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Volume LXV, Number 6
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Tuesday, October 16, 2012
strategic plan
CLASS OF 2016 BY THE NUMBERS
Framework draws mixed reactions ■ Feedback sessions
allowing faculty, staff and student feedback have been ongoing since last Thursday. By SAM MINTZ JUSTICE EDITOR
The much-anticipated preliminary framework for the University’s strategic plan was released on Wednesday in an email to the Brandeis community from Provost Steve Goldstein ’78. The document is another step closer to the culmination of a process that began in September of last year as University President Frederick Lawrence began his first full year in office. According to Goldstein’s email, “The framework seeks to ensure that Brandeis University remains a clear first choice for exceptional students, faculty, and staff committed to making a difference in the world.” This framework will be presented to the Board of Trustees at its meeting at the end of October, and after that meeting a final plan will be produced, to be approved by the Board in January. The 14-page document discusses
strategic directions for five categories: academic experience, discovery enterprise, community, campus and technology and stewardship. Goldstein wrote in his email to the community that the plan recognizes a full realization of the “Brandeis model.” This model, he said, “is a learning experience in the finest liberal arts tradition.” Goldstein explained that it involves education in critical thinking, as well as discovery that “can be offered only by a small, research-intensive university at the leading edge of innovation.” The next step in moving toward the final plan is six feedback sessions, which are a chance for the community to share their opinions on the plan with the administration and others who have been in charge of drafting the framework. Those sessions started last Thursday and will finish tomorrow, with a discussion at 3 p.m. in the Levin Ballroom. Professors also had a chance to give feedback at the faculty meeting on Thursday, where Lawrence and Goldstein introduced the framework and led a discussion. While responses fluctuated between praise and criticism, the ma-
See FRAMEWORK, 7 ☛
obituary
Ruth Shapiro, beloved benefactor, dies at 95 ■ Along with her husband
Carl, Shapiro has helped “transform” the University over the last fifty years. By SAM MINTZ JUSTICE EDITOR
Ruth Shapiro, one of the most influential donors in Brandeis’ history, died on Sunday at the age of 95, according to a BrandeisNOW press release. Over the last 50 years, she and her husband Carl “helped transform the university into a leader in American higher education,” according to the release. Shapiro’s name is on two of the newest and most impressive buildings on campus, the Carl and Ruth Shapiro Admissions Center and the
Carl and Ruth Shapiro Campus Center, which were completed in 2009 and 2002, respectively. Her husband’s is also honored on the Carl J. Shapiro Science Center, which was also Shapiro completed in 2009. “Carl and Ruth Shapiro have been instrumental in helping Brandeis become the institution that our founders envisioned in 1948,” said University President Frederick Lawrence in the release. “May her memory ever be a blessing.” Ruth was born in Chelsea, MA. in 1917, according to an article from the Palm Beach Daily News. She gradu-
See SHAPIRO, 7 ☛
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Acceptance rate falls with fewer applicants ■ A change in application
procedure resulted in a drop in applications this year compared to last year. By sara dejene JUSTICE editor
The University saw a slight drop in applications this year, from 8,917 last year to 8,380 for the Class of 2016, according to Senior Vice President for Students and Enrollment Andrew Flagel during last Thursday’s faculty meeting. The numbers are as of Oct. 1 and
came from a preliminary report on admissions statistics Flagel presented to the faculty. According to the data from the report, acceptances decreased with applications, falling to 3,277, resulting in an acceptance rate of 39.11 percent. This is slightly lower than last year’s 39.99 percent, although the University’s acceptance rate has hovered around 40 percent for the past three years. In addition, the yield, or rate of students accepted who matriculate, increased to 25.1 percent. “Both of these rates are moving very much in the right direction,” said Flagel.
Flagel pointed out that although there were fewer applicants, both last and this year’s classes were the “two largest application pools for freshmen in our history.” According to Flagel, the reason for the decline was the elimination of an internal application that drew about 600 applications that “didn’t tend to enroll or be qualified.” In addition, these applications were costly to the University. For these reasons, the applications were discontinued so that students applied exclusively with the Common Application. This year’s class size, which does
See ENROLLMENT, 7 ☛
Camera view
Storied swimmers
Judiciary case
Alum Andrew Rauner ’12 spent the summer touring with Identity Fest, taking photographs of the festival’s performers.
Brandeis reopened the Pool for the Alumni Swimming and Diving Meet this weekend.
Dean Kaplan ’15 is pursuing charges against members of the Union.
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FROM EVERY CORNER OF THE EARTH: Domestic students in the Class of 2016 are concentrated in New England and the Mid-Atlantic, while the majority of international students come from China and South Korea. The above data were provided by Senior Vice President for Students and Enrollment Andrew Flagel in a presentation at the faculty meeting on Thursday.
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