Messages to the Community

  1. March 2024 video message

    March 19, 2024

    Hello colleagues and friends across the U-M community!  Spring is a season of new beginnings, and one of the new beginnings we’re most excited about here is in artificial intelligence and Generative AI.  Generative AI is a tool that not only searches and analyzes existing information, but can learn patterns, structures and features, and can …

  2. Updates for the University of Michigan Leadership Team

    March 8, 2024

    Dear colleagues and friends, students, staff and faculty. To serve at the University of Michigan is to celebrate change and honor tradition. Today, we are observing both with our leadership team. First, I am honored to offer my most heartfelt congratulations to Dr. Rebecca Cunningham on formally accepting an offer to become the 18th president …

  3. February 2024 video message

    February 21, 2024

    Hello colleagues and friends across the U-M community! These wintry days are a time to reflect on where we’ve been, who we are, and what we aspire to be. That’s what makes the Inclusive History Project so important to me. The IHP is charged with telling a more complex and more inclusive history of our …

  4. January 2024 video message

    February 12, 2024

    Dear colleagues and friends across the University of Michigan community, As 2024 continues to open, it’s a moment to mark an important milestone. This year, we are celebrating the 100-year anniversary of the Stephen M. Ross School of Business. For the past century, the school has been committed to the idea that together, we can …

  5. U-M Principles on Diversity of Thought and Freedom of Expression

    January 16, 2024

    Dear Students and Colleagues, In a special session held today, the University of Michigan Board of Regents voted to adopt a new set of principles to reaffirm the institution’s commitment to free speech. The “University of Michigan Principles on Diversity of Thought and Freedom of Expression” are a clear reminder, both to those in our …

  6. Welcome to the start of the new semester

    January 8, 2024

    Dear colleagues, friends and students and scholars across the University of Michigan community. Happy New Year, and welcome to the start of the new semester! Whether you just joined us, or are anticipating commencement this spring, we have much to look forward to together, we have much to do, to dream, to achieve. We have …

  7. U-M statement regarding CSG resolutions and ongoing campus tensions

    December 5, 2023

    Dear students, faculty, and staff, As the violence in Gaza and Israel enters its third month, many at the University of Michigan are truly hurting. Some have seen friends or family members killed. Others with ties to the region worry what the future will look like after so much suffering. Still others in our community …

  8. December 2023 video message

    December 4, 2023

    Hello colleagues and friends across the U-M community! With the busyness of our semester rapidly approaching its peak, it is more important than ever to take a moment to assess our wellbeing. I’m so grateful for the many members of our community who, through their dedication and creativity, continue to find new ways to positively …

  9. November 2023 video message

    November 17, 2023

    Dear friends and colleagues across our University of Michigan community, Even in this season of celebrations and light, our hearts remain broken by the terrible bloodshed in the Middle East, and the loss of so many innocent lives. For in Gaza and the West Bank, violence is escalating, bombs are falling and flames are raging. …

  10. Statement on vandalized flyers

    October 27, 2023

    To the Ann Arbor campus community: We are aware that a number of flyers posted on campus were recently vandalized. We strongly denounce these antisemitic acts and any acts that deliberately suppress speech on our public campus. Incidents like this are in direct conflict with our university’s commitment to free expression and deeply held values …