Faculty Senate

  1. July 5, 2023

    Regents to consider bylaws change expanding Faculty Senate

    Public comments are being sought regarding proposed revisions to the Board of Regents’ Bylaws that would expand the membership of the Faculty Senate and Senate Assembly.

  2. June 5, 2023

    Faculty Senate approves plan to add new members

    The Faculty Senate voted last week to expand U-M’s central faculty governance system to include more than 2,800 clinical professors, archivists, curators and lecturers.

  3. May 31, 2023

    Faculty Senate voting this week on expansion proposal

    The Faculty Senate will vote through 8 a.m. June 3 on a resolution to expand the university’s central faculty governance system to include clinical professors, archivists, curators and lecturers.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. 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.’”