Brandeis’s Next Problem: Angry Donors, Reluctant To Give

“For the trustees at Brandeis University, the easy part is over. Without an apparent word of dissent, all 50 or so trustees approved a plan on Jan. 26 to close the university’s 48-year-old Rose Art Museum and sell its entire 7,180-piece art collection, which was last appraised in 2006 at about $350 million.” The hard part is that “current and future donors to Brandeis may hold a grudge … if they believe that objects donated to the university will be quickly turned into cash.”