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(03/12/19 10:00am)
Earlier this month, the Brandeis Asian American Students Association opened Asian Pacific American Heritage Month with their “Dare to Dream” event. While APAHM is normally celebrated in May, the event was held in March to avoid conflicting with finals, as the hosts explained. The more people contribute the better, especially when raising money: BAASA sent the proceeds from the event to the National Immigration Forum, a leading organization in advocating for immigration policy reform and helping immigrants, including Dreamers. In fact, this is what the event name — “Dare to Dream” — refers to.
(02/12/19 11:00am)
Hundreds of Brandeis students, faculty and alumni convened in Levin Ballroom on Feb. 9 for the AAAS and Alumni Legacies Panel as part of the 50th Anniversary Commemoration of the the Department of African and African American Studies. The AAAS department welcomed five alumni, Aja Antoine ’17, Janice Johnson Dias ’94, Lucrecia Jones ’77, Napoleon Lherisson ’11 and Curtis Tearte ’73 to share how AAAS has enabled them to grow as individuals and beneficiaries of its legacy.
(02/12/19 11:00am)
Vice President Aaron Finkel ’20 began this week’s meeting by swearing in Class of 2020 Senator Trevor Filseth and Racial Minority Senator Denezia Fahie ’22.
(02/12/19 11:00am)
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After a tumultuous fall semester, the Student Union began the spring by electing new members to the Executive Board, Allocations Board and Senate. Students could vote electronically in the 2019 winter elections from 11:59 p.m. Tuesday to 11:59 pm. Wednesday, and the results were announced in an email to the Brandeis community last Thursday.
(02/05/19 11:00am)
This past October, University President Ron Liebowitz announced his “Framework for the Future,” a multipronged plan to revitalize and focus the University. Per the Framework’s website, Liebowitz hopes to “reimagine the future of [the] institution” and strengthen three “essential pillars of our university.” On Jan. 28, Liebowitz provided the Brandeis community with an emailed update on the Framework’s process, leaders and themes. In it, he described four separate task forces, each focusing on a different aspect of his vision for Brandeis while remaining in “constant consultation and dialogue.”
(01/29/19 11:00am)
In response to an open letter addressed to President Ron Liebowitz concerning how Brandeis accommodates its students with disabilities, the University held a public forum with the intent of acknowledging, learning from and finding solutions to many of the struggles and inconveniences these community members face. Tuesday’s forum began with Provost Lisa Lynch and Senior Vice President Stewart Uretsky addressing an audience seated at round tables whereupon smaller and more intimate discussions were held. This board commends the University for its willingness to respond to widespread criticism of the quality of life for students with disabilities. However, while planned with good intentions, this meeting did little to directly address many of the concerns of students with disabilities, which extend far beyond wheelchair access to certain buildings and will likely do little in the long term to address the well-being of students with disabilities.
(01/29/19 11:00am)
Section 504 of the United States Rehabilitation Act states, “No otherwise qualified individual with a disability in the United States… shall, solely by reason of her or his disability, be excluded from the participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.” This law, passed in 1973, forever changed how Americans with disabilities are treated. This clause has always applied to universities that receive federal funding. But unfortunately, in almost every institution of higher learning in this country, the vast majority of students with disabilities still face discrimination and inaccessibility all the time. Brandeis is, unfortunately, no exception.
(01/29/19 11:00am)
On Tuesday afternoon, Brandeis students, faculty and staff met in Levin Ballroom in Usdan Student Center and discussed their often-frustrating experiences with accessibility on campus.
(01/29/19 11:00am)
ACCESSIBILITY: Sasha Manus ’21 fiercely condemned the University's response to complaints about accessibility as administrators, faculty, staff and fellow students listened.
(01/29/19 11:00am)
The Senate renamed the Campus Operations Working Group and the Bylaws committees in addition to approving an amendment to the Bylaws concerning the impeachment or recall of a Senator.
(01/22/19 11:00am)
In its first meeting of the semester, the Senate debated whether to comment publicly on proposed federal changes to Title IX and discussed potential changes to Senate committees.
(11/20/18 11:00am)
In response to an open letter sent to University President Ron Liebowitz two weeks ago, Brandeis will hold an open forum to discuss accessibility on campus. The announcement, made by Liebowitz at Sunday’s Union Senate meeting, marks a success for the group that wrote the letter, Addressing Accessibility at Brandeis.
(11/20/18 11:00am)
JustArts: What was your previous directing experience before Godspell?
(11/20/18 11:00am)
Senators met with University President Ron Liebowitz during Sunday’s Senate meeting to ask questions and voice concerns about his administration. Student Union President Hannah Brown ’19, who also attended the meeting, noted that this was Liebowitz’s first time attending a Senate Meeting during her tenure at Brandeis.
(11/20/18 11:00am)
Brandeis’ Information and Technology Services is in the middle of a multiyear transitional project that will change the University’s administrative software from PeopleSoft to Workday. Currently, ITS is in the process of implementing Workday for the University’s human resources, payroll and finance operations. This first phase, named Phase One, of the implementation is scheduled to launch on April 1, 2019. In preparation, ITS is actively working with representatives from different departments to ensure the software will suit the University’s needs. The lessons that ITS learns during Phase One will be applied to Phase Two, which deals with student programs like SAGE and which is currently in the early planning stages.
(11/13/18 11:00am)
In the first of a series of campus conversations sponsored by the Dean of Students’ office, members of the Brandeis community gathered in Skyline Commons to hear the Department of Community Living address questions regarding piano installation policies, accessibility and declassing dormitories.
(11/13/18 11:00am)
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(11/06/18 11:00am)
Panelists discussed Berklee staff, student and administrator reactions to a Boston Globe article published last year which revealed that 11 Berklee professors had been terminated after sexual harassment and abuse allegations. The event, titled “Sexual Harassment: Case Study of a College in Distress,” featured members of the Feminist Faculty Alliance of Berklee College of Music, as well as Jessica Teperow, an expert on domestic violence, speaking at the Women’s Studies Research Center last Thursday.
