The Undergraduate Curriculum Committee unanimously approved the selection criteria for the Brandeis study abroad applications last Thursday, according to Dean of Academic Services Kim Godsoe.The criteria, according to the minutes from the Advisory Committee to Study Abroad's meeting March 5, is divided into four parts: academic and intellectual fit of the program, intercultural learning plan, academic achievement and preparedness and personal preparedness.
Student Union President Jason Gray '10 spoke about the State of the Union address, which will be held March 17.
The Student Union Senate voted 10-8 at last Sunday's Senate meeting to pass a Senate Money Resolution providing $900 of funding from the Senate discretionary fund for Bill Ayers and Robert H.
The Student Union is in the process of forming the Executive Task Force for Admissions, a committee that will encourage current Brandeis students to reach out to accepted students in an effort to help admissions recruit potential students, Student Union President Jason Gray '10 said.
A new initiative created by the Office of Admissions and the Office of the Dean of Arts and Sciences will put faculty members in contact with up to five of the top 500 applicants from the Class of 2013 each in an effort to recruit them to attend the school, according to an e-mail Dean of Arts and Sciences Adam Jaffe wrote to faculty explaining this initiative.The Office of Admissions began sending e-mails to these students last Friday, providing them with a link that enables them to tell admissions officers if they would like personal contact with a Brandeis faculty member, Jaffe, who is coordinating the faculty effort for the initiative, said in an interview with the Justice."By the time the actual acceptance letters go out, students are flooded with information from multiple schools, so we thought it was sensible to contact them before the acceptance letters actually went out in an effort to interest them early on," Jaffe said.Jaffe said the University's budget situation did not play a direct role in the forming of the initiative."This initiative does not have anything to do with Brandeis' budget difficulties; it is a further step in recruiting admitted students," Jaffe said.
The Student Union Club Support Committee plans to send an e-mail to over 30 club leaders threatening to decharter their respective clubs if they do not report their activities to the Senate, Sung Lo Yoon '09, chair of the Club Support Committee said.The committee said it is still finalizing the list of clubs it would e-mail and thus would not publish the list.
The endowments of the Crown Center for Middle East Studies and the Schusterman Center for Middle East Studies are currently "under the water," according to Provost Marty Krauss, which means that the current market value of the endowment is less than the original amount.
Brandeis will not be affected by the Carl and Ruth Shapiro Family Foundation's decision to suspend grants in 2009 as a result of their monetary losses in the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme because the University did not expect to receive any donations from the Shapiro family even before the Foundation's decision, according to Senior Vice President of Institutional Advancement Nancy Winship.The Shapiro Foundation announced last Friday that it will provide neither grants nor capital pledges in 2009 to any organizations to which they had previously donated, according to an article in the Boston Globe.
The Program in Social Justice and Social Policy, a program in coordination with the Heller School for Social Policy and?Management that serves to foster critical and creative thinking about social problems, will be awarding two Brenda Meehan Social Justice-in-Action Grants, each with a $1,500 stipend, to students who submit event proposals that promote social justice issues, according to Prof.
The Student Union raised $2,000 to help rebuild the Macedonia Church of God in Christ, a predominantly black membered church in Springfield, Mass., after it was burned down on Election Day in what was thought to be an act of racism, Union Director of Campus Advocacy Andrew Hogan '11, who coordinated the effort, said.
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