UM-Flint Center for Educator Prep welcomes new director
The School of Education and Human Services alongside the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Michigan-Flint welcomed Thomn Bell as the new director of the Center for Educator Preparation. With a master’s degree in student affairs and higher education from Colorado State University, Bell is pursuing his doctoral degree in higher education leadership from CSU. He has already started working on plans to increase student involvement in the center and to expand its visibility on campus. Bell intends to continue to build relationships with preschool through 12th-grade communities and to promote education as a feasible future career option for promising young students, as well as to encourage a more diverse pool of teacher candidates entering the field. His research interests include whiteness and racism in the context of teaching, culturally responsive pedagogy, and leadership and organization change. “I’d like to see more kids thinking about entering education as a profession, including more students of color,” he said.
Submissions sought for Third Century Screens competition
Third Century Screens (3C-S) has launched a dynamic interdisciplinary project that celebrates U-M’s bicentennial theme of creating and inventing via moving bodies on multiple screens of every shape and size. The 3C-S Competition invites participants to create and submit works for the five-screen Pop-Up Projection Pavilion. Finalists will have works screened in the U-M Alumni Center Founder’s Room during the Third Century Expo on Homecoming weekend, Oct. 26-28, 2017. The Alumni Association has underwritten a $3,000 prize for the top alumni submission. $3,000 prizes also will be awarded for the top student and faculty work. Deadline for submissions is Jan. 15, 2017. Further information and guidelines can be found on the project website at 3c-screens.com.
Parking information offered for bicentennial photo shoot
As many staff as possible are needed Wednesday morning to help spell out a huge “200” for a photo on the Big House football field as part of the university’s bicentennial celebration. Scheduled from 8:30-9 a.m., participants are encouraged to wear maize and blue, and to enter via the east side entrance of Michigan Stadium by 8:30 a.m. Parking in the vicinity of the Big House is limited. Staff members are encouraged to take the bus or carpool, and plan to leave for the event early. Limited parking is available in a Yellow lot adjacent to Crisler Center and the stadium, nearby Blue lots, a visitor lot at the corner of Greene and Hoover streets, and some street parking near the stadium. For bus route information, visit the Parking & Transportation Services website, pts.umich.edu/transit/routes.php. This photo shoot is part of the yearlong celebration of the U-M bicentennial in 2017 that will include MStaff200, an event honoring U-M staff, to be held on the Diag on June 27, 2017. For more information, contact [email protected].
UM-Dearborn chancellor honors exceptional employees at recognition event
Spanning from years of exceptional service to exceptional service during the past academic year, more than 70 members of the UM-Dearborn community were honored during the 2015-16 Chancellor Staff Recognition Award Ceremony. “How is this campus as successful as we are in furthering our mission, in educating our students, impacting our community? It is the commitment and engagement of the staff and faculty at UM-Dearborn,” said Chancellor Daniel Little at the event’s breakfast and program, which took place over the summer in Fairlane Center North. “I am honored to recognize some exceptionally wonderful people in an already exceptional group.” Winners of the five recognition awards were nominated by staff, faculty and students — 44 letters of support were sent in this year — and the recipients were selected by the 2015-2016 Staff Recognition Committee. For a list of honorees, go to tinyurl.com/zj6wmoz.
Record welcomes Faculty and Staff Spotlight ideas
The University Record’s weekly Faculty and Staff Spotlight series celebrates interesting, inspired people who work at U-M. To find them, the Record needs help from the campus community. For Staff Spotlights, the Record seeks candidates with interesting jobs who do not manage full-time employees. They also do interesting things outside of work. For Faculty Spotlights, the Record seeks educators who are passionate about their work, who may have an original approach and who may make an impact outside the classroom. The Record does not feature U-M communicators in the Spotlight series. Please send ideas and nominations to Record Editor Jill Greenberg, [email protected].
— Compiled by Jill A. Greenberg, The University Record
