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January 24, 1994
The appointment of Julie A. Peterson as director of News and Information Services has been announced by Walter Harrison, vice president for university relations. Peterson, who now is managing editor of the Indiana University News Bureau in Bloomington, will assume her U-M post April l. She succeeds Joseph H. Owsley, who retired July 1. “I…
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January 24, 1994
By Rebecca A. Doyle News and Information Services Looking back over the past 25 years, “I’m not sure where we’ve gone,” says Rick Olguin, professor of social sciences at North Seattle Community College, “Our schools and our neighborhoods are more racially stratified than they were 25 years ago. The question, he said, is perhaps not…
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January 24, 1994
The University of Chicago; University of California, Berkeley; Northwestern University; and the U-M have been drawn together under a $700,000 umbrella provided by Ameritech Foundation. The funds will be used to create a university consortium that will analyze regional, national and international public telecommunication policies. Douglas E. Van Houweling, vice provost for information technology, will…
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January 24, 1994
By Bernie DeGroat News and Information Services As Americans look ahead to the challenge of becoming an integrated, diverse society in the 21st century, they must first look to past notions of multiculturalism, keynote speaker Charles Long told a Martin Luther King Jr. Day Symposium audience at Hill Auditorium. “As a nation, we have always…
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January 24, 1994
Leland Stowe Leland Stowe, Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign and war correspondent and professor emeritus of journalism, died here Jan. 16. He was 94. A journalist, radio commentator and author, Stowe gained international acclaim for his vivid accounts, exclusive stories and “scoop” reporting of World War II. “Leland Stowe was one of the most honored American journalists…
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January 24, 1994
By Deborah Gilbert News and Information Services That elusive academic utopia—the multicultural university—was the subject of a Martin Luther King Jr. Day Symposium panel discussion last Monday in Rackham Amphitheater. June M. Howard, associate professor of English and director of the American Culture Program, noted that multiculturalism, while gradually being integrated into various curricula, will…
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January 24, 1994
By Janet Mendler News and Information Services “Those” is an adjective that leads almost automatically to stereotyping, and is a word that should be used with utmost care, Daniel H. Ringler, told a group of staff members of the Unit of Laboratory Animal Medicine (ULAM) during one of its programs commemorating the ideals of Martin…
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January 24, 1994
By Diane Swanbrow News and Information Services The question of whether equity and excellence can co-exist in education surfaced repeatedly in a Martin Luther King Jr. Day lecture hosted by the School of Education. Speaking about “The Roles of Standards and Assessment in Promoting Excellence and Equity,” Donald Stewart, president of the College Board, applauded…
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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…
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January 24, 1994
By Mary Jo Frank Michigan has a three- or four-year window of opportunity to bring its support of higher education up to a respectable level, before the state’s next economic downturn, predicts Sen. John J.H. Schwarz, R-Battle Creek. Schwarz, chair of the Higher Education Subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and Sen. Lana Pollack, D-Ann…
