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College greenhouse gas emissions increase with Little Building reopening

By Patrick Pierce, Beacon Correspondent / December 12, 2020

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...

Trent (center right) was remembered as a pioneer in the field of Political Communication.

Emerson faculty reflects on passing of Judith Trent, political communications icon

By Camilo Fonseca, Editor-at-large / 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...

Outside of the Emerson College Testing Center.

Testing center transportation program lacks communication

By Gege Tan / December 9, 2020

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...

Title IX working group takes questions before finalizing recommendations

Title IX working group takes questions before finalizing recommendations

By Katie Redefer, Former Staff Writer / 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...

Professor Brooke Knisley said it is especially frustrating that the college may not believe people when they tell them they have a disability.

Professors seeking accommodations forced to jump through hoops to teach online

By Alec Klusza, Assistant News Editor / December 7, 2020

A number of Emerson’s immunocompromised and disabled professors have reported issues receiving accommodations to teach remotely ahead of the fall semester’s...

The college's choice to extend the fall semester grading period was met with mixed reactions from professors

Extra grading time draws mixed reaction from professors

By Dana Gerber, Former News Editor / December 6, 2020

The college extended the grading period for professors by 10 days following the end of the semester on Dec. 9 in an effort to accommodate the extenuating...

The Emerson Staff Union is hoping to have some of their sacrificed benefits reinstated, especially for some of the at-risk staff members.

‘We should be getting that back’: Staff union seeks reinstatement of benefits as pandemic endures

By Domenic Conte, Former Sports Columnist / December 2, 2020

Members of Emerson's staff union are vying to return to their hard-earned pre-pandemic financial safeguards after enduring a semester without the benefits...

The Office of Internationalization and Global Engagement hosted the Global Pathways Film Festival as part of the college’s annual International Education Week.

Virtual International Education Week showcases study abroad programs

By Gege Tan / December 2, 2020

Emerson held its seventh annual International Education Week, a program that seeks to promote the college’s study abroad programs through a series of...

The outside of the Title IX office in the Massachusetts Transportation Building.

Title IX working group presents minimal changes in second draft of recommendations

By Katie Redefer, Former Staff Writer / December 2, 2020

The Presidential Working Group that is responsible for reviewing Emerson’s sexual misconduct policy made minimal changes to its initial suggestions in...

President Lee Pelton announced the Marlboro-Emerson merger at a town hall meeting in fall 2019. Jakob Menendez / Beacon Staff

President Lee Pelton to resign in June, lead Boston Foundation

Emerson President M. Lee Pelton will leave his position in June to take over as chief executive officer and president of local philanthropic leader The...

A meeting of professor Nancy Allen's Plagues and Pandemics course in the fall semester.

Hybrid class format earns mixed reviews from students

By Alec Klusza, Assistant News Editor / November 30, 2020

On the tail end of Emerson’s first semester under pandemic-era restrictions, students’ reaction to the hybrid model—sold by administrators as a substantive...

A Zoom class meeting in Spring 2020.

Students brace for another round of remote classes as semester’s end draws near

By Ann E. Matica, Former Deputy News Editor / November 27, 2020

As students prepare for finals, the harsh realities of concluding a semester remotely for the second time this year loom. Two weeks of remote classes...

A spring 2020 Student Government Association meeting

SGA talks Tufts health center partnership

By Frankie Rowley, Content Managing Editor / November 26, 2020

The Student Government Association discussed a new partnership that merges Emerson and Tufts Medical Center’s student healthcare resources at its Nov....

Students cross the intersection of Boylston St. and Tremont St. in front of the Little Building.

Hybrid class scheduling restrictions disrupt students’ graduation timelines

By Dana Gerber, Former News Editor / November 26, 2020

A college policy that prohibits students from mixing flex—a hybrid of in-person and online courses—and online-only courses is disrupting some students’...

A woman waits for her train at South Station.

A look into the students’ pandemic-era holiday plans and pronoun usage at Emerson

By Maximo Aguilar Lawlor, Drew Ascione and Sophia Boyce / November 25, 2020

  Today on The 172 Review, host Maximo Aguilar Lawlor sits down with Express News Editor Charlie McKenna to talk about last week’s...

The Student Government Association in a joint session meeting in February 2020.

Five candidates elected to SGA positions after low voter turnout

By Frankie Rowley, Content Managing Editor / November 24, 2020

The Student Government Association’s fall elections elevated three incumbents and two newcomers to representative positions in the organization following...

The old student mailroom in the basement of the Colonial Building.

College sees dip in student job availability amid pandemic

By Julia Burns / November 24, 2020

At the onset of the pandemic, mass layoffs and unemployment decimated the U.S. and its businesses. Now, in Emerson’s first full semester during COVID-19,...

President M. Lee Pelton.

Pelton examines pandemic, ‘flex’ learning, and the future in annual State of the College address

By Diana Bravo, Former Copyeditor/Photographer / November 23, 2020

Amid a spiraling pandemic that Emerson administrators once warned may financially devastate the college, President M. Lee Pelton released his annual State...

A person walks outside of South Station.

Emerson will limit overnight travel in spring semester policy

By Charlie McKenna / November 23, 2020

Administrators will impose harsh limitations on travel anywhere off-campus this spring in an attempt to limit the spread of the pandemic on campus.  Students...

Emerson's COVID-19 testing center at the corner of Kneeland Street and Harrison Ave.

Emerson reports four new positive COVID-19 tests, weekly total up to 16

By Charlie McKenna and Andrew Brinker / November 21, 2020

The college reported four new positive COVID-19 test results among community members Saturday, pushing the college’s weekly testing total to 16, and...