Monday, July 12, 2010
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SMOKE-FREE
From Page 1
With no-smoking signs around the
perimeter of the building, Johnson
said he feels that the building will be
able to make a smooth transition to
being smoke-free.
"We think that most people are
considerate and once mentioned to,
will refrain from smoking in the zone
we have set up," he said.
Beginning Sept. 4, the football
stadium will also become entirely
smoke-free. In the past, smoking
was allowed only within the stadium
gates, but with this ban, smoking will
be prohibited in all areas within sta-
dium walls.
Johnson said smoking has also
been prohibited around the entrance
of the Chemistry Building that faces
the Dana Building, due to the amount
of smoke accumulation that occurred
there.
As the LSA Building enters into a
new smoke-free environment, the
health systems on campus are pre-
paring accordingly for the shift.
Dr. Robert Winfield, Chief Health
Officer at the University, said the
University Health System has imple-
mented several smoking cessation
services that are available to stu-
dents, faculty and staff, including
free tobacco cessation counseling.
Though this service has been
in place for years, it has only been
offered to faculty and staff in the past
year and to students for the past six
months. In that time period, Winfield
said he has seen faculty and staff use
the counseling services more fre-
quently than students.
REACCREDITATION
From Page 3
This year, University officials
chose to focus on internationaliza-
tion. University officials have said
they believe the study could alter
the way the University thinks about
study abroad offerings and could lead
to a more centralized model to sup-
port international activities.
In a statement released last week,
Sullivan lauded the work of those
involved in the reaccreditation pro-
cess, adding that she was pleased
with the outcome of the self-study.
"The University is grateful to the
individuals and groups on campus
and across the state who participat-
ed in the accreditation discussions,"
Sullivan said in the statement. "The
knowledge the University gained
will strengthen and enhance the
educational experience of all our stu-
dents as it informs and shapes plans
for programs and activities such as
global education, multidisciplinary
learning and the evaluation of educa-

"I think that that is partly because
faculty and staff perceive smoking to
be a problem, whereas students who
generally feel somewhat invincible
are less likely to find tobacco use as
problematic to themselves," he said.
"I think that as the campus grounds
become more smoke-free, more stu-
dents are likely to say'I need to quit."'
Under the University health plan,
faculty and staff will also be able to
receive prescription drugs used for
tobacco cessation. But the health sys-
tem is still deciding the amount of
financial support for over-the-coun-
ter nicotine drugs for faculty, staff
and students, Winfield said.
"Our pharmdcy is going to try and
discount to some degree the patches
and gum and the lozenges, but we
haven't determined how much we'll
be doing it for the fall," Winfield said.
Winfield, who is also co-chair of
the Smoke-free Steering Commit-
tee - a committee that strives to get
input on the smoking-ban from stu-
dents, faculty and staff - said the
committee is preparing a report to
present in the fall on the different
issues they foresee as the campus
moves towards becoming smoke-
free.
Though some of the issues have
straight forward solutions such as
putting up signs around no-smoking
signs around a building, Winfield
said the committee is also discuss-
ing how to deal with smoking by the
edges of the roads. This issue differs
from North Campus to Central Cam-
pus, as the roads to the North are
owned entirely by the University and
owned mostly by the city on Central
Campus, he said.
tional outcomes."
In a press release issued last week,
Coleman also expressed her grati-
tude to all involved in the process of
reaccreditation and touted the Uni-
versity's high marks in the review
process.
"Many people - deans, faculty and
staff - worked diligently to exam-
ine where we are today as a univer-
sity and to look toward the future
of our institution," Coleman said in
the release. "The University not only
met the standards for accreditation
by the association, but it excelled in
nearly all areas, receiving high praise
from the review team."
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University Provost Philip Hanlon received a 64-percent pay increase after assuming the yost earlier this month.

PROVOST
From Page 1
of $366,000 in 2009. Sullivan is
leaving the University at the end
of the month to assume the presi-
dency at the University of Virginia,
where she will receive a compensa-
tion package valued at $680,000 a
year, which includes a base salary of
$485,000.
In addition to his base salary,
Hanlon will also received deferred
compensation of $75,000 per year.
However, he will only receive the
earnings if he remains at the Uni-
versity through 2014.
Sullivan had a similar agreement
with the University, through which
she was to earn $100,000 a year in
deferred compensation. However,
she surrendered the deferred com-
pensation when she announced she
would leave the University before he
contract was up.
And while Hanlon's new sal-
ary may seem a significant increase,
University officials say the increase
is in line with a competitive market
salary.
University spokeswoman Kelly
Cunningham told The Michigan
Daily in an e-mail last week that
Hanlon's new salary was the result
of a survey among peer institu-
tions.
"As is often the case, the Univer-
sity Human Resources Office con-
ducted phone surveys among peer
institutions to determine the appro-
priate market rate," Cunningham
wrote in an e-mail.

Raising the salary of a high-
ranking official when recruiting a
new individual to fill the post is not
unusual for many organizations,
including the University.
Earlier this year when David
Brandon was named as Athletic
Director Bill Martin's successor,
University officials increased the
athletic director's salary by 47 per-
cent. Martin left the position with
a salary of $380,000, but Brandon
assumed the post with a salary of
$560,000 and an annual deferred
compensation of $100,000.
The salary of the University's
athletic director is paid completely
by the Athletic Department, which
operates as a financially self-sup-
porting entity of the University.
But neither Hanlon nor Brandon
are the highest-paid executives on
the University's campus.
University President Mary Sue
Coleman, currently the sixth high-
est paid president of a public uni-
versity, makes $553,000 in base pay
each year, and nearly $800,000 in
total compensation when including
deferred compensation, bonuses and
other benefits.
And in her first year as the Uni-
versity's executive vice president of
medical affairs in 2009, Ora Pesco-
vitz, made $700,000 in base pay
and was eligible for up to $150,000
in performance incentives and
$100,000 in deferred compensation.
Her pay was slightly greater than
her predecessor Bob Kelch who
earned a base salary of $684,000 in
2008.

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