It is easy to love Emerson. Talented students, brilliant faculty, committed staff: great people. We see individuals learn and grow on our campus, but we also see them stifled. We see them burn out and...
By William Gilligan, Interim President of Emerson College February 5, 2022
I write today in response to an opinion piece, “Emerson’s next president should serve students, not their pockets,” in order to clarify information provided in this piece, as well as to reaffirm...
Mired in controversy, an Emerson professor is facing accusations of antisemitic behavior in the classroom last semester—while acknowledging that his actions could have been “perceived the wrong way.”
Brian...
Illona Yukhayev (illona_yukhayev@emerson.edu) is an Instructional Technologist at Emerson. When she's not busy helping faculty build their Canvas courses, she is happy to talk to anyone about labor.
Every...
The Office of Financial Aid at Emerson College is devoted to providing access to education for all students with financial need. Unfortunately, inaccurate descriptions of individual circumstances and...
By Kim McLarin, Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director July 30, 2020
Kim McLarin is a writing, literature, and publishing associate professor and a graduate program director.
Dear Emerson Community,
These are frightening times. We fear for ourselves, our families...
To the editor:
Re “Title IX hiring process failed to involve students enough” (Editorial, Oct. 17)
While the editorial makes a valid point about the scheduling of candidate presentations, student...
To the Editor:
Re “Person of Color Column: I am from Hong Kong, not China” (Column, April 21)
The Living Arts Section recently published a Person of Color column about students from Hong Kong,...
For anyone who is reading this, we talk about power-based interpersonal violence, including sexual assault, the Title IX process, and reference some current cultural examples.
To the Community:
We...
Letter to the Editor from Elise Harrison, Director of Counseling and Psychological Services
I would like to clarify several things in the article about Emerson Counseling and Psychological Services...
Following the release of the editorial “Don’t ask students to fund scholarships,” I wanted to provide some clarifying information that we were not given the opportunity to provide prior to its publication....
Someone asked me what I thought about what occurred on Tuesday morning, and here's the deal:
The flagging of the Multi-Purpose Room on Tuesday morning was a call to action. It was a call for accountability....
Last week, the Berkeley Beacon editorial board published an article titled “What’s in a name?” examining recent name changes of the Educational Equity and Justice Committee (formerly the Ad Hoc Committee...
Faculty Council recently met with President Lee Pelton, Provost Michaele Whelan, and VP of Diversity and Inclusion Sylvia Spears to discuss the student protest and its aftermath. While we support Anthony...
Written in response to a memo sent to the Emerson community by Faculty Assembly Chair Anthony Lowrie, which called for a private investigation into student claims of racism and cultural insensitivity.
In...