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Did You Know? Seibert Professor of Ancient History; Ber Since 1968 WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSllY Volume 24, Number 14 www.wmich.edu/wmu/news April 9, 1998 Insert contains text of Schedules set for visits by presidential candidates Four candidates for the presidency of Schneider Hall; dinner with the Board of select one of the candidates at its next 'State of the V.' speech WMU will visit the campus during the next Trustees at 6:30 p.m. in the President's meeting Friday, April 24. This issue of Western News fea- two weeks for public sessions and for pub- Dining Room of the Bernhard Center; and Both the public presentations and pub- tures an insert containing the full text lic interviews by the Board of Trustees. public session of the Board of Trustees at lic interviews of each candidate are ex- of President Haenicke's March 31 A fifth candidate, Blaine Brownell, pro- 7:30 p.m. in 157 Bernhard Center. pected to be carried live on Channel 7 of "State of the University" address. vost and vice president for academic af- • Elson Floyd, executive vice chancel- WMU's EduCABLE television system. During fairs at the University of North Texas, lor at the University of North Carolina at Information on the search and selection the ad- visited April 6. Chapel Hill, Tuesday, April 21: public of the next president of WMU is available STATE Nt, UNIVERSITY dress at Here are schedules for the other candi- presentation at 4: IS p.m. in the Brown from Betty A. Kocher, secretary to the the 18th dates' public sessions: Auditorium of Schneider Hall; dinner with Board of Trustees, at 7-2360, on the World annual Academic Convocation, • Elisabeth A. Zinser, chancellor at the the Board of Trustees at 6:30 p.m. in the Wide Web at <www.wmich.edu/wmu/ Haenicke reflected on his 13 years as University of Kentucky in Lexington, President's Dining Room of the Bernhard search> and by calling 7-4004 for a re- president of WMU. "We had a g~eat Thursday, April 9: public presentation at Center; and public session of the Board of corded message. ride!" he concluded. 4: IS p.m. in the Kirsch Auditorium of the Trustees at 7:30 p.m. in the West Ballroom Fetzer Center; dinner with the Board of of the Bernhard Center. Haenicke to testify before Trustees at 6:30 p.m. in the President's At their public presentation, the candi- Presidential selection on House subcommittee May 6 Dining Room of the Bernhard Center; and dates have been asked to address the topic, President Haenicke wi IImake a presen- agenda for April 24 meeting public session of the Board of Trustees at "WMU-An Ascending National Univer- tation before the state House Appropria- The sixth president of the University is 7:30 p.m. in the West Ballroom of the sity on Its Way to Research II Status." tions Subcommittee on Higher Education expected to be selected at the next meeting Bernhard Center. They have been asked to identify the next at 10 a.m. Wednesday, May 6, in Lansing. of the Board of Trustees Friday, Apri I 24. • Jay Noren, professor of health man- steps to maintain WMU's current momen- "My goal will be the same as it has been The appointment will conclude a pro- agement and former vice chancellor for tum and to reach that goal. for several years," Haenicke said. "It will cess that began nearly a year ago when health sciences at the University of Wis- Members of the audience will have an be to convince legislators once more of the President Haenicke announced his plans to consin at Madison, Tuesday, April 14: opportunity to ask questions after the pre- need to recognize WMU' s unique status as retire from the presidency July 31 after 13 public presentation at 4: IS p.m. in the sentations. A public reception will follow. the state's only public Doctoral I univer- years and return to the faculty. Brown Auditorium of Schneider Hall; din- Each candidate's visit also will include sity, which so far this year has not oc- Other agenda items are expected to in- ner with the Board of Trustees at 6:30 p.m. meetings with constituency groups and a curred." clude 1998-99 room and board rates, which in the Brown and Gold Room of the tour of the campus. The state Senate has approved a 3 per- had been tabled March 20 to allow time for Bernhard Center; and public session of the The five finalists for the position were cent increase in appropriations for WMU public di cussion. The board also will hear Board of Trustees at 7:30 p.m. in the West recommended to and accepted by the Board and several other state universities. Other reports on gifts, grants and personnel. Ballroom of the Bernhard Center. of Trustees at its last meeting March 20. A institutions are pegged to get increases Starting times and locations for the board • Donald L. Beggs, chancellor at South- 10-member Presidential Search Advisory ranging from 3.6 percent to 10 ·percent, meeting and those of meeting of its two ern Illinois University at Carbondale, Committee made the recommendation from increases that Haenicke says are driven by committees have not yet been set. All meet- Thursday, April 16: public presentation at among about 60 candidates for the posi- enrollment. ings are open to the public. 