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May 2025 Regents’ Meeting

Thursday, May 15, 2025, Fairlane Center South, University of Michigan-Dearborn

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: Well-being and Consumption
Regents’ Committee Reports
- Finance, Audit and Investment Committee
- Health Affairs Committee
- Personnel, Compensation and Governance Committee
Regular Business Agenda

I. MINUTES

Approval of March 20, 2025 Minutes

II. REPORTS

Investment Report
Plant Extension Report
University Human Resources Report
Regents Report on Non-Competitive Purchases equal to or over $10,000 from Single Sources, December 16, 2024 through March 15, 2025
Research Report
University of Michigan Health System Report (no documents)
Student Life Report (no documents)
Dearborn Campus Report (no documents)
Flint Campus Report (no documents)
Faculty Governance Report

III. VOLUNTARY SUPPORT

IV. PERSONNEL ACTIONS

V. PERSONNEL REPORTS

VI. RETIREMENT MEMOIRS

Adoption of retirement memoirs for William James Adams, Ph.D., Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Shorey Peterson Professorship of Industrial Organization, and professor of economics; Gary M. Beckman, Ph.D., George G. Cameron Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations and Languages, and professor of Middle East studies; Patrice Speeter Beddor, Ph.D., John C. Catford Collegiate Professor of Linguistics and professor of linguistics; Sugato Bhattacharyya, Ph.D., associate professor of finance; Joel D. Blum, Ph.D., Jerry Keeler Distinguished University Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, John D. MacArthur Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, and professor of Earth and environmental sciences; Gabriele Boccaccini, Ph.D., professor of Early Christianity, Department of Middle East Studies and professor of Judaic studies; Enoch Brater, Ph.D., Kenneth T. Rowe Collegiate Professor of Dramatic Literature, professor of English language and literature, and professor of theatre; Daniel M. Burns, Jr., Ph.D., professor of mathematics; Mark A. Burns, Ph.D., T.C. Chang Professor of Engineering, professor of chemical engineering, and professor of biomedical Engineering; Christin Carter-Su, M.S., Ph.D., Anita H. Payne Distinguished University Professor of Physiology, Henry Sewall Collegiate Professor of Physiology, professor of molecular and integrative physiology, and professor of internal medicine; David Chatkoff, Ph.D., professor of psychology in the College of Arts, Sciences, and Letters, University of Michigan-Dearborn; Ali M. Elkateeb, Ph.D., associate professor of electrical and computer engineering in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan-Dearborn; Kent V. Flannery, Ph.D., James B Griffin Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology, professor of anthropology and curator, Museum of Anthropological Archaeology; Linda Gregerson, Ph.D., Caroline Walker Bynum Distinguished University Professor of English Language and Literature and professor of English language and literature; Martin Katz, B.M., Gwendolyn Koldofsky Distinguished University Professor of Music, Earl V. Moore Collegiate Professor in Music, Artur Schnabel Collegiate Professor of Music in Piano, and professor of music; Kerry Charles Larson, Ph.D., professor of English language and literature; Ambassador Melvyn Levitsky M.A., clinical professor of public policy; William S. Lovejoy, Ph.D., Raymond T.J. Perring Family Professor of Business Administration, professor of technology and operations, and professor of art and design; James W. McNally, Ph.D., research scientist, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), Institute for Social Research; Diarmaid Ó Foighil, Ph.D., professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and curator, Museum of Zoology; Peter Railton, Ph.D., Gregory S. Kavka Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy, John Stephenson Perrin Professor, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, and professor of philosophy; Yehoash Raphael, Ph.D., R. Jamison and Betty J. Williams Professor of Otolaryngology and professor of otolaryngology-head and neck surgery; Lloyd (Lance) Sandelands, Ph.D., Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management and professor of psychology; Rebecca J. Scott, Ph.D., Charles Gibson Distinguished University Professor of History, professor of history, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, and professor of law; Andrew Shryock, Ph.D., Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and professor of anthropology; Edward A. Silver, Ed.D., William A. Brownell Collegiate Professor of Education and professor of education; Joel B. Slemrod, Ph.D., Paul W. McCracken Professor of Business Economics, David Bradford Distinguished University Professor of Economics, professor of business economics and public policy, professor of economics, and professor of law; Jeffrey A. Stanzler, Ph.D., Lead Lecturer and lecturer IV in educational studies; James P. Walsh, Ph.D., Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Gerald and Esther Carey Professor of Business Administration, and professor of organizational behavior, human resource management, corporate strategy and international business; Donald R. Zak, Ph.D., Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Alexander H. Smith Distinguished University Professor of Ecology, professor of natural resources, and professor of ecology and evolutionary biology; Bing Zhou, Ph.D., Donald A. Glaser Collegiate Professor of Physics and professor of physics.

VII. MEMORIALS

Adoption of memorial statement for Kevin B. Wood, Ph.D., associate professor of biophysics and associate professor of physics.

VIII. DEGREES

There are no actions with respect to degrees this month.

IX. FINANCE-PROPERTY

X. OTHER

*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.