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February 7, 2000
The University Record, February 07, 2000 By Joanne Nesbit News and Information Services Discussing diversity issues currently being addressed by higher education, a group of panelists agreed that creative measures and avenues must be developed and followed in order to make equal opportunity a reality in higher education. Speaking Jan. 20 at the Museum of…
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January 31, 2000
The University Record, January 31, 2000 By Theresa Maddix Two and a half-year-old Kara Compton solves a wood puzzle in the Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum’s new Preschool Gallery. Conference participants looked to gain what Annemarie Palincsar, professor of education, called ‘an appreciation and understanding of what it means to engage in object-oriented inquiry.’ This past…
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January 31, 2000
The University Record, January 31, 2000 The National Science Foundation (NSF)-Digital Government section has awarded the University a grant of $37,000 for a project titled, “Identifying Where Technology Logging and Monitoring for Increased Security Ends and Where Violations of Personal Privacy and Student Records Begins.” The funding will support research and the development of a…
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January 31, 2000
The University Record, January 31, 2000 Editor’s note: This article is one in a series on U-M projects that have been recognized by the Computerworld Smithsonian Program, announced in a Sept. 27 article that can be found on the Web at By Theresa Maddix The screen view of Sounds of English shows a cartoon demonstration…
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January 31, 2000
The University Record, January 31, 2000 By Wono Lee News and Information Services Fessler Jeffrey A. Fessler and Webb Keane will receive the University’s Henry Russel Award. The annual award is given to young faculty members for scholarly achievement and promise. The award will be presented March 14, followed by the annual Henry Russel Lecture…
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January 31, 2000
The University Record, January 31, 2000 By Theresa Maddix “When we look at our common mission, for the faculty, administrators and Athletic Department, we find we’re all here to prepare the students for life,” Athletic Director Tom Goss told members of the Senate Assembly at their meeting Jan. 24. The Athletic Department, he noted, is…
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January 31, 2000
The University Record, January 31, 2000 Editor’s Note: By Theresa Maddix Chair Sherrie Kossoudji opened the Jan. 24 Senate Assembly meeting by reading a statement that was critical of the manner in which the University released salary information on Jan. 21. Referring to the press release and accompanying tables, Kossoudji said “there is an inherent…
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January 31, 2000
The University Record, January 31, 2000 By Jane R. Elgass Salary information released Jan. 21 shows the average academic unit increase for continuing faculty members’ salaries is 5.9 percent. Also, the average increase for continuing faculty as a whole on the Ann Arbor campus is 4.9 percent and 3.9 percent for continuing staff. These increases,…
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January 31, 2000
The University Record, January 31, 2000 Wilbur K. Pierpont Maxine and Wilbur Pierpont at the 1996 naming ceremony for Pierpont Commons on North Campus. File Photo, U-M Photo Services Wilbur K. Pierpont, professor emeritus of accounting and vice president emeritus, died Jan. 26 while golfing in Sarasota, Fla. He was 85. During his tenure as…
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January 31, 2000
The University Record, January 31, 2000 By Karl Leif Bates College of Engineering A NASAs artist’s conception of what ProSEDS will look like as the Icarus satellite, at upper right, begins to pull the tether away from the spent Delta II rocket booster, at left. A team of engineering students has designed and built an…
