Regents’ Committee seeks feedback on Health Sciences Strategic Plan
The University of Minnesota Regents' Special Committee on Academic Health has received a draft of the Health Sciences Strategic Plan 2024 drawn up by the deans of the University’s six health sciences schools and colleges.
The plan is a vision of the University's role in the health of the entire state, and the committee is seeking feedback on the plan from the University community. The plan can be accessed online if you didn't receive it your University email. Feedback should be emailed in the next few weeks to both Provost Rachel Croson and Medical School Dean Jakub Tolar. The committee will take another look at the plan in October.
The plan is important because it will be part of the University's request for funding to the Minnesota Legislature beginning in the January 2025 session. But, keep in mind that this plan is NOT about the future of the Fairview Health Services-University relationship.
—John Finnegan, UMRA liaison to the Regents
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The Regents’ Special Committee on Academic Health is seeking feedback from the University community on a draft of the Health Sciences Strategic Plan drawn up by the deans of the University’s six health sciences schools and colleges.
October 1 marks the start of the 2025 competition for financial support from UMRA’s Professional Development Grants for Retirees program. Retirees from all five campuses within the U of M System are eligible to apply whether or not they are members of UMRA.
Fifteen UMRA members recruited by the University Retirees Volunteer Center served as leaders of the small-group discussions held at a voting rights symposium co-hosted by the College of Liberal Arts and the Minnesota Humanities Center on September 13. The goal was to generate ideas for protecting voting rights, combating apathy and misinformation, and maximizing voting in all elections.
Since retiring from the College of Biological Sciences faculty, UMRA member Kathryn Hanna has pursued her longtime interest in the arts and antiques and is currently the co-president of the Fan Association of North America, a nonprofit organization of hand fan collectors.
The UMRA membership year runs from July 1 to June 30, and now there is a new and easy way to see whether you have already renewed for the coming year. Look to the right of your name in the address field on page 12 of the September 2024 print newsletter you received, and you will see a four-digit year. If it says “2025,” it means you have renewed.
So, you have set up a new email account; set up your recovery emails and phone numbers for this new account (!!); moved your emails, contacts, and documents from Google Drive to the new account; notified all your friends and business associates. Now what??
Did you check all of your online accounts? Any that use the old UMN account will need changes -- you may need to change the login, or the contact info, or both -- to the new email address. This article lists other details to consider.
For those of us who have not yet taken the leap to abandon our umn.edu email and Google Workspace accounts before the December 7 deadline, there are three basic things we need to do to get going.