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University of Michigan
UMichiganLawLibraryInterior.jpg
Law Library
Latin: Universitas Michigania
MottoArtes, Scientia, Veritas
Motto in English
Arts, Knowledge, Truth (Latin)
TypeFlagship
Public
Sea grant
Space grant
EstablishedAugust 26, 1817[1]
Academic affiliations
EndowmentIncrease$11.9 billion (2018)[2]
Budget$8.99 billion (2018)[3]
PresidentMark Schlissel
ProvostMartin Philbert
Academic staff
6,771[4]
Administrative staff
18,986[5]
Students46,002[6]
Undergraduates29,821[6]
Postgraduates16,181[6]
Location
Ann Arbor
,
Michigan
,
United States
Campus3,177 acres (12.86 km2)
Total: 20,965 acres (84.84 km2), including arboretum[7]
ColorsMaize and Blue[8]
Sporting affiliations
NCAA Division I – Big Ten
Websitewww.umich.edu
University of Michigan logo.svg

The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (U of M, U-M, UM or simply Michigan) is a public university in the state of Michigan. The university was started in 1817 in Detroit, about 20 years before Michigan became a state, and moved to Ann Arbor in 1837. It is the state's oldest university and the main campus; there are two other campuses—the University of Michigan-Flint and the University of Michigan–Dearborn.

The university is known around the world, its students being famous people such as U.S. President Gerald Ford, Supreme Court Justices, as well as many heads of states around the world. It is now ranked 18th in the world by "The Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings," and 21st by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University Institute for Higher Education rankings.[9] In its last survey in 1995, the National Research Council ranked UM 3rd in the United States[10] and is called one of the first eight Public Ivys.[11] The university also has one of the largest research budgets or spending money of any American university and the largest number of living alumni or former students, at 460,000.[12] UM athletic teams are known as very good, especially in football, men's basketball, and ice hockey.

History

The University of Michigan was started in Detroit in 1817 as the Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania, by the governor and judges of Michigan Territory. Ann Arbor had set aside 40 acres (16 ha) that it hoped would become the site for a new state capitol, but it gave this land to the university when Lansing was chosen as the state capital. The university moved to Ann Arbor in 1837. The original 40 acres became part of today's Central Campus. The first classes in Ann Arbor were held in 1841, with six freshmen and a sophomore, taught by two professors or teachers. Eleven students graduated in the first class in 1845. By 1866, 1,205 students went to UM. Women were first allowed in 1870, making UM the first major university to allow women to go to school. James B. Angell, was the university's president from 1871 to 1909, made UM's teachings include subjects such as dentistry, architecture, engineering, government, and medicine. UM also became the first American university to teach in the seminar style.[13]

 
The Central Campus Diag, viewed from the Graduate Library, looking North

From 1900 to 1920 many new buildings were built on campus, including buildings for the dental and pharmacy programs, a chemistry building, a building for the natural sciences, Hill Auditorium, large hospital and library buildings, and two residence halls. The university built up its reputation for research in 1920 by rebuilding the College of Engineering and making a group of 100 industrialists, or businessmen, to help guide research. UM's reputation as a very good national university also began to grow at this time. The university became a favorite other choice for Jewish students from New York in the 1920s and 1930s when the Ivy League schools made a limit to the number of Jews to be admitted.[14] Because of this, UM gained the nickname "Harvard of the West," which became commonly joked about in reverse after John F. Kennedy called himself "a graduate of the Michigan of the East, Harvard University" in a speech.[15]

In World War II, UM's research grew to include U.S. Navy projects like researching proximity fuzes, PT boats, and radar jamming. By 1950, 21,000 students were at UM. As the Cold War and the Space Race started, UM got many government grants for research and helped to create peacetime uses for nuclear energy. Now, much of that work, as well as research into other energy types, is done by the Memorial Phoenix Project.[16]

On October 14, 1960, Presidential candidate John F. Kennedy put out the idea of what became the Peace Corps on the steps of Michigan Union.[17] Lyndon B. Johnson's speech about his Great Society program also occurred at UM.[17] Also during the 1960s, UM saw many protests by student groups. On March 24, 1965, a group of UM faculty members and 3,000 students held the nation's first ever faculty-led "teach-in" to protest against American policy in Southeast Asia.[18][19] Because of a series of sit-ins in 1966 by Voice–the campus political party of Students for a Democratic Society–UM's administration banned sit-ins. This led 1,500 students to have another one-hour sit-in the LSA Building, which then housed the administrative offices. Former UM student and important architect Alden B. Dow designed the current Fleming Administration Building, which was completed in 1968. The building's plans were drawn in the early 1960s, before student activism created a concern for safety. Nevertheless, the Fleming Building's narrow windows, all located above the first floor, and castle-like outside led to a campus rumor that it was made to be riot-proof. Dow denied the rumors, saying the small windows were made to be use less energy.[20]

