May 1, 2026 | Faculty Senate News, Faculty Senate Spotlights, Featured News, SACUA News, Senate Assembly, University Senate
A Faculty Senate meeting took place on Monday, April 27, 2026. The text and vote results of all motions are available here and, individually, below: Motion 1: Resolution Calling for Support for Faculty and Staff Childcare Needs Results: Yes, 1863 (87.9%); No, 256...
Mar 24, 2026 | Faculty Senate News, Featured News, Senate Assembly
Whereas the University has recently installed at least 1,200 new security cameras around campus (some with audio recording capabilities), including in spaces of public assembly such as the Diag and the Law Quad; and Whereas SPG 606.01—which had governed the use of...
Sep 24, 2025 | Faculty Senate News, Featured News, SACUA News, Senate Assembly
WHEREAS in 2024 there were 773 H-1B visa-holders employed at the University of Michigan, in all three campuses and in all of our schools and colleges, meaning that there are more H-1B visa-holders at Michigan than at any public university in the United States; WHEREAS...
Sep 9, 2025 | Featured News, SACUA News, Senate Assembly
We, the faculty of the University of Michigan, strongly disapprove of the exclusion of representatives of elected faculty government from the Presidential Search Committee. We are pleased that representatives of undergraduate and graduate student government have been...
Apr 24, 2023 | Faculty Senate News, Featured News, Senate Assembly
Senate Expansion to Admit Clinical Professors, Archivists, and Curators The Senate Assembly has passed a resolution that would expand the University Senate to include Clinical Professors, Archivists, and Curators. The resolution will be voted on for approval by the...
Apr 19, 2023 | Faculty Senate News, Featured News, Senate Assembly
The University of Michigan University Senate Senate Assembly Resolution # 041723-2 WHEREAS it is universally acknowledged that the grant of lands by the Anishinaabeg (including Ojibwa, Odawa, and Bodewadimi) and the Wyandot Nation, along with many other indigenous...
