Additional Stories from the Brown Daily Herald [available on the web]:

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• "Kim '19, Schuetz '19.5: Reflecting on leavetaking at Brown" by SOYOON KIM and ADDY SCHUETZ Friday, December 7, 2018

  • "Leavetaking can seem like an overwhelming process with lots of complicated policies to navigate on your own, but it doesn't have to be." ​

• "Gantz '17.5: Mid-Year graduation ignores medical leave-takers" by LINDSAY GANTZ Tuesday, December 6, 2016

  • "For two consecutive years, the mid-year graduation ceremoney has ignored — and thus invalidated — the experiences of medical leave-takers who comprise a substantial number of the mid-year graduating class."​

• ​"Left behind: Students feel alienated by leave-taking, readmittance process: In approving returns, U. weighs student confidence in mental health stability with its own judgment" By KATE TALERICO, SENIOR STAFF WRITER, Wednesday, December 2, 2015

  • ​Though some students were originally upset, and even confused, about their medical leaves, many found that the time allowed them to heal and practice self-care. “Students may change what their goals are, academically or career-wise, after having been out for a few semesters,” Welsh said. “In coming back, they get to know themselves and the directions for their future a bit better.”

• "Letter: Mental health leave beneficial, effective" By BROWN DAILY HERALD Wednesday, September 29, 2010

  • "When we speak to students after they return from a leave, it is common for us to hear that it was valuable to have taken the time away — even if they did not want to do so initially. Although students often fear that they will never return to campus, the University’s experience shows that medical leaves are effective, and the vast majority of students complete their degrees at Brown."​

• "Leaves of absence have little red tape, lots of benefits" By ALEXANDRA BARSK Friday, March 4, 2005

  • "​According to Shaw, the popularity of leave-taking among Brown students is one of the reasons Brown, though it has a very high six-year graduation rate, has a low four-year graduation rate relative to comparable institutions. He said that for the class entering the University in 1998, the four-year graduation rate was 83 percent and the six-year rate was 96 percent. “The current practices are ones that encourage people to sometimes step out for a while and take a little longer to graduate,” Shaw said."

• "Parnes ’10 takes year off to travel around the world" By SOPHIA LI Wednesday, September 26, 2007

  • ​Parnes found the administration to be helpful and supportive in the process of leave-taking. According to the Office of Institutional Research, 129 undergraduate students took time off for employment or personal reasons in the 2006-07 academic year. Parnes said students considering taking a leave of absence should visit the Resource Center in Rhode Island Hall. Mariposa Garth-Pelly ’08, one of the leave-taking co-coordinators, said many students come to the Resource Center to get more information about leave-taking and for suggestions on what to do or where to go during their time off. “I spoke to a student there,” Parnes said, in reference to his own decision-making process, “and he said he took time off and came back and was really all the better for it.”​