News & Announcements

Dear faculty:

These are some brief highlights from our latest Senate meeting on Monday, March 9th.

Bryan Dadey, Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs, fielded additional questions about our campus budget as a follow-up to a faculty survey. His written responses included remarks about the recent visit of Eastern Michigan University accounting professor, Howard Bunsis, on February 20th. Some people have asked if they can get a video version of the Bunsis presentation. 

The full report can be found on the AAUP website.

We also met with members of the DDC (Dearborn Discovery Core) sub-committee, to discuss proposed changes to the DDC.  Doing away with the capstone requirement is the most significant change proposed. Please consider how this proposed change might affect your discipline and send the Senate any relevant feedback. We also discussed how the Senate might spearhead the retooling of the DDC so it’s more up to date and audience/student friendly. This endeavor can bring members of the colleges together for benchmarking and collaborating

Of course, you can always gain a full picture of Senate activity with materials in the Senate folder in Dropbox, while paying attention to messages about opportunities for faculty governance coming from Derek Peterson, SACUA president (in Ann Arbor), and  Karen Davis, Faculty Senate Secretary, on our campus.

Last, in an unusual circumstance, I am canceling the upcoming Senate Assembly meeting scheduled for the 16^th at 3 PM.  We lacked content with no motions being sent by faculty in time for an agenda.  I also teach until 315 PM and often cannot get to my desk to run a meeting until 330 PM, so the scheduled 3 PM meeting time was an additional constraint.

Thanks, and hang in there.

Liz

Congratulations to Bruce R. Maxim on being selected as the 2025 recipient of the Jackie Lawson Memorial Faculty Governance Award! Professor Maxim was selected for having shown an exceptional distinction reflected in faculty governance service to the entire University that reaches beyond the local campus confines of Ann Arbor, Dearborn, and Flint. Among other positions, Maxim served several terms as chair and as vice-chair of the UM-Dearborn Faculty Senate.