University reorganizes high school programming
by Miranda Neubauer
Senior Writer
News | 11/24/09
Posted online at 2:55 AM EST on 11/24/09
The University is consolidating three high school summer programs at Brandeis-the Genesis Program, the Berkshire Institute for Music and the Arts and Impact Boston-into a new Office of High School Programs in part of an effort to expand its options for high school students, Provost Marty Krauss said.
As part of that reorganization, the Institute for Informal Jewish Education, which conveys teaching methods used in the high school summer programs to Jewish educators, will be renamed Innovation in Jewish Education, according to an e-mail to faculty and staff from Krauss last Wednesday. IJE will continue as an outreach program of the Office of High School Programs and no longer as an institute, Krauss wrote in an e-mail to faculty last Wednesday.
"As efforts were being thought about that would expand the number of programs that might be directed towards high school students, we thought it might be useful to have one office to coordinate and oversee and facilitate that," Krauss said.
"What we feel as a team is it's time for Brandeis as a university to try to take best advantage of the summer opportunities for high school students both because they're really good for the students, but they also bring really excellent potential future Brandeis undergraduates to campus," Prof. Joseph Reimer (HRNS), director of the IJE, said.
According to their respective Web sites, Genesis, founded in 1997, is a four-week program for high school students to "to pursue intellectual and Jewish exploration." BIMA, which moved to Brandeis in 2007, is a four-week program for high school students to develop their "artistic talent and [their] Jewish identity," while Impact Boston, a cooperation with the B'nai B'rith Youth Organization that started this year, is a two-week program focused on "social action, community service, and advocacy."
"The changes are being made at our suggestion, and we're delighted that the Provost and the President were responsive. … One of the exciting things that has happened that I know most undergraduates are not aware of is how those programs have grown, both grown in size and grown more sophisticated and more international," Reimer said. He added that the center has students from Israel, Russia and western Europe.
As part of that reorganization, the Institute for Informal Jewish Education, which conveys teaching methods used in the high school summer programs to Jewish educators, will be renamed Innovation in Jewish Education, according to an e-mail to faculty and staff from Krauss last Wednesday. IJE will continue as an outreach program of the Office of High School Programs and no longer as an institute, Krauss wrote in an e-mail to faculty last Wednesday.
"As efforts were being thought about that would expand the number of programs that might be directed towards high school students, we thought it might be useful to have one office to coordinate and oversee and facilitate that," Krauss said.
"What we feel as a team is it's time for Brandeis as a university to try to take best advantage of the summer opportunities for high school students both because they're really good for the students, but they also bring really excellent potential future Brandeis undergraduates to campus," Prof. Joseph Reimer (HRNS), director of the IJE, said.
According to their respective Web sites, Genesis, founded in 1997, is a four-week program for high school students to "to pursue intellectual and Jewish exploration." BIMA, which moved to Brandeis in 2007, is a four-week program for high school students to develop their "artistic talent and [their] Jewish identity," while Impact Boston, a cooperation with the B'nai B'rith Youth Organization that started this year, is a two-week program focused on "social action, community service, and advocacy."
"The changes are being made at our suggestion, and we're delighted that the Provost and the President were responsive. … One of the exciting things that has happened that I know most undergraduates are not aware of is how those programs have grown, both grown in size and grown more sophisticated and more international," Reimer said. He added that the center has students from Israel, Russia and western Europe.
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