459 University Organization Board of Trustees The dean of the Heller School for Social study abroad, international students and Policy and Management oversees the scholars, and student enrichment services), academic activities of the school and its Hiatt Career Center, research and planning, Under Massachusetts law, the Board of work in such policy areas as children, and student life (including athletics, Trustees is the governing body of the youth, families, health, mental health, chaplaincy, community service, health university. There are four faculty substance abuse, disabilities, aging, social services, intercultural center, judicial representatives and three student change, and economic inequalities. orientation, psychological counseling, representatives to the board who participate residence life, and student activities). in board meetings and have votes on the The dean of the Brandeis International several committees. The president of the Business School oversees the academic, The senior vice president for university, the chair of the Fellows, the professional, and development activities communications administers and executes president of the Brandeis National of the university’s second professional critical university-wide internal and Committee, and the president of the school. Research areas of the school external communications, overseeing the Alumni Association serve ex officio. The include economic policy, finance, global communications emergency response plan board annually elects an alumni term entrepreneurship, international business, and directing all crisis communications. trustee who serves a four-year term with regional economics integration, and trade Further, she is responsible for an integrated full voting privileges. and exports. marketing communications program that highlights Brandeis’s research The President accomplishments, academic excellence, The president, the chief executive officer of The Faculty Senate social justice mission, and scholarly the university, is appointed by the Board of contributions to the Jewish community. Trustees and is responsible for all The Faculty Senate, elected by the Faculty Under the direction of the senior vice university activities. as its official representative body, addresses president, the Office of Communications matters relevant to the educational and provides design and editorial services for Board of Fellows research missions of the university, print and Web publishing, as well as carries University Fellows comprise about 225 including academic freedom, faculty rights out the university’s public affairs and media national leaders from a broad base of and responsibilities, governance, and relations initiatives. business, educational, and public life who university policies regarding appointments, lend counsel, expertise, and support to tenure, and promotion. The senior vice president and general university development and planning counsel is the chief legal advisor to the programs. president, the Board of Trustees, and the The Vice Presidents university’s senior management officers. The Provost and Deans The executive vice president and chief Brandeis National Committee operating officer oversees Brandeis’s The provost and senior vice president for financial and administrative operations. academic affairs is the chief academic The office’s major responsibilities include The Brandeis National Committee officer of the university with administrative budget and planning, financial accounting, (formerly BUNWC) is an organization authority under the president for setting capital programs (planning, design, and committed to providing financial support to and implementing academic policy. The construction), endowment and investment the university. Since its founding in 1948, it provost provides strategic leadership for the management, information technology, has contributed more than $110 million to academy to achieve the university’s procurement services, plant operations, the libraries for the acquisition of books academic mission and to improve the human resources, public safety, and and research journals, restoration and quality of the institution’s teaching, internal audit. The executive vice president preservation, development of computer learning, and scholarship. serves as principal liaison to the following technology, and student work assistance. committees of the Board of Trustees: More recently, its mission was expanded to The provost is responsible for academic Budget and Finance; Investment; Physical fund student scholarships and fellowships. governance and strategic planning for Arts Facilities; Personnel, Compensation, and and Sciences, the Heller School for Social Ethics; and Audit. The organization’s national center is Policy and