It was raining the day the class of 2016 was supposed to walk through the Van Wickle Gates for Convocation. We did not walk through as a class but individually, once the storm had subsided. That first day four years ago, my first thought was “do I belong here?” Symbolized by that lack of cohesive ...
Several hundred students, faculty members and administrators dressed in black gathered on the Quiet Green between University Hall and the Van Wickle Gates Thursday afternoon to show solidarity with the black victims of hate speech and threats of racialized violence at the University of Missouri. Following ...
Male professors at Brown were paid on average $14,841 more than their female counterparts in the 2013-2014 academic year, according to aggregated data recently released by the Chronicle of Higher Education. It is “not incorrect to say that there is a gender gap,” said Dean of the Faculty Kevin McLaughlin ...
In the first meeting of ECON 1530: “Health, Hunger and the Household in Developing Countries” on Sept. 9, Professor of Economics Andrew Foster gave students access to all University course evaluations from the previous year to help them decide whether to take the course. For students trying to ...
As students select their courses this fall, they must also foot a hefty bill for books. The average price a Brown student will pay for new books at the Brown Bookstore this semester is $133 per class, which amounts to $532 for students taking the typical four-course load, according to a Herald analysis ...
The newly released recommendations from the Deficit Reduction Working Group, headed by Provost Richard Locke, plan to resolve the $5 million dollar structural deficit without eroding benefits or laying off employees, Locke said at a Tuesday faculty meeting. The deficit reduction plan, released in May, ...
The Undergraduate Finance Board met 80 percent of student group requests for funding this semester, a slight decrease from the 82 percent during the 2013-2014 academic year. Student groups collectively requested $1.75 million, and the UFB allocated around $1.4 million, said UFB Chair Alex Sherry ’15. The ...
At Tuesday’s faculty meeting, faculty members voted to change University policies on postdoctoral hiring and concentration declarations to more accurately reflect current practices. The faculty also rejected proposed changes to the final exam grading timeline. For several years, a contradiction has ...
This series will explore the first 1,000 days of Christina Paxson’s presidency. This story, the final of three, will look at how Paxson interacts and contends with alums. As the public face of the University, President Christina Paxson P’19 must appeal to a number of varied interests. One major ...
Ziya Gokaslan P’18 was recently appointed as chairman of the department of neurosurgery at the Alpert Medical School, chief of neurosurgery at Rhode Island Hospital and The Miriam Hospital and clinical director of the Norman Prince Neurosciences Institute, according to a March 5 press release from ...
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