September 2025 Regents’ Meeting

Thursday, September 18, 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: Talking Maize and Blue
  

• 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 June 12, 2025 Minutes
   
2. Approval of July 17, 2025 Minutes
   
   

II. REPORTS

1. Investment Report
   
2. Plant Extension Report
   
3. University Human Resources Report
   
4. Research Report
   
5. Regents Report on Non-Competitive Purchases equal to or over $50,000 from Single Sources, March 16, 2025 through June 15, 2025
   
6. University of Michigan Health System Report (no documents)
   
7. Student Life Report (no documents)
   
8. Dearborn Campus Report (no documents)
   
9. Flint Campus Report (no documents)
   
10. Faculty Governance Report
    
    

III. VOLUNTARY SUPPORT

1. Report on Voluntary Support, June 30, 2025
   
2. Report on Voluntary Support, July 31, 2025
   
3. Report on Voluntary Support, August 31, 2025
   
   

IV. PERSONNEL ACTIONS

1. September 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 A. Ashton-Miller, Dr. Philos., Albert Schultz Collegiate Research Professor, research professor, biomedical engineering, research professor, mechanical engineering, research professor, School of Kinesiology, and research professor, Institute of Gerontology; Stuart A. Batterman, M.S., Ph.D., professor of environmental health sciences and professor of global public health; N. Reed Dunnick, M.D., professor of radiology; Rebecca Hardin, Ph.D., associate professor of environment and sustainability; Daniel F. Hayes, M.D., FASCO, FACP, Stuart B. Padnos Professor of Breast Cancer Research and professor of internal medicine; Rodney A. Hayward, M.D., professor of internal medicine and professor of health management and policy; Peter F. Hitchcock, Ph.D., Skillman Research Professor of Pediatric Ophthalmology, professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences, and professor of cell and developmental biology; Robert B. Kiningham, M.D., clinical professor of family medicine; Maria Carmen de Mello Lemos, Ph.D., professor of environment and sustainability and professor of environment; John E. Marcotte, Ph.D., archivist; Carol Shannon, B.A., M.A., M.P.H., senior associate librarian; and Jocelyn E. Wiggins, M.A., B.M., B.Ch., MRCP, clinical professor of internal medicine.
   
   

VII. MEMORIALS

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

VIII. DEGREES

1. Approval of degree lists and changes to previously approved lists.
   
   

IX. FINANCE-PROPERTY

1. University of Michigan Health-Sparrow V/L Scott Road, Saint Johns, Michigan
   
2. University of Michigan Lease at 401 East Liberty Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan
   
3. University of Michigan-Flint College of Innovation & Technology Building Phase 2
   
4. Authorization for the University of Michigan to Enter into a Lease Agreement with Urology Associates Realty II LLC
   
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 Cash Divine LLC
   
7. Authorization for the University to transact with Honey Locust Productions LLC dba Honey Locust Health
   
8. Authorization for the University to transact with Institute for Social and Environmental Research-Nepal
   
9. Authorization for the University to transact with Julie Cruz Studio
   
10. Authorization for the University to transact with k-Space Associates, Inc.
    
11. Authorization for the University to transact with Motion Sync LLC
    
12. Authorization for the University to transact with Navigation Solutions, LLC
    
13. Authorization for the University to transact with Valerion, Inc.
    
14. Authorize Execution of Investment Agreements Under the Accelerate Blue Fund or similar funds managed by Innovation Partnerships for Authentiq Inc., a Delaware corporation
    
15. Authorize Execution of Investment Agreements Under the Accelerate Blue Fund or similar funds managed by Innovation Partnerships for EMW, Inc., a Delaware corporation
    
16. Authorize Execution of Investment Agreements Under the Accelerate Blue Fund or similar funds managed by Innovation Partnerships for Eradix LLC, a Delaware corporation
    
17. Authorize Execution of Investment Agreements Under the Accelerate Blue Fund or similar funds managed by Innovation Partnerships for General Orbit Company, a Delaware corporation
    
18. Authorize Execution of Investment Agreements Under the Accelerate Blue Fund or similar funds managed by Innovation Partnerships for Medication Data Science, Inc., a Delaware corporation
    
19. Commercialization Agreements with the University of Michigan
    
20. Project Agreements with the University of Michigan
    
    

X. OTHER

1. Changes to Regents’ Meeting Schedule for 2026 and 2027
   
2. Approval of Academic Calendar for 2026-2027 for the University of Michigan-Flint
   
3. Student Government Reports
   
4. Authorization to establish and name a new Sports Medicine Institute - 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.