Campus News
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October 9, 2019
Test of UM Emergency Alert system scheduled for Friday
The Division of Public Safety and Security will test the UM Emergency Alert system at noon Friday. The test will be sent through all methods of the alert system.
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October 9, 2019
Patricia Gurin to receive James Jackson diversity scholarship award
Patricia Gurin, a diversity researcher and pioneer in intergroup dialogue, has been named the recipient of the 2019 James S. Jackson Distinguished Career Award for Diversity Scholarship.
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October 9, 2019
Nominations open for Goddard Power and Dumas awards
The Academic Women’s Caucus is accepting nominations from the university community for the 2020 Sarah Goddard Power Award and Rhetaugh G. Dumas Progress in Diversifying Award.
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October 7, 2019
Embracing DEI is key to success, Jones tells summit crowd
DEI Summit keynote speaker Van Jones says the ability to embrace diversity, equity and inclusion is a superpower, and the people who have it will be better poised for success.
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October 7, 2019
Obituary: William (Buzz) Alexander
William (Buzz) Alexander, who founded the Prison Creative Arts Project and trained thousands of students, teachers, activists and prisoners to illuminate and work to end mass incarceration, died at his home in Ann Arbor on Sept. 19 at the age of 80 from frontal temporal degeneration. Alexander was a professor emeritus of English language and… -
October 7, 2019
Faculty group to consider changes to tenure-removal bylaws
A working group of nine professors across U-M’s three campuses has begun the process of recommending revisions to policies that cover dismissal of tenured faculty.
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October 7, 2019
Free depression screenings available in person and online
In support of National Depression Screening Day on Oct. 10, several U-M programs are offering faculty, staff, students and the community free, in-person and online mental health screenings for depression.
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October 7, 2019
Residential College lecturer uses art as a therapeutic tool
Deborah Gordon-Gurfinkel founded Telling It, which uses the arts to help promote literacy and help students open up about their life experiences and traumas.
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October 7, 2019
Campus briefs
Short news items from around the university.
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October 5, 2019
Rice’s talk covers leadership, foreign policy, inclusion
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice shared her views on a wide range of topics that included leadership, foreign policy, inclusion and college athletics at a public conversation on campus.
