After weeks of intensive work on the presidential search, the University Board of Regents will return to normalcy today.
During their regular monthly meetings today and tomorrow, the regents will discuss several business items - with the University Medical Center and child care high on the agenda.
Tomorrow, the board will vote on the creation of a new executive officer position, known as the executive vice president for medical affairs. First discussed at September's meeting, the formal creation of this post now depends on the regents' approval.
"It would require the vote of the board to create this position," said Vice President for University Relations Walter Harrison. Harrison said that if the regents approve the new position, a search committee will form within a few weeks, with expectations that the position will be filled in approximately six to 18 months.
At today's meeting, the regents will hear a series of speeches and presentations. Prof. Thomas Dunn, chair of the faculty's governing body, will deliver an annual report on behalf of the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs.
Dunn said he plans to say a few words about the regents' decision to hire Lee Bollinger as the next University president, but that most of his talk will relate to issues like faculty governance, salary parity and Value Centered Management.
Many on the faculty think the openness of the presidential search was a net plus, Dunn said.
"Most of (the faculty) feel there is a point to the Open Meetings Act selection of the president. ... The concept has probably caught on to some degree as far as the faculty is concerned," Dunn said.
Michigan Student Assembly President Fiona Rose and Nursing School Dean Ada Sue Henshaw will talk about a Child Care Task Force assembled to investigate child care options at the University. Tomorrow, the regents are scheduled to vote on whether to adopt a $1-per-student fee hike to fund daycare for the children of students.
Rose said she will also request the University pays matching funds to those supplied by students. She said she thinks the regents will be receptive to the child care options.
"I feel good about it," Rose said. "I think they'll see the students support this."
The regents will also review an external audit of University finances, examine 1998 state budget requests and hear an annual report on research activity from interim Vice President for Research Frederick Neidhardt.
Professional talk about an experience that every working mother has with a special insight," Stewart said.
One student said she was able to get a clearer understanding of Fogel's message through the dance.
"I got a deeper, more meaningful understanding of the problem," said Archana Kella, an LSA sophomore. "You could feel what she was feeling, and it was more beautiful."
Fogel said she wants students to understand her personally, not just as a professor. By using dance as a way to describe her experiences, she said students may be able to understand her fully.
"This sort of dance demystifies the teacher. You can see the personal backdrop of private lives," Fogel said.
Motivated by different experiences in her own life, Fogel uses real-life stories to develop dances as a means of communication.
Fogel told about events in her life that she used as motivation for her choreography, such as getting robbed in New York.
The name "Upswell" came from an article in The New York Times describing the love of a parent for its child, Fogel said.