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March 15, 1993
Editor’s Note: The following actions were taken by the Board of Regents at its March meeting. Four new faculty appointed The following faculty appointments, with tenure, were approved: John F. Cherry, a faculty member at the University of Cambridge, will become professor of classical archaeology and Greek, effective Sept. 1. Regina Morantz-Sanchez, a faculty member…
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March 15, 1993
From the Institute for the Humanities The Institute for the Humanities has awarded fellowships to seven faculty members and five graduate students for work in residence at the Institute in 1993–94. Faculty and graduate fellows will pursue projects addressing the Institute’s theme, “The Geography of Identity.” Noting the great interest this theme generated, Institute Director…
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March 15, 1993
Clinton B. Jones, chancellor and professor of political science at U-M-Flint since 1984, will relinquish the chancellorship and return to full-time teaching at the Flint campus. He will step down from the chancellorship on Dec. 31, 1993, and, following a year of leave, resume teaching. President James J. Duderstadt said: “Clinton Jones has served the…
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March 8, 1993
Editor’s Note: The following books have been published by the U-M Press. Discourses of Sexuality: From Aristotle to AIDS, edited by Domna C. Stanton, professor of Romance languages and of women’s studies. This is the first volume in the series RATIO: Institute for the Humanities. In Discourses of Sexuality, 14 distinguished artists, critics and scholars…
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March 8, 1993
Nine candidates are running for four seats on the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs (SACUA). The election will be held at the March 15 Senate Assembly meeting. The top three vote-getters will succeed Ejner J. Jensen, Cynthia L. Marcelo and Roy Penchansky. The fourth-place winner will fill a one-year term resulting from the resignation…
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March 8, 1993
Matthew Cardwell, an LS&A junior and coordinator of Advice, the course and professor evaluation publication for students, says that “generally, the criticisms we hear from students in the term-end evaluations are not big problems, but things that can be improved upon. Looking at the aggregate data for LS&A for the past three years, the most…
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March 8, 1993
By Andrea O. Jackson Record Special Writer Is a scholar always an educator? No, not always, as many undergraduate students will tell you. Because of this, the University is making an effort to ensure that all new LS&A faculty already able to pursue scholarly research, also are able to teach that information well to their…
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March 8, 1993
Editor’s Note: This article begins a monthly series that will focus on national issues that affect higher education in general and the U-M in particular. By Laurie Fenlason Office of Federal Relations Presidents, chancellors and their designees from each of Michigan’s 15 public universities traveled to Washington, D.C., Feb. 23 to meet with members of…
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March 8, 1993
By Sally Pobojewski News and Information Services College of Engineering Dean Peter M. Banks and Albert B. Schultz, the Vennema Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, have been elected to membership in the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). Election to the Academy is one of the highest professional distinctions an engineer can receive. Academy…
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March 8, 1993
By Rebecca A. Doyle “I would like to be a poet,” says Les Thurston, “but what I end up writing is usually satire or parodies.” But his audiences at the Turner Geriatric Clinic’s Monday writing group and at Guild House, where he read some of his work last week, wouldn’t change a word. Thurston, who…
