Stony Brook University’s vice provost for Academic Affairs, Amy Cook, will be the next dean of Emerson College’s School of the Arts and Interdisciplinary...
Emerson College’s Student Success food pantry, once a consistent resource for students, has struggled to maintain regular stock this semester following...
The Emerson College Staff Union has reached an interim agreement with the college toward contract negotiations for five Emerson Los Angeles staff members,...
A wrongful death lawsuit was filed against Emerson College in March, alleging liability in the fatal fall of a construction worker in 2024. Court documents...
By Meg Richards, Deputy Projects Editor
/ March 25, 2026
Members of Emerson College’s Staff Union held several actions last week in support of Emerson Los Angeles staff who voted to join the union amid stalled...
Emerson College doubled down on rapidly growing artificial intelligence technology and released official guiding principles on how AI should be used on...
In a community-wide email sent last week, Emerson College President Jay Bernhardt announced a mandatory Active Threat Safety Training course, with the...
On Jan. 29, six weeks after the shooting at Brown University in Providence and the killing of an MIT professor, Emerson College President Jay Bernhardt’s...
Four of eight full-time employees in the Office of Student Success had their positions eliminated last Thursday amid changes and a reorganization of the office, according to a statement from Kelly Devers-Franklin, college spokesperson and vice president of marketing and communications.
By Maddie Barron, Beacon Correspondent
/ December 11, 2025
The email arrived in about 100 inboxes at 4 p.m. on Nov. 19, fronted by a photo of Emerson’s Cutler Majestic Theatre at full capacity, according to internal...
By Bryan Hecht, Content Managing Editor
/ September 18, 2025
Kelly Devers-Franklin remembers being one of the first Emerson students to ever move into the Little Building in 1995. Now, from her Ansin Building office,...
By Meg Richards, Deputy Projects Editor
/ August 21, 2025
Emerson laid off over 30 staff members—a 5% reduction in staff—starting August 1. The college’s enrollment and total revenue fell “below projections”...
Emerson College issued a statement acknowledging an upcoming protest action on Friday by Boylston Students for Justice in Palestine and discouraged the...
Members of the staff union leafletted Thursday afternoon advocating for the admission of the financial aid and student accounts departments into its contract.
By Iselin Bratz, Editor-in-Chief
/ January 29, 2025
Most of the excitement during the Jan. 28 faculty assembly came in the last half hour when a motion aimed at standing against disciplinary actions taken against community members who participate in on-campus protests hit the floor.
By Yogev Toby, Content Managing Editor
/ January 26, 2025
President Donald Trump’s vows for mass deportation and expansion of immigration law enforcement powers have generated hundreds of arrests across the...
By Hannah Nguyen, Editor-in-Chief
/ December 14, 2024
The college has declined Emerson Staff Union’s request to voluntarily recognize staff in the Office of the Arts as union members. The bargaining unit...
