Since July 30, the school has laid off 5% of its staff and introduced a severance program for full-time faculty who wish to recieve benefits for "voluntarily separating" with the college.

Emerson CFO signs open letter to Trump administration defending Harvard. This comes after months of heated back-and-forth between Trump and Harvard, including threats to cut federal funding, and a lawsuit filed against the federal government.

What do you want to know?.

From critically acclaimed fiction to rom coms for days–here’s what to read in summer 2025.

Hear from three Emerson alumni on the visual effects work for Spike Lee’s latest movie.

On Friday, Former U.S. President Joe Biden was diagnosed with an “aggressive” form of prostate cancer that spread to his bones on Friday, according to a statement from his spokesperson.

While thousands of American soldiers died in Vietnam, four American students were killed in their own country by the Ohio National Guard at Kent State University on May 4 1970. 50 years later, what would they say about how history has told their stories?.

2B Residents continued a centuries-old Japanese tradition by folding 1,000 paper cranes to promote cancer awareness.

LETTER: “My final memories of Emerson College are not joyful—they are filled with distressing emotions, pain, and regret at choosing this school as the place to attend,” writes a former resident assistant terminated for alleged protest activity.

Journalism faculty member Paul Mihailidis was named the interim dean of the School of Communication, the provost announced in an email to the Emerson community on April 25.

Senior film major Mayeni Kpenge returned to Kasteel Well to shoot scenes for her capstone project, “Babyface,” a movie aiming to challenge media portrayals of victims of sexual assault.

Nearly 56 years after co-founding EBONI, Moonyene Jackson-Amis ‘69 sat down with The Beacon to discuss the state of student activism and defending civil rights on college campuses.

Holden Bender-Bernstein ‘20, a theater education alum from Emerson, a production of “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown” with an all-trans and nonbinary cast. The play will be performed at the United Church of Christ in the Valley in North Hollywood.

The rag-tag rock band Mamalarky comes to Somerville this May.

Incumbent Mayor Michelle Wu officially filed paperwork for reelection earlier this month, and now sets out to gather signatures and distinguish herself from other candidates.

Nearly 100 days into President Donald Trump’s term and a year after Emerson’s encampment, many said a retrospective on the Kent State Massacre felt especially poignant.

Jewish Emerson students said that last year they received online threats, lost friendships, and got physically and verbally assaulted because of their Jewish and Zionist identities, ultimately causing them to leave the college.

Amid federal investigations and discussions around the prevalence of antisemitism on campuses across the country, the Emerson Jewish community holds differing opinions.

Faculty elect officers, representatives, committees for next academic year, award Nelli Sargsyan with Faculty Service Award.

A year after the arrests in the 2B alleyway The Beacon obtained police body camera footage detailing the ways in which police swept the encampment in 10 minutes.

A protest organized by local clergy members on Good Friday pushed for the passing of an act that would protect Massachusetts immigrant communities.