Pratt Senate

04/17/2019

Pratt GAUD MS.AUD Final Review Reception and Exhibition - 6:30pm - 8pm, May 4 at THE HALL RSVP https://goo.gl/forms/pUOK7FINse46Ry5B3

04/02/2019

HORSES ON CAMPUS WED. APRIL 10 - Come draw, paint photograph & film - Rain date TUES April 16 (check) Behind Library 10:00-3:30pm

09/15/2018

For example, U.S. colleges spend, relative to other countries, a startling amount of money on their nonteaching staff, according to the OECD data. Some of these people are librarians or career or mental-health counselors who directly benefit students, but many others do tangential jobs that may have more to do with attracting students than with learning. Many U.S. colleges employ armies of fund-raisers, athletic staff, lawyers, admissions and financial-aid officers, diversity-and-inclusion managers, building-operations and maintenance staff, security personnel, transportation workers, and food-service workers.

The outrageous price of a U.S. degree is unique in the world.

08/08/2018

With New Urgency, Museums Aim to Cultivate Curators of Color

Eager to attract a broader cross-section of visitors at a time when the country’s demographics are changing, museums are seeking to diversify their staffs.

07/30/2018

Most Americans say higher ed is heading in wrong direction, but partisans disagree on why

About six-in-ten Americans say higher education in the United States is going in the wrong direction. Republicans and Democrats are worlds apart on why.

07/25/2018

How Elite Schools Stay So White

Admissions policies hurt nonwhite applicants through slippery definitions of “merit” and by giving preference to athletes and children of alumni.

07/10/2018

Keep cool with a museum visit. Pratt students have free access to the following museums:
Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn Botanic Garden, plus one guest
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
The Frick Collection
Guggenheim Museum, plus up to 3 guests
Museum of Arts and Design
New Museum
Whitney Museum of American Art, plus one guest

American Folk Art Museumfolkartmuseum.org Devoted to the aesthetic appreciation of traditional folk art and creative expressions of contemporary self-taught artists from the United States and abroad.

06/20/2018

After sustained pressure from teachers and the unions, the city will provide paid family leave for teachers.

06/14/2018

Universities’ Efforts on Sexual Harassment Have Failed, Panel Says

Current policies and programs have failed overwhelmingly to address and prevent the problem, said a report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.

06/09/2018

Just minutes from the Brooklyn campus, Starting in the 1920s it served as temporary offices for the Brooklyn Public Library and then as a Roman Catholic bishop’s residence, and only $13.5M for 10,000SF

The Pfizer mansion, a restored 10,000-square-foot 1887 house that was once a Catholic girls’ school and a home to rock musician goes on the market.