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Students with disabilities can speak for themselves

(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.






Open letter prompts administration to hold accessibility forum

(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.




University implementing new human resources, finance software

(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.





Berklee professors united after Globe’s revelations

(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. 







Carefully analyze how Kavanaugh situation unravels

(09/25/18 10:00am)

In last week’s Forum piece, “The Stakes of Brett Kavanaugh’s SCOTUS Nomination,” writer Violet Fearon noted that Democrats’ chances of blocking the nomination were slim. The judge answered all of the questions capably, seemed eminently qualified, and with a Republican voting majority in the Senate, his nomination to the highest judicial body in the land appeared to be a foregone conclusion. That calculus was radically disrupted last week when Christine Blasey Ford, a California college professor, publicly stated that the then-17-year-old Kavanaugh had attempted to rape her at a Maryland house party. By Ford’s account, the future judge locked her in a bedroom, jumped on top of her and tried to take her clothes off, although she was able to escape. The facts surrounding this story are still being established, and new details and developments seem to pop up every day.