March 2026 Regents’ Meeting

Thursday, March 19, 2026, 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

3:30 p.m.

Call to Order

• President’s Opening Remarks
  
• Presentation: SACUA Annual report
  
• Presentation: Research - Commercialization
  

• Regents’ Committee Reports

  • Finance, Audit and Investment Committee
    
  • Health Affairs Committee
    
  • Personnel, Compensation and Governance Committee
    

• Regular Business Agenda

Consent Agenda (Roman Numeral Sections I-VIII)

I. MINUTES

1. Approval of February 19, 2026 Minutes
   
   

II. REPORTS

1. Investment Report
   
2. Plant Extension Report
   
3. University Human Resources Report
   
4. Research Report
   
5. University of Michigan Health System Report (no documents)
   
6. Student Life Report (no documents)
   
7. Dearborn Campus Report (no documents)
   
8. Flint Campus Report (no documents)
   
9. Faculty Governance Report
   
   

III. VOLUNTARY SUPPORT

1. Report on Voluntary Support, February 28, 2026
   
   

IV. PERSONNEL ACTIONS

1. March 2026 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 Linda M. Chatters, Ph.D., FAASWSW, FGSA Paula Allen-Meares Collegiate Professor of Social Work, professor of social work, and professor of health behavior and health equity; Jeffrey L. Curtis, M.D., professor of internal medicine; Richard E. Hughes, Ph.D., associate professor of orthopaedic surgery and associate professor of industrial and operations engineering; Lloyd D. Johnston, Ph.D., Angus Campbell Collegiate Research Professor and research professor, Survey Research Center; Andy Lawlor Lecturer IV in the Business Administration Department; Lutgarde Raskin, Ph.D., Vernon L. Snoeyink Distinguished University Professor of Environmental Engineering, Altarum/ERIM Russell D. O’Neal Professor of Engineering, and professor of civil and environmental engineering; Amy J. Schulz, Ph.D., M.P.H., M.S.W., University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor and professor of health behavior and health equity; and Delia M. Vazquez, M.D., Ph.D., professor of pediatrics and professor of psychiatry.
   
   

VII. MEMORIALS

1. Adoption of memorial statement for John Leahy, Ph.D., Allen Sinai Professor of Macroeconomics and Public Policy, chair, Department of Economics, professor of economics, and professor of public policy.
   
   

VIII. DEGREES

1. Recommendations for Honorary Degrees
   
   

IX. FINANCE-PROPERTY

1. University of Michigan-Dearborn Social Sciences Building College of Business Relocation
   
2. Palmer Commons Second and Third Floor Renovation
   
3. Utility Tunnel Reinforcement Medical Center Campus Area
   
4. Ronald McDonald House Ground Lease Extension and Expansion
   
5. Authorization for the University of Michigan to Enter into a License Agreement
   with an Innovation Partnerships Startup Incubator Firm Located at the North Campus Research Complex
   
6. Authorization for the University to transact with Honey Locust Productions LLC dba Honey Locust Health
   
7. Authorize Execution of Investment Agreements for the Michigan Biomedical Venture Fund for Enexa Bio, Inc.
   
8. Authorize Execution of Investment Agreements for the Michigan Biomedical Venture Fund for Decimal Code, Inc.
   
9. Commercialization Agreements with the University of Michigan
   
10. Project Agreements with the University of Michigan
    
    

X. OTHER

1. University of Michigan-Dearborn Administration Building Naming
   
2. New graduate degree program in Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning
   
3. Student Government Reports
   
   

PUBLIC COMMENTS ON NON-AGENDA-RELATED TOPICS