Brandeis University faculty votes 'no confidence' in president after 'excessive' crackdown on student protests

By a constrictive margin, the module astatine Brandeis University voted successful favour of the question of nary assurance against its assemblage president Ronald Liebowitz partially implicit his "excessive" handling of on-campus protesters.

In an email, Chair of the Brandeis Faculty Senate Prof. Jeffrey Lenowitz told module members Monday the question passed with 159 votes successful favor, 149 votes successful opposition, and 26 abstentions. Lenowitz said this ballot represented 76.4% of the faculty.

"There were 10 much votes successful favour than against," Lenowitz wrote to Brandeis’ pupil insubstantial "The Justice." "This reveals what our aggregate module conversations and debates connected it made clear: portion module are agreed successful their attraction for Brandeis and their large tendency for it to flourish, they are divided connected this motion."

The faculty's "no confidence" ballot could pb to President Ronald Liebowitz leaving his position. (Photo by Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

This ballot volition present beryllium taken to the Board of Trustees, who volition determine whether to region Liebowitz from his presumption and who volition regenerate him.

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The question was first introduced connected May 30 up of the 2024-2025 schoolhouse twelvemonth to sermon concerns astir Liebowitz’s enactment implicit issues similar "badly handled fund shortfalls, failures of fundraising" and what module referred to arsenic "excessive responses to pupil protests."

Brandeis University was 1 of aggregate assemblage campuses to beryllium rocked by anti-Israel protesters implicit the Hamas panic onslaught against Israel past year. After protests grew nationwide, Brandeis, nether Liebowitz’s leadership, chose to nary longer admit the Students for Justice successful Palestine (SJP) for its enactment for Hamas and the elimination of Israel.

About a period aft the Oct. 7 panic attack, Liebowitz wrote an op-ed successful the Boston Globe saying pupil organizations "should suffer each privileges" if they called for violence.

Brandeis University disbarred the Students for Justice successful Palestine for its enactment of Hamas. (Getty Images)

"Most urgently, successful this twilight portion infinitesimal erstwhile students and module look to beryllium enjoying their state to explicit grotesque connection astir Jews, Jewish life, and the Jewish state, Brandeis volition uphold escaped code rightly understood. Universities cannot halt hatred speech, but they tin halt paying for it. Brandeis volition guarantee that groups that person privileges done their affiliations with the university, including utilizing its name, volition suffer their affiliations and privileges erstwhile they spew hate," Liebowitz wrote.

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He added, "Contrary to the prevalence of the BDS question on assemblage campuses, Brandeis volition prosecute person ties with Israeli world and taste institutions and volition promote much universities to travel suit."

Brandeis University was 1 of the archetypal universities to ace down connected field protests successful 2023. (Shmuel Thaler/The Santa Cruz Sentinel via AP)

Although a slim bulk of the module look to beryllium dissatisfied with Liebowitz’s methods, Brandeis University was 1 of 2 colleges to person an A people implicit its handling of antisemitism and for promoting a harmless situation for Jewish students, according to the Anti-Defamation League's Campus Antisemitism Report Card published successful April.

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Fox News' Megan Myers contributed to this report.