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January 31, 1994
Editor’s Note: The report of the Flexible Benefits Advisory Committee was carried in a special section of the Jan. 17 Record. A limited number of copies are available from the Record office, 747-1841. Questions about the sick leave/attendance incentive program, the pricing of benefits and the relationship between core benefits and flexible benefits were among…
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January 31, 1994
By Mary Jo Frank Faculty leaders will meet in March to consider a plan to restructure faculty governance, including providing financial rewards for the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs (SACUA) chair, SACUA members and some SACUA committee chairs. Senate Assembly members, members of Assembly committees, and members of school and college executive committees will…
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January 31, 1994
Allan F. Smith, professor emeritus and former dean of the University of Michigan Law School, died Jan. 21 in Sarasota, Fla. Smith, who served as interim president in 1979, was a respected scholar in real estate transactions and personal property law, and a beloved teacher. “Allan Smith had an extraordinary impact on the University of…
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January 31, 1994
By Deborah Gilbert News and Information Services The Women’s Studies Program will launch an interdepartmental Ph.D. program in fall 1994, “which, as far as we know, is the first of its kind in the country,” says Abigail J. Stewart, director of the Women’s Studies Program and professor of psychology. Initially, the degree will be offered…
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January 31, 1994
By Mary Jo Frank National fellowship programs that provide sustained financial support for graduate students don’t always produce quick trips (six years or less) through the doctoral maze, or even a Ph.D. Surprisingly, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation learned in the late 1980s that “multi-year fellowship programs in the humanities and related social sciences have…
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January 31, 1994
The Colored Museum Project, created to explore the function of theater in the next century with special emphasis on multi-ethnic theater, is sponsoring a series of events Feb. 10–16. Production of George C. Wolfe’s award-winning play The Colored Museum, from which the project got its name, highlights activities. Performances will be held at 8 p.m.…
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January 31, 1994
By Rebecca A. Doyle A new policy governing privacy of electronic mail and computer files has been incorporated as section 601.11 of the Standard Practice Guide (SPG). The policy, plus sections on guidelines and interpretations, standards for postmasters, and interpretive guidelines and procedures for system administrators and computing service managers, comprise a six-page addition to…
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January 31, 1994
By Rebecca A. Doyle The Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics has been recognized by the University’s History and Traditions Committee for its 1992–93 annual report, which includes a written and pictorial history of the department from 1868 to the present. Chair Panos Y. Papalambros accepted the citation at a ceremony held last week.…
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January 31, 1994
By Bernie DeGroat News and Information Services The interplay of geography and identity will be examined at the winter conference of the Institute for the Humanities Friday and Saturday (Feb. 4–5) at the Rackham Building. The free, public conference, “Culture, Time, Place,” will feature architects, artists, poets, historians and geographers addressing “the intense drive among…
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January 24, 1994
By Rebecca A. Doyle “When I hear the sound of shattering notions, I know I’m on the right track,” said Pamela Motoike, a clinical psychologist in the student counseling office. Motoike, who participated in a Martin Luther King Jr. Day panel discussion on insights, issues and dilemmas in multicultural work, listed several notions she’d like…
