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May 2024 Regents’ Meeting

Thursday, May 16, 2024

Meeting Schedule

3 p.m.

Call to Order

  • President’s Opening Remarks
  • UM-Dearborn Presentation
  • Regents’ Committee Reports

    • Health Affairs Committee
    • Finance, Audit and Investment Committee
  • Chair Report

  • Regular Business Agenda

I. MINUTES

  1. Approval of March 28, 2024

II. REPORTS

  1. Investment Report
  2. Plant Extension Report
  3. University Human Resources Report
  4. Litigation Report (no documents)
  5. Regents Report on Non-Competitive Purchases equal to or over $10,000 from Single Sources, December 16, 2023 through March 15, 2024
  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, March 31, 2024
  2. Report on Voluntary Support, April 30, 2024

IV. PERSONNEL ACTIONS

  1. May 2024 Personnel Actions
  2. Promotions to the Ranks of Professor and Associate Professor, 2024-2025

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 Carl Akerlof, Ph.D., professor of physics; Sushil K. Atreya, Ph.D., professor of climate and space sciences and engineering; William H. Baxter, Ph.D., professor of Chinese language and literature and professor of Chinese linguistics; Marilee A. Benore, Ph.D., professor of biology and biochemistry, UM-Dearborn; Andreas R. Blass, Ph.D., professor of mathematics; Phillip J. Bowman, Ph.D., professor of education; Robert Buckingham, Dr.P.H., professor of public health and health sciences, UM-Flint; Joseph G. Conlon, Ph.D., professor of mathematics; Matthew J. Countryman, Ph.D., associate professor of history and associate professor of Afroamerican and African studies; Stephen L. DesJardins, Ph.D., Marvin W. Peterson Collegiate Professor of Education and professor of education; Gregory John Ensing, M.D., clinical professor of pediatrics; Caryl Flinn, Ph.D., professor of film, television, and media and professor of women’s and gender studies; Lorraine M. Gutiérrez, Ph.D., Edith A. Lewis Collegiate Professor of Social Work, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, professor of social work, and professor of psychology; Patricia Hall, Ph.D., professor of music; Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola, Ph.D., Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and professor of Spanish; Megan Holmes, Ph.D., professor of the history of art; Robert W. Keener, Ph.D.,professor of statistics; Alexey S. Kondrashov, Ph.D., professor of ecology and evolutionary biology; Benjamin J. Kuipers, Ph.D., professor of electrical engineering and computer science; Marjorie Levinson Ph.D., Frederick G.L. Huetwell Professor and professor of English language and literature; Roderick J. Little, Ph.D., Richard D. Remington Distinguished University Professor of Biostatistics, professor of biostatistics, professor of statistics, research professor, Survey Research Center; Stephen Lusmann, M.M., professor of music; Andrei S. Markovits, Ph.D., Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Karl W. Deutsch Collegiate Professor of Comparative Politics and German Studies, professor of Germanic languages and literatures, professor of sociology, and professor of political science; Valerie Y. Marsh, D.N.P., clinical assistant professor of nursing; Jeffrey L. Platt, M.D., professor of surgery and professor of microbiology and immunology; Dennis Pollard, Ph.D., lecturer IV in Romance languages and literatures; David L. Rolston, Ph.D., professor of Chinese language and literature; Jerry D. Sanders, Ph.D., associate professor of biology, UM-Flint; Martin Sarter, Ph.D., Charles M. Butter Collegiate Professor of Psychology and professor of psychology; Johannes W. Schwank, Ph.D., James and Judith Street Professor of Chemical Engineering and professor of chemical engineering; Elizabeth Sears, Ph.D., George H. Forsyth Jr. Collegiate Professor of the History of Art and professor of the history of art; Nancy Uffner, M.A., clinical associate professor of theatre and drama; and Bernardus van der Pluijm, Ph.D., Bruce R. Clark Collegiate Professor of Geology and professor of Earth and environmental sciences.

VII. MEMORIALS

  1. Adoption of memorial statement for Xiaohong Xu, Ph.D., assistant professor of sociology and assistant professor of International Institute.

VIII. DEGREES

  1. There are no actions with respect to degrees this month.

IX. FINANCE-PROPERTY

  1. Absolute Return and Alternative Assets Commitments
  2. Appointment of Auditors
  3. Planned Uses of Income from the Julian A. Wolfson and the Marguerite
    Wolfson Endowment Funds for the fiscal year 2024-2025

  4. 320 S. Sterling, Ashley, Michigan
  5. 703 E. Michigan Avenue, Lansing, Michigan
  6. 1044 Hayden Road, Muir, Michigan
  7. 5677 E. Saginaw Highway, Grand Ledge, Michigan
  8. University of Michigan Health University Hospital South Renovation
  9. State Building Authority Financing of University of Michigan Project in Ann Arbor Campus
  10. Authorization for the University to enter into an agreement with American
    Association of Colleges of Nursing

  11. Authorization for the University to transact with Atheraxon, Inc.
  12. Authorization for the University to transact with Bichini Bia Congo Dance
    Theater

  13. Authorization for the University to enter into an agreement with
    EnlivenWork, Inc.

  14. Authorization for the University to transact
    with Sarah McKinnon

  15. Authorization for the University to transact with Healing Centered
    Restorative Engagement, LLC

  16. Authorization for the University to transact with the Institute of Social and
    Environmental Research - Nepal

  17. Authorization for the University to enter into an agreement with MU Consulting,
    LLC

  18. Authorization for the University to transact with Research Leadership
    Institute, LLC

  19. Authorization for the University to enter into a contract with Growing Forward
    Together

  20. 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

  21. Authorize Execution of Investment Agreements Under the MINTS Program for Lumetec,
    Inc.

  22. Authorize Execution of Investment Agreements Under the MINTS Program for ONL
    Therapeutics, Inc.

  23. Authorize Execution of Investment Agreements Under the Accelerate Blue
    Fund or similar funds managed by Innovation Partnerships for Viewpoint
    Educational Technologies, LLC, a Michigan corporation

  24. Authorize Execution of Investment Agreements Under the Accelerate Blue Fund or similar funds managed by Innovation Partnerships for ONL Therapeutics, Inc.
  25. Authorize Execution of Investment Agreements Under the Accelerate Blue Fund or similar funds managed by Innovation Partnerships for Taza Aya, Inc.
  26. Commercialization Agreements with the University of Michigan
  27. Project Agreements with the University of Michigan
  28. Class C Liquor License for Michigan Stadium - Supplemental Agenda Item
  29. New Construction and Renovation Projects - Approval to Increase Dollar Threshold Requiring Regental Approval - Supplemental Agenda Item
  30. 1224 Washtenaw Court and 1700 Geddes Avenue, Ann Arbor, Michigan - Supplemental Agenda Item
  31. On Campus Solar Installation - Supplemental Agenda Item

X. OTHER

  1. Approval of the Ann Arbor Campus Academic Calendar for 2026-2027
  2. Amendments to PHP Holdings, LLC, Physicians Health Plan, PHP Medicare Articles of Incorporation, PHP Insurance Company, and PHP Service Company

*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.