The president of Brandeis University is in talks with officials at the Palestinian Al-Quds University to re-establish a partnership between the schools that was suspended over an Islamic Jihad rally.
More than 1,600 alumni and students of Brandeis University and others with ties to the institution have signed an online petition protesting pay to former university president Jehuda Reinharz.
The American studies departments of Brandeis University and Penn State-Harrisburg withdrew from the American Studies Association after it voted to boycott Israeli universities.