Regents approve administrative appointments

July 14, 2000
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ANN ARBOR—Administrative appointments approved by the University of Michigan Board of Regents at its July 13-14 meeting included:

Stephen W. Director, professor of electrical engineering and computer science, was reappointed the Robert J. Vlasic Dean of Engineering in the College of Engineering, effective
Robert Jon Feigal, the Samuel D. Harris Collegiate Professor of Dentistry, professor of dentistry and interim associate dean for academic affairs, was appointed associate dean for graduate programs and facilities in the School of Dentistry, effective
John B. Godfrey, special assistant to the provost, was appointed assistant dean for international education in the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies, effective Aug. 1, 2000-

Henry O. Meares was reappointed assistant dean in the School of Education, effective Aug. 2, 2000-
Annemarie Sullivan Palincsar, the Jean and Charles R. Walgreen Jr. Professor of Reading and Literacy and professor of education, was reappointed associate dean in the School of Education, effective Sept. 1, 2000-Aug. 31, 2002.

Paul R. Pintrich, professor of education and of psychology, was reappointed associate dean in the School of Education, effective Sept. 1, 2000-Aug. 31, 2001.

Mary Schmidt, associate head of the School of Art at Carnegie Mellon University, was appointed assistant dean for academic programs and student affairs in the School of Art and Design, effective
Beverly D. Ulrich, director of the Division of Kinesiology and professor of kinesiology, was appointed dean of the Division, effective Aug. 1, 2000-Dec. 31, 2003.

Karen L. Wolff was appointed dean of the School of Music, professor of music and the Paul Boylan Collegiate Professor of Music, effective Aug. 1, 2000, for a five-year renewable term. Her nomination to the post was announced June 9.