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THE BROWN DAILY HERALD VOLUME CLX, ISSUE 6
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Friday, February 28, 2025
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SPORTS
ARTS & CULTURE
SCIENCE & RESEARCH
UNIVERSITY NEWS
RISD will no longer require Wintersession for students after their first year
Fighting for the final spot — How Brown can make Ivy Madness
‘Automatic’ by the Lumineers cuts to the core of modern-day melancholy
How the body’s internal clock influences our eating habits
Brown graduate student Eva Erickson competes on ‘Survivor’
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Brown named top producer of 2024-25 Fulbright students ELLIS ROUGEOU / HERALD
The scholarship recipients include 40 Brown undergraduates, graduate students and recent alums.
This is the fifth time the University has earned this distinction BY HADLEY CARR UNIVERSITY NEWS EDITOR Brown was named the top producing school of Fulbright U.S. students for the 2024-25 academic year, earning the recog-
nition for the fifth time in the past decade, according to data released Tuesday. The scholarship recipients include 40 Brown undergraduates, graduate students and recent alumni — an 11% increase from the 2023-24 program year, making it the largest cohort in the University’s history. The Fulbright program received 191 applications from Brown for the 2024-25 cohort. Brown has been ranked among the top three Fulbright-producing institutions in the
country for the past nine years, The Herald previously reported. “This recognition reflects the creativity, ambition, and above all, the care our students bring to building and strengthening connections with communities around the world,” said Joel Simundich PhD’17, assistant dean of the College for fellowships, in a University press release. The over 2,000 Fulbright U.S. students are recent college graduates, graduate
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Non-renewal of three nonbinary PPSD staffers’ contracts raises community Sixteen teachers and one librarian were sent letters of non-renewal BY CIARA MEYER METRO AND UNIVERSITY NEWS EDITOR On Feb. 14, the Providence Public School District sent letters of non-renewal to 16 teachers and one librarian. The non-renewals followed performance-based reviews and mean the contracts will not be renewed for the next academic year. Providence City Council President Rachel Miller wrote that non-renewals in the PPSD are “career-altering” and mean teachers are ineligible for positions anywhere in the district, in a letter addressed to PPSD Superintendent Javier Montañez and Rhode Island Department of Education Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education Angélica Infante-Green.
COMMENTARY
The non-renewal recipients included two nonbinary teachers — Brandi Tucker and Em Schluter — and Sam Wallace, a nonbinary librarian. All three PPSD employees were labor organizers with the Providence Caucus of Rank and File Educators, a part of the Providence Teachers Union. At a Wednesday Providence School Board meeting, Tucker — who teaches at Webster Avenue Elementary School — said they believe queer staff members were disproportionately represented in the recent non-renewals. “We’re good at what we do. So why have we been non-renewed?” they asked the board. Responding to allegations that non-renewed staff were targeted due to their gender identities, PPSD spokesperson Jay Wegimont wrote that the “PPSD is an equal opportunity employer” that does not discrim-
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students and early career professionals who engage with communities abroad in an academic, research or teaching capacity. In partnership with over 160 countries around the world, the program aims to promote international peace through cultural exchange. The current Brown-affiliated Fulbright awardees were chosen last spring and began their experiences abroad in the fall. Established in 1946, the program ac-
cepts applicants based on their academic and professional records, with an emphasis on a strong academic background, intellectual curiosity, leadership potential and a “passion for increasing mutual understanding among nations and cultures,” according to the program’s website.
This article originally appeared online at browndailyherald.com on Feb. 25, 2025.
UNIVERSITY NEWS
Draft of Brown’s institutional values to be released in March Brown University Community Council also discussed U. response to federal actions BY ROMA SHAH SENIOR STAFF WRITER The Brown University Community Council — a forum for Brown community members to discuss University-related issues — held a public meeting on Thursday to discuss progress on the University’s initiative to define its core values, as well as administrative priorities in the face of recent federal actions. At the meeting, James Kellner, a professor and chair of the ad hoc committee charged with Institutional Values and Voice, announced plans to share an official draft statement of University values in late March. The committee was announced in December 2024
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after the University received criticism for lacking a clearly defined set of institutional values during its divestment proceedings, The Herald previously reported. Its membership includes six tenured faculty members, three students and two administrators. Kellner said that the draft statement of University values will be heavily influenced by Brown’s mission statement, which expresses the University’s commitment to advancing knowledge through free inquiry. “This mission statement tells us what we need to know,” he said. “It doesn’t tell us what the core values are, but the core values are the things that will allow the mission statement to be fulfilled.” Kellner said the values statement will follow the historical traditions of the University and establish “responsibilities for the University in its institutional
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