Chancellor Domenico Grasso provided the following updates at the public Sept. 22 meeting:
- Building back campus community events including the August cookout/kickball game, Chancellor’s Town Gown bike ride, alumni awards and Chancellor’s Book Club.
- News of new student enrollment growth and improvement in four-year FTIAC and three-year transfer student graduation rates.
- Recent campus US News and World Report rankings.
The Regents approved the following personnel actions:
Reappointments of regular instructional staff and selected academic and administrative staff.
Khouloud Gaaloul, Ph.D., assistant professor, Computer and Information Science, CECS August 29, 2022 – April 30, 2025.
Susan H. Grasso, Ph.D., clinical assistant professor, Social Sciences, CASL, July 1, 2022 – June 30, 2023.
Reappointments of regular instructional staff and selected academic and administrative staff
Melissa Stone, vice provost for enrollment management, effective September 15, 2022 - September 1, 2025.
Casandra Ulbrich, vice chancellor for institutional advancement, effective November 1, 2022 – October 31, 2027.
Appointments represented by the Lecturers’ Employee Organization
Tanjore V. Jayaraman, Ph.D., Lecturer III, mechanical engineering, CECS, August 29, 2022 – April 30, 2025.
Vincent A. Wright, M.F.A., Lecturer I, humanities, CASL, August 29, 2022 – December 31. 2022.
Committee appointments
Citizens Advisory Committee
Trisha Stein, Chief of Staff to Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, retroactive appointment, September 1, 2022 – August 31, 2026.
By law revisions
CASL executive committee reduces its voting committee members from eight to seven members due to a college department merger.
University gifts of $10,000 or more
June
Beaumont Health, Community Health
$10,000 in support of Price - Safe Routes to School Gift
Colleen J. Burcar and Bryan A. Becker Fund of the Ernst & Young Foundation
$10,000 in support of the COB Sales Certificate Program Support
Mary Anne Plano
$20,666 in support of the Chancellor's Expendable Scholarship Fund
The Henry Ford
$10,000 in support of the Lemelson Foundation - Discovery grant - L&E at The Henry Ford
Iris and Daniel Winey Charitable Fund of the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund
$10,000 in support of the Daniel and Iris Winey Endowed Scholarship Fund
July
Estate of Dr. Rosalyn Saltz
$100,000 in support of the Rosalyn and Eli Saltz Endowed Scholarship Fund
August
Anonymous Donor
$15,000 in support of the John H. and Patricia W. Mitchell Business Communication Lab Expendable Fund
Anonymous Donor
$300,000 in support of the John H. and Patricia W. Mitchell Business Communication Lab Fund
Math Corps National
$14,000 in support of Math Corps Summer Camp 2022
Mary Ann Zawada
$25,000 in support of the Helen Zawada-Bronisz Book Fund
View the entire Board of Regents’ meeting agenda.
