February 2024 Regents’ Meeting

Thursday, February 15, 2024, University Hall, Alexander G. Ruthven Building

The public will be able to livestream the regents meeting by clicking on a link from the main U-M website or using this direct link: www.umich.edu/watch/.

Meeting Schedule

4 p.m.

Call to Order

• President’s Opening Remarks

• Presentation: Research Seminar in Quantitative Economics

• Regents’ Committee Reports

  • Finance, Audit and Investment Committee
    

• Chair Report

• Regular Business Agenda

Consent Agenda (Roman Numeral Sections I-VIII)

I. MINUTES

1. Approval of December 7, 2023 Minutes
   
2. Approval of January 16, 2024 Minutes
   
   

II. REPORTS

1. Investment Report
   
2. Plant Extension Report
   
3. University Human Resources Report
   
4. Regents Report on Non-competitive Purchases equal to or in excess of $10,000 from single sources, September 16, 2023 through December 15, 2023
   
5. Litigation Report
   
6. Research Report
   
7. University of Michigan Health System Report (no documents)
   
8. Student Life Report (no documents)
   
9. Dearborn Campus Report (no documents)
   
10. Flint Campus Report (no documents)
    
11. Faculty Governance Report
    
12. Student Government Reports
    
    

III. VOLUNTARY SUPPORT

1. Report on Voluntary Support, November 30, 2023
   
2. Report on Voluntary Support, December 31, 2023
   
3. Report on Voluntary Support, January 30, 2024
   
   

IV. PERSONNEL ACTIONS

1. February 2024 Personnel Actions
   
2. Committee Appointments
   
   

V. PERSONNEL REPORTS

1. Reports of Lecturers’ Employee Organization (LEO) Activity
   
2. Reports of regular instructional transactions
   
   

VI. RETIREMENT MEMOIRS

1. Adoption of retirement memoirs for Levana Aronson, B.Ed. M.S.W., lecturer II of Middle East studies; Frank J. Ascione, Ph.D., professor of pharmacy; Heang-Ping Chan, Ph.D., Paul L. Carson, Ph.D., Collegiate Professor of Radiology and professor of radiology; Robert C. Dysko, D.V.M., clinical professor of laboratory animal medicine, Medical School Administration, Medical School; Peretz P. Friedmann, D.Sc., Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Aerospace Engineering and professor of aerospace engineering; Timothy R. B. Johnson, M.D., Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, professor of obstetrics and gynecology, and professor of women’s and gender studies; Susan Hautaniemi Leonard, Ph.D., associate research scientist, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research; Jersey Liang, Ph.D., professor of health management and policy and research professor, Institute of Gerontology; and Bernard J. Martin, Ph.D., associate professor of industrial and operations engineering.
   
   

VII. MEMORIALS

1. No deaths of active faculty members were reported to the regents this month.
   
   

VIII. DEGREES

1. Approval of Degree Lists
   
   

IX. FINANCE-PROPERTY

1. Absolute Return and Alternative Asset Commitments
   
2. Alternative Asset Commitment
   
3. Approximately 80 Acres of Vacant Land located at N. 168th Avenue,
   Leavitt Township, Oceana County, Michigan
   
4. 423 E. Main Street, Carson City, Michigan
   
5. 802 and 804 Monroe Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan
   
6. Vacant Properties in Lansing, Michigan
   
7. Industrial and Operations Engineering Building First Floor and Ground Floor Renovation
   
8. University of Michigan Health Rogel Cancer Center Infrastructure Upgrades
   
9. Authorization for the University of Michigan to Enter into License Agreements with Innovation Partnerships Startup Incubator Firms Located at the North Campus Research Complex
   
10. Authorization for the University to extend an agreement with Arbor
    Research Collaborative for Health
    
11. Authorization for the University to transact with Buckham Gallery
    
12. Authorization for the University to enter into a contract with Cubeworks, Inc.
    
13. Authorization for the University to enter into a contract with Eastern Michigan University
    
14. Authorization for the University to transact with Hyfi LLC
    
15. Authorization for the University to transact with the Institute
    of Social and Environmental Research - Nepal
    
16. Authorization for the University to transact with K-Space Associates, Inc.
    
17. Authorization for the University to transact with Lauren Williams LLC
    
18. Authorization for the University of Michigan to enter into a contract with Low Carbon Fuel Systems, LLC
    
19. Authorization for the University to transact with Ponderosa Data Lifecycle
    Management LLC
    
20. Authorization for the University to enter into an agreement with Reames
    Consulting LLC dba Guideline Consulting
    
21. Authorization for the University to extend an agreement with Ripple
    Science Corporation
    
22. Authorization for the University to transact with Roane, LLC
    
23. Authorize Execution of Investment Agreements Under the Accelerate Blue Fund for Ecovia Renewables Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”)
    
24. Amendment to Master Agreement between the University of Michigan and Arbor Research Collaborative for Health
    
25. Commercialization Agreements with the University of Michigan
    
26. Project Agreements with the University of Michigan
    
    

X. OTHER

1. New graduate degree program in College of Pharmacy
   
2. Approval to Establish New Academic Departments, UM-Dearborn
   
3. Authorization to change the name of the Engineering Lab Building, UM-Dearborn Campus, to the Tony England Engineering Lab Building - Supplemental Agenda Item
   
   

PUBLIC COMMENTS ON NON-AGENDA-RELATED TOPICS

*The agenda and the items linked from this page are an unofficial version of this month’s Regents’ Meeting Agenda. The official and authoritative version of the agenda is kept on file in the Office of the Vice President and Secretary of the University.