Around the Ivies
Brown University: The Office of the Dean of Faculty haslowered Brown’s temporary teaching budget by $450,000, the Brown Daily Herald reported. As part of Brown’s deficit reduction action plan, this signifies the first step towards the university’s goal to reduce its budget by $1 million.
Columbia University:“INSIGHT Into Diversity” magazine awarded Columbia the 2015 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity Award, the Columbia Daily Spectator reported. INSIGHT recognizes schools that commit themselves to representing the entire student population and value diversity within the student body and faculty. Of the other Ivy League universities, Cornell University also received this award, along with 90 other institutions nationwide.
Cornell University:Testimonials for the trial of former Cornell student Charles Tan will conclude on Tuesday, the Cornell Daily Sun reported. Police arrested Tan in February with a murder accusation after officials foundTan's father dead in the family's New York home. Set to graduate in 2017, Tan was a student in Cornell’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
Harvard University:Following the release of a survey in which Harvard students reported high rates of sexual assault, Jeffrey Berg will now join Emily Miller as Harvard’s Title IX coordinator, The Harvard Crimson reported. This is part of Harvard’s initiative to inform and assist students affected by sexual assault.
Princeton University:Princeton has begun a UMatter campaign designed to encourage bystander intervention in unsafe situations and reduce threats to on-campus safety, the Daily Princetonian reported. UMatter seeks to educate Princeton students about steps of intervention and will concentrate on circumstances of mental health, interpersonalabuse and irresponsibledrinking.
University of Pennsylvania:Neither students nor faculty at the university are overly concerned by Penn’s drop from eighth to ninth in the U.S. News & World Report rankings, The Daily Pennsylvanian reported. The rankings, released Sept. 9, rate universities on a wide range of factors. Sixty-nine percent of Penn students reported that the survey had no effect on them.
Yale University:Starting in June 2016, Yale plans to pilot a program aimed towards students and faculty interested in the food industry and current related topics. Yale has partnered with MAD, a Danish nonprofit founded by chef Rene Redzepi, to bring the program to its campus. It will include seminars, lectures and workshops and aims to bring together students, chefs, experts in the environmental studies field and faculty members.