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January 24, 2000
The University Record, January 24, 2000 From News and Information Services President Lee C. Bollinger released a statement Jan. 19 announcing the formation of two commissions, one on the undergraduate program and the other on the information revolution, that “over the next several months will take up issues of major importance to the future of…
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January 24, 2000
The University Record, January 24, 2000 By Jill Siegelbaum News and Information Services The winter edition of the Michigan Quarterly Review (MQR) features articles examining various literary works. Anne Herrmann, associate professor of English and of women’s studies, contributes an essay on Amelia Earhart. Herrmann examines her autobiographies and life, as well as the lives…
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January 24, 2000
The University Record, January 24, 2000 By Bruce Spiher Information Technology Division The University has adopted a new wiring standard for future construction and renovation that supports the transfer of high-speed data over the campus network. The wiring standard is the result of an analysis of the current wiring on campus and recommendations made by…
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January 24, 2000
The University Record, January 24, 2000 By Sally Pobojewski News and Information Services The ivory tower is crumbling, says President Lee C. Bollinger, and the cloistered academic world of scholarship and research will never be the same. Admitting that he is uncertain how universities should react to changes in the traditional relationship between academia and…
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January 24, 2000
The University Record, January 24, 2000 Simpson: ‘We’re all more alike than we are different’ MLK after-school programs would teach children about computers, Black history Audience sees Civil Rights Movement through eyes of child Hutchinson: We need to ‘act on our own vision of the future’ Violence in schools: No easy answers Allen: ‘Pay attention…
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January 24, 2000
The University Record, January 24, 2000 By Diane Brown Facilities and Operations This stand of Scotch pine trees on the corner of Fuller Road and Bonisteel Dr. are diseased with pine wilt, says Marvin Pettway, campus arborist. The trees are slated to be removed mid-February, and a public meeting will be held at 7 p.m.…
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January 24, 2000
The University Record, January 24, 2000 Editor’s Note: The following actions were taken by the Regents at their January meeting. By Wono LeeNews and Information Services Endowed chairs Three faculty members were named to endowed professorships. George J. Brewer, professor of human genetics and of internal medicine, will hold the Morton S. and Henrietta K.…
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January 24, 2000
The University Record, January 24, 2000 David Henry Reider David Henry Reider, 83, professor emeritus of art, died Jan. 15 in Nokomis, Fla. He was born in Portsmouth, Ohio, April 6, 1916, the only child of Rosalia Veronica Murphy Reider and Karl Frederick Reider. He went to college at the Cleveland School of Art and…
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January 24, 2000
The University Record, January 24, 2000 By Britt Halvorson Simpson “Racism is the unfinished business of this century,” asserted Carole Simpson, the featured speaker at the Business School’s “Reflections on Martin Luther King Jr. and Equal Rights” program. Speaking to a standing-room-only crowd at Hale Auditorium, the ABC News anchor and correspondent and U-M alumna…
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January 24, 2000
The University Record, January 24, 2000 Faculty salary increases at the University for 1999–2000 averaged 5.9 percent, according to figures from the University’s Salary Record released Jan. 21. Salary increases for staff at all grades averaged 3.9 percent. The staff averages include salaries for employees in the Health System and exclude bargained-for employees. Merit salary…
