The Chronicle of Higher Education
March 2, 2012
By Jack Stripling
Christina Hull Paxson, an economist and dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, will be Brown University's next president, officials announced on Friday.
Ms. Paxson, 52, will succeed Ruth J. Simmons, who made history in 2001 as the first black president of an Ivy League institution.
Full Story: http://chronicle.com/article/Brown-U-Taps-Princeton-Dean/131064/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
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Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Update: Former student sues Brown over expulsion
Projo.com
5:35 PM Mon, Apr 12, 2010
By Eric TuckerAssociated Press
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A former Brown University student alleges in a lawsuit unsealed Monday that he was kicked out more than three years ago after being falsely accused of rape by the daughter of a major donor and fundraiser for the Ivy League school.
William McCormick III and his parents say university administrators gave him a one-way ticket home to Wisconsin after he was accused of rape in the fall of 2006. McCormick alleges the school never told the police about the rape allegations and accepted them as true without investigating.
The lawsuit says the father of the accusing student is a Brown alumnus who has "donated and raised very substantial sums of money," was in regular contact about the allegations with school administrators and contacted university president Ruth Simmons directly.
Full Story: http://newsblog.projo.com/2010/04/former-brown-student-sues-scho.html
5:35 PM Mon, Apr 12, 2010
By Eric TuckerAssociated Press
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A former Brown University student alleges in a lawsuit unsealed Monday that he was kicked out more than three years ago after being falsely accused of rape by the daughter of a major donor and fundraiser for the Ivy League school.
William McCormick III and his parents say university administrators gave him a one-way ticket home to Wisconsin after he was accused of rape in the fall of 2006. McCormick alleges the school never told the police about the rape allegations and accepted them as true without investigating.
The lawsuit says the father of the accusing student is a Brown alumnus who has "donated and raised very substantial sums of money," was in regular contact about the allegations with school administrators and contacted university president Ruth Simmons directly.
Full Story: http://newsblog.projo.com/2010/04/former-brown-student-sues-scho.html
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Panel advises Brown to join with Providence and Rhode Island in memoralizing the slave trade
Projo.com
07:36 AM EDT on Wednesday, March 18, 2009
By Paul Davis
Journal Staff Writer
PROVIDENCE — More than 240 years ago, John and Moses Brown financed a slave ship bound for Africa. They also poured money into Brown University in Providence. Slaves worked on the first building, now University Hall.
Yesterday, Brown University said it will recognize its slave trade past through a new memorial modeled on monuments and sites in New York City, Montgomery, Ala., and Liverpool, England.
But the memorial may not be built on the Ivy League school’s Providence campus.
Both Newport and Bristol played major roles in the slave trade, which continued into the early 1800s, long after the state outlawed it. Many reminders of the trade –– former auction sites, Colonial homes and Newport’s slave cemetery –– remain, Brown’s Commission on Memorials said.
“It may be appropriate, in memorializing Rhode Island’s role in the trade, to look beyond Brown’s immediate neighborhood,” the commission said.
For more than 75 years, Rhode Island ruled the American slave trade. Its merchants financed at least 1,000 voyages to Africa and helped enslave more than 100,000 men, women and children.
Slave ownership was also prevalent in the state. Before the Revolution, a third of all Newporters owned at least one slave. Slaves also worked on the large farms in Washington County.
Full Story: http://www.projo.com/news/content/BROWN_SLAVERY_REPORT_03-18-09_PODNBMK_v31.3a18e91.html#
For a copy of the Commission on Slavery and Justice Report, click here: http://brown.edu/Research/Slavery_Justice/report/index.html
07:36 AM EDT on Wednesday, March 18, 2009
By Paul Davis
Journal Staff Writer
PROVIDENCE — More than 240 years ago, John and Moses Brown financed a slave ship bound for Africa. They also poured money into Brown University in Providence. Slaves worked on the first building, now University Hall.
Yesterday, Brown University said it will recognize its slave trade past through a new memorial modeled on monuments and sites in New York City, Montgomery, Ala., and Liverpool, England.
But the memorial may not be built on the Ivy League school’s Providence campus.
Both Newport and Bristol played major roles in the slave trade, which continued into the early 1800s, long after the state outlawed it. Many reminders of the trade –– former auction sites, Colonial homes and Newport’s slave cemetery –– remain, Brown’s Commission on Memorials said.
“It may be appropriate, in memorializing Rhode Island’s role in the trade, to look beyond Brown’s immediate neighborhood,” the commission said.
For more than 75 years, Rhode Island ruled the American slave trade. Its merchants financed at least 1,000 voyages to Africa and helped enslave more than 100,000 men, women and children.
Slave ownership was also prevalent in the state. Before the Revolution, a third of all Newporters owned at least one slave. Slaves also worked on the large farms in Washington County.
Full Story: http://www.projo.com/news/content/BROWN_SLAVERY_REPORT_03-18-09_PODNBMK_v31.3a18e91.html#
For a copy of the Commission on Slavery and Justice Report, click here: http://brown.edu/Research/Slavery_Justice/report/index.html
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