 
Law Quadrangle

During the 1970s, large budget limits made it hard on the university's physical development; however, the 1980s saw a surge in money given to research in the social and physical sciences. At that time, the university's work in the anti-missile Strategic Defense Initiative and investments in South Africa caused anger on campus. During the 1980s and 1990s, the university used many resources to help rebuild its large hospital area and improve the academic buildings on the North Campus. The university also made computer and information technology on the campus important.

Academics

U.S. university rankings

ARWU World[21] 27
THES World[22] 20
USNWR National University[23] 27
Washington Monthly National University[24] 21
Forbes[25] 22

Because more than 70% of UM's 200 program's and schools were listed as some of the best in their areas,[26] the school was made one of Richard Moll's Public Ivies.[27] UM has had 26 Rhodes Scholars go to the school.[28]

Campus

The Ann Arbor campus is separated into four main areas: the North, Central, Medical, and South Campuses. There are more than 500 large buildings, with a more than 29 million square feet (664 acres or 2.69 km²).[29] The Central and South Campuses are next to each other, while the North Campus area is separated from them by the Huron River. An East Medical Campus has been built on Plymouth Road, with some university-owned buildings.[30]

People who worked at or graduated from the University of Michigan

People who have worked at the University of Michigan are:

University Of Michigan Media

  • University of Michigan (1855) Jasper Francis Cropsey

  • Alexander J. Davis's original University of Michigan designs featured the Gothic Revival style. Davis himself is generally credited with coining the term "Collegiate Gothic."

  • Andrew Dickson White, founder and first president of Cornell University and among the earliest benefactors of Michigan, joined the Michigan faculty in 1858. He made his lasting mark on the grounds of the university by enrolling students to plant elms along the walkways on The Diag, resembling the "glorious elms" of Yale.

  • Physicists George Uhlenbeck, Hendrik Kramers, and Samuel Goudsmit circa 1928 at Michigan.

  • Earl V. Moore Building on North Campus

  • University of Michigan Golf Course was designed by Scottish golf course architect Alister MacKenzie and opened in 1931.

  • Samuel Trask Dana Building (West Medical Building) houses the School for Environment and Sustainability

  • The Thomas Henry Simpson Memorial Institute for Medical Research was constructed in 1924 as the result of a donation from the widow of iron magnate Thomas H. Simpson, in memory of her late husband, who had died of pernicious anemia

