The University of Michigan Board of Regents convened in Dearborn, Mich. Thursday afternoon for the third meeting of the calendar year. University President Mark Schlissel began the meeting with his address to the regents.
Schlissel said a new training to prevent sexual and gender-based misconduct for all faculty and staff across the three campuses and Michigan Medicine is being rolled out next week.
At a press conference Thursday afternoon on the University of Michigan-Dearborn campus, a speaker from the One University Campaign — a coalition of faculty and students from the University’s three campuses advocating equitable funding and
U.S. District Judge Arthur Tarnow has ordered University of Michigan President Mark Schlissel to appear in court June 11 as a result of the Doe v. University of Michigan lawsuit. On Wednesday afternoon, Tarnow turned down a motion from University lawyers which would have overturned the order requiring Schlissel’s appearance.
On Monday afternoon, approximately 40 students and faculty met for the second lecture of a series focused on diversity, equity and inclusion in the College of Engineering at the Cooley Building. Professor Scott Page, a Leonid Hurwicz collegiate professor of complex systems, political science and economics at the University of Michigan and author of “The Diversity Bonus” and “The Model Thinker,” discussed the need for diversity when completing complex tasks and how this can improve collective performance.
Students, parents, faculty and guests filled Michigan Stadium Saturday morning for the annual University of Michigan Commencement ceremony. The event celebrated graduating students and featured Gov. Gretchen Whitmer as the commencement speaker.
Of the 27 Nieman Foundation for Journalism class of 2020 fellows announced Friday morning, two have University of Michigan ties. With selection for the prestigious fellowship, Matthew Dolan of the Detroit Free Press and Bridge Magazine’s Chastity Pratt will be on the Harvard University campus for the 2019-2020 academic year.
On Thursday afternoon, approximately 50 students and faculty gathered in North Quad Residence Hall to hear Tarleton Gillespie, principal researcher at Microsoft Research New England and Cornell University affiliated associate professor, discuss content moderation in social media. The talk, which was hosted by the Center for Political Studies, School of Information and the Communication Studies department, was the final part of the “Ethics and Politics of AI” speaker series.
When Taubman junior Juan Muñoz graduated high school in 2013, he was unsure how to navigate higher education financially. Although he resides in Michigan, his status as an undocumented individual has made — and continues to make — his ascent into public higher education rocky.
In an email to students and faculty Friday afternoon, Robert Ernst, University Health Service executive director and Student Life associate vice president for health and wellness, wrote an international visitor who visited the University of Michigan’s Ann Arbor campus has measles.
On Thursday, more than 150 students, alumni, faculty, donors and community members — including demonstrators — gathered in the University of Michigan Biological Sciences Building for a ribbon cutting ceremony and to hear remarks from University President Mark Schlissel and other campus leaders.