Mark Schlissel

  1. September 29, 2020

    U-M leaders to launch weekly COVID-19 video briefing

    President Mark Schlissel and Provost Susan M. Collins are launching a weekly COVID-19 briefing at 1 p.m. every Friday to keep members of the U-M community up-to-date on news and information related to the pandemic.  

  2. September 27, 2020

    Schlissel, Collins issue statement on executive order

    President Mark Schlissel and Provost Susan M. Collins have issued a statement in response to the Trump administration’s recent executive order on combating race and sex stereotyping.

  3. September 19, 2020

    Faculty Senate reverses Schlissel no-confidence vote finding

    Leaders of U-M’s Faculty Senate have reversed an earlier statement and determined that a vote of no confidence in President Mark Schlissel’s leadership narrowly passed at a Sept. 16 meeting.

  4. September 16, 2020

    Faculty Senate reviewing vote on Schlissel no-confidence motion

    The result of a faculty no-confidence vote in President Mark Schlissel’s leadership is under review after questions arose about procedural rules after the vote.

  5. September 15, 2020

    Schlissel emails Faculty Senate about engagement, policing

    President Mark Schlissel says he will establish a faculty group specifically devoted to issues related to COVID-19 on campus, and also is developing a new initiative around public safety and policing.

  6. September 11, 2020

    Schlissel, Collins say U-M committed to engaging with campus

    U-M is committed to engaging with members of its community as it grapples with the coronavirus pandemic and other issues affecting the campus and country, President Mark Schlissel and Provost Susan Collins said.

  7. July 9, 2020

    Schlissel, Collins outline fall plans to faculty at town hall

    U-M will test students for coronavirus, allow highly at-risk faculty to teach remotely, and implement other measures aimed at keeping people safe while preserving as much in-person instruction as possible this fall.

  8. June 12, 2020

    Schlissel stresses need to work from home, shares fall planning strategy

    President Mark Schlissel reminded U-M faculty and staff who can work from home to continue to do so and reiterated the hope of a public health-informed fall semester on all three campuses.

  9. June 2, 2020

    President Schlissel issues COVID-19 update; decries ‘pestilence of racism’

    The coronavirus situation is gradually improving but the “persistent and appalling pestilence of racism” continues across the nation, President Mark Schlissel said in a pair of emails to the U-M community.

  10. May 29, 2020

    On the Agenda: We need to bring about change

    President Mark Schlissel issued a statement condemning the actions that caused the recent deaths of three African Americans, as well as “violence against people of color from all across our nation, including in our surrounding community.”