Seven individuals, including four Emory students, were arrested by the Emory Police Department on charges of trespassing the university's Quadrangle on Monday, the The Emory Wheel reported on Tuesday. The individuals were part of the group Students and Workers in Solidarity and were protesting alleged mistreatment of employees of Sodexo, the university's food provider. The students sat in tents that were part of a collection of canopies the group pitched on the Quadrangle after being asked to vacate a sit-in in at the university's administration building last Wednesday, violating a university rule requiring students to receive a permit in order to use it for demonstrations, according to The Wheel. The university had requested students to vacate the Quadrangle, and students who refused to move were taken to the DeKalb County Jail by the police. The other three individuals arrested were students at other institutions, including Georgia State University, according to The Wheel.
Brown University Dean of Faculty Rajiv Vohra, who has been serving as dean since 2004, will step down and return to the position of economics professor by the end of June, The Brown Daily Herald reported on Tuesday. Vohra said he decided to resign because he felt it was "the right time" to resume research and teaching, according to The Brown Daily Herald. Vohra also maintained that his decision was not affected by Provost David Kertzer's decision to leave the administration by June 30, according to the Herald. Faculty members were informed of Vohra's decision via email by President Ruth Simmons and Kertzer on Monday, the Herald reported. Kertzer will lead Brown's internal search committee for a new dean of faculty, The Herald reported.
A new proposal to consolidate the governing boards of Connecticut's four state and 12 community colleges was accepted in a deal between the state legislature's Democratic majority representation and Gov. Dannel Malloy, D-Conn., The Boston Globe reported. The proposal will create a board of regents to administer the two-year community colleges, the four-year state colleges and Charter Oak State College, which have a total enrollment of nearly 94,000 students, according to The Globe. Malloy said in an interview with The Globe that the proposed consolidation would save the state $4.3 million annually in administrative expenditures by removing duplication in the governing boards of schools. The plan would also allow the state to spend more on students' educational programs, The Globe reported. A number of students and administrators especially from community colleges have opposed the proposal, fearing that a centralized administration would prioritize four-year colleges before two-year ones, The Globe reported.
