April 26, 1993
The following are proposed sample questions for the evaluation of administrative officers. Leadership How often does the dean involve the faculty in developing plans for your college? To what degree is the dean effective in obtaining resources for your college? How would you rate the dean as a professional role model for the faculty? Faculty…
April 26, 1993
By Mary Jo Frank Recommendations for the evaluation of administrative officers, including a draft of an instrument for use by faculty in evaluating deans and other high-level administrators, will be fine-tuned and brought back to Senate Assembly. In presenting the recommendations of the faculty’s Academic Affairs Committee to the Assembly last Monday, Chemistry Prof. Thomas…
April 26, 1993
‘Budget consistent with earlier blueprints’ By Laurie Fenlason Office of Federal Relations While he’s unwilling to declare any book weighing five pounds and containing 1,400+ pages “free of surprises,” Tom Butts describes President Bill Clinton’s proposed 1994 budget as “consistent with earlier administration blueprints.” (And that’s the good news.) “Trying to effect deficit reduction, while…
April 26, 1993
By Kate Kellogg News and Information Services While the grassy slopes of Nichols Arboretum will always be a favorite public flopping place, many Arboretum visitors prefer a drier, firmer surface on which to rest, study, eat lunch or just relax and enjoy nature. The answer to their need is a prototype bench, now under construction…
April 26, 1993
Composer Christopher Stookey’s Psalm of Life has been named as the winning entry in the King’s Singers 25th Anniversary Composers Search. The Psalm of Life will receive its world premiere at the King’s Singers North American Silver Jubilee celebration at 4 p.m. May 2 in Hill Auditorium. Tickets, $16–$28, are available at the University Musical…
April 26, 1993
By Bernie DeGroat News and Information Services This article no longer exists
April 26, 1993
By Mary Jo Frank A loquacious Senate Assembly tabled discussion of a proposed Faculty Discriminatory Harassment Policy last Monday until its May meeting to allow members more opportunity for debate. Elizabeth S. Anderson, assistant professor of philosophy and chair of the task force drafting the policy, said the proposed policy emphasizes informal dispute resolution and…
April 26, 1993
While the University has been focusing its attention on M-Quality activities for staff and faculty, a group of students has been in the background, quietly studying the concepts and implementation process. And they have come up with some suggestions to encourage participation. Four students in Thomas Finholt’s Advanced Organizational Behavior class (Psychology 561) have studied…
April 26, 1993
Lyle E. Craine Lyle E. Craine, professor emeritus of natural resources, died April 17 of pneumonia at Glacier Hills Nursing Center. He was 84. An advocate of natural resources management and conservation, Craine taught in the Department of Conservation from 1954 to 1973. He served as department chair in 1961–67. Craine’s specialty was public policy…
April 26, 1993
The new 17-member Task Force on the First-Year Experience will consider the nature and outcomes of a student’s first-year experience at the U-M and look for ways to improve the intellectual life of undergraduates. In announcing the formation of the task force, President James J. Duderstadt and Provost Gilbert R. Whitaker Jr. said the group’s…
