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by Nashrah Rahman
News Editor
News | 11/3/09
Posted online at 4:27 AM EST on 11/3/09
Chairman of the Board of Trustees Malcolm Sherman appointed nine trustees and three faculty members to the presidential search committee at last Thursday's Board meeting.
The committee will be chaired by trustee Meyer Koplow '72, managing partner at Watchtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, a business law firm in New York.
Trustees on the committee include Allen Alter '71, senior producer at CBS News; Jack Connors, former chairman of advertising agency Hill, Holiday, Connors, Cosmopulos, Inc.; D. Ronald Daniel, director of management consulting firm McKinsey & Company; Stephen B. Kay, former chair of the Brandeis Board of Trustees; Myra Kraft '64, president of New England Patriots Charitable Foundation; and Barbara Mandel of the Morton and Barbara Mandel Family Foundation. Michael Sandel '75, professor of government at Harvard University, and Thomas Friedman '75, foreign affairs columnist for The New York Times, will also serve on the committee.
Profs. Gregory Petsko (BCHM), Leonard Saxe (NEJS) and Gina Turrigiano (BIOL) are the faculty members of the committee.
Faculty Senate Chair Prof. Sabine von Mering (GRALL) said that the Senate provided the Board with a ranked list of nine faculty members from 20 faculty who were willing to run for the faculty seats on the Committee.
"We wanted people on the Committee who knew Brandeis well [and] could speak for the entire University, not just for their area of expertise, and we also wanted people who are nationally recognized scholars who would be able to help attract candidates and represent the strengths of our scholarly endeavor," von Mering said.
Sherman told the Justice that all faculty candidates were "outstanding." He said that faculty members were selected to be on the committee based on qualities including "prominence in their field, ability to interview [and] to evaluate potential candidates [and] knowledge and understanding of the University and its vision and goals."
The committee will be chaired by trustee Meyer Koplow '72, managing partner at Watchtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, a business law firm in New York.
Trustees on the committee include Allen Alter '71, senior producer at CBS News; Jack Connors, former chairman of advertising agency Hill, Holiday, Connors, Cosmopulos, Inc.; D. Ronald Daniel, director of management consulting firm McKinsey & Company; Stephen B. Kay, former chair of the Brandeis Board of Trustees; Myra Kraft '64, president of New England Patriots Charitable Foundation; and Barbara Mandel of the Morton and Barbara Mandel Family Foundation. Michael Sandel '75, professor of government at Harvard University, and Thomas Friedman '75, foreign affairs columnist for The New York Times, will also serve on the committee.
Profs. Gregory Petsko (BCHM), Leonard Saxe (NEJS) and Gina Turrigiano (BIOL) are the faculty members of the committee.
Faculty Senate Chair Prof. Sabine von Mering (GRALL) said that the Senate provided the Board with a ranked list of nine faculty members from 20 faculty who were willing to run for the faculty seats on the Committee.
"We wanted people on the Committee who knew Brandeis well [and] could speak for the entire University, not just for their area of expertise, and we also wanted people who are nationally recognized scholars who would be able to help attract candidates and represent the strengths of our scholarly endeavor," von Mering said.
Sherman told the Justice that all faculty candidates were "outstanding." He said that faculty members were selected to be on the committee based on qualities including "prominence in their field, ability to interview [and] to evaluate potential candidates [and] knowledge and understanding of the University and its vision and goals."
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Jon
posted 11/03/09 @ 8:47 PM EST
Pray tell, how does buying a building with your name on it qualify you to make decisions for a university community that you're not a part of? Malcolm Sherman seems to think that the expertise that comes from donating large piles of money far outweighs anything brought to the table by students or staff - that is, the people who live and work here, and the people who will be most affected by the selection of a new president. (Continued…)
Brandesian
posted 11/04/09 @ 1:52 PM EST
Because Malcolm Sherman was elected to be the Chairman of he Board of Trustees. Nuff said.
Ms. Rahman and Editors, please consider fact checking before publishing articles. (Continued…)
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