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Emerson College’s only independent, student-run newspaper since 1947

The Berkeley Beacon

Emerson College’s only independent, student-run newspaper since 1947

The Berkeley Beacon

Letter: Advice for students about to graduate? Join a union

Letter: Advice for students about to graduate? Join a union

By Illona Yosefov / April 27, 2021

Illona Yosefov ([email protected]) is an Instructional Technologist at Emerson. When she's not busy helping faculty build their Canvas courses,...

From Left to Right: Christine Hughes, Peggy Ings, and Bill Gilligan, three of the college's 12 vice presidents.

Three vice presidents to retire before 2021

By Charlie McKenna / October 7, 2020

Three of Emerson’s 12 vice presidents will retire by the end of 2020 after opting into the college’s early retirement program.  Christine Hughes,...

Brian Basgen, then-Assistant Vice President of IT, at an SGA meeting in 2019.

IT apologizes to SGA for server crash, Workday issues

By Andrew Brinker / November 7, 2019

The college’s IT department apologized to members of the Student Government Association Tuesday for a string of recent issues in the department. Assistant...

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College delays registration following server crash

By Tomas Gonzalez / November 4, 2019

The registrar’s office shut down class registration for students with 92 or more credits Monday due to a technical issue, according to a college official. Registrar...

Unrecognized organizations receive funding for events

Unrecognized organizations receive funding for events

By Diana Bravo / November 27, 2018

The Student Government Association set aside $5,000 in funding for five unrecognized organizations at the weekly meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 20. The...

The interface for eCommon   changed and moved to the Emerson website.

IT increases email security and eCommon accessibility

By Maysoon Khan / April 11, 2018

Information Technology department installed a new email security service, Mimecast, to improve the protection and proficiency of Emerson’s databases....

Students will now use Panopto to upload videos.

ITG hosts workshops for new video-streaming program ‘Panopto’

By Kaitlyn Bryson / January 28, 2018

On Jan. 16, ITG sent out an email stating Emerson’s former video streaming program, Median, will expire June of 2018, encouraging students to save...

Phishers target eCommon direct deposit page

Phishers target eCommon direct deposit page

By Chris Van Buskirk / January 26, 2018

The college took down eCommon’s direct deposit page until further notice after two email attacks affected faculty accounts on Friday, Jan.19. A phish,...

College purchases Adobe Creative Cloud

By Max Reyes / September 7, 2017

Emerson College Information Technology said they provided the college with a campus-wide license for Adobe Creative Cloud because of the program’s cost...