By Bailey Allen, Former news editor April 19, 2023
Emerson College is set to increase the undergraduate costs of attendance by four percent for the 2023-24 academic year, prompting negative reactions from the student union.
The increase will bring tuition...
By Bailey Allen, Former news editor April 14, 2023
Emerson College is set to increase the undergraduate costs of attendance by four percent for the 2023-24 academic year, according to a community-wide email from Interim President William Gilligan and Board...
Emerson’s investments generated a 32.7 percent return in 2021, indicating a promising future for the college despite the financial pressures of COVID-19.
As a result, the college’s endowment...
By Bailey Allen, Former news editor September 16, 2021
Almost a year after college administrators promised to give all staff the annual 3.9 percent salary increase agreed upon during the union's 2018 collective bargaining agreement, members of the Emerson...
In attempts to secure an exemption to escape on-campus housing and its nearly $20,000 annual price tag, some students are taking an unorthodox leap—getting a domestic partnership.
Students at Emerson...
Illona Yukhayev ([email protected]) 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...
Emerson’s financial state remains stable as the end of the 2021 fiscal year draws near, but college officials remain uncertain when they can reinstitute benefits for staff and faculty.
In a March...
With inflated workloads, slashed benefits, and continuing tense negotiations with Emerson, college staff members are nearing a breaking point—after more than a year of sacrifice forced by the pandemic.
Emerson...
By Andrew Brinker, Senior Investigative Reporter March 18, 2021
The past year, dominated by an unrelenting pandemic, has been marked by resounding loss. More than 500,000 have died in the U.S. alone—that toll’s reverberation through families of those claimed by...
Emerson tapped Storbeck Search, an executive search firm that specializes in leadership hiring for education and nonprofits, to assist the board of trustees in hiring the college’s 13th President on...
Emerson anticipates $30 million in pandemic-related losses over the 2021 fiscal year—an outcome college officials consider a “best case scenario” after initially projecting up to $100 million in...
By Domenic Conte, Sports Columnist December 15, 2019
Paul Dworkis officially joined the president’s office on the 10th floor of the Ansin Building for the first time on December 2, three months after being hired as the Chief Financial Officer of the college...
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...
By Diana Bravo, Copyeditor/Photographer October 10, 2019
The college announced Paul Dworkis as the new vice president of administration and finance Thursday in an email to the community.
Dworkis currently works at the University of Maryland and will take...
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