Featured stories from The Brandeis Hoot

Presidential Transition

Coverage of the meaning behind the new presidency of Fred Lawrence at Brandeis.

1. Fundraising style shifted with Brandeis presidential transition
2. Editorial: Ensure strategic plan endures
3. Handler presidency reflected identity shift
4. Mayor seeks new dialogue with ’Deis
5. Editorial: Renew dialogue with Waltham

Fall 2011

The Rose Art Museum reopens

A series of articles discussing the future of Brandeis given the re-dedication of The Rose Art Museum.

1. With settlement reached, art to remain at Rose Museum
2. Lawrence leadership style offers new vision, direction for Brandeis
3. Impression: Lessons of the Rose debacle
4. Rose to display Conner artwork
5. Three Rose exhibits spotlight permanent collection
6. Rose reopening marks new era
7. Impression: At the Rose, an admission that art trumps money
8. Editorial: Rose controversy left lasting shadow
9. Rose media coverage rebounds after reopening
10. Impression: History repeats: Kansas gallery wrong to sell artwork to fund renovations

Spring 2011

Shades of Gray

A multi-part series exploring how issues of race affect Brandeis University on multiple levels. The product of two months of interviews, archival research and statistical analysis, this series can never speak to the breadth of social inequities that are present at Brandeis and the world at large; however, it is an attempt to hold up a mirror to our institution and tell the story of one important factor that intimately affects our everyday lives.

1. Part one – A host for all: Brandeis’ unique racial history
2. Part two – The gatekeepers: Admitting racial diversity
3. Part three – The Architects: Pedagogy and race at Brandeis
4. Part four – The Mosaic: the reality of race in social life
5. Personal reflections – Ariel Wittenberg – Supreetha Gubbala – Omoefe Ogbeide

Fall 2010

Financial Exposure

A series on the financial organization of the university. Each article was based on copies of the university’s tax exemption forms obtained by The Hoot.

1. University contracts with board members’ companies
2. A look into Brandeis revenues and expenses
3. Anatomy of an endowment
4. Financial crisis forced university to take more loans
5. Univ fares better in FY10 than FY09
6. Editorial: Need for transparency is clear