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March 1, 1993
By Jane R. Elgass “Move-in is a special day for students and families, a magical day in students’ lives, a day that deserves to stand on itself,” Regent Laurence B. Deitch said at the February Regents’ meeting. Deitch’s comments were prompted by a discussion of the controversy that has surrounded this fall’s move-in to residence…
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March 1, 1993
The Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs (SACUA) is seeking volunteers to serve on a variety of committees. The following committees advise Executive Officers: Financial Affairs, Government Relations, Medical Affairs, Multicultural University, University Relations, Research Policies and Student Relations. The following committees assist the Senate Assembly in its work: Academic Affairs, Civil Liberties Board, Economic…
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March 1, 1993
The following revisions, reflecting changes at the Bentley Historical Library, are suggested for Regents’ Bylaw 12.05. Comments should be made by March 12 to the Office of the General Counsel, Room 4020, Fleming Administration Building, 764-0304. Proposed Revisions of Regents’ Bylaws Section 12.05 (Proposed additions in bold and deletions crossed out) Bentley Historical Library Michigan…
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March 1, 1993
Editor’s Note: See related article on page 6. By Mary Jo Frank The initial steps to close the Department of Population Planning and International Health (PPIH) were mishandled, violate University rules and prejudice future decisions about the department’s fate, PPIH Chair Yuzuru J. Takeshita told colleagues at the Feb. 15 Senate Assembly meeting. Takeshita said…
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February 15, 1993
Requiring LS&A students to take a good quantitative reasoning course should make things better, not harder, for students who don’t think quantitatively. At least that is the intent, Michael M. Martin, associate dean for undergraduate education, told his colleagues at LS&A’s faculty meeting last Monday. Unfortunately some see a quantitative reasoning requirement as merely a…
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February 15, 1993
Faculty and students may be returning to class the Tuesday—rather than the traditional Thursday—after Labor Day in 1994, Dean Edie N. Goldenberg told LS&A faculty members last Monday. Goldenberg added she believes a faculty and staff committee should look at the academic calendar and a number of issues related to it, including a concern among…
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February 15, 1993
By Jane R. Elgass The University’s graduate and undergraduate programs on the Ann Arbor campus have been ranked third among the nation’s “leading universities” in the latest (1993) edition of The Gourman Report. The U-M trails Princeton and Harvard for its undergraduate programs and Harvard and the University of California, Berkeley, for its graduate programs.…
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February 15, 1993
By Rebecca A. Doyle What began more than 10 years ago as a career-oriented conference primarily for African American women at the U-M has evolved in a decade to cover such diverse topics as talking about sexual health with your children, institutional discrimination policies, cancer prevention, personal finances and success strategies for men of color.…
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February 15, 1993
An exhibition of photographs of Holocaust memorials and public sculptures in Europe, Israel and the United States will be held in conjunction with the Wallenberg Lecture. The exhibition, “In Fitting Memory: Perspectives on an Evolving Tradition of Holocaust Memorials,” will be on display in the Slusser Gallery in the Art and Architecture Building Feb. 17–26.…
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February 15, 1993
By Terry Gallagher News and Information Services James Ingo Freed, the architect who designed the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum now under construction in Washington, D.C., will deliver the annual Raoul Wallenberg Lecture sponsored by the College of Architecture and Urban Planning at 8 p.m. Thurs. (Feb. 18) in Rackham Amphitheater. The free, public lecture…
