January 10, 1994
Leadership In 1992, women represented 22 percent of the senior administrative positions in the central administration, schools and colleges, down from 30 percent in 1990. Between 1990 and 1992, the proportion of women increased from 19 percent to 28 percent among the assistant and associate vice presidents, as well as vice provosts. During the same…
January 10, 1994
By Rebecca A. Doyle At the end of its fourth year, the President’s Advisory Commission on Women’s Issues has issued a set of recommendations to further its aims of increasing gender equity and making the University a national leader in promoting the success of women as faculty, staff and students. “Achieving this goal will require…
January 10, 1994
Jackie R. McClain, director of human resources at the University of Kansas, will be recommended to the Board of Regents as the executive director for human resources and affirmative action, to be effective Feb. 15. In announcing the recommendation, Provost Gilbert R. Whitaker Jr. and Farris W. Womack, executive vice president and chief financial officer,…
January 10, 1994
By Rebecca A. Doyle The President’s Advisory Commission on Women’s Issues has issued a summary report of responses from senior women faculty to questions about the environment at the U-M and what they perceive to be barriers or supportive structures in that environment. Twenty-four senior women faculty responded to the invitation to participate in focus…
December 6, 1993
By Sally Pobojewski News and Information Services If spiders and silkworms could talk, U-M scientist David Martin has a few questions he’d like to ask. For instance, how and why does a spider change the consistency and chemical structure of its web? How do substances like salt and water cross the membrane barrier into a…
December 6, 1993
Gov. John M. Engler will be the main speaker at the University’s winter commencement on Sunday (Dec. 12). Engler and three others—Carl A. Gerstacker, Elie Wiesel and Roger W. Wilkins—will receive honorary degrees. Gerstacker, Wiesel and Wilkins will make brief remarks. Some 2,000 students on the Ann Arbor campus expect their degrees this winter. The…
December 6, 1993
The U-M Press has established the Society for Early English and Norse Electronic Texts (SEENET). The society will acquire, produce and disseminate scholarly electronic editions of Old Norse, Old English and Middle English texts. According to U-M Press editor Ellen Bauerle, “SEENET will combine the full capacities of computer technology with the highest standards of…
December 6, 1993
This year’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day commemoration (Jan. 17) will incorporate activities under the theme of “American Culture or America the Multicultural?” Units planning events must submit information to Michael Jones-Coleman, MLK Day coordinator, by Dec. 15 to ensure inclusion in the Record’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day calendar, which will be published Jan.…
December 6, 1993
A subcommittee of the University’s Alcohol and Other Drugs Policy Council is working on changes to the University smoking policy that will make the U-M a smoke-free campus. The group’s study of the issue is prompted by new concerns about the health hazards of environmental tobacco smoke. The council reports to George D. Zuidema, vice…
December 6, 1993
Marshall H. Becker Marshall H. Becker, professor of health behavior and health education at the School of Public Health, died of cancer here on Nov. 26. He was 53. Becker, who also was professor of health behavior at the Medical School, was internationally renowned for his research on patient compliance and psychosocial factors in health…