4: IS p.m. in the Brown Auditorium of tion. The Board of Trustees is expected to "It is always the lowest funding level that is being addressed," Haenicke said Four more chosen as 'named endowed professors' March 20, reiterating his belief that the state should recognize three funding levels Four additional faculty members have rather than just one. The state, he said, been rewarded for their outstanding per- should recognize Research, Doctoral and formance in teaching and research through Master's institutions with separate fund- a program established last year by Presi- ing levels per student. dent Haenicke. "We are now about $1,000 per student Each has been selected for a "named above the lowest funding level," Haenicke endowed professorship" and will receive told the Board of Trustees recently. "Un- an annual stipend of at least $12,500 for the der this scenario, we will not see improved next three years, beginning July 1. The funding until we sink to the lowest level." stipend is derived from the earnings of an The Senate version of the higher educa- endowment from private donations put at tion appropriations bill sets a minimum of the discretion of the president. Maier Pritchard Scott Ziring $4,429 per student and grants increases to "I am proud that we are able to honor Maier, a member of the history depart- conferences and workshops. Pritchard has institutions based on enrollment to meet some of our most distinguished and de- ment faculty since 1960, is a widely pub- received support for his work from several that minimum. But it does so without re- voted faculty in this way as a result of lished author on the rise of Christianity. sources, including three awards from the gard to institutional classification. Univer- effective fund raising," said Haenicke, who His first documentary novel, "Pontius National Science Foundation focusing on sities already at that level or above receive announced the selection during his "State Pilate," was published in 1968 and, since ethics in the engineering profession and on a 3 percent across-the-board increase. of the University" address at the Academic then, he has written or edited 15 other science and ethics in the schools. In 1995, WMU's appropriation per fiscal year Convocation March 31. "This coming fall books and more than 200 articles and re- he received WMU's Distinguished Fac- equivalent student for 1998-99 would be we shall have a full complement of 10 such views. In 1994, he branched out into con- ulty Scholar Award. $5,482, which would continue to rank distinguished positions." temporary fiction and published "A Skel- Scott has taught in WMU' s Department WMU seventh among the state's 15 public The four join six faculty members who eton in God's Closet," which became a of English since 1968. He has written sev- universities. Haenicke and other WMU were chosen for the honor last year. The number one national bestseller in the reli- eral books of poetry, including "Grocer- officials have argued repeatedly that WMU endowed professorships carry the names gious fiction category. Maier received ies" (1976), "Durations" (1984) and "The ranks fourth in key measures of size and of friends of the University and donors WMU's Distinguished Faculty Scholar Wishing Heart" (forthcoming in 1999). complexity, and should be funded accord- whose exceptional philanthropy has sig- Award in 1981. Also known for his supe- His poems also have appeared in many ingly. nificantly increased the University's gen- rior classroom skills, he earned the WMU periodicals, including Poetry, Harper's and eral endowment. Alumni Association's Teaching Excellence The Kenyon Review. The recipient of a The four facul ty members and their new Award in 1974. National Endowment for the Arts Fellow- titles are: Paul L. Maier, the Russell H. Pritchard has been a WMU faculty mem- ship in 1984, Scott has served as co-editor Did you know? Seibert Professor of Ancient History; ber since 1968. In addition to chairing the of two volumes of "Contemporary Michi- • The WMU campus is the saf- Michael S. Pritchard, the Willard A. Brown Department of Philosophy from 1975 to gan Poetry," a compilation of the creative est in Michigan and 26th safest in Professor of Philosophy; Herbert S.
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