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March 22, 1993
By Rebecca A. Doyle To help manage the more than 150 programs they administer for student financial aid, the Office of Academic Affairs and the Office of Financial Aid have purchased the Student Aid Management (SAM) system. They hope to have it in place by February of next year. Initially, says Harvey P. Grotrian, director…
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March 22, 1993
By Kathleen Hulik School of Business Administration Sixty teams of School of Business Administration students are fanning out across the country—from Rochester, N.Y., to Santa Clara, Calif.—to study business processes on site as part of their master’s degree curriculum. Multidisciplinary Action Projects or MAP, the Business School’s revolutionary method of teaching M.B.A. students the nitty-gritty…
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March 22, 1993
John H. D’Arms, vice provost for academic affairs and dean of the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies, says he is gratified to see the College of Engineering, School of Nursing and the Department of Health Services Management and Policy all ranked so highly by U.S. News & World Report. He also notes that…
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March 22, 1993
By Mary Jo Frank Today’s students need more than just the tools to land their first job. Universities need to prepare them for their third and fourth jobs too, LS&A Dean Edie N. Goldenberg told the Regents at their March 12 meeting. “We also need to think hard about how to instill the joy of…
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March 22, 1993
By Mary Jo Frank Three U-M professional schools are ranked among the top 10 nationwide in their respective fields in U.S. News & World Report’s annual survey of “America’s Best Graduate Schools.” The results appear in the March 22 issue. For the first time the survey included the reputations of educational programs in four health…
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March 15, 1993
By Diane Swanbrow News and Information Services Michael T. Nettles, professor of education, has received a $90,000 seed grant from IBM Corp. to begin development of prototypes of computerized, multi-media learning tasks in mathematics and science for elementary school students. The multi-media tasks will emphasize flexible performance assessments. “This project fits in with the national…
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March 15, 1993
An exhibition organized by College of Architecture and Urban Planning faculty members has received a special recognition award in a competition sponsored by Interiors magazine. The multi-media exhibition, part of the College’s conference on “Shelter, Women and Development: First and Third World Perspectives” last May, was developed by Betsy Williams, who was adjunct assistant professor…
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March 15, 1993
The establient of the R. Jamison and Betty Williams Professorship of Engineering in the College of Engineering was approved by the Regents at their March meeting. “Mr. and Mrs. Williams have generously given and pledged $1.2 million to fund this professorship, which will provide funds to support the teaching and scholarship of a distinguished faculty…
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March 15, 1993
By Rebecca A. Doyle Two faculty members and two students from the U-M will be honored at the Michigan Association of Governing Boards of Higher Education Convocation April 7 in East Lansing. The awards recognize distinguished faculty and outstanding students from each of Michigan’s 15 four-year public universities. Mary L. Brake, associate professor of nuclear…
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March 15, 1993
More than 4,900 University of Michigan students will be recognized for their academic achievement at the University’s annual Honors Convocation at 2 p.m. Sunday (March 21) in Hill Auditorium. The convocation speech, titled “Seeing and Believing: The Gains of Education,” will be given by Ejner J. Jensen, professor of English and chair of the faculty…
