Provost Marty Krauss said in an interview with the Justice that she is currently working on a plan to increase staffing at the Rose in an effort to implement the recommendations in the Committee on the Future of the Rose Art Museum's final report. "I'm going to have some discussions with various professionals in the art field to get their recommendations about what kinds of people would be the kind of people we would want to recruit," she said.

The CFRAM was formed March 3 by Provost Marty Krauss with the intention of providing recommendations to the administration on the integration of the Rose Art Museum into the educational and cultural mission of the University.

The committee released its final report Sept. 22, in which it recommended that the museum remain open as a public art museum while simultaneously increasing its integration into the University.

Prof. Jerry Samet (PHIL), the chair of the committee, wrote in an e-mail to the Justice that he viewed an increase in the museum staff as the committee's primary recommendation to the administration.

"Many of our recommendations in the report cannot be implemented or managed with the current depleted staff," he explained.

The Rose staff currently consists of Roy Dawes, director of museum operations; Valerie Wright, the collection manager; and Karina Sheerin, director of financial control, budgeting and analysis. Michael Rush, the former director of the Rose; Emily Mello, the former director of education; and Jay Knox, the former administrator, are no longer working at the museum.

Dawes said in an interview with the Justice that he viewed an increased number of staff as imperative. He particularly stressed the need for a director of education.

Krauss also said the Board of Trustees discussed the CFRAM's final report at their Academic Affairs meeting.

Samet wrote in his e-mail to the Justice that he summarized the report during the meeting and stressed the need for the museum's integration into the University on a larger scale.

The Board of Trustees did not pass any resolutions about how to implement the recommendations in the report, said Krauss, but the trustees were extremely optimistic about the report and receptive to the idea of integration. She added that she had also received a message from the Fine Arts department supporting the recommendations in the final report.

Stephen Reiner '61, a trustee and a committee member, wrote in an e-mail to the Justice that the trustees will convene again in the spring but that he does not know yet if the report will be discussed then.

"I would say that the overall reaction has been extremely positive," said Krauss.

The meeting in which Samet presented the report occurred in conjunction with the opening of the new exhibition of select works from the Rose's permanent collection last Wednesday.

Krauss said the amount of people at the exhibit's opening signified the University's support of the museum.

-Miranda Neubauer and Hannah Kirsch contributed reporting.