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Central Michigan Life
Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2010
Mount Pleasant, Mich.
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‘dream Dean team’ E r n est y ode r
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Dean: $385,000
Associate dean of Student Affairs: $250,000
Associate dean of Clinical Affairs and Hospital Relations and chief medical officer: $325,000
D ebo r a h biggs
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Associate dean of Administration and Finance: $210,000
Dr. Ernest L. Yoder, founding dean of CMU’s College of Medicine, is part of a team of faculty that will soon head the new medical building which is currently under construction. Yoder’s current plans focus mainly on accrediting the medical school and creating a fitting curriculum. Although he has spent the last 30 years at different levels of medical study, he says being appointed as founding dean was a bit unexpected. “It was for me literally a dream come true,” Yoder said.
Associate dean of Medical Education and Faculty Development: $200,000
College of Medicine salaries will total $1.37 million annually By Carisa Seltz Senior Reporter
Dr. Ernest Yoder approached the Board of Trustees last month to report a key accomplishment for the College of Medicine. The college’s founding dean announced the completion of his “dream dean team” after months of searching — a step in the accreditation process for which CMU will allocate a total of $1.37 mil-
lion for salaries. Guidelines from the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, the accrediting body, mandate medical schools have at least the four associate dean positions. Provost Gary Shapiro said the leadership deans are all extremely critical to the College of Medicine’s future success. “There is a huge amount of work to be done and each of these four individuals brings
a great deal of expertise and a great deal of industriousness,” he said. “We are working on all the details that need to be accomplished before we admit our first class.” Deborah Biggs, associate dean of Administration and Finance, Nehad El-Sawi, associate dean of Medical Education and Faculty Development, Dr. Sean Kesterson, associate dean of Clinical Affairs and Hospital Relations,
CMU to aid Wayne State in formation of health center Facility will serve 19 counties By Emily Pfund Senior Reporter
CMU is sharing a $900,000 grant with Wayne State University to set up an Area Health Education Center serving 19 mid-Michigan counties. The center is one of five planned for different areas of the state to provide health care resources and education. The two-year grant is setting up an AHEC program in the Detroit area this year. CMU will begin work on the mid-Michigan center in the second year of the grant, beginning Sept. 1, 2011. Its location has not been determined.
“The idea is to stimulate understanding and development of health professions in the region,” said Chris Ingersoll, dean of the College of Health Professions. Monika Wierzbicki, director of external operation for WSU’s College of Nursing, said CMU will act as a liaison to the 19-county region. Determining the location of the center, she said, will be apart of the community engagement process, which CMU will facilitate. CMU will allocate some money to the establishment of the center, which will be matched by the grant, Ingersoll said. Ingersoll said some of the money will come from the colleges of Health Professions and Medicine, although he was unsure of the exact amount. After the
center is established, it will have to secure its own sources of funding and function without financial assistance from CMU. The mid-Michigan AHEC will work to improve health care in under-served rural areas, Ingersoll said. This will include serving as a resource center and community board. The center will also focus on improving vocational education and primary care in mid-Michigan. Wierzbicki said the center will first put together a health assessment and determine priorities in the region. “For the current health professions workforce, the center will address their needs and any barriers A health | 2A
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and Dr. Lori Arviso Alvord, associate dean of Student Affairs, make up CMU’s four associate medical college deans. The $1.37 million in associate dean and dean salaries would be allocated annually. That total excludes performance incentives and miscellaneous benefits. Yoder said the salaries are all at or below the 50th percentile range among similar positions across the country.
“We collected data on comparable salaries at a variety of institutions for a variety of positions (from professional organizations in colleges of medicine),” Shapiro said. Shapiro said Yoder recommended salaries for each of the deans after they analyzed the data. Shapiro then reviewed the recommendations and submitted the amounts to the Office of Human Resources for approval. “The salaries are very rea-
sonable,” Yoder said.
Comparing salaries Shapiro said CMU had to be competitive because the College of Medicine is a new school. The associate deans at CMU are not paid like those at large and wellknown medical colleges, but like medical colleges similar to what CMU will develop into, he said.
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Apathy may keep some students away from polls Other college-age voters prepare for election By Michael L. Hoffman Staff Reporter
Many college students have found themselves more disenfranchised from the voting process than in the 2008 elections. Bill Ballenger, editor of Inside Michigan Politics and former Griffin Endowed Chair, said he expects lower voter turnout for 18-to 24-year-olds for two reasons: Voter apathy and disillusionment with President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party. “Younger voters ... are the most poorly participating sector of the electorate,” he said.
Sterling Heights senior Mark Regan is not voting in the November election. “I won’t be voting because I don’t feel I have done enough research on the election,” he said. “I don’t like to vote arbitrarily.” On the other hand, Ashlee Shelley plans on voting Nov. 2. The Spring Lake freshman said the primary issue for her is the war in Afghanistan because her brother is serving there. Though she wasn’t old enough to vote in 2008, she’d kept a close eye on the presidential race. “The national election is more important to me,” she said. An apathetic election? Ballenger said in 2008, Obama and the Democratic
Party revved up young voters’ support. “There was marginally more turnout in 2008, but not as large as everyone thought it would be,” he said. “Now, all of that is gone. Things are back to usual if you will — apathetic.” He said he does not expect young people to be as supportive of Barack Obama or the Democratic party in November. Grand Rapids junior and College Republican Ben Greene said he has seen a distinct shift in the way
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