The Wall Street Journal reports that UM business professor Noel Tichy will be heading up the new Jack Welch Institute, an MBA program at Chancellor University System LLC in Cleveland. Welch, the former CEO of General Electric, has bought a 12% stake in the university, which offers most of its courses online. [Source]
Section: Old Media Watch
Packs of green-clad young men walking through intersection, not all in a straight line. Some are wearing hats.
The Detroit Free Press reports on a local woman whose letter to Barack Obama elicited a handwritten note from the president, who writes several such notes each week. The article quotes Michael Traugott, a UM communication studies professor, who said one of the motivations for Obama’s letter-writing is political: “Without casting any aspersions on his campaign, it would be interesting to track where the letters are going by state and congressional district. Are they going to districts with wavering or persuadable members of Congress on health care?” [Source]
Ann Arbor’s Huron Hills Golf Course has opened for the season, and Leslie Park Golf Course could open as early as March 22, according to the city’s website. [Source]
In a recent report on an AAPS board meeting, we paraphrased remarks of participants, and we employed the informal nomenclature of the speakers for “Ann Arbor Open School @ Mack.” Those variants were departures from the accepted standard shortening to “Ann Arbor Open.” We acknowledge the name of the school here, and have cleaned up references to it in the original piece.
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