Campus News

  1. December 3, 2013

    SACUA resolution — Consulting Firms

    WHEREAS, The University of Michigan retained outside consulting firms to develop and implement the Administrative Services Transformation (AST) of finance and human resources, the IT Rationalization plan, and the Retirement Benefits review, all of which resulted in deeply flawed planning processes, damaging the confidence of the faculty in the Administration; and WHEREAS, The University has…
  2. December 3, 2013

    SACUA resolutions address shared services, use of consultants

    The Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs has passed resolutions endorsing the suspension of the Administrative Services Transformation project and addressing the use of consultants in cost-containment efforts.

  3. December 3, 2013

    2013 Distinguished Diversity Leadership Award team winners

    Five staff teams were honored with Distinguished Diversity Leadership Awards on Tuesday. Read more about the awards. Understanding Race theme semester co-chairs, from left: Kelly Maxwell, Amy Harris, Shari Robinson-Lynk and Martha Jones (not shown). (Photo by Scott Soderberg, Michigan Photography) U-M Detroit Center staff, from left: Feodies Shipp III; Mike Morland; Addell Austin Anderson; Alexis Ellis and Joshua Dykes. (Photo by Scott Soderberg,…
  4. December 3, 2013

    2013 DDLA honors conferred among cheering supporters

    A full house of enthusiastic celebrants gathered at Palmer Commons on Tuesday to congratulate the 11 individual staff members and five staff team recipients of the 2013 Distinguished Diversity Leadership Awards.

  5. December 2, 2013

    University leaders to seek more input on shared services project

    Top university administrators say they will immediately bring faculty into the process of U-M’s shared services initiative to evaluate the project’s timeline and to ensure it is structured to meet the needs of faculty and students while achieving necessary cost savings.

  6. November 27, 2013

    Kids Kare registration offers faculty and staff backup child care

    The U-M Work/Life Resource Center is again offering Kids Kare at Home, an emergency backup option for those times when regular child care is unavailable.    

  7. November 26, 2013

    Record email and print editions going on Thanksgiving break

    The University Record will suspend delivery of its daily newsletter during the Thanksgiving break, and there will be no print edition the week of Dec. 2.

  8. November 26, 2013

    Second suspect charged in July homicide of U-M medical student

    A second South Carolina man was arraigned Tuesday on a charge of open murder in the death of Medical School student Paul DeWolf.

  9. November 25, 2013

    Campus briefs

    A roundup of news from around the university.

  10. November 25, 2013

    Accolades

    Honors and awards given to U-M faculty and staff.