At today’s meeting, the Board of Trustees will make the final vote on the Brandeis 2020 Committee proposals that Provost Marty Krauss approved earlier this month. So far, I think the process has gone as well as we could hope for, and I generally approve of the decisions that the Committee made. However, one program [...]
Posted on: March 14th, 2010
Category: Activism, Adam, Budget Crisis, Context and Connections, Democracy
Bump! — sahar In her response to the the Brandeis 2020 Committee proposals, Provost Marty Krauss lists the five groups tasked to work towards healing Brandeis’s long-term financial deficit. They are: The 23 member Brandeis 2020 Committee, which identified reductions in Arts and Sciences. The professional school revenue committee, composed of 4 administrators and the [...]
Earlier today, Provost Marty Krauss released her decisions regarding the 18 proposals that the Brandeis 2020 Committe submitted to narrow Brandeis’s projected operating deficit. With one minor alteration, she chose to accept them all, meaning that they all will go to the Board of Trustees for approval later this month. I imagine that there are [...]
Posted on: February 23rd, 2010
Category: Budget Crisis, Diversity and Multiculturalism, Elly, News, The Public Good
Just in case you guys ignore most of the e-mails you get from the Student Union and Provost, here’s a link to the short, 8-page report made by the Brandeis 2020 Curricular and Academic Restructuring Steering (CARS) Committee: http://www.brandeis.edu/provost/adhoc/Brandeis2020_rpt_22Feb2010.pdf Oh, and the even more succinct summary: http://www.brandeis.edu/now/2010/february/2020report.html To oversimplify, the report was designed to suggest [...]
Pres. Reinharz has office hours only about once every month. Today at 9:18am I got an email saying that his office hours which were to be held from 11am-12:30pm were to be canceled “due to unforeseen circumstances”. Anyway, today is also the day that the University is to release the recommendations of the Brandeis 2020/ [...]
That’s the news from today’s issue of the Justice, in which Miranda Neubauer reports on Board of Trustees member Meyer Koplow ’72 and Dean of Art and Sciences Adam Jaffe’s recent address to the faculty. Koplow (a New York lawyer whose biggest gig was as lead negotiator for cigarette-maker Phillip Morris in a 1997 national $350 [...]