  • West Hall at the Southeast corner of the Diag

Notes

  1. ↑ "U-M's Foundings in Detroit and Ann Arbor: Key Dates". University of Michigan. Archived from the original on November 1, 2013. Retrieved January 28, 2016.
  2. ↑ As of Oct 18, 2018."U-M endowment up $1B over last year with strong rate of return". The University Record. University of Michigan. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
  3. ↑ "FY 2018-2019 U-M Budget" (PDF). Office of Budget and Planning. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 June 2019. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
  4. ↑ "University of Michigan – Ann Arbor: Faculty Headcount by Rank, Gender, and Race/Ethnicity" (PDF). University of Michigan. November 11, 2014. p. 15. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 17, 2015. Retrieved January 10, 2015.
  5. ↑ "University of Michigan – Ann Arbor: Staff Headcounts by Gender, Race/Ethnicity & Job Family" (PDF). University of Michigan. November 13, 2014. p. 3. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 17, 2015. Retrieved January 10, 2015.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 "The Michigan Almanac" (PDF). U-M Office of Budget and Planning. U-M Office of Budget and Planning. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 November 2018. Retrieved 30 October 2018.
  7. ↑ "Environmental Stewardship at the University of Michigan" (PDF). University of Michigan Occupational Safety and Environmental Health. 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 15, 2007. Retrieved April 29, 2007.
  8. ↑ "Style Guide: Colors". Office of Global Communications, University of Michigan. July 7, 2015. Retrieved July 7, 2015.
  9. ↑ "THE-QS World University Rankings 2008". The TIME UK. October 8, 2008. http://www.topuniversities.com/university_rankings/results/2008/overall_rankings/fullrankings/. Retrieved 2008-10-10. 
  10. ↑ "A Brief Summary of the NRC Rankings". Texas A&M University. 1997. Retrieved 2007-09-29.
  11. ↑ "Comparing Black Enrollments at the Public Ivies". The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education. 2005. Retrieved 2007-10-13.
  12. ↑ "About the Association". University of Michigan Alumni Association. 2007. Archived from the original on 2007-03-16. Retrieved 2007-03-21.
  13. ↑ Brubacher, John Seiler (July 1, 1997). Higher Education in Transition. Transaction Publishers. pp. 187. ISBN 1-56000-917-9.
  14. ↑ "Getting In". The New Yorker. October 10, 2005. http://www.gladwell.com/2005/2005_10_10_a_admissions.html. Retrieved 2007-10-26. 
  15. ↑ "Remarks of Senator John F. Kennedy". Peace Corps. October 14, 1960. Archived from the original on 2007-10-11. Retrieved 2007-10-26.
  16. ↑ "MMPEI". Michigan Memorial Phoenix Energy Institute. 2007. Retrieved 2007-03-23.
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 "University of Michigan Timelines—General University Timeline". Bentley Historical Library. April 2005. Retrieved 2007-04-28.
  18. ↑ Newman, Matthew (October 1995). "Vietnam teach-in 30 years ago". Michigan Today. Archived from the original on 2007-01-02. Retrieved 2007-04-28.
  19. ↑ "A Decade of Dissent:Teach-Ins". Bentley Historical Library. September 29, 2006. Retrieved 2007-04-28.
  20. ↑ Holmes, Jake (April 6, 2007). "Explained: Coleman's castle". The Michigan Daily. http://media.www.michigandaily.com/media/storage/paper851/news/2007/04/06/CampusLife/Explained.Colemans.Castle-2827579.shtml. Retrieved 2008-04-06. 
  21. ↑ Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2008). "Academic Ranking of World Universities". Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Retrieved 2009-01-04.
  22. ↑ The Times (2008). "World University Rankings". The Times Higher Educational Supplement. Retrieved 2008-12-31.
  23. ↑ "National Universities Rankings". America's Best Colleges 2009. U.S. News & World Report. 2009. Retrieved 2009-05-18.
  24. ↑ "The Washington Monthly National University Rankings" (PDF). The Washington Monthly. 2007. Retrieved 2008-12-31. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  25. ↑ "America's Best Colleges". Forbes. 2008. Retrieved 2008-12-31.
  26. ↑ "University of Michigan - Ann Arbor: Recent Rankings for Graduate & Professional Academic" (PDF). University of Michigan. July 13, 2005. Retrieved 2007-11-14.—a collection of rankings from sources such as U.S. News & World Reports and the National Research Council
  27. ↑ Moll, Richard. (1985). The Public Ivys: America's Flagship Undergraduate Colleges. New York: Viking Adult. ISBN 0-670-58205-0.
  28. ↑ Paddock, Travis (December 17, 1997). "Fiona Rose is U's 24th Rhodes Scholar". University Record. http://www.umich.edu/~urecord/9798/Dec17_97/fiona.htm. Retrieved 2007-10-13. Bates, Karl Leif (December 6, 2004). "Engineering student wins prestigious Rhodes Scholarship". The University Record Online. http://www.umich.edu/~urecord/0405/Dec06_04/05.shtml. Retrieved 2007-11-03. Serwach, Joe (November 24, 2008). UM dual MD/PhD student named Rhodes Scholar. University of Michigan News Service. http://www.ns.umich.edu/htdocs/releases/story.php?id=6858. Retrieved 2008-11-24. 
  29. ↑ "Environmental Stewardship at the University of Michigan" (PDF). University of Michigan Occupational Safety and Environmental Health. 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-06-15. Retrieved 2007-04-29.
  30. ↑ "Street Map to Rachel Upjohn Building". University of Michigan Health System. 2008. Archived from the original on 2016-01-21. Retrieved 2008-10-25.—The linked map shows the entire East Medical Campus.
  31. ↑ "Mary Sheldon Barnes Papers". Sophia Smith Collection. Smith College. 2001. Archived from the original on 15 March 2011. Retrieved 13 Aug 2011.

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