Campus News
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December 5, 2013
Lesson Builder offers new way for faculty to use CTools
The ITS CTools Team has introduced Lesson Builder, a new way for faculty to build, manage and use course sites with easy-to-follow navigation and instructions for students.
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December 4, 2013
Taubman Health Sciences Library closing for renovation
With the renovation of the A. Alfred Taubman Health Sciences Library set to begin in the new year, the building will close at 11:45 p.m. Dec. 22. It will reopen in mid-2015.
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December 4, 2013
Performer, activist Harry Belafonte to give MLK Symposium keynote
Harry Belafonte, groundbreaking recording artist, actor and social activist, is the keynote speaker for the 28th annual Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium. He will deliver the traditional address at 10 a.m. Jan. 20 in Hill Auditorium.
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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,… -
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.
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December 3, 2013
SACUA resolution — AST Process
WHEREAS, we join with the University of Michigan Board of Regents and Central Administration in seeking to deliver excellent education at affordable cost in an era of sharply diminished state appropriations; WHEREAS, the administration of financial and human resources at the University exists to further the mission of the University by serving its faculty and… -
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… -
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.
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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.
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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.
