The recent recommendation made by the Curriculum and Academic Restructuring Steering committee to convert the Classical Studies department into an interdepartmental program has caused much dismay among the department's professors and students, who staunchly oppose the proposal.
Cheers can be heard from almost any point on campus. "Yes, we can!"Students embrace with a sense of urgency.
Dean of Arts and Sciences Adam Jaffe presented Prof. Peter Kalb (FA) with the Michael L. Walzer '56 Award for Teaching and Prof.
When Linda Rottenberg co-founded Endeavor, a nonprofit group that provides support for entrepreneurs, she had ambitions of transforming the private sector in emerging markets, identifying businesses that would employ thousands of workers and even putting an entirely new word in the dictionaries and minds of developing countries.
The light murmur of a piano fills the space amid the sounds of people chatting and glasses clinking.
The program started with two. Ten years ago, Tom Urquidez and his father Thomas A. Urquidez decided they wanted to enact change within three Wichita Falls, Texas high schools by putting together the Academic Success Program.The program is designed to boost minority students' academic performance, said Director of Operations Michael Martinez, who was a sophomore in Wichita Falls High School when the program began.The initiative has since expanded to 15 Texas high schools, and last year over 300 program participants graduated from colleges nationwide.This year, Brandeis collaborated with the Dallas-based ASP to create scholarships that cover all four years of tuition for five ASP students who will enter the University in fall 2009.Dean of Admissions Gil Villanueva noted the importance of the ASP in light of the high value Brandeis places on social action."Social justice is an integral component of the Brandeis mission," he said.
As part of the first class to graduate from the Brandeis film graduate program, Andrew Harmon '68, M.A.
The Brandeis Labor Coalition is working on an initiative to urge club leaders to amend their club constitutions to include a pledge to buy only sweatshop-free apparel.
For 16 years, 25,000 letters sat in Prof. Anita Hill's (HELLER) basement, gathering dust and paying silent tribute to a time when details of Hill's private life were broadcast over most news channels.In 1991, Hill spoke out against her former boss, Clarence Thomas, then a nominee for U.S.
Last Tuesday Wellesley College announced that current Brandeis Chief Investment Officer Deborah Foye Kuenstner would be leaving Brandeis in February to assume the same position at Wellesley College.Kuenstner started at Brandeis at the beginning of 2007 as chief investment officer, after the "Investment Committee and Administration decided that the size and sophistication of the [University's investment] portfolio called for a dedicated in-house investment team," Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Peter French told the Justice by e-mail.
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