Emerson will continue to require students to receive a seasonal flu vaccine despite the reversal of the Massachusetts policy that initially brought on...
By Ann E. Matica, Former Deputy News Editor
/ January 28, 2021
The Emerson College Police Department provides the Incident Journal to The Beacon every week. Beacon staff edit the Incident Journal for style and clarity...
By Frankie Rowley, Content Managing Editor
/ January 26, 2021
The Max will be closed until 5 p.m. on Wednesday due to a vendor employee testing positive for COVID-19.
The closure, announced by Assistant Vice President...
Emerson will offer expanded student meal plans for the spring 2021 semester, along with new Board Bucks partner locations and extended hours of operations...
By Frankie Rowley, Content Managing Editor
/ January 25, 2021
Emerson reported eight new positive COVID-19 tests Monday, bringing the spring semester testing cycle’s cumulative total to 19, and the total across...
Emerson tapped Storbeck Search, an executive search firm that specializes in leadership hiring for education and nonprofits, to assist the board of trustees...
By Dana Gerber, Former News Editor
/ January 21, 2021
Emerson is marshaling thousands of students from their homes across the country for the second time this academic year, as the 7-day average of confirmed...
By Ann E. Matica, Former Deputy News Editor
/ January 21, 2021
This week, thousands of Emerson students are emerging from their month-and-a-half winter break to descend on the Boston campus for the spring semester....
Former Associate Vice President of Information Technology Brian Basgen is slated to lead the college’s IT department following the retirement of former...
By Frankie Rowley, Content Managing Editor
/ January 18, 2021
Emerson’s first winter term earned praise from students and faculty alike, who shared positive experiences about the accelerated classes that spanned...
By Alec Klusza, Assistant News Editor
/ January 18, 2021
The college rejected a petition signed by 15 Writing, Literature, and Publishing graduate students to reverse academic scheduling changes planned for the...
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...
By Frankie Rowley, Content Managing 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...
By Frankie Rowley, Content Managing 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...
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...
By Frankie Rowley, Content Managing 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...
By Frankie Rowley, Content Managing 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,...
By Frankie Rowley, Content Managing 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...
Some Emerson students have been left frustrated and confused following the college’s weeklong delay in residential move-in, an announcement that came...
By Frankie Rowley, Content Managing 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...