The Presidential Working Group that is responsible for reviewing Emerson’s sexual misconduct policy made minimal changes to its initial suggestions in a second draft of findings released ahead of Thanksgiving...
Common Purpose, a U.K.-based not-for-profit organization, will bring a leadership program focused on developing cultural intelligence in future leaders to Boston this April.Boston401 will assemble young...
By Chris Van Buskirk, Former Editor-in-Chief/Emerson ‘21 January 22, 2020
Emerson police are investigating the source of four swastikas "scrawled" in Piano Row after a student reported the graffiti early Wednesday morning, according to college officials.
The discriminatory,...
This is an ongoing story. Check back later for updates
Emerson College President M. Lee Pelton arrived on the Marlboro College campus Wednesday at 11:30 a.m. for his first visit since the Boston institution...
By Tomas Gonzalez, Staff Writer/Photographer November 14, 2019
Ten working groups, five from Emerson and five from Marlboro, will work to hammer out the details of a merger between the two institutions over the next four months.
President M. Lee Pelton said the...
Updated 10/24/19: This article was updated to include information about a memorial service for Shumow
Florida International University senior Bianca Marcof remembered sitting in her Intro to Digital...
Senior Raven Devanney remembers sitting with her fellow resident assistants in a meeting in May 2019 when several college officials were going over new policies for RA contracts. Some of the RAs were sitting...
Students piled into the Office of Housing and Residence Life after a website malfunction caused the college to freeze the housing application on April 17.
Vice President and Dean of Campus Life James...
Over 150 cancer patients, volunteers, and lawmakers rallied in the Massachusetts State House on March 28 to lobby for multiple anti-tobacco bills going through the legislative process in the state government.
American...
All classes after 2 p.m. were canceled and the college closed early on Feb. 12 due to a winter storm that could bring up to seven inches of snow over the next 24 hours, according to the National Oceanic...
The college stopped distributing plastic bags on campus after a city ordinance went into effect on Dec. 14.
The ordinance requires establishments to give out reusable, recyclable, or compostable bags...
The Commons at 172 Tremont St. still does not have an official name, according to a college official.
“The Commons is a working title that college leaders adopted as a way to describe the purpose...
The college offered support to students from Southern California on Thursday following a mass shooting, less than two weeks after Jewish students grappled with a separate massacre in a Pittsburgh synagogue.
Associate...
By Diana Bravo, Copyeditor/Photographer October 30, 2018
The college will provide temporary housing free of charge at the 12 Hemenway residence hall to the two off-campus students affected by the fire at 104 Hemenway St., according to two college officials....
By Diana Bravo, Copyeditor/Photographer October 24, 2018
The renovations of The Commons at 172 Tremont Street and the Little Building should finish in March and August of 2019 respectively, according to a college official at the weekly Student Government Association...
Emerson rose to No. 6 in U.S. News Rankings’ 2019 Best Northern Universities—an improvement from last year’s No. 8 position.
The new ranking is most likely accredited to Emerson’s marketability...
The floor plans for the 172 Tremont St. building include 13 meeting spaces and only four private offices for student organizations. But the administration said it’s open to student input.
On March...
By Chris Van Buskirk, Former Editor-in-Chief/Emerson ‘21 October 12, 2017
As construction on the Little Building continues, Emerson smokers lack an appointed smoking area, and now flock to the Boylston Street sidewalk. A designated smoking area existed at the side entrance of...
The Emerson Poetry Project used to meet weekly in any space they could find: classrooms, the dining hall, the Parkman Bandstand on Boston Common. This year though, Vice President Myles Taylor said the...
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