Donors gave to U-M in record fashion during fiscal year 2022, with the university receiving $515 million in total cash gifts, the highest in U-M history and the first time that cash gifts topped $500 million.

Faculty and staff will encounter plenty of change as they gather on campus to teach, lead and counsel during the 2022-23 academic year.

• Helping employees thrive in the workplace
• Major campus projects under construction in 2022-23
• Faculty governance chair considers coming academic year

As a new academic year gets underway, the Record asked Silvia Pedraza, chair of the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs, for her thoughts on the coming year.

Here are some of the ways U-M faculty and staff can pursue their goals and seek support outside of the cubicle, and hear from professionals about how health and well-being can be an integral part of the workplace.

As the university continues to move out of its pandemic-imposed restrictions, construction on major projects is picking up around campus. Here’s a look at major projects underway.

Jeremy Moghtader has served as the program manager for the Campus Farm for six years after a 12-year career at Michigan State University.

As today’s U-M students settle into residence halls and apartment buildings, they occupy the homes of former students who have gone on to change the world with their words, ideas and actions.

Short news items from around the University of Michigan.

The first in-person, campuswide orientation for new faculty since 2019 was also the largest ever, with more than 200 attendees filling the Michigan League Ballroom on Aug. 24.

The U-M Arts Initiative has announced the inaugural projects in its Arts + the Curriculum program and is accepting a second round of proposals from faculty and staff to help integrate arts thinking in curricular development.