Janet Weiss will assume additional duties in her role as associate provost for academic affairs. Provost Paul N. Courant says Weiss now will serve in the areas of faculty affairs and academic human resources, in addition to her current responsibilities.
She will manage several programs involving faculty, including awards, hiring, professional development, and the procedures for appointments, promotions and the tenure process. Weiss also will oversee the Center for the Education of Women and the Life Sciences, Values, and Society Program.
The additional duties are those previously performed by Valerie Castle, who left the Office of the Provost to become chair of the Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases.
At present the Bentley Historical Library, the Clements Library, the Detroit Observatory, the Museum of Art and Nichols Arboretum report to Weiss. Her other current responsibilities include capital and space planning in conjunction with the chief financial officer, serving as social sciences faculty advisor to the provost, and overseeing University academic units with regard to policies.
“Janet Weiss has proven to be an outstanding administrator, not only in the Office of the Provost but in other positions at this University,” Courant says. “I am pleased that such a superb researcher and administrator has agreed to accept these additional assignments.”
She has served as associate provost for academic affairs since May 2002.
Weiss, who also is the Mary C. Bromage Collegiate Professor of Business Administration, has a joint appointment in the Business School and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, where she holds appointments as professor of organizational behavior and public policy, and professor of public policy. She received her B.A. (magna cum laude) from Yale University and her Ph.D. from Harvard. After service on the faculty at Yale, Weiss came to U-M in 1983. She served as associate director of the Institute of Public Policy Studies from 198790 before it became the School of Public Policy. She was an associate dean in the Business School from 1992-97, and directed the Nonprofit and Public Management Center from 1998-2002.
