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January 18, 1993
By Diane Swanbrow News and Information Services The School of Education has received an $829,584 grant from the DeWitt Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund to support the School’s Peace Corps Fellows/USA Program. The four-year grant was announced Jan. 12 in Washington, D.C., by Barbara Zartman, acting director of the Peace Corps, and Mildred Hudson, educational program officer…
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January 18, 1993
By Leslie Stainton Museum of Art The Museum of Art will present the second concert in its 1992–93 Chamber Concert Season at 8 p.m. Thursday (Jan. 21), in the Apse. “The Museum Chamber Strings: In an English Garden” complements the special exhibition “The Cultivated Image: Garden Photographs by Michael Kenna.” The concert features a program…
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January 18, 1993
By Jane R. Elgass A 1988 commitment of funds for programs and scholarships and the hiring of full-time coaching staff for women’s athletics is beginning to pay off, the Regents were told at their December meeting. “The Michigan tradition and model in athletics is very, very special,” said President James J. Duderstadt in opening a…
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January 18, 1993
By Mary Jo Frank Employee charged with embezzlement A student adviser in the School of Nursing, who has worked at the U-M for 22 years, has been charged with embezzling more that $100. She was arrested and arraigned in Ann Arbor’s 15th District Court Jan. 5. University Police arrested the 48-year- old Ann Arbor resident…
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January 18, 1993
By the Senate Assembly on University Affairs Because of recent confusion and misinformation about the University’s retirement furlough program, the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs offers the following reminder of some of the rules governing retirement furloughs: —The program applies only to faculty; no comparable program exists for staff members. —Faculty members receive their…
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January 18, 1993
By Andrea O. Jackson Record Special Writer The Program in Film and Video Studies is presenting a Women in Film Series that features women producers and directors from the entertainment industry. Each artist will screen and discuss her films and filmmaking background at 7:30 p.m. on consecutive Saturdays in January and February in Angell Hall…
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January 18, 1993
Based on one study, the change in the law governing mandatory retirement is unlikely to lead to significantly later faculty retirements on average nationwide. A better predictor of relatively later faculty retirements is the mean SAT scores of their students and whether they work at a research university. “The better the academic life, the more…
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January 18, 1993
By Jane R. Elgass A Universitywide policy that clarifies regulations concerning the use of the Central Campus Diag and the North Campus Common has been implemented by Farris W. Womack, vice president and chief financial officer, and Maureen A. Hartford, vice president for student affairs. Preliminary work on the policy, which was effective Jan. 4,…
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January 18, 1993
By Mary Jo Frank Five employees who were recently honored for 40 years of service agree that the University has changed dramatically since they were hired. They’ve changed too, taking on additional responsibilities since the days when they started out, working as a maid, an elevator operator, a draftsman and a file clerk, and “doing…
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January 18, 1993
By Mary Jo Frank LS&A faculty will be asked to make some high-stakes curriculum decisions in the upcoming months, according to Michael M. Martin. They will be discussing such issues as adding a quantitative reasoning requirement for undergraduates, emphasizing writing and critical thinking in courses taken by first- and second-year students, and making sure that…
