Brandeis University

The conventional measures of institutional prestige cannot provide two vital pieces of information: What does an institution teach, and what kind of students does it attract?

“Due to the current climate on many campuses around the world, we are now expanding the opportunity for students to seek the learning environment of our campus by extending the transfer application."

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

Besides the political dimension, the study also found that hostility towards Israel mainly came from fellow students rather than faculty or university administrators.

“This decision was not made lightly, as Brandeis is dedicated to upholding free speech principles,” the university wrote in its letter, which the Jewish Telegraphic Agency obtained.

Brandeis told the student group that open support for Hamas was a violation of the school's principles. SJP called the decision "purely racist."

Beloved Brandeis sociology professor Morrie Schwartz died in 1995 after being diagnosed with ALS. But he has been immortalized in the memoir Tuesdays with Morrie.

The two-page spread, which appeared in The New York Times Magazine last week, drew the ire of Orthodox Jews and others on social media, who called it offensive.