By Charlie McKenna, Content Managing Editor
• January 15, 2021
The college hired Brandin Dear as the new associate dean of campus life and director of counseling, health, and wellness, officials announced in a Friday evening email.
Dear will take the reins of the...
By Frankie Rowley, Assistant News Editor
• January 15, 2021
Emerson’s COVID-19 testing procedure at Tufts Medical Center has been altered for the Spring 2021 semester to involve less interaction between testing staff and the college students, faculty, and...
By Frankie Rowley, Assistant News Editor
• January 15, 2021
In preparation for potential demonstrations, Boston police plan to increase security near Emerson’s campus in the days in preparation for potential violence on inauguration day.
BPD plans to increase...
By Alec Klusza, Assistant News Editor
• January 13, 2021
Off-campus students staying in Boston over winter break have not accessed testing through Emerson since Nov. 26. Those students will have to wait until Jan. 19 to get tested through the college again,...
By Frankie Rowley, Assistant News Editor
• January 12, 2021
On the off chance Junior Brianna Maloney got a weekend off from her job at American Eagle in Cambridge, she hopped on the commuter rail to visit her family in Hopkinton for the weekend. Maloney would leave...
By Frankie Rowley, Assistant News Editor
• January 12, 2021
The Fall 2020 semester saw the Student Government Association struggle to adapt its day-to-day functioning to its new legislative model passed in the spring, a difficulty further complicated by the limitations...
By Frankie Rowley, Assistant News Editor
• January 11, 2021
Emerson College Police Department officers and Center for Health and Wellness staff will receive COVID-19 vaccines as part of Phase One of the Massachusetts Vaccination plan, with the rest of the Emerson...
By Camilo Fonseca, Assistant News Editor
• January 8, 2021
Some Emerson students have been left frustrated and confused following the college’s weeklong delay in residential move-in, an announcement that came just two weeks prior to the originally scheduled...
By Frankie Rowley, Assistant News Editor
• January 6, 2021
President M. Lee Pelton condemned Wednesday’s siege of the United States Capitol building, a last-ditch effort by Trump loyalists to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
“On...
By Alec Klusza, Assistant News Editor
• January 6, 2021
The college is planning a new summer program at Emerson Los Angeles, contingent on COVID-19 regulations and interest from students, officials announced in an email sent Monday afternoon.
The hybrid...
Over 1,000 miles from the Boston campus, some of Emerson’s 47 Georgian students are vying to send two Democratic hopefuls to the Senate on Tuesday, which would give President-elect Joseph R. Biden total...
By Frankie Rowley, Assistant News Editor
• January 4, 2021
Students will be required to get tested for COVID-19 twice a week as part of new “testing cohorts,” the college announced in an email Monday evening.
The testing cohorts will allow students to...
By Frankie Rowley, Assistant News Editor
• January 4, 2021
Emerson announced Monday that 172 Tremont will have a weeklong delay in full reopening as COVID cases in Massachusetts continue to rise.
Josh Hamlin, director for campus centers, sent an email Monday...
By Alec Klusza, Assistant News Editor
• January 3, 2021
Emerson’s Los Angeles program will begin remotely on Jan. 21 amid escalating COVID-19 cases and a failure to acquire permission from L.A. County to reopen residence halls.
The program’s spring semester...
Call 2020 unprecedented. Isolating. Terrifying. But it’s one year no one will soon forget.
Emerson operated as normal for a few short months, abruptly shut down in response to the COVID-19 pandemic,...
By Charlie McKenna, Content Managing Editor
• December 30, 2020
Emerson will hold the first ten days of spring semester classes online and delay move-in to on-campus residence halls by a week, President M. Lee Pelton announced in an email Wednesday afternoon, 20 days...
Come summer 2021, Emerson will debut a new study abroad program that allows Business of Creative Enterprise majors to split their college tenure between Sydney, Boston, and Los Angeles.
The three-year...
The Student Government Association unanimously passed legislation in their Dec. 8 meeting condemning The Berkeley Beacon, Emerson’s student newspaper, over instances of racism, ableism, and internal...
By Camilo Fonseca, Assistant News Editor
• December 17, 2020
Emerson is exploring an arrangement with the Tufts Medical Center that would allow students to use Tufts clinical services, as the college’s own health center undergoes restructuring.
The partnership...
By Charlie McKenna, Content Managing Editor
• December 15, 2020
Emerson anticipates $30 million in pandemic-related losses over the 2021 fiscal year—an outcome college officials consider a “best case scenario” after initially projecting up to $100 million in...
By Ann E. Matica, Deputy News Editor
• December 14, 2020
Emerson College Police Department Deputy Chief Eric Schiazza retired in November after 32 years rising through the ranks within the college.
Schiazza first joined ECPD in June of 1988 when Emerson’s...
An annual city report found that Emerson’s greenhouse gas emissions saw a slight increase in 2019 with the reopening of the Little Building residential hall.
The Little Building alone has added...
By Camilo Fonseca, Assistant News Editor
• December 10, 2020
Dr. Judith Trent’s only official post at Emerson was as a guest lecturer in 1996. But to many in the School of Communication, she will be remembered as much more.
Trent passed away on Nov. 26, in...
Even though Emerson has offered a taxi voucher program for students who require transportation to the college’s COVID-19 testing center at Tufts Medical Center since September, the college has sent just...
By Katie Redefer, Editor-in-Chief
• December 9, 2020
The Presidential Working Group addressed questions from the Emerson community about its revised draft of findings about the college’s Title IX processes and additional sexual misconduct policy concerns...