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Faculty members and administrators will undergo diversity training in April and May, respectively, in accordance with Interim University President Lisa Lynch’s Feb. 24 email providing updates on the University’s diversity and inclusion efforts.
A voice from the back of the theater emerged and Nyah Macklin ’16 walked down an aisle singing “Take Me to the Water,” by Nina Simone. Simultaneously, Brontë Velez ’16 danced down the center aisle, and the sound of a violin accompaniment came as Priya DeBerry ’17 walked down the opposite side. The audience remained transfixed, and eyes followed the trio as they made their way towards the stage.
Levin Ballroom was jam-packed last Tuesday night with students anxiously awaiting the start of the 16th annual Liquid Latex show. The Liquid Latex show is an extremely popular event that showcases groups of Brandeis students performing pieces on a variety of themes without any clothes on, covered only in latex body paint. The show this year was titled “Peace, Love and Latex.”
On Mar. 6, a group of volunteers staged a used book sale in front of a Publix Supermarket to benefit Brandeis University Libraries, Scholarships and Research, according to a Miami’s Community Newspapers article.
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The search for the new Chief Operating Officer, Chief Diversity Officer and Dean of the Heller School will begin shortly, according to a March 11 email to the community from Interim University President Lisa Lynch and Interim Provost Irving Epstein.
Last Tuesday the Women’s Studies Research Center celebrated International Women’s Day with Marguerite Guzmán Bouvard (WSRC), a self-proclaimed feminist before the women’s movement.
The University is behind its peer schools in energy reduction and recycling, Sustainability Manager Mary Fischer announced at the State of Sustainability conference on Tuesday night. The event also featured presentations from the various environmental groups on campus, including Students for Environmental Action and Brandeis Climate Justice.
In continuing to celebrate the legacy of Justice Louis D. Brandeis during the year that marks the 100th anniversary of his appointment to the Supreme Court in 1916, several scholars gathered to discuss his economic influence on Monday in the Rapaporte Treasure Hall. At the event, titled “Citizenship and the Economy: Labor, Inequality and Bigness,” panelists Richard Adelstein, Alexis Goldstein and Jeffrey Rosen spoke about Brandeis’ legacy in the economy and his effect on their work. Director of the International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life Prof. Daniel Terris (PAX) moderated the panel, and Prof. Elizabeth Brainerd (WGS) was the Brandeis Commentator at the event.
In a Feb. 24 email titled “Update on diversity and inclusion efforts,” Interim President Lisa Lynch described the foundation of a new scholarship model for the coming year. In part, Lynch stated that the University would be establishing “a new pilot program based on the Posse Model [that] will offer a full-tuition scholarship and a $10,000 stipend to as many as five students per year” in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Lynch neither offered an explanation for the source of this funding nor elaborated whether this stipend would come with any stipulations.
Interim University President Lisa Lynch’s salary ranks in the lowest 7th percentile of comparable institutions, according to a presentation on executive compensation that Board of Trustees Chair Perry Traquina ’78 gave at Friday’s faculty meeting.
The University will begin its search for a new Chief Diversity Officer in the coming months, Interim University President Lisa Lynch announced in a Feb. 24 email to the community. The email also included various other diversity and inclusion policy changes that have occurred in the months following the Ford Hall 2015 sit-in.
Last semester, protests and rallies against racial inequity pervaded university campuses across the nation. At Brandeis, the Ford Hall 2015 movement demanded — among other things — that the University admit more students of color, hire more faculty of color and require yearly diversity and inclusion workshops for all members of the staff and faculty.
On Thursday, according to a Feb. 26 Huffington Post article, Rep. Pete Nielsen (R) of the Idaho state legislature attended a state House committee hearing regarding new abortion legislation and decided to give his two cents: “Now, I’m of the understanding that in many cases of rape, it does not involve any pregnancy because of the trauma of the incident.”
Three screens flashing facts about the United States’ involvement in wars over the past two decades. A bar with audience members seated behind it. Cast members wandering through the aisles, offering drinks to the 40 or so attendees. From these details alone, the audience could tell that “Drunk Enough To Say I Love You?” would not be a typical play.
On Thursday night, a panel of students sat down with Prof. Sarah Elisabeth Curi (LGLS, HSSP) to discuss the meaning of social justice both in and out of the classroom. The event, titled, “Exploring Social Justice in the Brandeis Classroom and Beyond: Courses, Internship, and Careers,” was part of Brandeis’s week-long ’DEIS Impact festival celebrating social justice.
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Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Ruth Bader Ginsburg H ’96 spoke to students, faculty, trustees, administrators and alumni last Thursday in the Gosman Sports and Convocation Center. Ginsburg served as the opening speaker at a panel discussion on the legacy of Louis Brandeis, Supreme Court Justice and the University’s namesake. The event kicked off the University’s semester-long celebration of the centennial anniversary of Brandeis’ nomination to the Supreme Court.
While the percentage of underrepresented minority applicants has increased by over three percent in the last five years, the University still falls short from the ideal, Vice President for Students and Enrollment Andrew Flagel announced in a presentation at the faculty meeting on Friday. A PowerPoint Interim University President Lisa Lynch showed at the same meeting revealed that while on the uptick, the University’s percentage of historically underrepresented groups in its undergraduate population is lower than peer schools like Brown University.
The newly formed bargaining unit of adjunct and part-time faculty has been working on three main fronts since joining the Service Employees International Union Local 509 in December: gathering information about their constituents' main concerns, increasing the number of faculty actively involved in the union and requesting full information from the University about current members’ contracts.