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Univ alters study abroad policies

by Jillian Wagner | 01/20/2009

The Division of Students and Enrollment announced in a campuswide e-mail last Friday that the University has instituted new policy changes to the study abroad program, which include placing students who wish to go abroad in the spring 2010 semester into a stand-alone room selection process and making merit-based scholarships nontransferable while students are studying abroad.The e-mail was sent out by Co-Director of Residence Life Jeremy Leiferman, assistant dean of Academic Services and director of Study Abroad J.

Faculty donates to charitable gift fund to prevent staff layoffs

by Jillian Wagner | 01/13/2009

Two staff layoffs that otherwise would have occurred in Arts and Sciences are not going to happen because a little over one third of the faculty donated to a restricted charitable gift fund, according to Dean of Arts and Sciences Adam Jaffe.The Faculty Senate proposed that Arts and Sciences faculty volunteer to take a 1-percent salary cut in order to prevent two to three other staff layoffs at last month's faculty meeting.

Ethics Center won't get $400K

by Jillian Wagner | 01/13/2009

The International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life will not receive $400,000 of a grant from the Justice, Equality, Human Dignity and Tolerance Foundation, which was forced to shut down in December due to its investment in Bernard L.

Optional seminar to replace USEM

by Jillian Wagner | 12/09/2008

The majority of faculty present at the Dec. 4 faculty meeting voted in favor of passing the University Curriculum Committee's proposal to terminate the University Seminar program, which will be replaced with an optional First-year Seminar program in order to lessen the burden of the budget crisis.

Committee recommends USEM be optional

by Jillian Wagner | 11/25/2008

The University Curriculum Committee suggested in a meeting last Thursday that the University Seminar program be made optional for the incoming Class of 2013 in order to accommodate budget constraints, Dean of Arts and Sciences Adam Jaffe said.

Language classes to increase

by Jillian Wagner | 11/25/2008

Members of the language departments agreed that the cap size for enrollment in foreign language courses could increase to 25 students from a maximum of 18 as an alternative solution to reducing the foreign language requirement to two semesters instead of three and allowing culture courses taught in English to fulfill the requirement, according to Dean of Arts and Sciences Adam Jaffe.Jaffe met with department chairs and language department coordinators last Thursday, after the Special Advisory Faculty Committee suggested that the language requirement be altered."When the dean announced the proposal, everybody was shocked," said Director of Russian Language Program Prof.

Faculty approve film major

by Jillian Wagner | 11/11/2008

Faculty members at last Thursday's faculty meeting voted unanimously to pass a proposal to create a Film and Visual Media Studies major that, pending a review by the Board of Trustees in March, will be officially incorporated into the Brandeis undergraduate curriculum beginning in fall 2009.

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