You Should Know
As part of the university's Volunteer Vacation Program, 12 Brandeis students traveled to the coastal town of Gulfport, Miss., in 2006 to participate in Hurricane Katrina relief efforts, while 13 additional students spent their vacation week in New York City to help with the meals program offered by the Gay Men’s Health Crisis Organization.
Commitment to Social Action
A complete education is not just the accumulation of knowledge. It is also the development of one’s soul and individual ideology.
That is why Brandeis University has made a commitment to social justice an integral part of its mission. We believe that the betterment of one's self is not just a personal endeavor but also a means through which to better serve society and humanity.
This commitment to social justice dates to Brandeis' earliest days, when the university counted among its faculty first lady Eleanor Roosevelt and welcomed to campus a 27-year-old civil rights leader named Martin Luther King Jr. It continued through the 1960s and 1970s, with protests against South African apartheid and America's participation in the Vietnam War.
Today, Brandeis remains a hotbed of student activism that gives voice to the university's social-justice mission.
