Campus News
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December 17, 2018
U-M’s tuition affordability highlighted in American Talent Initiative report
U-M has “substantially decreased the average net price for students” from low-income backgrounds and has worked aggressively to recruit them to apply, according to the American Talent Initiative.
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December 16, 2018
Academic Innovation notes strides as U-M hits online enrollment milestone
U-M has experienced more than 7 million enrollments in online learning opportunities in the four years since it announced a centralized effort to promote digital learning.
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December 16, 2018
Lynn Conway encourages graduates to embrace coming social change
U-M professor emerita and transgender advocate Lynn Conway stressed the importance of embracing social change and imparted wisdom from some of history’s brilliant minds in her Winter Commencement address.
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December 14, 2018
University Record going on break until next semester
The University Record’s print and email editions are taking a holiday break. The last record Record email of 2018 will be Dec. 17. It will return Jan. 9. The next print edition will be Jan. 14.
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December 13, 2018
Search is underway for next UM-Flint chancellor
The university has officially launched a search for the next UM-Flint chancellor. President Mark Schlissel has appointed and will co-chair a 17-member search advisory committee.
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December 13, 2018
Michael Rein appointed director of community relations
Michael Rein, a seven-year veteran of the Office of Government Relations, has been named the university’s director of community relations, serving as the primary point of contact on “town-and-gown” issues.
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December 13, 2018
URC universities receive $3.5M renewal to study minority aging, health
The Institute for Social Research is one of three research organizations to share a $3.5 million federal grant renewal to extend the Michigan Center for Urban African American Aging Research.
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December 13, 2018
Philanthropist, arts advocate Penny W. Stamps dies at 74
Penny W. Stamps — a U-M alumna, fierce advocate for the arts, community leader, philanthropist, design professional and former teacher — died Thursday at her home after a battle with leukemia. She was 74.
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December 13, 2018
Provost’s Seminar on Teaching explores nature of master’s degrees
Faculty and administrators discussed master’s degrees within the academic landscape, and the similarities and broad differences between master’s programs at the fall Provost’s Seminar on Teaching.
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December 13, 2018
Consent now to receive 2018 W-2 statements electronically
U-M employees can consent now to receive an electronic PDF copy of their 2018 Form W-2 and Form 1095 instead of an identical mailed copy.
