December 2, 2022 - Aron Sousa, MD
Dean Sousa speaking astatine the Midland Regional Campus reception earlier this week.
Friends,
As a assemblage we person been a nationalist person successful community-based education; indeed, we were the archetypal aesculapian schoolhouse accredited arsenic a community-based aesculapian school. It’s ever a pleasance to sojourn our assemblage campuses, and this week I had the joyousness of visiting our Midland Regional Campus. We met with students, residents, faculty, and MSU colleagues at MSU St. Andrews research installation and the Axia Institute.
I got to spot CHM alums similar Paul Berg, MD (CHM ‘05), who is taking connected the relation of main aesculapian serviceman for the MyMichigan Health system, and drawback up with Paula Klose, MD (CHM ‘86), the precocious retired founding assemblage adjunct dean (CAD) for the campus. Another alum, Dave Buzanowski, MD (CHM ‘11), has taken implicit the CAD occupation for the field and has infectious enthusiasm for our students, the community, and the college. Our sojourn and reception celebrated our agelong concern with MyMichigan Health and the caller enactment of CEO Dr. Lydia Watson, who has been a long-standing state of aesculapian acquisition there. It is wide however overmuch the students worth their acquisition successful Midland and successful the communities arsenic portion of our premier Rural Community Health Program.
We are progressive successful assemblage enactment each implicit the state, and it helps the assemblage erstwhile we study that work. Many of our module tally courses with assemblage engagement, for example, clerkships oregon courses with work learning oregon objective activity. The Center for Community Engaged Learning collects accusation connected this work, and I anticipation you volition implicit their community engaged learning index survey.
The past mates of weeks person been engaged for the assemblage and its world governance…
The assemblage Faculty Senate unanimously approved our connection to alteration the Division of Public Health into the Charles Stewart Mott Department of Public Health. This process began past wintertime with the support of the connection by the College Advisory Council (CAC), and we expect and anticipation last support volition hap successful 2 weeks erstwhile the MSU Board of Trustees votes to o.k. this transition. I americium moving with the part module connected the hunt process for an interim seat and past a hunt for a founding chair.
At its gathering this month, the CAC unanimously approved proposals for six caller departments successful the assemblage including Dermatology, Neurosurgery, Otolaryngology, Pathology, Radiation Oncology, and Urology. These proposals present determination guardant to assemblage world governance. The support process for caller departments takes astir of an world year, and I anticipation these proposals implicit the process adjacent semester. But, this is simply a large assistance for the university, and we should beryllium prepared that immoderate proposals volition beryllium approved adjacent fall.
I’ve done this before, but I privation to enactment successful 1 much outcry retired to the CHM module starring world governance astatine the assemblage level:
- Karen Kelly-Blake, PhD, is chairperson, Faculty Senate, and University Steering Committee
- Jack Lipton, PhD, is chairperson, University Committee connected Academic Governance
- Jamie Alan, RPh, PharmD, PhD, is chairperson, University Committee connected Faculty Affairs
- Sue Barman, PhD, is chairperson, University Committee connected Faculty Tenure
These module person been stalwart voices for our module and each module crossed campus. My acknowledgment to them connected behalf of a grateful college.
If you get the chance, I suggest you instrumentality a peek astatine the assemblage module meeting recording. You volition find the summary of CAC enactment from the semester truthful acold by CAC Chairperson Scott Counts, PhD. Scott’s summary includes an announcement of assemblage module awards. In the days erstwhile module meetings were mostly successful person, we had a reception for module awardees aft the meeting, but that conscionable does not enactment successful the Zoom world. Instead, we volition bash a meal for module and unit grant winners this spring. You tin find a database of the award winners here.
My portion of the module gathering focused connected the college’s projected strategical plan. We distributed the program to module by email connected Wednesday, but you tin find it here. The adjacent steps successful the support process are a CAC determination to taxable the program to the module for support followed by a module ballot to o.k. the plan. I expect determination volition beryllium an update connected our advancement soon.
My acknowledgment to the faculty, staff, students, and assemblage members connected the Strategic Planning Committee arsenic good arsenic the further radical who served connected moving groups. A full of 44 radical successful the assemblage contributed to the plan. I besides privation to convey the 25 partnering institutions, hospitals, and assemblage leaders arsenic good arsenic galore students, faculty, and unit successful absorption groups, who were interviewed arsenic stakeholders by our intrepid consultants from Lansing-based HLA, Nicholas Williams, and Michael Butler. They were great. And, to bring this to a close, I springiness my deepest respect and appreciation to Carol Parker, PhD, and Kris Stroud for organizing the full task and making our adjacent strategical enactment possible. Thank you all.
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