November 2025 Regents’ Meeting

Thursday, November 20, 2025, 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: Changing Systems, Not People: Expanding Opportunities for People with Disabilities
  

• 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 October 16, 2025 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, October 31, 2025
   
   

IV. PERSONNEL ACTIONS

1. November 2025 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 James L. Abelson, M.D., Ph.D., professor of psychiatry; Andrew R. Barnosky, D.O., M.P.H., clinical professor of emergency medicine and clinical professor of anatomical sciences; Gregg D. Crane, Ph.D., professor of English language and literature; Kevin J. Dombkowski, Dr.P.H., M.S., research professor, pediatrics; Rebecca S. Eisenberg, J.D., Robert and Barbara Luciano Professor of Law and professor of law; Renny T. Franceschi, Ph.D., Marcus L. Ward Collegiate Professor of Dentistry, professor of dentistry, and professor of biological chemistry; Andrzej T. Galecki, M.D., Ph.D., research professor, internal medicine and research professor, biostatistics; Sandra A. Graham-Bermann, Ph.D., professor of psychology and professor of psychiatry; Julia C. Hell, Ph.D., professor of Germanic languages and literatures; Joseph Himle, Ph.D., Howard V. Brabson Collegiate Professor of Social Work, professor of social work, and professor of psychiatry; Richard I. Hume, Ph.D., Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and professor of molecular, cellular, and developmental biology; Janet S. Kinney, RDH, M.S., Dr. Dorothy G. Hard Legacy Professor and clinical professor of dentistry; Kenneth W. Kollman, Ph.D., Frederick G.L. Huetwell Professor, professor of political science, and research professor, Center for Political Studies; Stéphane Lafortune, Ph.D., N. Harris McClamroch Collegiate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and professor of electrical engineering and computer science; Daniel S. Levin, Ph.D., research scientist, physics; Mark J. Lowell, M.D., clinical associate professor of emergency medicine; Debra K. Mattison, LMSW, ACSW, FAOSW, OSW-C, clinical associate professor of social work; Katherine A. McGonagle, Ph.D., research professor, Survey Research Center; Roberto Merlin, Ph.D., Peter A. Franken Collegiate Professor of Physics and professor of physics; David A. Moran, J.D., clinical professor of law; Adela Pinch, Ph.D., professor of English language and literature and women’s studies; Michael W. Quasney, M.D., Ph.D., professor of pediatrics; Marilyn A. Roubidoux, M.D., professor of radiology; Perry J. Samson, Ph.D., Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and professor of climate and space sciences and engineering; David Eric Sandberg, Ph.D., professor of pediatrics; Xia Shao, Ph.D., research scientist, radiology; Ruth Tsoffar, Ph.D., professor of women’s and gender studies, professor of comparative literature, and professor of Judaic studies; David K. Wehe, Ph.D., professor of nuclear engineering and radiological sciences; and Robin Wilson, professor of dance.
   
   

VII. MEMORIALS

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

VIII. DEGREES

1. Recommendations for Honorary Degrees.
   
   

IX. FINANCE-PROPERTY

1. University Real Estate Policy Annual Report on Leases Exceeding 50,000 Square Feet
   
2. Fiscal Year 2027 Capital Outlay Submissions All Campuses
   
3. UM Health-Sparrow Ionia Ambulatory Expansion Project
   
4. Authorization for the University to transact with Bichini Bia Congo Dance
   Theater Company
   
5. Authorization for the University to transact with Detroit Dance Collective
   
6. Authorization for the University to transact with Growing Forward Together
   
7. Authorization for the University to transact with the Institute for Social
   and Environmental Research, Nepal
   
8. Authorization for the University to transact with Job Crafting, LLC
   
9. Authorization for the University to transact with Love Is Zaki LLC
   
10. Authorization for the University to enter into a contract with the National
    Opera Association
    
11. Authorization for the University to enter into a contract with Parks
    Consulting Inc.
    
12. Authorization for the University to enter into a contract with Positivius
    LLC dba Riverbank Consulting Group
    
13. Authorization for the University to transact with Rachel Leonard
    Photography
    
14. Authorization for the University of Michigan to enter into a License Agreement
    with ASKO Therapeutics, Inc
    
15. Authorization for the University to extend the term of lease agreement
    with University of Michigan Credit Union
    
16. Authorize Execution of Investment Agreements for the Michigan Biomedical Venture Fund for NuLynx Therapeutics, LLC
    
17. Authorize Execution of Investment Agreements Under the Accelerate Blue Fund or similar funds managed by Innovation Partnerships for Blue Arbor Technologies, Inc., a Delaware corporation
    
18. Authorize Execution of Investment Agreements Under the Accelerate Blue Fund or similar funds managed by Innovation Partnerships for Lynx DX, Inc., a Michigan corporation
    
19. Authorize Execution of Investment Agreements Under the Accelerate Blue Fund or similar funds managed by Innovation Partnerships for Nulynx Therapeutics, LLC, a Delaware corporation
    
20. Commercialization Agreements with the University of Michigan
    
21. Project Agreements with the University of Michigan
    
    

X. OTHER

1. Naming Central Campus Residential Development (CCRD) Phases 1 and 2
   
2. Student Government Reports
   
   

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.