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May 22, 2000
Editor’s note: Theresa Maddix, associate editor of the Record compiled the following journal from her experiences on the Road Scholars tour. Alpine Township, is fighting to remain agricultural. Alpine Township Planning Director Frank Wash (left) discusses zoning with Urban Planning Asst. Prof. Aseem Inam. Behind Wash and Inam, bus driver ‘Dean’ talks with Lew Morrissey.…
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May 22, 2000
By Joanne Nesbit News and Information Services Music Prof. James Dapogny. Photo courtesy School of Music Scholars and devotees of jazz have lamented its loss for 50 years. Its skeleton has been unearthed, and a musical artist at the University has reconstructed its body. In the late 1930s, major jazz pianist and composer James P.…
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May 22, 2000
By Britt Halvorson Do you have a high EQ? EQ has nothing to do with knowledge of start-up Internet companies or the functions of e-mail, but everything to do with your understanding of emotions. Emotional intelligence (EQ) was the focus of a Workplace 2000 program led by Janell Kilgore, a staff counselor in the Faculty…
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May 22, 2000
By Theresa Maddix ‘We all want to retire,’ Bernadette Davis told her Workplace 2000 audience. ‘It’s important to look at the long-term goal, even if retirement is 10, 20 or 30 years from now.’ Photo by Rebecca A. Doyle Bernadette Davis, senior individual consultant for TIAA-CREF, presented participants with four action steps in her Workplace…
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May 22, 2000
By Britt Halvorson Health is a continuum along which people move throughout their lives. Making incremental progress along the continuum toward reasonable goals is the key to achieving a healthier lifestyle, according to Jeanne Quinn. Quinn, a staff counselor in the Faculty and Staff Assistance Program, presented the workshop “Lifestyle Changes for Increased Energy, Vitality…
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May 22, 2000
By Theresa Maddix Emphasizing the people priority in University information technology (IT), José-Marie Griffiths gave the opening address at the Workplace 2000 career conference. Griffiths, university chief information officer (CIO) and executive director of the Information Technology Division, told conference attendees, “The real power of technology is in the people who use it. My greatest…
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May 22, 2000
Workplace 2000: Career Success in the 21st Century By Theresa Maddix Stasinski “How many of you have stress at work?” keynote speaker Walt Stasinski asked to launch his Workplace 2000 presentation. Stasinski then proceeded with a joke-peppered talk about how to have fun on the job. “It is a myth that you have to be…
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May 22, 2000
By Suzanne Tainter Division of Research Development and Administration A U-M invention is a key part of a ceramic components manufacturing business newly established by the Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona. A process for creating fibrous monolithic ceramics, patented by a U-M engineering team, provides the raw material for ceramic components used in jet engines,…
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May 22, 2000
‘I feel like we went out and met the heroes of the state,’ said Myron Campbell of the Road Scholars tour around Michigan May 1–5. In what would be called a ‘listening tour’ in other contexts, the five-day trip took 30 faculty members to 11 Michigan cities to meet with prominent local figures and discuss…
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May 8, 2000
By Jane R. Elgass If you’ve got a good one, chances are you brighten other people’s day. If you’ve got a bad one, you may be alienating colleagues at work and even your friends. And a bad one may be costing you a promotion or appointment to a new position. It’s all about attitudes. “Studies…
