Brandeis University
On the 14th of October 1948, Brandeis University received its first freshman class: 107 students, thirteen instructors, and eight buildings on a 100 acre campus. Almost nothing had been built for the purpose. The library had been a barn. Students slept in the former medical school building and in two army barracks. The cafeteria stood where the medical school had once stored cadavers.
This was the start of a university in Waltham, Massachusetts, that would later count the co-creators of the television show Friends, David Crane and Marta Kauffman, among its alumni. How does a bankrupt medical school turn into a university in a single stroke? Why did Albert Einstein lend his name to the effort, only to break with it? And what happens when an institution founded on openness has to decide what openness allows?
John Hall Smith died in 1944, and his will left his Waltham medical school to any group willing to turn it into a non-sectarian university. The school, called Middlesex University, had a rare distinction. It was then the only medical school in Massachusetts that set no quota on Jewish students.
Within two years of Smith's death, Middlesex stood on the brink of financial collapse. The school had been unable to secure accreditation from the American Medical Association. Smith partly blamed that failure on institutional antisemitism inside the association.
His son, C. Ruggles Smith, was desperate to save something of the school. He heard about a New York committee, headed by Israel Goldstein, that wanted a campus for a Jewish-sponsored secular university. Smith offered the campus and the charter, hoping the committee might restore the medical school on an approved basis.
Goldstein worried about inheriting a failing medical school. Still, the offer tempted him. He saw a 100 acre campus "not far from New York, the premier Jewish community in the world," and close to Boston, another important Jewish population center.
Goldstein accepted, then recruited George Alpert, a Boston lawyer who had worked his way through Boston University School of Law. Alpert had fundraising experience as national co-chairman of the United Jewish Appeal. His firm, Alpert and Alpert, had a long association with the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, which he would lead as president from 1956 to 1961. He chaired Brandeis from 1946 to 1954.
In March 1946, Goldstein said the foundation had raised 10 million dollars, enough to open a school the following year. The foundation bought Middlesex's land and buildings for two million dollars, and the charter came with them. In August it announced its name: The Albert Einstein Foundation for Higher Learning, Inc. The school it planned would be a Jewish-sponsored secular university open to students and faculty of all races and religions.
By the 5th of February 1946, Goldstein had recruited Albert Einstein, whose involvement drew national attention to the young project. Einstein believed the university would attract the best young people in all fields and meet a real need. That summer, the trustees offered to name the school after him. He declined. On the 16th of July 1946, the board chose instead to honor Louis Brandeis, a former justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. The foundation announced the name Brandeis University on the 1st of November 1946.
On the 2nd of September 1946, Einstein threatened to sever his ties with the foundation. Goldstein believed the venture could not succeed without him and quickly agreed to resign. Einstein recanted, and his near-departure was publicly denied. Goldstein said that he would keep soliciting donations anyway.
The medical school fell first. The board felt it could not invest enough to win accreditation, and it closed the school in 1947. The veterinary school caused sharper conflict. By the winter of 1947, it enrolled just about 100 students. Einstein wanted its standards improved before the foundation expanded. Others wanted it closed.
A professional study recommended dismissing certain instructors and requiring end-of-year examinations for students. The foundation declined to enact any of it, to the dismay of Einstein and a couple of trustees. In early June 1947, Einstein made his final break with the foundation. The veterinary school then closed despite student protests and demonstrations. Trustees S. Ralph Lazrus and Otto Nathan quit at the same time.
George Alpert gave his own account of the split. He said Einstein had wanted to offer the presidency to the left-wing scholar Harold Laski. Alpert called Laski "a man utterly alien to American principles of democracy, tarred with the Communist brush." He added, "I can compromise on any subject but one: that one is Americanism."
Alpert claimed Lazrus and Nathan had tried to give the university a "radical, political orientation." He also criticized Lazrus for weak fundraising and Nathan for failing to organize an educational advisory committee. Einstein answered that he, Lazrus, and Nathan "have always been and have always acted in complete harmony."
