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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.
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.
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.
JustArts: What was your previous directing experience before Godspell?
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.
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.
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.
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.
‘EXCEPTIONAL’ COMMUNITY: University President Ron Liebowitz discussed the University's strengths and shortcomings on Monday.
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.
Dorothy L. Hodgson, an internationally known anthropologist, was selected as the new dean of Arts and Sciences last May. She previously served as the senior associate dean for academic affairs at Rutgers University’s School of Graduate Studies.
JustArts: What are your responsibilities as UTC president?
The Brandeis Counseling Center is expanding its services this semester after receiving more funding from the Division of Student Affairs. New additions include more staff members who will be available for extended hours, more programs and therapy dogs-in-training. The changes, announced in an Aug. 24 email from Vice President of Student Affairs Sheryl Sousa, come in the wake of a forum on mental health hosted by the BCC last spring.