elections
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November 9, 2022
White, Behm re-elected to seats on Board of Regents
Incumbent Democrats Katherine E. White and Michael J. Behm have been re-elected to eight-year terms on the Board of Regents, drawing 25.16% and 24.56% of the statewide vote, respectively.
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November 9, 2022
U-M president, Michigan Medicine CEO react to Proposal 3 passing
President Santa J. Ono and Michigan Medicine CEO Marschall S. Runge expressed their support for access to comprehensive reproductive health care following the success of a statewide reproductive-rights ballot initiative.
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November 8, 2022
Election Day 2022
Voters took to the polls at various locations across the Ann Arbor campus on Nov. 8 to cast their ballots in the 2022 midterm election.
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November 2, 2022
Former legislators broadly favor reforming or ending term limits
As voters in Michigan consider a ballot measure to change the state’s legislative term limits, a survey of former legislators shows overwhelming support for reforming or abolishing the limits.
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October 31, 2022
Profiles of four Board of Regents candidates
Four candidates running for two seats on the Board of Regents in the Nov. 8 general election provided The University Record with short profiles describing their background and platform.
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October 28, 2022
Voters must wade through political information for accuracy
In this Q&A, Arthur Lupia, the Gerald R. Ford Distinguished University Professor of Political Science, talks about how voters seek information before going to the polls.
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October 28, 2022
Expert: Four ways Americans can keep their vote secure and accurate
J. Alex Halderman, one of the nation’s foremost election security experts and a professor of computer science at U-M, recommends steps that voters can take as they head to the polls this November.
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October 25, 2022
U-M experts tackle interaction of social media, democracy
Social media can be harmful to a functioning democracy, but it has the potential to be helpful — and where it lands has less to do with the technology than how it’s used, according to three U-M business experts.
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October 24, 2022
‘For Whom the Bell Polls’ uses music to promote the vote
In preparation for Election Day, U-M community members are invited to vote for the music they want played that day from the carillons in Burton Memorial Tower on Central Campus and Lurie Tower on North Campus.
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October 24, 2022
Campus briefs
Short news items from around the University of Michigan.