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September 2024 Regents’ Meeting

Thursday, September 19, 2024, University Hall, Alexander G. Ruthven Building

Meeting Schedule

4 p.m.

Call to Order

  • President’s Opening Remarks
  • Presentation: Year of Democracy, Civic Empowerment, and Global
  • Regents’ Committee Report

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

  • Regular Business Agenda

I. MINUTES

  1. Approval of July 18, 2024 Minutes

II. REPORTS

  1. Investment Report
  2. Plant Extension Report
  3. University Human Resources Report
  4. Litigation Report (no documents)
  5. Research Report
  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, 2024
  2. Report on Voluntary Support, July 31, 2024
  3. Report on Voluntary Support, August 31, 2024

IV. PERSONNEL ACTIONS

  1. September 2024 Personnel Actions
  2. Committee Appointments
  3. Supplemental September 2024 Personnel Actions

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 Sherle Abramson-Bluhm, B.A., M.L.S., senior associate librarian; Margo F. Aller, Ph.D., research scientist, astronomy; Margie C. Andreae, M.D., chief medical officer revenue cycle and clinical professor of pediatrics; Nancy Bartlett, M.A., associate director and archivist; James J. Duderstadt, M.S., Ph.D., President Emeritus and University Professor of Science and Engineering; Steve Kronick, M.D., clinical professor of emergency medicine; Clayton A. Lewis, M.F.A., curator; Darlene Nichols, A.B., A.M., A.M.L.S, librarian; Robert Rayher, M.A.H., lecturer IV in film, television and media; Nadine B. Sarter, Ph.D., Richard W. Pew Collegiate Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering, professor of industrial and operations engineering, and professor of aerospace engineering; James P. Simmer, D.D.S., Ph.D., professor of dentistry; David C. Smith, M.D., professor of internal medicine and professor of urology; Denise G. Tate, Ph.D., professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation; and Edwin G. Wilkins, M.D., M.S., professor of surgery.

VII. MEMORIALS

  1. Adoption of memorial statement for Charles Hiroshi Garrett, Ph.D., Glenn McGeoch Collegiate Professor of Music and professor of musicology.

VIII. DEGREES

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

IX. FINANCE-PROPERTY

  1. Long Term Portfolio Investment Policy
  2. Ross School of Business Lease at The Grand in Los Angeles, California
  3. Authorization for the University to transact with aLight Sciences Inc.
  4. Authorization for the University to transact with the Association of Black
    Sociologists

  5. Authorization for the University to transact, with Development Centers
    Inc. dba MiSide Community Impact Network

  6. Authorization for the university to purchase a product from Flidea
  7. Authorization for the University to extend an agreement with Ganesh
    Designs, LLC

  8. Authorization for the University to extend an agreement with Honey
    Locust Productions, LLC dba Honey Locust Health

  9. Authorization for the University to transact, with SMaRT Workshops LLC
  10. Authorization for the University to transact with the Society for the
    Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI)

  11. Authorization for the University to enter into an agreement with
    SustainabiliD LLC

  12. 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

  13. Authorize Execution of Investment Agreements for the Michigan Biomedical Venture Fund for Arborsense, Inc.
  14. Authorize Execution of Investment Agreements Under the Accelerate Blue Fund or similar funds managed by Innovation Partnerships for APT Solar Solutions, Inc., a Delaware corporation
  15. Authorize Execution of Investment Agreements Under the Accelerate Blue Fund or similar funds managed by Innovation Partnerships for Heat2Power, Inc., a Delaware corporation
  16. Authorize Execution of Investment Agreements Under the Accelerate Blue Fund or similar funds managed by Innovation Partnerships for Pathways GI, Inc., a Delaware corporation
  17. Authorize Execution of Investment Agreements Under the Accelerate Blue Fund or similar funds managed by Innovation Partnerships for Water Risk Analysis, LLC, DBA Equarius Risk Analytics, a Michigan corporation
  18. Authorize Execution of Investment Agreements Under the Accelerate Blue Fund or similar funds managed by Innovation Partnerships for Movellus Circuits, Inc., a Delaware corporation
  19. Authorize Execution of Investment Agreements Under the Accelerate Blue Fund or similar funds managed by Innovation Partnerships for LearningClues, LLC, a Michigan corporation
  20. Commercialization Agreements with the University of Michigan
  21. Project Agreements with the University of Michigan

X. OTHER

  1. Approval of the Academic Calendar for 2026-2027 for the University of Michigan-Dearborn campus
  2. Art Deaccession
  3. Department of Health Behavior and Health Education - Rename as the Department of Health Behavior and Health Equity, School of Public Health
  4. Student Government Reports

*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.

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