Alex Shieh outside his dorm at Brown University. As a journalist for an independent student newspaper, Shieh put together an interactive organizational chart, detailing what various administrators do.

Alex Shieh, a sophomore at Brown University, is facing disciplinary action after he sent a DOGE-like email to figure out why the college’s tuition has gotten so expensive. Alex Shieh/X ...

Brown University student Alex Shieh will not be disciplined for sending a DOGE-like email to thousands of administrators. The university sent Shieh an email this past week informing him that he ...

Alex Shieh faces discipline after emailing thousands of Brown University staff members. We adhere to strict standards of editorial integrity to help you make decisions with confidence.

Alex Shieh, the Brown University student who sent a DOGE-like email to thousands of non-faculty employees, has testified before Congress. Shieh said in an interview after the hearing on Wednesday ...

Sophomore Alex Shieh created database to identify three particular types of school positions: "DEI jobs, redundant jobs, and bulls--t jobs." ...

Brown University sophomore Alex Shieh wants to take a Department of Government Efficiency-style chainsaw to the college’s bureaucracy — and he started by emailing thousands of school ...

Alex Shieh, who just finished his junior year at Brown, blasted the university for employing 3,805 full-time non-instructional staff, or about one administrator for every two undergraduate ...

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With the annual price of attending Brown University approaching six figures, sophomore Alex Shieh wanted to know where all that money was going. In particular, he wanted to know what the school ...