Faculty Senate

  1. May 23, 2023

    Faculty Senate to discuss expansion at May 25 meeting

    The Faculty Senate will convene May 25 to discuss and soon thereafter open a vote on a resolution to expand U-M’s central faculty governance system.

  2. April 25, 2023

    Faculty Senate to consider expansion proposal

    The Faculty Senate will consider a proposal to include clinical professors, archivists and curators in U-M’s central faculty governance system. The measure would add about 1,810 members to the approximately 4,150-member Senate.

  3. April 11, 2023

    SACUA elects Tom Braun chair, Damani Partridge vice chair

    The Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs has elected Tom Braun of the School of Public Health as chair and Damani Partridge of LSA as vice chair for the upcoming school year.

  4. March 22, 2023

    Two SACUA seats decided after election; third requires runoff

    Two faculty members with backgrounds in education and engineering will soon join the executive committee of U-M’s central faculty governance system. A third will be decided in a runoff election.

  5. March 21, 2023

    Ono says he looks forward to regular input from faculty

    Faculty members bring invaluable perspectives to universities and should have a voice in decision making, President Santa J. Ono told the Senate Assembly.

  6. March 13, 2023

    Eleven faculty members seeking three SACUA seats

    Eleven people are running for three seats on the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs, the body that advises and consults with the university’s executive officers on matters that affect faculty.

  7. February 7, 2023

    Academic freedom lecturer addresses teaching of racial history

    New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie delivered the 32nd annual Davis, Markert, and Nickerson Lecture on Academic and Intellectual Freedom with a talk titled “Revisiting Du Bois and ‘The Propaganda of History.’”

  8. January 30, 2023

    Academic Freedom Lecture to feature N.Y. Times columnist

    Jamelle Bouie, a columnist for The New York Times, will give the keynote address at the Faculty Senate’s 32nd annual Davis, Markert, Nickerson Lecture on Academic and Intellectual Freedom.

  9. December 2, 2022

    Faculty Senate seeks feedback on clinical faculty, lecturers

    The Faculty Senate is seeking feedback from its members concerning recent discussion about expanding the Senate to include clinical faculty and lecturers.

  10. November 21, 2022

    Ono seeks faculty members’ input about U-M’s future

    While sharing his ideas and strategies for the University of Michigan’s future, President Santa J. Ono told U-M faculty members that he wants to hear their ideas as well.