The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching capped a multiple-year effort to overhaul the labels affixed to America's colleges and universities by releasing a new version of its basic classifications this week. The extensively revised framework features changes that include subcategories for two-year colleges, a first in the classification's history; three subcategories of doctorate-granting institutions, up from two; and the discontinuation of the term "liberal arts" to describe mostly undergraduate colleges.

Brown University’s governing board voted on Saturday to divest from companies that do business with Sudan, where thousands of people have been killed in what has been called a government-sanctioned genocide in the Darfur region. Ruth J. Simmons, Brown’s president, called the board’s vote “a critically important and strong statement by the University community regarding our abhorrence of the genocidal actions being supported and undertaken by the Sudanese government.

This Associated Press feature about the University’s first Muslim chaplain, Rumee Ahmed, appeared in a variety of newspapers across the country.

A feature article about the University’s first Muslim chaplain, Rumee Ahmed.

The university will charge $43,754 a year in tuition and fees for an undergraduate education. The Brown Corporation, the University's governing board, approved the increase during its weekend meeting. The new tuition and fees represent a 4.7 percent increase over last year's $41,770. Steep increases in operating costs, particularly the cost of energy, are among the reasons cited by the Corporation for the increase.

Brown University's governing board votes unanimously to stop investing in companies whose business activities support genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan.