Inside Higher Ed: Backtracking Brandeis President: ‘I Screwed Up’
President Obama has given college presidents a management strategy for controversy: admit it when you screw up.
Jehuda Reinharz, president of Brandeis University, sent out an e-mail message to his campus Thursday that partially pulled back from the university’s plans to sell its art collection and shut down its art museum. “I take full responsibility for causing pain and embarrassment in both of these matters. To quote President Obama, ‘I screwed up,’ ” Reinharz’s e-mail message said.
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