A total of 48,881 students applied to Brown鈥檚 class of 2028, marking both a 5% decrease from last year and the third-largest applicant pool in University history, according to Logan Powell, associate provost for enrollment and dean of undergraduate admission.
Editor鈥檚 Note: To help inform The Herald鈥檚 ongoing coverage, please fill out this form with your questions about the February hunger strike.
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Brown is known for its open curriculum, which encourages students to explore and combine a wide range of interests. But cross-disciplinary exploration is not limited to the student body.
President Christina Paxson P鈥�19 P鈥橫D鈥�20 has declined to meet the demands of 19 student protestors who began a hunger strike Friday afternoon, according to a letter Paxson sent to the demonstrators and reviewed by The Herald.
On Friday, 19 students began an indefinite hunger strike in the Stephen Robert 鈥�62 Campus Center that they say will last until the Corporation, the University鈥檚 highest governing body, 鈥渉ears and considers a divestment resolution,鈥� during their meetings that begin next week, according to a statement ...
For the past five months, the University鈥檚 Ad Hoc Committee on Admissions Policies has been considering changes to several of Brown鈥檚 admission policies, including test-optional, legacy and early decision practices. The committee was charged with providing recommendations to President Christina ...
Early this semester, the University鈥檚 international advising team introduced a newsletter, podcast and series of workshops to further support international students on campus. International students comprise 14% of the admitted class of 2027, a 3% increase from the previous year, according to a Jan. ...
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The University鈥檚 compliance and federal investigatory operations have been moved from the Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity to the newly-created Office of Equity Compliance and Reporting under the Division of Campus Life, according to a Jan. 31 Today@Brown announcement by President Christina ...
The Center for Career Exploration will no longer invite fossil fuel companies to host on-campus recruitment events, according to a May 2023 email reviewed by The Herald from Matthew Donato, the executive director of the CCE, to leaders of climate activism group Sunrise Brown. Sunrise announced the change ...
The Center for Philosophy, Politics and Economics hosted a Wednesday evening event at which panelists addressed affirmative action and anti-discrimination policies in the college admissions process. Titled 鈥淎fter Affirmative Action: Democracy and the University,鈥� the event constitutes another component ...
After receiving word on Tuesday that their card check agreement is complete, the University officially recognized the Brown University Postdoc Labor Organization as a union, according to a BPLO Instagram post.
As the Faculty Executive Committee continues its work into the spring semester, they remain focused on their fall priority: 鈥渞educe administrative growth.鈥�
At the Advisory Committee on University Resources Management meeting Tuesday, members of climate activism group Sunrise Brown called on the University to dissociate from the fossil fuel industry.
On Jan. 20, three members of Brown鈥檚 chapter of Sunrise 鈥� an environmental activist organization 鈥� staged a series of interruptions at the New Hampshire Republican primaries to protest the climate policies of Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley.
Last semester, the hundreds of students in CSCI: 0150: 鈥淚ntroduction to Object-Oriented Programming and Computer Science鈥� 鈥� better known by the moniker CS15 鈥� met a new member in the course teaching team: a chatbot teaching assistant called GPTA.
VISIONS Magazine, a literary and visual arts student publication, celebrates Asian, Asian American and Pacific Islander diversity at Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design.
The Brown Activist Coalition, an alliance of on-campus student activist groups, hosted its semesterly 鈥淚ntro to Activism at Brown鈥� seminar Sunday night.
