Office Of New Students Programs (University of Michigan) records ca. 1950s-2005

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Office Of New Students Programs (University of Michigan) records ca. 1950s-2005

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Office designed to serve students new to the University of Michigan, including orientation program, university mentorship program, and welcome to Michigan program, as well as information and referral service for first-year students. Records relating to new student orientation program largely concerning diversity training and selection and training of counselors. Includes manuals, guides, and videotapes.

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Bentley Historical Library

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Outside of museum holdings, no comprehensive survey and inventory of campus artwork had been attempted since 1937. With support from the Michigan Commission on Art in Public Places, 1,076 items were inventoried during 1988-1990. Additional inventory work was undertaken in 1997-1998 for risk management purposed, but generated little new information. From the description of Inventory of University of Michigan-owned art, 1988-1990, 1997-1998. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id...

University of Michigan. Office of Orientation

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The Office of Orientation has its origin in the Freshman Week created by University of Michigan President C.C. Little in 1927. Little, noting the high attrition rate of Michigan freshmen and acting on the advice of Registrar Shirley Smith, created Freshman Week as an orientation period. Its objectives were to guide incoming students in course selection, to test their intellectual and psychological aptitudes, and to ease the transition from the safety of home to the uncertain life at...

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The idea for the Office of New Students Programs (ONSP) was first proposed during the Fleming Administration by a task force concerned with how to revise the orientation program. The ONSP did not come into being until president James Duderstadt took office in 1988. President Duderstadt issued the Michigan Mandate in which he expressed a strong commitment to educating students about diversity. The Office of New Student Programs was responsible for teaching sessions on diversity durin...

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Nuclear engineer and eleventh president of the University of Michigan (1988-1996), James J. Duderstadt worked both to position the university as a leader in higher education and to transform the university into a new institutional "model" for higher education -- an institutional model that could readily adapt to the changing needs of society. Evidence of Dr. Duderstadt's work toward transforming the university can be found in the cultural and physical changes...