The great-nephew of a donor whose bequest funded the Kalman Science Building filed an injunction in Suffolk Probate Court May 7 to prevent Brandeis from tearing down the building due to disrepair, saying that such a move would violate his great-uncle's will.
Provost Marty Krauss decided May 7 to support most of the Curriculum and Academic Restructuring Steering committee's final recommendations, concluding that the University should maintain African and Afro-American Studies, Classical Studies and American Studies as departments while increasing interdepartmental collaboration among all academic programs.The proposed recommendations will serve as a new basis for the Brandeis curriculum as the University seeks to decrease its faculty by 10 percent, primarily through departures or retirements if possible, over five years in order to save $5 million from the School of Arts and Sciences faculty budget.
The faculty passed a resolution last Thursday against the Curriculum and Academic Restructuring Steering committee's recommendations to reorganize the African and Afro-American Studies department, the American Studies department and the Classical Studies department as interdepartmental programs, according to faculty and administrators who attended the meeting.The faculty also rejected a proposal that would have enabled students to design their own general education requirements and voted to have an additional faculty meeting to discuss other parts of the CARS proposals this week before Provost Marty Krauss makes initial decisions on the report May 4.The faculty meeting was closed to students so faculty could speak freely, Krauss explained Thursday.
Some Ph.D. students are wary about plans by the Curriculum and Academic Restructuring Steering committee to reduce the number of Ph.D.
The Curriculum and Academic Restructuring Steering committee has recommended converting the African and Afro-American Studies, American Studies and Classical Studies departments into interdepartmental programs; cutting 10 percent of the faculty from all departments over the next five years; and reducing the size of most Ph.D.
The Union Judiciary has postponed the election for the senator for racial minority and the Finance Board representative for racial minority students after accepting a case from two students challenging the positions on the grounds that both positions are discriminatory toward students who do not identify as minorities.
Senior administrators and the Committee on Faculty Rights and Responsibilities agreed on a modified process for the consideration of proposals by the Curriculum and Academic Restructuring Steering committee, which will be released later this month, Provost Marty Krauss announced in a campuswide e-mail sent April 2 and at the faculty meeting last Thursday.The new process will have Krauss presenting an initial report of the CARS recommendations to the community May 4 and presenting a final report at the May 14 faculty meeting.
CORRECTION APPENDED SEE BOTTOMThe University accepted 40 percent of its first-year applicants for the Class of 2013, an 8-percent increase over its 32-percent acceptance rate for the Class of 2012, while facing a 13-percent decline in the number of applications, Senior Vice President for Students and Enrollment Jean Eddy said at last Thursday's faculty meeting.The University is aiming for a Class of 2013 of 825, Dean of Admissions Gil Villanueva said in an interview.
The Board of Trustees approved a proposal to use another $2 million from the University reserves of $85 million to help close a $5 million budget gap for fiscal 2009 and also voted on a preliminary budget proposal for fiscal 2010 in a meeting last Wednesday, according to several attendees.The Board of Trustees voted unanimously in favor of the proposal for another $2 million, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Peter French wrote in an e-mail to the Justice.
After much discussion, the Senate recognized the Collegiate Association for the Research of Principles.
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