On the 26th of April 1948, Brandeis announced that Abram L. Sachar, chairman of the National Hillel Commission, would be its first president. Sachar promised that the university would follow Louis Brandeis' principles of academic integrity and service. He also promised that students and faculty would never be chosen by quota. Quotas, he argued, rest on the belief that "the ideal American must look and act like an eighteenth-century Puritan." Applicants were not asked about race, religion, or ancestry.
Brandeis organized undergraduate teaching into four schools instead of traditional departments. They were General Studies, Social Studies, Humanities, and Science.
The first graduation took place on the 16th of June 1952 and honored 101 students. Leonard Bernstein, director of the Center of Creative Arts, planned a four-day ceremony in the newly opened amphitheater. It included the world premiere of his opera Trouble in Tahiti. Eleanor Roosevelt, who had joined the board of trustees in 1949, spoke alongside Massachusetts governor Paul A. Dever.
In 1953, Einstein turned down an honorary degree. He wrote to Sachar that what happened during preparation "cannot be made good any more." At the next graduation, the first honorary degrees went to Illinois senator Paul H. Douglas, Rabbi Louis Ginzberg, and George Alpert.
The same year brought the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, one of the first Jewish Studies programs at an American university. Emigre scholars Alexander Altmann, Nathan Glatzer, and Simon Rawidowicz were among its founders. The graduate school opened in fall 1954, and Brandeis won full accreditation that year.
In 1954, construction began on an interfaith center. Three chapels, Roman Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish, surround a natural pond. The architectural firm Harrison & Abramovitz designed them. Brandeis named no official chaplains and did not require attendance at services.
The Roman Catholic chapel, Bethlehem, meaning house of bread, was dedicated on the 9th of September 1955. The Jewish chapel followed on the 11th of September. It honors Mendel and Leah Berlin, parents of Boston surgeon David D. Berlin. The Protestant chapel, named for Justice John Marshall Harlan, was dedicated on the 30th of October 1955.
In 1956, New York industrialist Jack A. Goldfarb gave one million dollars for a library. Built of brick and glass, it was designed to hold 750,000 volumes. That year also saw the unveiling of a nine-foot bronze statue of Justice Brandeis by sculptor Robert Berks, timed to the 100th anniversary of the Justice's birth. Berks' wife Dorothy had worked as the Justice's personal assistant for 39 years, and she wore his actual robes to model the statue.
Sports arrived early too. Dormitory construction began in March 1950, aiming to house ninety percent of students on campus. The football team played its first game on the 30th of September 1950, a road win against Maine Maritime Academy. Its first varsity win came on the 6th of October 1951, a 24-13 victory at Hofstra University. On the 16th of May 1960, Brandeis ended varsity football after nine years and a record of 34 wins, 33 losses, and four ties. Sachar cited cost, and coach Benny Friedman said it was hard to recruit excellent students who also played football.
That same year, Brandeis gave an honorary doctorate to Israeli premier David Ben-Gurion. Jordan responded by announcing it would issue no more currency permits to Jordanian students at Brandeis.
During the student strike of 1970, Brandeis served as the National Student Strike Information Center. The campus had become an epicenter of radical student activism and anti-Vietnam War protest during the counterculture of the 1960s.
On the 8th of January 1969, about 70 Black students entered the student center, Ford Hall, ejected everyone else, and refused to leave. They demanded more Black faculty members and a rise in Black enrollment from four percent to ten percent of the student body. They also wanted more scholarships and an independent department of African American studies. More than 200 white students staged a sit-in in the lobby of the administration building.
President Morris B. Abram acknowledged "the deep frustration and anger which black students here and all over the country feel." Even so, he called the occupation an affront to the university, and the faculty condemned it too. On the fourth day, the Middlesex Superior Court issued a temporary restraining order requiring the students to leave. Abram did not allow the order to be enforced by force. Still, 65 students were suspended.
On the 18th of January, the students left, ending an eleven-day occupation. There had been no violence or destruction of property, and Brandeis granted amnesty. Later that year, Ronald Walters became the first chair of Afro-American studies. Ford Hall itself was demolished in August 2000 to make way for the Shapiro Campus Center, which was dedicated on the 3rd of October 2002.
