Tag: future
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Mr. Reinharz, tear down this wall
I’ve been doing some thinking on the role of a University. Our conception of what it should be is very different from what it is in reality, at Brandeis but also most everywhere else. Professor Michael Wesch, a Cultural Anthropologist at Kansas State University put it very nicely a while ago: Some time ago we […]
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Our Financial Model — The Past and the Future
As details of our financial situation have come out, it has become apparent that Brandeis is in worse shape than many other universities. There are several well-known reasons for this. Our relative youth means our endowment is much smaller than most institutions of similar standing. The Madoff scandal affected our donor base much more heavily […]