Brandeis University president takes bitter contract negotiations public
Scott Eisen/Stringer/Getty Images Ron Liebowitz, president of Brandeis University, is taking contract negotiations public after receiving a one-year extension offer that he says wouldn't allow him to fundraise adequately. In an unusual public statement, Brandeis University president Ron Liebowitz panned a one-year contract extension offered to him by the university's Board of Trustees. “The dead-end contract, offered only six months before my term ends, would not allow me to complete the ongoing donor solicitations, particularly those greater than $1 million, that the board has claimed are...