Board of Trustees passes academic proposals
by Miranda Neubauer
Senior Writer
News | 3/31/09
Posted online at 7:29 AM EST on 3/31/09
/ Last updated at 1:53 PM EST on 3/31/09
The University plans to present the final Curriculum and Academic Restructuring committee proposals to the Board in May, Krauss said.
Krauss said, "We had been telling [the Board] that we were working on a plan that would both increase the number of students on the campus and that would make some changes in the curriculum both to attract more students but also to manage within a tighter budget, so this board meeting was spent describing to them where we are with respect to both of those goals."
"[The trustees] were very supportive, they were very excited, they could tell that we as a faculty were excited about this opportunity to innovate, and it would indeed help [Brandeis] as an institution be another tool to solve some of these problems that have arisen," Hickey said.
Board members were "inspired" by the presentation, Krauss said. "One Board member said 'I might apply to come back to Brandeis'." She said she thought "the Board is solidly behind the feverish planning that the University has been undergoing."
Krauss said, "We had been telling [the Board] that we were working on a plan that would both increase the number of students on the campus and that would make some changes in the curriculum both to attract more students but also to manage within a tighter budget, so this board meeting was spent describing to them where we are with respect to both of those goals."
"[The trustees] were very supportive, they were very excited, they could tell that we as a faculty were excited about this opportunity to innovate, and it would indeed help [Brandeis] as an institution be another tool to solve some of these problems that have arisen," Hickey said.
Board members were "inspired" by the presentation, Krauss said. "One Board member said 'I might apply to come back to Brandeis'." She said she thought "the Board is solidly behind the feverish planning that the University has been undergoing."
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