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March 2, 2009
U-M-Flint has been honored by The Corporation for National and Community Service with a place on the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for exemplary service efforts and service to America’s communities. Launched in 2006, the Community Service Honor Roll is the highest federal recognition a school can achieve for its commitment to service-learning…
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March 2, 2009
Two substantial reports co-authored by University faculty and alumni working with major public policy organizations may offer new Secretary of State Hillary Clinton insight into shaping policy between the United States and China. The first report, entitled “Common Challenge, Collaborative Response,” is a joint project of the Asia Society and the Pew Center on Global…
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March 2, 2009
Organizations and businesses should have a succession plan in case the chief executive officer and other top executives become ill or die, new research shows. A succession plan should outline short- and long-term provisions, including requiring top executives to take physical examinations and disclosing the results, expert John Tropman says. “Magnifying the risk is that…
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March 2, 2009
Watch IRS professor Jerome Johnston discuss a new Web site designed for immigrants > A new Web site that teaches English to Spanish-speaking immigrants has attracted more than 500,000 visitors in its first three months of operation. Funded by the U.S. Department of Education, the site, www.usalearns.org, is the result of a collaboration between Project…
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March 2, 2009
Peter Baker, former senior White House correspondent for The Washington Post who now reports on the White House for The New York Times, will present the talk “President Obama and the First 100 Days,” The lecture will begin at 7:30 p.m. March 9 at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum on North Campus.…
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March 2, 2009
Wynton Marsalis leads the 15-member Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra at 8 p.m. March 10 in concert at Hill Auditorium. For more information go to ums.org. Sponsored by the University Musical Society. (Photo by Clay Patrick McBride)
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March 2, 2009
Subject: Regents Bylaw 5.09 Regents’ Bylaw 5.09 governs the demotion and dismissal of faculty. Initially adopted at a regents’ meeting exactly 52 years ago this month, Bylaw 5.10 (as it was then) replaced the earlier Bylaw 5.09, which had proved insufficient to safeguard the rights of three faculty members in the anti-communist scare of the…
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March 2, 2009
Health care benefits The expense of benefits is increasing, creating justifiable concern to those to whom the financial health of the University is entrusted. We have been told that the University is exceptionally generous in its benefits offering and that it would be prudent to align ourselves more with our peers. In response, the executive…
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March 2, 2009
Most seniors have drug coverage, study shows More than 90 percent of Americans age 65 and older have prescription drug coverage today, compared to 76 percent who were covered in 2004, an analysis shows. And poor seniors are just as likely to have coverage as the rich. The analysis compared drug coverage among a nationally…
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March 2, 2009
Biology determines the limits to how fat or thin individuals can be, even if they eat healthy and exercise regularly — and decades of rigorous scientific studies prove this, says New York Times reporter Gina Kolata. “You should not beat yourself up if you fail to achieve and maintain a weight that you think would…