In the late 1970s, donations from American Jews fell as they turned toward support for Israel and other causes, and Brandeis faced a major financial crisis. Samuel O. Thier, president from 1991 to 1994, helped restabilize the university. In 1998, German chancellor Helmut Kohl spoke at commencement and dedicated the Center for German and European Studies, established the year before.
In January 2009, Brandeis announced plans to close the Rose Art Museum and sell its artwork. The museum, established in 1961, is dedicated to 20th and 21st century art. Fundraising had suffered, in part because donors were hit by the Madoff investment scandal and the 2008 financial crisis. A university committee later recommended keeping the museum open. In 2010, the university said it would raise money by lending out art. In June 2011, it settled a related lawsuit, and the museum stayed open.
In January 2007, former President Jimmy Carter spoke on campus after students invited him despite some opposition. His book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid had stirred controversy. Alan Dershowitz followed with rebuttal remarks. That spring, separate student groups invited Norman Finkelstein and Daniel Pipes. In December 2007, former President Bill Clinton spoke and launched the Eli J. Segal Leadership program.
In 2014, Brandeis announced an honorary doctorate for Ayaan Hirsi Ali, an outspoken campaigner against female genital mutilation, honor killing, and Islamic extremism. After complaints from the Council on American-Islamic Relations and internal consultation, the university withdrew the offer. It said her statements condemning Islam were "inconsistent with the University's core values." Of 511 faculty members, 87 signed a letter to the president.
Ali called the explanation a "feeble excuse," noting that her speeches had been public all along. Commentators split. Abdullah Antepli of Duke University applauded the decision. Jerry Coyne of the University of Chicago and David Bernstein of George Mason University called it an attack on academic values. Brandeis said Ali had never been invited to speak at commencement, only to receive the degree.
In 2017, a student performance of Michael Weller's play "Buyer Beware," about Lenny Bruce, was first postponed over concerns about racism. The playwright then withdrew it and staged it elsewhere. The university adopted official free expression principles in 2018. In 2021, a student group's "oppressive language list" came off the university website after outside attention to its suggestion to avoid the term "trigger warning." Brandeis also became the first university to ban Students for Justice in Palestine from campus, shortly after a vigil the group held for Palestinian lives lost in the Gaza war.
In 2025, a ranking by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression and College Pulse placed Brandeis 231 of 257 colleges. It had ranked 148 in 2024 and 125 in 2022-2023. A presidential taskforce to review the free expression guidelines was set up in 2024.
In September 2024, President Ronald Liebowitz announced his resignation after a faculty no-confidence vote. Budget concerns and the handling of pro-Palestinian protests were at issue. According to the New York Times, he was the fifth university president to step down that year at least partly in connection with such protests. Arthur E. Levine's tenure began in 2024.
Roderick MacKinnon, Drew Weissman, Michael Rosbash, and Jeffrey C. Hall are the Nobel laureates among Brandeis alumni and faculty. The roster also includes Fields Medalist Edward Witten, Turing Award winners Leslie Lamport and Charles H. Bennett, and Abel Prize winner Karen Uhlenbeck.
In FY 2017, Brandeis spent 68.4 million dollars on research and ranked 174 in the nation by total R&D expenditure. Funding came from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the US Department of Health and Human Services, and foundations. The Division of Science includes seven departments and more than 50 laboratories studying life processes, from single macromolecules to the behavior of whole organisms. Its faculty include 12 National Academy of Science members, three Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigators, and two MacArthur Foundation Fellows.
In 2008, chemist Irving Epstein founded the Science Posse program with support from a Howard Hughes Medical Institute grant. Each year it recruits 10 inner-city Atlanta students interested in studying science. The same year, the university established its Materials Research Science and Engineering Center. In 2014, the National Science Foundation renewed its funding. The center uses simplified components to build new materials with some of the functions found in living organisms.
In 1980, Brandeis established the Maurice and Marilyn Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies, the first academic center devoted to the study of Jewish life in the United States. Its signature studies include research with participants in Taglit-Birthright Israel, synagogue transformation, and Jewish summer camping.
The Steinhardt Social Research Institute arrived in 2005 from a gift by Michael Steinhardt. Its first mission was to interpret the problems in the National Jewish Population Survey of 2000. Its survey of the Greater Boston area was released on the 9th of November 2006.
The Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism launched in September 2004 as the first investigative reporting center based at a United States university. Its projects included the Justice Brandeis Innocence Project. It closed at the end of 2018 for financial reasons. The Women's Studies Research Center, founded in 2001 by Shulamit Reinharz, hosts about 70 scholars from around the world. It also runs the Kniznick Gallery of feminist artwork.
In 1958, Lawrence A. and Mae Wien established the Wien International Scholarship for international undergraduates. Each year, recipients take a week-long tour of a destination in the United States. Past groups visited the United Nations in New York City and did relief work in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. In April 2008, the university hosted a three-day celebration of the program's 50th anniversary.
In 1985, Brandeis was elected to the Association of American Universities, which focuses on graduate education and research. In 2010, the National Research Council ranked its doctoral program in neuroscience and neurobiology tied for No. 2 among national universities. The Financial Times ranked the Brandeis International Business School No. 1 from 2010 through 2013 for its Master of Arts in International Economics and Finance.
Fraternities and sororities have no official recognition at Brandeis. An official handbook states that "exclusive or secret societies are inconsistent with the principles of openness to which the University is committed." In their place, the campus has more than 270 student organizations, 11 a cappella groups, six undergraduate-run theater companies, and four improv-comedy groups. The sketch comedy troupe Boris' Kitchen was founded in 1987.
The Brandeis Academic Debate and Speech Society, known as B.A.D.A.S.S., consistently ranks among the top 10 debate teams in the United States. It competes each year at the World Universities Debating Championships. In 2012-2013, it was the second most successful team on the American Parliamentary Debate Association circuit.
The student press is lively. The Justice was founded in 1949, a year after the university began, and appears every Tuesday during term. The Blowfish, a satirical paper founded in February 2006, first appeared inside The Hoot. The Brandeis University Law Journal, founded in 2008, is the only undergraduate-edited legal publication in the United States not affiliated with a law school.
Students also keep the campus running. The student-run Branvan provides security escorts around campus and into Waltham, from 4:00 pm to 2:30 am on weekdays. The Brandeis Emergency Medical Corps, nicknamed BEMCO, is a Massachusetts-certified volunteer student organization. It charges no fee for its emergency services.
In 2014, a student-led project put a rooftop farm of 1,500 potted milk crates atop the Gerstenzang science building. Students also organized an on-campus Farmers' Market. The university moved to GreenE certified wind power for 15% of its electricity.
On the field, Brandeis won an NCAA team championship in men's soccer in 1976 and another in men's cross country in 1983. It now fields 19 Division III varsity programs.
Cholmondeley's coffeehouse, known as Chums, sits inside Usen Castle. It has hosted Tracy Chapman, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Matt Pond PA, and Genesis, for their first American performance. The name comes from a notoriously ill-tempered Basset hound owned by campus photographer Ralph Norman. The dog roamed the campus after dark, growling at students and nipping at their cuffs. After his death, the coffeehouse took his name, more in celebration than in remembrance.
In 2015, an email to student workers announced the immediate closure of Chums. After significant pushback from students and alumni, the administration made the closure temporary while the space was renovated.
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Common questions
Why is the university named Brandeis?
The board decided on the 16th of July 1946 to name it after Louis Brandeis, a former justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Albert Einstein had been offered the naming honor that summer but declined.
What was on the campus before Brandeis?
The site belonged to Middlesex University, a Waltham medical school founded by John Hall Smith. It was the only medical school in Massachusetts that did not impose a quota on Jews.
Why did Albert Einstein break with the founding foundation?
He disputed the foundation's handling of the veterinary school and its leadership choices. He made his final break in early June 1947, and trustees S. Ralph Lazrus and Otto Nathan quit at the same time.
Who was the first president of Brandeis?
Abram L. Sachar, chairman of the National Hillel Commission, was announced as first president on the 26th of April 1948. He served until 1968.
How long did the Ford Hall occupation last?
It lasted eleven days, from the 8th to the 18th of January 1969. There was no violence or destruction of property, and the university granted amnesty.
Does Brandeis have fraternities and sororities?
No. The university does not officially recognize them, because it holds that student organizations must be open to all students.
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