This was hidden away in today’s Sunday Boston Globe:

LINGUISTICS MATTERS: When Brandeis University officials put forward a proposal that would have made drastic cuts in certain fields, including closing the linguistics major, a faculty review panel said that some professors were so demoralized they were thinking about taking other jobs. Brandeis gave up on the plan in face of opposition, but now the chairman of the linguistics program, Ray Jackendoff, has taken a job at Tufts after 34 years at Brandeis. Jackendoff said the failed attempt to cut his program had not driven him out, but he was clearly not impressed with the administration’s commitment to his field. “At Brandeis, I was pretty much locked into the same program I’ve had for many years,” he said. “Political problems” led to the departure of some of his colleagues in the early 1990s, when Jackendoff said the graduate program was shuttered. Jackendoff, 60, will become codirector of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts, where he said the administration seems excited about the field. Brandeis is now scrambling to figure out who will teach linguistics classes next year, since the program’s other professor is on leave, but a spokesman said that Jackendoff will probably be replaced.

[Boston Globe, Education Section: “Campus Insider” by Marcella Bombardieri, April 24, 2005]