May 2007 Regents’ Meeting

Thursday, May 17, 2007 - Henry Ford Estate - Fair Lane, UM-Dearborn

Meeting Schedule

3:00 p.m.

Call to Order

• President’s Opening Remarks
  
• Presentation: UM-Dearborn School of Education
  
• Committee Report
  
• Regular Business Agenda
  
  

Regular Business Agenda

I. MINUTES

1. Approval of Minutes of April 19, 2007 Meeting
   
   

II. REPORTS

1. Investment Report
   
2. Plant Extension
   
3. Human Resources and Affirmative Action Report
   
4. Litigation Report
   
5. Research Report
   
   

• Projects Established, April 1, 2007 - April 30, 2007
  
  

1. Other Reports (no documents)
   
   

• University of Michigan Health System
  
• Division of Student Affairs
  
• Dearborn Campus
  
• Flint Campus
  
  

1. Faculty Governance Update
   
2. Michigan Student Assembly Report
   
   

III. VOLUNTARY SUPPORT

1. Report on Voluntary Support, April 30, 2007
   
   

IV. PERSONNEL ACTIONS (Summary Listing of Personnel Actions)

(Individual Regents Communications for items 2-9)

1. Recommended promotions to the ranks of professor and associate professor, 2007-2008. (click here)
   
2. Recommendations for approval of new appointments and promotions for regular associate and full professor ranks, with tenure.[](Double Click Here to Begin.html)
   
3. Recommendations for approval of reappointments of regular instructional staff and selected academic administrative staff.
   
4. Recommendations for approval of joint or additional appointments or transfers of regular associate or full professors and selected academic administrative staff.
   
5. Establishing and renaming professorships and selected academic administrative positions.
   

6. Recommendations for approval of other personnel transactions for regular instructional staff and selected academic administrative staff.
   Dearborm Campus

7. Recommendations for approval of joint or additonal appointments or transfers of regular associate or full professors and selelcted academic administrative staff.

8. Recommendations for approval of other personnel transactions for regular instructional staff and selected academic administrative staff.
   Flint Campus

9. Recommendations for approval of joint or additonal appointments or transfers of regula associate or full professors and selected academic administrative staff.

V. PERSONNEL REPORTS

1. Reports of Lecturers Employee Organization (LEO) activity
   
2. Reports of regular instructional transactions
   
   

VI. RETIREMENT MEMOIRS

1. Adoption of retirement memoirs for: John C. Campbell, Ph.D., professor of political science; Charles R. Cowley, Ph.D., professor of astronomy; Ellwood S. Derr, A. Mus.D., professor of music (theory); Gary D. Fenstermacher, Ph.D., professor of education; Richard I. Ford, Ph.D., Arthur F. Thurnau Profesor, professor of anthropology, professor of botany, and curator of ethnology; Helen L. Harrington, Ph.D., associate professor of education; William R. Kuhn, Ph.D., professor of atmospheric science; Phillip A. Meyers, Ph.D., professor of geological sciences and research scientist; Antoine E. Naaman, Ph.D., professor of civil engineering; Fred Ormand, A.R.C.M., professor of music (clairinet); Robert B. Payne, Ph.D., professor of zoology and curator of birds; David K. Rea, Ph.D., professor of geological sciences; Virginia Richardson, Ph.D., professor of education; George I. Shirley, B.S.; Joseph Edgar Maddy Distinguished Professor of Music (voice) and professor of music; Michael J. Wynne, Ph.D., professor of botany; and William Zimmerman, Ph.D., professor of political science, research scientist, and research professor.
   
   
   

VII. MEMORIALS

1. Adoption of memorial statements for Julian T. Hoff, M.D. , Richard C. Schneider Professor of Neurosurgery and professor of neurosurgery, and Barbra Morris, D.A., senior lecturer in English.
   
   

VIII. DEGREES

1. There are no actions with respect to degrees this month.
   
   

Regular Agenda (Roman Numeral Sections IX-X)

IX. FINANCE-PROPERTY

1. Charitable Remainder Trusts
   
2. Alternative Asset Commitment
   
3. State Building Authority Financing of University of Michigan Project
   
4. University of Michigan-Flint Student Housing Facility
   
5. W.K. Kellogg Institute and Dental Building Elevator Replacement
   
6. Medical Science II Third Floor Research Laboratory Renovations
   
7. Contract between the University of Michigan and Ann Arbor SPARK
   
8. Approval of Purchase from Cathleen A. Baker
   
9. Approval of Payment to Boxcar Studio
   
10. Patent Option Agreement between the University of Michigan and Arbor Photonics, LLC
    
11. Patent Option Agreement between the University of Michigan and Uptech, Inc.
    
12. Research Agreement between the University of Michigan and Lycera, Inc.
    
    

X. OTHER

1. Museum of Anthropology deaccession of two collections of botanical materials
   
2. Non-tenure-track Clinical Appointment Sequence in the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
   
3. Regents’ Meeting Schedule for 2008
   
   
   

PUBLIC COMMENTS (Non-Agenda-Related Topics)

*The agenda and the items linked from this page are an unofficial version of this month’s Regents’ Meeting Agenda. The official and authoritative version of the agenda is kept on file in the Office of the Vice President and Secretary of the University.

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