Library and Technology Services is considering switching the standard course-management system from WebCT to an open-source program.Perry Hanson, vice president of LTS, and Chief University Librarian Susan Wawrzaszek said they would like the University to adopt Moodle instead of WebCT Vista 3.0, which has been used since fall of 2005.
Middle East scholar Norman Finkelstein will speak on campus after all, now that two student groups agreed to sponsor the event, Assistant Director of Student Activities Sarah Bordeleau confirmed yesterday."You can never be sure around here, but it looks like the pieces are all falling together, finally," Kevin Conway '09, who invited Finkelstein, said.
Students from Brandeis and its partner institution in East Jerusalem, Al Quds University, will take a joint 10-day trip to Turkey this August to develop relationships between students, senior administrators said The partnership between the two schools took off after a February 2006 meeting between University President Jehuda Reinharz and Al Quds President Sari Nusseibeh in Jerusalem.
The leader of a national Zionist organization has criticized the University over an essay written by a senior fellow at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies.The essay, penned by senior fellow Khalil Shikaki and published by the center, appears to have gone mostly unnoticed on campus.But Morton Klein, the president of the Zionist Organization of America, seized upon the essay as further proof that donors should reconsider their financial support for the University.
Controversial Middle East pundits Daniel Pipes and Norman Finkelstein will likely speak on campus in April, Director of Student Activities Stephanie Grimes said.The students who invited the two to campus were told by Student Life administrators and Student Union President Alison Schwartzbaum '08 last month that they had to meet with the Union's new "Campaign for Peace" committee to discuss the details of their events before approval.
The architects heading the $35 million Ridgewood housing project presented their design for lower campus at an open forum for students and staff Thursday in Ziv Commons.
Philanthropists Elaine and Gerald Schuster donated $5 million to Brandeis' Institute for Investigative Journalism this month, according to a University press release.The institute is now named the Elaine and Gerald Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism as a result of the gift."We are happy to support the urgent work of the institute, especially in this era when fewer media outlets will dedicate the resources needed to dig deeply and expose wrongdoing," Elaine Schuster said in the press release.
Nationally recognized civil rights figure Prof. Anita Hill (Heller) addressed the changing definitions of race at the Brandeis Black Student Organization's Black History Month Celebration,Hill garnered widespread attention in 1991 when she accused U.S.
A line of over 1,000 restless students snaked throughout the Shapiro Campus Center Atrium Wednesday night in hopes of receiving a ticket to hear former President Jimmy Carter speak today about his controversial book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.
It seems Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz will get the last word, after all.Ending a month-long back-and-forth on a possible appearance with former President Jimmy Carter, Dershowitz accepted an invitation sent Wednesday by a committee of faculty and students to appear following today's 4:30 p.m.
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