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The Justice Brandeis Semester (JBS) and related experiential learning programs have abandoned their attempts to direct students off-campus and help relieve campus crowding, one of the two primary goals of the program when piloted by the university and faculty in academic year ’08-’09. The JBS programs will remain a university priority for their academic value. […]
Following Wednesday’s snow day and resulting canceled classes, the registrar’s office is considering using the study day scheduled before finals period as well as weekend days or late nights to make up the missed classes, an unprecedented measure in the 14 years that Mark Hewitt has been registrar. “The academic administration is reviewing options for […]
The Student Union will hold special elections on Feb. 8 to fill three open seats in the Senate, including the seat of East Quad senator Albert Feldman ’13, who resigned last month, Union Secretary Herbie Rosen said in a statement. The other two open Senate positions are for the Village Quad and the class of […]
The student representatives on the University Curriculum Committee (UCC) have released a campus-wide survey that asks students about possible conditions for the committee’s approval of the academic credit decision known as “pass/fail plus.” Students currently may take four classes pass/fail during their time at Brandeis, and the “plus option,” being debated by the committee since […]
The Brandeis student facing criminal charges following the hit and run two months ago that hospitalized two people – one of them critically – has still not been arraigned in court, the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office said yesterday. Because no arraignment has been scheduled, the office has no record of the name of the student […]
In the wake of the political crisis in Egypt and the outbreak of violence in the region, the study abroad office released a statement assuring the community that no Brandeis students were in any immediate danger. This semester there are no students studying abroad in Egypt. There are 16 students studying in three countries surrounding […]
University administrators are concerned about an abnormally high number of copyright infringement notices issued last semester from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), and other major recording, television and publishing companies. “Brandeis is committed to respecting and protecting intellectual property rights,” Dean Gendron, Director of Student Rights and […]
Student and police participated in a discussion about how to improve their relations and ease tension from last semester on Thursday afternoon in the Shapiro Campus Center. The Office of Student Rights and Advocacy and the Student Union worked together to host the event, where Ed Callahan, Director of Public Safety advised students to raise […]
University President Fred Lawrence will travel to the Los Angeles area and attend several events on Feb. 7-10 to speak with prospective students, parents, alumni, friends of Brandeis and members of the Brandeis National Committee, Andrew Gully, Senior Vice President for Communications Andrew Gully said. Lawrence will be joined on the trip by Prof. Shai […]
Each student at Brandeis comes across classes that they want to take but the same ones make them worry that if they do so, their GPA will suffer. Since 2006 the University Curriculum Committee (UCC) has been debating changing the reigning pass/fail system. Under this system, a student who receives any grade more than a […]
