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Open Minds

For 50 years, Brown’s Open Curriculum has produced innovative leaders who hope to build a better world. What’s the next Big Idea?

Ever True

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2069

Brown has spent 50 years ahead of the curve in higher education. What innovations will mark the next 50?

Education

Father of the Open Curriculum

Meet the emeritus professor who paved the way for the University’s signature approach to education.

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On Campus

Education

A Major of One’s Own

Independent concentrations are a flagship of the Open Curriculum. Here are 5 being pursued today.

Student Life

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Fixed It.

A better deal for Brown vets

Student Life

How Open is “Open”?

First-gen college students still encounter socioeconomic walls.

First Person

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Not Even Looking at My Grades

Oren Karp ’20 "went crazy" with the New Curriculum.

Politics & Law

From Scholarship to Shelter

Student research bolstered legislation to stop housing discrimination in R.I.

Jennah Gosciak ’19 and Oscar d'Angeac ’17 on the steps of the RI State House

Humanities & Culture

The Classes

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January 8th, 2020

“I hope that somewhere in an English department in the sky, my creative writing teacher, author Jack Hawkes, and my beloved classmate, author, attorney, and thoroughbred racehorse trainer Cary Robertson ’70, are...

January 8th, 2020

Kali Wallace’s science fiction thriller Salvation Day is being developed as a movie. Producer Ben Forkner and screenwriter Karl Gajdusek are adapting the novel for Entertainment One. Salvation Day tells the story...

January 8th, 2020

Rachel Roegman’s first book, Equity Visits: A New Approach to Supporting Equity-Focused School and District Leadership, was published on September 17. She writes: “This book is intended to be a resource for...

January 8th, 2020

Adam Komisarof was voted the next president of the International Academy for Intercultural Research, a global academic association composed of scholars dedicated to the understanding and improvement of intercultural relations through social...