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L'Università Brown (in inglese: Brown University) è una università privata statunitense fondata nel 1764, posta nella città di Providence nello Stato del Rhode Island, una delle più prestigiose e selettive università del continente nord americano, facente parte sia della Ivy League che della Association of American Universities.
- Universitas Brunensis
- Providence
- Bears
- Stati Uniti
Website. www .brown .edu. Brown University is a private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island. It is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the US, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
- Midsize city, 143 acres (0.58 km²)
- Bruno the Bear
- 10,425 (Spring 2023)
- Christina Paxson
- Establishment
- American Revolution
- Late 18th Century
- 19th Century
- 20th Century
- 21st Century
- Presidents of Brown University
- See Also
Founding
The college was founded as Rhode Island College, on the site of the First Baptist Church at the corner of Main and Miller Streets in Warren, Rhode Island. James Manning was sworn in as the College's first president in 1765 and remained in the role until 1791. The College's first commencement was held in Warren in September 1769. The original church building was burned to the ground by British and Hessiansoldiers in 1778; the present First Baptist Church of Warren stands on the original site....
Building a campus
After relocating to Providence, work began on establishing a permanent campus for the College, an effort that culminated in the construction of University Hall. In 1770, John and Moses Brown purchased a four acre lot on the East Side of Providence on behalf of the school. The majority of the property fell within the bounds of the original home lot of Chad Brown, an ancestor of the Browns and one of the original proprietors of Providence Plantations.A building committee, organized by the Corpo...
Funding
At the time of its founding, tuition at Brown was $12 a year. This amount was insufficient to cover the new college's expenses, so its trustees looked to benefactors for funding. In 1766, Rev. Morgan Edwards traveled to Europe to "solicit Benefactions for this Institution." During his year and a half stay in the British Isles, the reverend secured $4,300 in funding. Among the benefactors who contributed to this sum were Thomas Penn and Benjamin Franklin. A similar trip to the American South w...
Revolutionary sentiment is recorded early in Brown's history. At the College's first commencement in 1769, President Manning and the candidates for graduation dressed in clothes manufactured in America in protest of British trade laws.The class of 1775 organized a similar protest six years later, delivering a petition to the College's Corporation c...
In 1786, the Rhode Island General Assembly unanimously elected College President James Manning to serve as its delegate in the 7th Congress of the Confederation. In the role, Manning served on the Grand Committee, which proposed fundamental amendments to the Articles of Confederation. In A History of the Baptists, President Manning is reported to h...
Medical school
Brown University first organized a medical program in 1811, with the appointment of three professors: Solomon Drowne, William Ingalls, and William Bowen. Preceded by medical programs at Harvard University and Dartmouth College, Brown was the third college in New Englandto offer instruction in medicine. After assuming office in 1827, Brown's fourth president, Francis Wayland, called for all faculty to reside on campus. Through a residency policy, Wayland intended to increase the supervision of...
Expansion
The early 19th century saw the start of Brown's expansion beyond University Hall. In 1822, the university constructed its second building, Hope College. Funded by Nicholas Brown Jr., the structure was designed to complement its predecessor.The construction of Hope College was succeeded by that of Manning Hall in 1834 and Rhode Island Hall in 1840. Together, these four buildings formed a row formation that later came to define the layout of Brown's central campus.
Engineering
In 1847, Brown established its engineering program, making it the first school in the Ivy League to do so. The program is also noted as third-oldest civilian engineering program in the United States.[b] Brown's first African-American students, George W. Milford and Inman E. Page, were admitted in the fall of 1873.
The Plastic Age
In 1924, Brown professor Percy Marks published his first novel, The Plastic Age which detailed the decadence and depravity of campus life during the Jazz Age. The novel painted an unflattering picture of partying, boozing, sex, anti-Semitism, and other bad behavior perpetrated by Brown students including S. J. Perelman, who was a student of Marks. In response, the campus humor magazine The Brown Jug(which was edited by Perelman) honored Marks with a banquet.
New curriculum
In 1850, Brown President Francis Wayland wrote: "The various courses should be so arranged that, insofar as practicable, every student might study what he chose, all that he chose, and nothing but what he chose." The adoption of the New Curriculum in 1969, marking a major change in University's institutional history, was a significant step towards realizing President Wayland's vision. The curriculum was the result of a paper written by Ira Magaziner and Elliot Maxwell entitled "Draft of a Wor...
Medical School
In 1972, Brown re-established its medical school, which had been suspended since 1827. Brown's contemporary program in medicine, the program awarded its first degrees to a graduating class of 58 students in 1975. In 1991, the program was renamed Brown University School of Medicine and in 2000 again renamed Brown Medical School. In January 2007, entrepreneur Warren Alpert donated $100 million to Brown Medical School, tying Sidney Frank for the largest single monetary contribution ever made to...
Slavery and Justice
In 2003, then-Brown University President Ruth Simmons appointed the "Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice" which was composed of faculty members, university administrators and undergraduate and graduate students to investigate and prepare a report concerning the university’s "historical relationship to slavery and the transatlantic slave trade". The committee researched and gathered information on the history of Brown University, drawing on both published sources and historical archives....
Expansion
In the first two decades of the 21st century, Brown established two new divisions. In 2010, Brown established its division of engineering as a new school of engineering. In August of 2011, Brown's Alpert Medical School opened a new campus in Providence's Jewelry District. In 2013, Brown transitioned the Alpert Medical School's Department of Community Health into an independent school of public health.
Pro-Palestinian protests
Early 2024 saw several student-led demonstrations on campus calling for the university to divest from companies affiliated with Israel. Two sit-ins at University Hallresulted in 61 students arrested for trespassing. In late April 2024, Brown students, following the lead of students at dozens of other universities across the United States including Columbia, set up an encampment on the Main Green to show support for Palestinians in the Israel–Hamas war. The students demanded that Brown divest...
The current president of the University is Christina Hull Paxson. She is the 19th president of Brown University and succeeded Ruth J. Simmons, the first African American president of an Ivy League institution. According to a November 2007 poll by The Brown Daily Herald, Simmons enjoyed a more than 80% approval rating among Brown undergraduates.
15 mar 2024 · Brown is a leading research university, home to world-renowned faculty and also an innovative educational institution where the curiosity, creativity and intellectual joy of students drives academic excellence.
This interactive timeline tells the story of a University forged by a commitment to sustained academic excellence; a shared ethos that values discovery, creativity and collaboration; and the persistent drive — by its community of faculty, students, staff and alumni — to build a better Brown.
2 dic 2021 · Founded in 1764, Brown is a leading Ivy League research university where students and faculty collaborate to address the defining challenges of a complex and changing world.
Website. www .brown .edu. Memorial Park at Brown University. Brown University is an American private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. It is a member of the Ivy League. It was founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, early in the reign of King George III (1760 ...
