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changes in the air as the chancellor
names the interim president, and all of
us will have the opportunity and oblig
ation to fit in with the new personali
ty ^nd new interpretation of policy.”
Dickey also will work to create a
partnership between A&M and its
affiliates on paper, crafting stronger
bonds between the affiliates and be
gin to address space issues.
“The next two years will tell us
if we have crafted stronger bonds
between the Scott & White institu
tions, the Central Veterans Health
Care System and the College of
Medicine,” she said. “The imple
mentation is important.”
She said she hopes to increase re
search and teaching space. A&M has
an equal amount of territory when
compared to other medical schools,
but space for the medical department
in College Station is limited.
As dean of medicine and profes
sor of family and community med
icine, Dickey spent time setting up
a residency program, which teach
es graduates of medical school how
to specialize in family medicine —
including how to set up a practice.
“The program had to do with the
procedures and skills I’ve been do
ing for 20 years,” Dickey said.
“While this job is a combination of
being the administrative and fiscal
head of a very complex institution,
it is a very new job to me. My fac
ulty is extremely supportive in
terms of helping me learn the
specifics of both academic medi
cine and the dean’s job.”
For the time being, A&M is not
planning to increase class size in the
College of Medicine, although the
issue does arise periodically, Dick
ey said.
“Every student becomes known
as an individual, and since so
much of medicine is learned
through mentoring, this is terribly
important,” Dickey said. “The
chance to get to know your facul
ty, both basic science and medical
science, is a real
positive for us.”
“Our students
get to know com
munity physicians
in their offices and
in their classrooms
over the first two
years and continue
that when they go
to Scott & White
and the other affil
iates,” Dickey
said.
A&M has the
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and Southwest.
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versities nation- Dr- Nancy Wilson Dickey, editor-in-chief of Medem,
ally in research a patient education company Website, was named
expenditures. interim dean of the College of Medicine.
The college ot- “What more could you ask than to
lers degrees in medicine, philoso- learn the art of your profession from
phy and combined B.S. and a group of people whose peers think
M.D./Ph.D. degrees. they're outstanding?” Dickey said.
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UT staff workers stay
home in planned sickout
AUSTIN (AP) — Hundreds of
University of Texas-Austin staff
workers stayed home Wednesday,
saying they are tired of what they call
unfair working conditions at the
state’s largest university.
“1 stayed home because I’ve
worked there 20 years and I now see
a place where they run a large portion
of it like a plantation,” said Will Asay,
a telecommunications worker who
participated in the sickout.
The workers wants wage increas
es, including an hourly minimum of
$9.16, as well as reinstatement of
comprehensive, paid dental cover
age. They also want their insurance
premiums to remain unchanged.
A count of the number of UT’s
17,000 non-teaching employees who
stayed home would not be available
for several days. Pat Clubb, vice
president of employee and campus
operations, predicted the number
would be about 500, while the Uni
versity Staff Association said about
.4,800 workers agreed to participate.
The university has said it was
forced to raise premiums to offset ris
ing insurance costs caused by higher
hospital and doctor fees, and more
expensive prescriptions. Workers
earning $30,000 a year or less were
given a $50-a-month raise to help
offset the increases.
Most workers earn less than
$30,000 a year and about 11 percent
earn less than $20,000 annually.
The workers say the raises were
not enough to keep up with the rising
cost of living in Austin and the ex
pense of health insurance premiums.
“We've complained before as in
dividuals,” Asay said from his
Austin home. “But that’s not a very
loud voice.”
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