January 31, 1994
By Mary Jo Frank Faculty leaders will meet in March to consider a plan to restructure faculty governance, including providing financial rewards for the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs (SACUA) chair, SACUA members and some SACUA committee chairs. Senate Assembly members, members of Assembly committees, and members of school and college executive committees will…
January 31, 1994
Editor’s Note: The report of the Flexible Benefits Advisory Committee was carried in a special section of the Jan. 17 Record. A limited number of copies are available from the Record office, 747-1841. Questions about the sick leave/attendance incentive program, the pricing of benefits and the relationship between core benefits and flexible benefits were among…
January 31, 1994
By Jane R. Elgass Many members of the University community will have an opportunity over the next two weeks to “tell it like it is” by completing a survey about the work environment here. A survey on “Perceptions of the Work Environment at the University of Michigan” is being sent via campus mail this week…
January 31, 1994
Editor’s Note: See page 3 for article on public forums. By Mary Jo Frank “We’ll have to take sabbaticals just to figure out our benefits,” quipped Louis G. D’Alecy, professor of physiology, at last Monday’s Senate Assembly meeting. He was one of a number of faculty members who admitted finding flexible benefits confusing. Any move…
January 31, 1994
Neighborhood program names director Charlene Johnson of Highland Park has been appointed program director for the Michigan Neighborhood Partnership, a group of community-based organizations working together to help promote economic and social development in Detroit. Announcement of the appointment was made by Larry Coppard, director of the School of Social Work’s Office of External Relations…
January 31, 1994
Burt serving as member of NIH study section Brian A. Burt, professor of dental public health and chair of the Department of Community Health Programs, the School of Public Health, will serve as a member of the Oral Biology and Medicine Study Section, Subcommittee I, Division of Research Grants, National Institutes of Health. Lam named…
January 31, 1994
By John Woodford Executive Editor, Michigan Today “We have to make it possible for all our kids to succeed,” Yale University child psychiatrist James P. Comer told a large audience in the Power Center for the Performing Arts. Failure to do so, he predicted, will lead inevitably to national decline by the turn of the…
January 31, 1994
System administrators and computing service managers need to answer these questions for faculty and staff in their units: Is undeliverable mail discarded, examined for delivery clues, or automatically returned to sender? Is message content stripped from rejected or undeliverable mail? Are messages stored in clear text or encrypted while waiting to be delivered? How are…
January 31, 1994
By Bernie DeGroat News and Information Services The interplay of geography and identity will be examined at the winter conference of the Institute for the Humanities Friday and Saturday (Feb. 4–5) at the Rackham Building. The free, public conference, “Culture, Time, Place,” will feature architects, artists, poets, historians and geographers addressing “the intense drive among…
January 31, 1994
By Rebecca A. Doyle The Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics has been recognized by the University’s History and Traditions Committee for its 1992–93 annual report, which includes a written and pictorial history of the department from 1868 to the present. Chair Panos Y. Papalambros accepted the citation at a ceremony held last week.…
