WALTHAM, Mass.—Brandeis University’s Rose Art Museum should remain open to the public, a university committee’s new report recommends, the latest turn in the controversy that has followed the college’s decision in January to close the museum and sell off its collection.

The committee’s report, which comes out today, does not say whether Brandeis should sell any of its artwork, but it does urge the university to better integrate the museum into Brandeis’s academic departments and immediately expand staffing. (The Rose’s staff has been gutted since June.) Although the college has since backtracked on the January decision, saying it would turn the Rose into an art study center and sell just a small portion of the 7,500-object collection, if it has to, three members of the museum’s board of overseers have filed a lawsuit to keep the Rose open and preserve its entire collection. A court hearing on the lawsuit is set for Oct. 13; last week, Brandeis filed a motion to dismiss the suit. Meanwhile, Brandeis President Jehuda Reinharz says he supports the new report’s recommendations, but adds that the resolution by the university’s board of trustees to sell art, if necessary, still stands.

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