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Undergraduate applications are down 14 percent this year despite plans for the first-year class of 2013 to include 75 more students than previous first-year classes, Dean of Admissions Gil Villanueva said. Villanueva, who said that Brandeis is not the only university experiencing a drop in applications, attributed the drop to the national recession. “Early analysis […]
Hoot Photographic Gallery Links: Images by Max Shay ’11/The Hoot Images by Natasha Rubin ’11/The Hoot Images by Yuan Yao ’11/The Hoot Images by Amira Mintz-Morgenthau ’12/The Hoot Images by Barbara Stark ’12/The Hoot Long considered a “jewel in the crown of Brandeis,” the Rose Art Museum was flooded with over 100 members and supporters […]
Faculty overwhelmingly approved a motion to create a committee that would revisit the decision to close the Rose Art Museum at yesterday’s faculty meeting. The motion, which was introduced by Professors Elizabeth Ferry (ANTH) and John Plotz (ENG), passed with a vote count of 103 faculty for, 11 against, and 12 abstaining. The vote came […]
The university’s Board of Trustees’ unilateral decision to close the Rose Art Museum and sell its 7,183 piece collection has sparked a state-wide controversy about the ethicality of selling a collection comprised mainly of donated works in order to ameliorate the university’s budget crisis. This is not the first time that the university has faced […]
The university will close the Rose Art Museum this June as part of an effort to minimize the effects of a nation-wide economic recession on the University, according to a press release sent out by President Reinharz Monday night. Reinharz announced the decision after the university’s Board of Trustees unanimously voted in favor of the […]
The steering committee decided yesterday to create five subcommittees to discuss initiatives meant to combat the budget deficit in improving recruiting and admissions, creating possible business major, requiring students to participate in a summer semester, rethinking degree requirements and rethinking the graduate schools. The steering committee, led by Dean of Arts and Sciences Adam Jaffe, […]
Three days after students protested their exclusion from a faculty meeting about budget cuts, and just hours after university President Jehuda Reinharz announced the closing of the Rose Art Museum via e-mail, fifty students gathered in Castle Commons Monday night to discuss their hopes for a role in the process. They call themselves the Brandeis Budget Cut Coalition and communicate avidly via listserv…
Students gathered to protest a closed faculty meeting Thursday afternoon after Class of 2011 Senators Alex Melman, Sahar Massachi ’11 and Danny Cairns MA ’09 were denied entry to the meeting by Assistant Provost of Graduate Student Affairs, Alwina Bennett. The administration and faculty gathered in a closed faculty meeting to discuss proposed changes designed […]
Students were informed in an e-mail announcement from the Division of Students and Enrollment last Friday that they would “not receive any form of merit aid…while on study abroad” despite the fact that students on certain merit scholarships were guaranteed the use of their scholarships for study abroad upon admittance to the university. Students who […]
President Reinharz promised the faculty that he would avoid making permanent changes wherever possible at two separate faculty meetings; however, the latest proposal by administrators to increase revenue and reduce expenditures focuses on a restructuring of the academic program rather than trimming the already existing structure. The new proposal, which includes reducing the faculty by […]
