Take Back the Night march will feature three sections
The Take Back the Night march steering committee has decided to separate the march into three sections: women only, gender-queer and gender-neutral.
During a meeting to discuss the issue Thursday, people attending voted to advise the committee to separate the march.
Erin Dury, sexual violence prevention and education coordinator for the ASUO Women’s Center, opened up a voting system that ended Friday to allow the campus community to express ideas regarding how to organize the march.
Dury said the Women’s Center did not receive any votes by the deadline, so the committee decided to use the recommendation of those who attended Thursday’s meeting.
The Take Back the Night march, which takes place April 29, will begin at the EMU Amphitheater. The event will start with a rally and will end with a speak-out. The march will take place in between.
Dury said that people can bring signs or make them in a designated area at the event.
She added that more logistics of the event will be planned next term.

— Lisa Catto

University professor named to state healthcare board
Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski has appointed healthcare system expert and University Professor Judith Hibbard to a state board designed to track preventable medical errors in Oregon healthcare facilities.
Hibbard — a professor of planning, public policy and management — focuses her work on consumer roles in healthcare.
She was appointed to the Oregon Commission for Patient Safety’s new board of directors, which will be responsible for setting up a voluntary system to collect data and report on preventable medical mistakes in Oregon hospitals and healthcare facilities. That information will then be used in the future to help prevent those mistakes.
“This is a national problem, but it is the states, Oregon among them, that are taking leadership to do something about it,” Hibbard said in press release. “Medical errors reflect problems with systems and not so much individual wrongdoing or incompetence. A first step in preventing medical errors is to have information that details their occurrence so that procedures and systems can be put in place to prevent them in the future.”
Hibbard currently serves on advisory boards to the National Health Care Quality Forum and the Joint Commission for the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.

— Jared Paben

James C. Bean appointed dean of business school
A new dean has been chosen to succeed current Lundquist College of Business Dean Philip Romero.
University of Michigan Associate Dean for Academic Affairs James C. Bean will take his new position July 1, according to a University press release.
“He comes with a lot of creative experience,” College of Arts and Sciences Dean Joe Stone said.
Stone, who headed the exploratory committee to find the new dean, said everyone who had a chance to meet Bean, including faculty and alumni, thought he was a good fit for the college.
“They were all very enthusiastic about his coming,” he said.
Bean is also a professor of industrial and operations engineering in the University of Michigan’s College of Engineering. At the University, he will hold the Lundquist College’s Harry B. Miller Professorship, according to the release.
“The wonderful, state-of-the-art Lillis Complex is an asset that will help us to recruit more high quality students and faculty while also providing us expanded space that will enable us to consider starting new types of programs, such as executive education,” Bean said in the release.
Bean added that at the same time, the college operates at a human scale that gives the dean an opportunity to interact directly with students, faculty, staff, alumni and the community.
The business school has 66 faculty members and had 3,001 undergraduates and 196 graduate students enrolled in fall 2003, according to the release.
Bean was one of two finalists chosen from several dozen candidates after a nationwide search. According to the release, he has published almost 50 scholarly papers dealing with operations research and management science.
Stone said that one of Bean’s main goals is to connect the business school with other University departments as well as with the local and regional business communities.
“I think at a general level, he expressed the desire to do a lot of bridge building,” Stone said.

— Chelsea Duncan