Alumni College 2003: An Emphasis on Academic Excellence
Friday, June 20, 2003
This daylong academic adventure for Brandeis graduates, their families, and friends of the University features Brandeis faculty members and prominent alumni. The only prerequisites for participation are curiosity, imagination, and a desire to learn.
So leave your workplace attire behind, and experience once again the excitement of a Brandeis classroom.
Alumni College 2003: An Emphasis on Academic Excellence includes a continental networking breakfast and picnic lunch. Please download the Registration Form (PDF), select the classes you will attend and remit $35 per person ($20 per Reunion attendee or student) to:
Alumni College 2003
Brandeis University
Office of Development and Alumni Relations
Mailstop 124
P.O. Box 549110
Waltham, MA 02454-9110
The deadline for registration is June 15, 2003. Please make check payable to Brandeis University. No refunds will be made after this date. Preregistration is required. Please direct any questions to Donna Emma Savelli, senior Reunion coordinator, at 781-736-4039, or 800-333-1948, or by email at savelli@brandeis.edu
Schedule of Events
Registration
8:00-9:00 am
Registration and Continental Networking Breakfast
Sherman Function Hall
The Rita Dee and Harold Hassenfeld Conference Center
Session I
9:00-10:30 am
Choose A or B
A. Education: Winds of Change
Marya Levenson '64
Harry S. Levitan Director of Teacher Education
Mary Gustafson
Assistant Director of the Education Program
How are changing standards, high stakes testing, teacher requirements, and the growth of Jewish day schools affecting K-12 instruction? Learn how today's educators and the Brandeis Education Program are addressing these issues.
B. Interpretation of Religion
Marc Brettler '78
Dora Golding Professor of Biblical Studies and Chair of the Near Eastern and Judaic Studies department at Brandeis
Everett Fox '68
Program Director for Jewish Studies at Clark University, through religious translation and interpretation
Everett Fox, translator of the widely acclaimed The Schocken Bible: The Five Books of Moses, and Marc Brettler, coeditor of The Jewish Study Bible, will share their observations about the Hebrew Bible.
Session II
10:45 am-12:15 pm
Choose A or B
A. Forensic Science: Real Crimes Can Be Solved?
Arthur H. Reis, Jr.
Associate Provost and Lecturer in Chemistry
Explore forensic science as it relates to specific cases involving drugs, currency, explosives and homicides. This talk will also include a discussion of how a course in this topic at Brandeis has been used to teach science to non-science majors and the results of this manner of instruction.
B. From Icons to Enrons: The Rise and Fall of American Business Models
Benjamin Gomes-Casseres '76
Associate Professor of International Business, and Director of the M.B.A.i. Program
Enron. America Online. B2B Exchanges. Investment Banking. IPOs...All icons of American business in the New Economy, which, until a couple of years ago, was the kind of economy every country in the world envied. The higher they rose, the harder they fell. Why? What remains of their promise? Join us for a look at why the questions posed by collapsing business models have more to teach us than the successes of former heroes.
12:30-1:30 pm
Picnic Lunch
Carl and Ruth Shapiro Campus Center
Sachar Society Luncheon (optional)
In these challenging economic times, come and learn different estate planning vehicles that will help protect you and your family.
1:30-3:00 pm
Session III
The Importance of Multilateralism Today
Chad P. Bown
Assistant Professor of Economics
Osman Faruk Logoglu '63
Ambassador of Turkey to the United States
Is free trade good for us? Is free trade good for them?
The immediate reaction to turbulent times in international relations is often visceral: to withdraw into isolationism. To lash out with unilateralism. To seek special relationships with "loyal" friends, i.e. preferentialism.
In such difficult political times, it is important to remember the economic virtues of multilateralism and nondiscrimination. Such principles are the pillars of international trade agreements such as the World Trade Organization (WTO).
This session will introduce the WTO, discuss its successes and failures, highlight some of its limitations and finally dispel of some of the myths regarding international trade and the WTO's role in international relations. Finally we will argue the case for multilateralism, nondiscrimination and the strengthening of international relations through a deeper adherence to these WTO principles.
3:00-6:00 pm
Alumni Artists Exhibit Open
Art Gallery
Carl and Ruth Shapiro Campus Center
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