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...Rose Art Museum currently welcomes 13,000 to 15,000 people through its doors per year, and provides opportunities for students, teachers and the public to see and learn about the arts. Through student internships, class visits and artist talks, the Rose fulfills its mission statement to “stimulate public awareness and disseminate knowledge of modern and contemporary art to enrich educational, cultural, and artistic communities regionally, nationally and internationally.” According to the chair of the Rose’s board of overseers, the collection is Brandeis University’s largest asset. Unfortunately that...
...making this decision the administration seems to be dismissing its value,” said Elia Dota, a senior art history major and head of the Student Committee for the Rose Art Museum. “What they don’t get is that the museum is an integral part of academics and an integral part of the discourse in an academic setting...
...News article "Protesters Oppose Brandeis Art Sale" incorrectly stated that the Rose Art Museum's collection had last been valued at $35 million. In fact, the collection had been valued at $350 million...
Brandeis's decision to sell its art collection in order to make ends meet is all too indicative of the larger problems facing universities as donations dry up and endowments plummet in this dismal economic climate. On average, university endowments have dropped 23 percent in only five months...
...with great sadness that we mark the closing of Brandeis University’s Rose Art Museum and the general cuts in education that this loss symbolizes. The Rose, home to Brandeis’s 6,000-object art collection, was approaching its 50th anniversary, but may not make it to that milestone. On Monday, the Board of Trustees voted unanimously to close the museum and use its collection—worth an estimated $350 million—in order to generate funds to cover the University’s looming multimillion-dollar budget deficit. While the plan has been...