Innermost Parts

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 Office of Budget and Planning.
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 a [...]

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 feasible changes [...]

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/ CARS [...]

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 [...]

In the Justice today, I read that the the University has allocated an additional $200,000 to the Rose operating budget for this fiscal year. Puzzling, considering the museum’s staff has been downsized (its previous director, Michael Rush, a strong opponent of the University’s decision to sell artwork, was fired) and the museum has its own [...]