Provost Teresa Sullivan has named the members of two dean search advisory committees — one for the School of Social Work (SSW) and the other for the A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning (TCAUP).
Current SSW Dean Paula Allen-Meares, the Norma Radin Collegiate Professor of Social Work and professor of education, will return to the faculty after her third five-year term ends June 30, 2008. TCAUP Dean Douglas Kelbaugh will have served two five-year terms when he returns to the faculty after Aug. 31, 2008.
“Both deans have done remarkable work for the University and have left legacies that will allow the school and college to continue their traditions of excellence,” Sullivan says.
“Paula Allen-Meares’ guidance and nurture helped transform the School of Social Work — now nationally ranked as the finest school in the country. The highlights of her tenure include the new building, sustained growth of interdisciplinary teaching and research portfolios, fundraising successes that have supported new professorships and endowed scholarships, and the advancement of the school’s mission to bring workable solutions to some of society’s greatest problems,” Sullivan says.
“Among Doug Kelbaugh’s accomplishments are the Taubman gift and college naming, an impressive rise in the number of tenure and tenure-track appointments, increased regional involvement though establishment of the Detroit Community Design Center within the U-M Detroit Center, creation of the Real Estate Development Program focused on sustainability, establishment of the Master of Urban Design Program, and a celebration of the college centennial.”
Barry Checkoway, professor of social work, SSW, and professor of urban planning, TCAUP, has agreed to chair the committee that will identify a slate of candidates for the social work dean position. Other members of the committee from SSW, unless otherwise noted, include:
• Deborah Loewenberg Ball, dean of the School of Education, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and William H. Payne Collegiate Professor of Education
• Sandra Danziger, professor of social work; director of the Michigan Program on Poverty and Social Welfare Policy, SSW; and research professor, Ford School of Public Policy
• David Dobbie, graduate student and graduate student instructor, Joint Doctoral Program in social work and sociology
• Ruth Dunkle, Wilbur J. Cohen Collegiate Professor of Social Work
• Larry Gant, professor of social work
• Lorraine Gutierrez, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor; professor of social work and psychology; and director, Joint Doctoral Program in Social Work and Social Science, SSW and LSA
• Katrina Herbert, graduate student, MSW dual degree program in social work and public health
• Lydia Li, associate professor of social work
• Sue Ann Savas, adjunct lecturer in social work
• Sally Schmall coordinator, Dual Career Program, LSA; president, SSW Board of Governors; and lecturer in health curriculum, SSW
• Dean Smith, senior associate dean for administration and professor of health management and policy, School of Public Health
• Betsy Voshel, assistant clinical professor of social work and director of field instruction
• Michelle Woods, director, Student Career Services
Jean Wineman, professor of architecture, associate dean for research and chair of the doctoral program in architecture, TCAUP, is leading the team that will search for a dean of architecture and urban planning.
Others committee members who are from TCAUP, unless otherwise indicated, include:
• Khalilah Burt, graduate student, master’s program in urban planning
• Mary Anne Drew, executive assistant to the dean
• Robert Fishman, Emil Lorch Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning
• Harry Giles, professor of practice in architecture
• A. Melissa Harris, associate professor of architecture
• John Myefski, principal, Myefski Cook Architects Inc., and president, Taubman Alumni Society Board of Governors
• Stephanie Pilat, doctoral candidate in architecture and graduate student instructor
• Martha Pollack, dean and professor of information, School of Information; professor of electrical engineering and computer science, College of Engineering
• James Steward, director, U-M Museum of Art; professor of history of art, LSA; and professor of art and design, School of Art & Design
• David Thacher, associate professor of public policy, Ford School of Public Policy; associate professor of urban planning, TCAUP
• June Manning Thomas, Centennial Professor of Urban Planning
• Jason Young, associate professor of architecture
Sullivan met with both search advisory committees Oct. 23 and has asked each to return with a slate of recommended candidates by the end of winter term 2008.
Members of the SSW committee may be reached by e-mail using the address [email protected]. TCAUP search advisory committee members may be reached via [email protected].
