Judaic Studies Department Faces Cutbacks at Brandeis University

Forward, January, 2005 by Popper, Nathaniel

Popper, Nathaniel Forward 01-14-2005 Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass., has been the site of a series of aggrieved faculty and student meetings in recent weeks, after the dean of arts and sciences proposed cutting faculty from a number of programs, including the signature Near Eastern and Judaic studies department. Dean Adam Jaffe proposed the cuts to make room for 15 new professors to widen the offerings at Brandeis, America's only non sectarian Jewish university.

But the new additions in the economics and business departments have some on campus worried that Brandeis is professionalizing its education at the expense of the liberal arts. The editorial page of The Justice, Brandeis's student newspaper, opined that with his proposals, "Jaffe is placing a...

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