May 10, 1993
From interior design to space physics, U-M employees generate an enormous amount of data, either in their daily work or by being part of payroll, benefit and departmental statistics. University employees number 37,361—more than the combined total population of Saline, Chelsea, Brighton, Manchester, Dexter, Clinton, Pinckney, Brooklyn, Whitmore Lake, Tecumseh, Stockbridge and Grass Lake. Students…
May 10, 1993
By Kate Kellogg News and Information Services Environmentalists from throughout the country recently gathered at the U-M to discuss the history and future of environmental education with the man who many consider the father of that field. The former students and colleagues of William B. Stapp, Thurnau Professor of Environmental Education in the School of…
May 10, 1993
By Mary Jo Frank —Flexible benefit plans; —Projected health cost increases associated with an aging faculty; —M-CARE’s role in controlling the University’s employee benefit costs. Those were a few of the issues raised at the April 22 meeting of the U-M Chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) by a trio of benefits…
May 10, 1993
U-M-Dearborn and Macomb Community College (MCC) have established a program that will allow students with associate’s degrees from MCC to transfer credits toward a bachelor’s degree program offered at Dearborn. In this “2+2” articulation program with Dearborn’s College of Arts, Sciences, and Letters, students who have earned associate’s degrees at MCC may transfer up to…
May 10, 1993
Richard A. Flinn Richard A. Flinn, professor emeritus of materials and metallurgical engineering, died April 29 in Seattle. He was 76 years old. Flinn joined the faculty in 1951 and during his U-M career he developed an international reputation for research on process and physical metallurgy, steelmaking, cast metals, solidification and failure analysis. He retired…
May 10, 1993
At their May meeting the Regents approved the recommendations for promotion and/or tenure of 130 faculty members on the Ann Arbor, Dearborn and Flint campuses, effective next academic year. Of the total, 118 are at the Ann Arbor campus, eight at the U-M-Dearborn and four at the U-M-Flint. At the Ann Arbor campus From professor…
May 10, 1993
By Mary Jo Frank Legislative changes abolishing mandatory retirement for faculty age 70 or older could create both potential problems and opportunities for the University, according to the Task Force on Retirement. The task force, appointed by the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs and Provost Gilbert R. Whitaker Jr., presented its report and a…
May 10, 1993
Participants in this year’s “Workplace of the ’90s” conference will have multiple opportunities to learn about the University’s M-Quality approach and also explore other areas of career development. The general session and workshops have been designed to address the theme of “Quest for Quality.” The conference name has been changed from Office of the ’90s…
May 10, 1993
By Bernie DeGroat News and Information Services Although director James A. Winn acknowledges that in its first five years, the Institute for the Humanities has been “reasonably successful” in creating and nurturing discourse among departmental lines, he believes that “economic, institutional, and sociological forces still work to limit the growth of interdisciplinary scholarship.” Winn, who…
May 10, 1993
By Sally Pobojewski News and Information Services The University, in partnership with the state of Michigan, will establish a Center for High-Definition Display Technologies at the College of Engineering, Gov. John Engler and President James J. Duderstadt announced last Monday. Research at the Center will help improve existing flat panel display technology, currently used in…
