Periodic Updates - Update #59
OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
March 22, 2006
| TO: | The CMU Community |
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| FROM: | Michael Rao |
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| SUBJECT: | CMU Update 59 |
The information in the sections below is offered in an attempt to be useful and informative. As most of you know, this is one of many periodic updates that will be posted on the web to help share information and engage members of the university community in topics of interest and concern.
Advocacy in State Budget Process
As I recently testified to the Senate Higher Education Subcommittee again arguing for more equal per-student funding, I realized that your advocacy again this year for equitable per-student funding for CMU continues to be critical. Talking points that you may wish to include in your letters, sample letters, addresses for government officials, and other information can be accessed at http://www.cmich.edu/govrelations. Please help as much as you can. Thank you.
Faculty Excellence Awards
At the Faculty Excellence Exhibition on March 21, it was a pleasure to view the presentations by colleagues and participate in the presentation of awards to professors in recognition of outstanding research, teaching, and service. Congratulations to the excellent recipients of this year’s awards:
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President’s Awards Yury Ionin Carl Lee |
Provost’s Awards Minghui Chai Thomas Gehring Jeffrey Weinstock |
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Excellence in Teaching Awards Judy Chandler Holly Hoffman Joseph Finck Susan Steffel Suzanne Woods |
Faculty Distinguished Service Awards Gary Dunbar Wayne Osborn |
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Research Excellence Fund Scott Burgess Tanya Domina, Maureen MacGillivray, and Terry Lerch Joseph Finck Tim Hall and Eric Johnson James P. Hill, Gregory Falls, and Philip Thompson Dillip Mohanty and David Matty Justin Oh-Lee Valeri Petkov |
Update on CMU 2010 Request for Proposals
In response to the CMU 2010 RFP process, 43 proposals were
received. Sixteen proposals were received addressing Priority
I, nine for Priorities II and IV, five for Priority III, and three
for Priority V. The Priority Committees are reviewing the proposals
and will make their recommendations to the Institutional Strategic
Planning Committee (ISPC). I look forward to receiving the ISPC
recommendations in early April.
Additional Information about Professional
Development Support
Research Travel Fund
Also available through the President’s Office is a research travel fund (currently budgeted at $13,500 annually), used to make one-time awards of up to $1000 for travel to pursue external grant funding. Please visit http://www.orsp.cmich.edu/pdf/grantdev.pdf for more information.
CMU Hosting AITP National Collegiate Conference
The Association
of Information Technology Professionals (AITP) annually hosts
the AITP National Collegiate Conference in late March or early
April. In 2007, CMU will host this annual conference in
Detroit. The AITP-CMU Student Chapter has been attending
this conference for several years and has won many awards, most
recently in April 2004. The Business Information Systems
department houses the Management Information Systems (MIS) major
and the Master of Science in Information Systems. The MIS
Advisory Board and I believe that hosting this conference will
bring good visibility to CMU. Compuware, EDS, Delphi and
Blue Cross Blue Shield are only four of the corporate members
who strongly support this project and have also said that they
would identify senior executives to speak at this conference.
Posters in the Capitol
On April 25, CMU undergraduate students will present “Posters in the Capitol,” featuring their work on a wide range of significant problems, issues, and interests. CMU’s “Posters in the Capitol” will take place from 10:30-2:30 in the State Capitol Rotunda.
