Campus News
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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.
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October 3, 2019
Schlissel highlights arts, firearm injuries, academic innovation
At his annual Leadership Breakfast, President Mark Schlissel announced initiatives on firearms-injury research and the arts, a Center for Academic Innovation, and a multimillion-dollar fund to support research toward carbon neutrality.
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October 3, 2019
Campus arts initiative to ‘unleash imagination and creativity’
President Mark Schlissel has announced a comprehensive presidential arts initiative designed to “unleash imagination and creativity” across U-M.
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October 3, 2019
U-M launches Firearm Injury Prevention Research Initiative
U-M will launch an initiative that encourages and coordinates research across disciplines to develop new knowledge and data on firearm violence, which causes about 100 deaths per day across the United States.
