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January 24, 1994
Editor’s Note: The following actions were approved by the Regents at their January meeting. Four administrative appointments ok’d Administrative appointments approved included: Ludwig Koenen, the Herbert C. Youtie Professor of Papyrology, will continue to serve as chair of the Department of Classical Studies, effective July 1–Dec. 31, 1994. Ctirad Uher, professor of physics, will chair…
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January 24, 1994
Three faculty members were given the emeritus title by the Regents at their January meeting. Those retiring are: Jerome M. Clubb, professor of history and research scientist Clubb, who joined the U-M in 1966, is “a pioneer in introducing quantitative techniques of analysis to history,” the Regents noted. “Through his extensive research and publications, he…
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January 24, 1994
The Jean and Charles R. Walgreen Jr. Professorship in Reading and Literacy has been established at the School of Education. The endowed chair, approved at the January Regents meeting, will “advance understanding about how reading and writing skills are developed in both children and adults,” said Dean Cecil Miskel. “It will permit the School to…
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January 24, 1994
By Mary Jo Frank Michigan has a three- or four-year window of opportunity to bring its support of higher education up to a respectable level, before the state’s next economic downturn, predicts Sen. John J.H. Schwarz, R-Battle Creek. Schwarz, chair of the Higher Education Subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and Sen. Lana Pollack, D-Ann…
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January 17, 1994
By Deborah Gilbert News and Information Services A new study of employee health costs confirms what has been only a reasonable hunch. If enough “high health risk” employees—smokers, heavy drinkers, and couch potatoes—take action to improve their health habits, a company’s health care costs can plummet. The Fitness Research Center began the 10-year study in…
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January 17, 1994
Constructing Inequality: The Fabrication of a Hierarchy of Virtue among the Etoro by Raymond C. Kelly, professor of anthropology. Philosophers and social theorists since the Enlightenment have pondered how to define the principal locus for the production of inequality in human society. In Constructing Inequality , Kelly challenges existing theories of social inequality in egalitarian…
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January 17, 1994
Students who enter LS&A in fall 1994 can choose from more than three dozen courses to meet the College’s new quantitative reasoning (QR) requirement. Members of the Task Force on the Quantitative Reasoning Requirement, who developed the proposal, and others spearheading undergraduate curricular reform are optimistic that in the future students will have an even…
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January 17, 1994
A new book that examines how ancient codes of honor are reflected in the social discomforts of daily life will be the subject of a free public celebratory symposium at 7 p.m. Jan. 24 in Rackham Amphitheater. The book launching for Humiliation, And Other Essays on Honor, Social Discomfort, and Violence by law Prof. William…
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January 17, 1994
Undergraduate and graduate students will have an opportunity to meet with prospective employers and graduate school representatives at the 20th Annual Minority Career Conference on Jan. 25–26. More than 80 representatives from graduate school programs, industry, government, education and social agencies are expected to attend. Career Planning and Placement personnel anticipate approximately 900 minority students…
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January 17, 1994
By Mary Jo Frank LS&A has come “a long way in raising the priority and presence of undergraduate education over the past four and one-half years,” Dean Edie N. Goldenberg told her colleagues at last Monday’s LS&A faculty meeting. As part of an update on LS&A’s Undergraduate Initiative, Goldenberg announced two programs designed to improve…
