New Orleans students arrive in wake of Katrina
Over 80 students from New Orleans have made inquiries about transferring to Brandeis for the semester, University President Jehuda Reinharz said in a meeting of the Faculty Senate Thursday afternoon.
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BLC and custodians win pay parity
In a victory for the Brandeis Labor Coalition and custodial workers, the University agreed last month to a new five-year contract to directly hire night-shift workers, rather than employing them through a subcontractor.The contract with the Service Employees International Union Local 615 was signed in an effort to achieve pay parity among workers and was the culmination of lobbying efforts by the Labor Coalition and a group of professors.Of the 65 custodial staff at Brandeis, twenty are hired through Hurley of America and SJD Inc. These contract custodians are paid $11.60 an hour, while Brandeis pays its own employees $14.63.
Crown follows the straight path of academia
While a war over federal restrictions on funding for international studies is being waged in Congress, Brandeis and the Crown Center are staying out of the name-calling and attempting to change the field's prevailing approach to researching and teaching, all while trying to establish the center as a leader in its field.Crown Center Director Shai Feldman is aiming to change the course of Middle East studies by making the newly founded research center as objective as possible, hoping to avoid the accusations of bias that plague other such institutions, whose scholarship University President Jehuda Reinharz has called "third rate."In the inaugural conference held last April, scholars from U.S.
Journalism chair resigns to take University of Maine job
Prof. Michael Socolow (AMST), the director of Brandeis' journalism program announced his resignation from the University faculty Monday.Socolow is leaving Brandeis to teach at the University of Maine, where he is accepting a tenure-track position.
FDA policies debated at Heller's annual Zinner lecture series
Two prominent health care policy scholars debated the policies of the Food and Drug Administration and pharmaceutical companies at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management's fifth annual Zinner Distinguished Lecture Series on April 12.Titled "Promoting and Protecting the Public's Health: Reconciling the Perspectives of Patients, Payers, Government and Industry," the debate centered around issues involving the detection of harmful side effects of drugs, both before and after they enter the market, as well as the impacts of the pharmaceutical companies' advertising spending and U.S.'s free-market regulatory model on the drug consumers.Held in Rapaporte Treasure Hall, the debate was moderated by Stuart Altman, professor of national health policy at the Heller School.
BTV moves to Ziv for better broadcasting
Brandeis Television began its move into a new studio in Ziv Commons this weekend, ending a three-year search for a larger area for filming.Residence Life has authorized BTV to tentatively use the space for live broadcasting.
Pro-Palestinian site says Crown's ties may foster bias at Center
An online article published April 4 by a pro-Palestinian news source criticized Lester Crown, the benefactor of the $25 million Crown Center for Middle East Studies, for his role on the board of directors of General Dynamics Corporation, a defense contractor with strong ties to Israel and the U.S.
Feldman helps build a scholarly foundation for Crown Center's future
This week Brandeis celebrates the opening of the Crown Center for Middle East Studies with an inaugural conference that began Monday and will continue today.
Crown Center debuts with panel of Middle East experts
The University's new $25 million Crown Center for Middle East Studies opened Monday with a panel discussion on the problems facing Middle East scholarship in the United States led by three distinguished scholars.Professors from Harvard, Tufts and Tel Aviv University assessed the new center's mission to reshape study of the modern Middle East, which some critics have said has become highly politicized and stagnant.The conference, which continues Tuesday with four more panel discussions, packed the Hassenfeld Conference Center Monday afternoon.
Telemarketers blitz students with 13,000 calls since Feb. 5
Teleservices Direct, an Indianapolis-based telemarketing firm that has been soliciting Brandeis students daily since February, told Systems Service Manager for Informational Technology Services John Turner on Wednesday that they would stop calling in light of recent complaints.Turner made the request because of the large volume of student complaints forwarded to him, but ITS Chief Information Officer Perry Hanson said he does not know how long Teleservices will stick to the agreement."We are now monitoring their calls to campus so we'll know if they resume calling," Hanson said.Teleservices Direct's database includes information on approximately eleven million college students, including their school and home contact information, according to the company's Web site.The company did not return calls for comment by press time.Turner said he created a database query that detects "top repeat callers," those who have dialed Brandeis the most number of times over a certain number of days.
Waltham Public Schools email regarding potential Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agents at Waltham schools.
Fire at the Walter E. Fernald Developmental Center
On leading the way: Black women in politics
Library union rallies, calls for contract that recognizes seniority
“Plans for the Future” - a message from the Interim President Levine