Management, the International located in the Goldfarb Library, where Business School, the Rabb School for The senior vice president for institutional professional staff members collaborate with Continuing Studies, the University advancement is responsible for directing the volunteers and the university to coordinate Libraries, the Rose Art Museum, and fundraising and external relations activities, fundraising efforts and to develop various centers and institutes. Other including planned giving, leadership gifts, educational programs for members within responsibilities include sponsored research the Annual Fund, alumni events and chapters across the country. The National administration and technology licensing. services, and corporate and foundation Women’s Committee connects its members relations, in addition to a major multi-year to Brandeis through fundraising and The dean of arts and sciences has capital campaign. through activities that reflect the values of administrative responsibility for the university. undergraduate research and, with the The senior vice president for students and dean of the graduate school, the graduate enrollment oversees the recruitment, functions of the school of arts and retention, and quality of life for students. sciences. The dean is responsible for the Departments and units reporting to the undergraduate and graduate curricula, senior vice president include undergraduate faculty, staffing, oversight of academic admissions, student financial services, departments, and other academic matters. registrar’s office, academic services (including advising, disability services, 460 Board of Trustees 2008-09 Malcolm L. Sherman, Chair Jack M. Connors Jr., Vice Chair Gershon Kekst, Vice Chair Perry Traquina ’78, Secretary Rhonda Zinner, Treasurer Jehuda Reinharz, PhD’72, President Henry Aboodi ’86 Meyer Koplow ’72 Allen B. Alter ’71 Myra H. Kraft ’64 Leonard J. Asper ’86 Thomas H. Lee Alex Barkas ’68 Jeanette Lerman ’69 Charles Bronfman Stuart Lewtan ’84 D. Ronald Daniel Barbara A. Mandel Jonathan G. Davis ’75 Walter S. Mossberg ’69 Donald G. Drapkin ’68 Louis Perlmutter ’56* Daniel J. Elkaim ’81 Ronald A. Ratner ’69 Henry L. Foster* Stephen R. Reiner ’61 William S. Friedman ’65 Robert S. Rifkind Morton Ginsberg ’56 E. John Rosenwald Jr. Thomas P. Glynn, PhD’77 Carol R. Saivetz ’69 Vartan Gregorian Lynn Schusterman Sylvia Hassenfeld Michael H. Steinhardt Jonathon S. Jacobson John Usdan Daniel J. Jick ’79 Linda Whitlock Kenneth S. Kaiserman ’60 Barton J. Winokur* Stephen B. Kay* Paul M. Zlotoff ’72 Carol Kern Dolores Kohl ’55 Trustees Emeriti Arthur G. Cohen Gustav Ranis ’52 Richard G. Shapiro Paul E. Levenson ’52 Irving Schneider David F. Squire Rena Joy Olshansky ’56 Carl J. Shapiro Faculty Representatives Student Representatives Steven Burg Jacob F. Bockelmann ’09 (SR) David G. Gil Jon A. Kane ’10 (SR) Leslie Griffith Carlos A. Yepez (GSR) Jordan Pollack *Former Board Chair 461 University Officers and Administrative Offices Officers of the Office of the Office of the Susan V. Office of the Office of the Wawrzaszek University President Provost MLS Dean of Arts and Senior Vice Chief University Sciences President for Jehuda Reinharz Jehuda Reinharz Marty Wyngaarden Librarian Students and Krauss PhD’72 PhD’72 Krauss Adam B. Jaffe Enrollment President President PhD’81 Michaele Whelan PhD Provost and Senior PhD Dean of Arts and Jean C. Eddy John R. Hose Vice President for Vice Provost for Sciences Jean C. Eddy MS PhD Academic Affairs Academic Affairs MS Senior Vice Executive Assistant Gregory L. Freeze Senior Vice President for to the President and Irene Abrams TBA PhD President for Students and Assistant Secretary MA Vice Provost for Dean of the Students and Enrollment of the Corporation Executive Director, Research Graduate School of Enrollment Office of Arts and Sciences Peter B. French L. Suzanne Yates Technology and TBA Peter M. Giumette MPA MLS Licensing Vice President and Elaine Wong MPA Executive Vice Assistant to the Vice Provost for MA Dean, Student President and Chief President for Special Alwina Bennett Libraries and Associate Dean of Financial Services Operating Officer University Events BA Information Arts and Sciences Assistant Provost Technology for Undergraduate Kim Godsoe Marty Wyngaarden for Graduate Education MFA Krauss Student Affairs TBA Dean of Academic PhD’81 Executive Director, Barbara Wrightson Services Provost and Senior Scott Edmiston Brandeis National MA Vice President for MFA Committee Director of Budget Mark Hewitt Academic Affairs Director, Office of and Planning, Arts PhD’92 the Arts and Sciences University Registrar Judith R. Sizer JD Judith Jaffe Richard P. Sawyer Senior Vice MBA MA President and Associate Director Vice President for General Counsel of Academic