Editorial: It鈥檚 time to drop our U.S. News rankings obsession
In their editorial, the editorial page board argues that the University should end participation in U.S. News and World Report鈥檚 college rankings.
In their editorial, the editorial page board argues that the University should end participation in U.S. News and World Report鈥檚 college rankings.
First-year advisors 鈥 the professors, deans and academic administrators who offer advice to students as they navigate their first months in college 鈥 are students鈥 first guides through a daunting Open Curriculum. These advisors have the potential to positively shape a student鈥檚 college experience, ...
Brown Dining Services is broken. As recent reporting has revealed, staff at campus dining halls are suffering due to overwork, communication failures and disorganized management. Our workers deserve better. They deserve a University that acknowledges their struggles, at the very least, and commits ...
As we approach COVID-19鈥檚 anniversary on College Hill, the University is better equipped than ever before to handle a pandemic. From the automated COVID-19 test reminders to the plexiglass dividers in the dining halls, Brown has created its own 鈥渘ew normal鈥 to keep members of the campus community ...
Brown undergraduates have long opined on the costs associated with attending this institution, rightfully raising concerns over where tuition dollars go, how University funds are leveraged and the experience students receive in return. Perhaps never before in Brown鈥檚 recent history have such concerns ...
To incoming first-years:聽 As you prepare to join our campus ranks in a semester like no other, we write to share words of wisdom (we hope) that may help guide you through the months ahead. When you were completing your applications last fall, we imagine none of you envisioned spending your first semester ...
To the Editor: The Herald鈥檚 editorial on the renaming of the J. Walter Wilson building to honor some of the earliest people of color at Brown and Pembroke was very thoughtful, respectful and encouraging. I appreciate the weight that your editorial can wield with members of Brown鈥檚 present community ...
This past summer, the Office of Residential Life faced a series of crippling personnel departures. Currently, ResLife has on staff only two community directors, who are responsible for managing essentially one-third of campus dormitory facilities each and training the entire 2018 cohort of Residential ...
Since 2007, the University has requested all its incoming first-year students to read a single book (or, in one case, watch a movie) and then discuss it in small seminars during first-year orientation. The First Readings program, as it is called, was designed to create a 鈥渟hared intellectual endeavor ...
On the evening of March 22, Elections Board Chairs Katherine Barry 鈥19 and Kathryn Stack 鈥19 announced the results of the 2018 elections for the Undergraduate Council of Students and the Undergraduate Finance Board. Shanz茅 Tahir 鈥19 won the UCS presidency, with 82 percent of the vote; Lisa Schold ...
On Jan. 22, the School of Professional Studies decided to place the Master of Arts in Teaching program under review and to suspend the elementary track of the program for the 2018-19 academic year. Dean of the School of Professional Studies and Vice Chair of the Department of Education Karen Sibley ...
When, in December 2012, a shooter fatally killed 20 elementary school children in a town just two hours away from our own campus, President Christina Paxson P鈥19 decided to sponsor a series of forums on school shootings. She urged the Janus Forum to sponsor a talk on gun violence and signed a letter ...