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An armed man has been taken into custody after an hourslong standoff with police at Emerson College’s Rotch Field in Boston’s South End Tuesday, officials said. The situation evolved over about seven hours, and several loud bangs were heard just before Boston police announced the standoff was over. Family members at the scene were hoping he can get the...

Everything old is cool again — and a pair of Emerson College graduates know that firsthand. Chloe Jankowitz and Peter West are the creators of the Instagram account Thirty AF, which went from around 200,000 to over 1 million followers during the pandemic.

A U.S. Marine Corps member has been convicted of involuntary manslaughter and faces years of imprisonment in the death of a college student in Boston in 2019. The Marine Corps confirmed in a statement that Lance Cpl. Samuel London would be dishonorably discharged and face 65 months in prison as well as fines in connection with the death of Emerson…

Some students are using domestic partnerships as a way to get around a requirement to live on campus for the first three years at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts, according to reports.

Some students are using domestic partnerships as a way to get around a requirement to live on campus for the first three years at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts, according to reports. The Berkeley Beacon, Emerson’s student newspaper, reported that students are dodging the nearly $20,000 per year price tag to live on campus, which doesn’t include tuition. Among...

Colleges and universities in Boston began this weekend to hold graduation ceremonies at Fenway Park.

Hundreds of Emerson College graduates on Sunday will receive their diplomas at one of Boston’s most iconic venues: Fenway Park.  The ceremony for the class of 2021 will be held at 10 a.m. followed by the ceremony for the class of 2020 at 4 p.m. Both events will also be streamed live by the college. Emerson is the not the first school...

Multiple colleges in Boston are holding graduation ceremonies at the ballpark this year.

Emerson College is the latest in a growing list of universities that will require students to get vaccinated against coronavirus in order to return to campus this fall.

The University of Massachusetts Amherst and Emerson College are joining a growing list of colleges that will require student to get a coronavirus vaccine before returning to campus in the fall. Lee Pelton, president of Emerson, said in a letter posted to Emerson Today on Wednesday that school officials also expect staff and faculty will be vaccinated before they return…

Emerson College announced Wednesday that students would be required to be vaccinated against coronavirus in order to return to campus this fall. “We will require that all students studying on our campuses be vaccinated in order to attend the 2021 Fall Term,” President Lee Pelton said in a letter to students posted to Emerson Today. “It is our expectation that…

A majority of parents felt their children’s education was compromised during the pandemic due to remote learning, according to a new poll from Emerson College.

The school is taking action to prevent cases from spredding.

Emerson College has paused all in-person activities for a week, with the exception of class, as coronavirus cases rise on the campus.

Emerson College is cancelling all in-person activities for at least the next week after a spike in COVID-19 cases on campus. In-person classes will continue, but all gatherings, including athletics, are prohibited until at least April 14. According to the school’s COVID-19 dashboard, 26 people tested positive for coronavirus last week. Twenty-four people are currently in isolation and 38 are…

Sue O’Connell sat down with Dr. M. Lee Pelton, president of Emerson College, who will soon be leaving his post to lead the Boston Foundation.

The president of Emerson College is leaving his post to become the leader of the Boston Foundation. The philanthropic organization announced Tuesday night that Lee Pelton would become its next president and CEO. Emerson College also announced that Pelton would be stepping down in June at the end of the spring semester, calling the news “bittersweet.” “I want to express…

Lance Cpl. Samuel London faces five charges in total in the death of Daniel Hollis, a representative for the Marines said Monday: murder, voluntary and involuntary manslaughter and two counts of assault consummated by battery.

U.S. Marine Corps prosecutors have filed charges, including murder and manslaughter, against a lance corporal who’d been under investigation in the death of an Emerson College student after a fight in Boston in 2019. Lance Cpl. Samuel London faces five charges in total, a representative for the Marines said Monday: murder, voluntary and involuntary manslaughter and two counts of...

Boston’s Emerson College issued an all clear around 11:15 a.m. Friday after a campus-wide alert for a report of a person with a gun on or near their campus. According to the alert, which was issued around 10:45 a.m., the person was seen at the rear of the Paramount Center loading dock, moving away from campus. The person was...