising tensions in and out of the classroom when expressing ...
After three years at the University, Sylvia Carey-Butler, current Vice President for Institutional Equity and Diversity, prepares to step down from her role.
Dacia Read, a Providence native and former deputy chief of staff to then-Governor Gina Raimondo, will join Brown as the chief of staff for President Christina Paxson P’19 P’MD’20.
On Tuesday, the University announced the launch of BrownConnect+, a digital platform for students and alums to find career opportunities.
About a dozen students from Sunrise Brown interrupted a Brown Investment Group keynote speaker event Monday evening to draw attention to the detrimental impacts of fossil fuels and related investments.
One hundred faculty members signed a letter in support of the divestment proposal currently being reviewed by Brown’s advisory committee.
Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, discussed the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and voiced support for divestment at a virtual talk on Monday.
Starting this year, prospective shoppers can select a new course code when perusing Courses@Brown: LING. With it comes new courses like LING1512: “Language and Ethnicity,” a product of the revamped linguistics program.
Beyond the thousands of new students who walked through the Van Wickle Gates in September, 67 new faculty members have also joined the Brown community this semester.
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