(As prepared for delivery) Good afternoon! Congratulations graduates! You’ve made it – you’re finally through! After the endless hours of study, the presentations, the papers and the projects and the exams, your persistence, your excellence, is now crowned with success. I’m so proud of you. And not only you, but your families, your friends, your …

(As prepared for delivery) It’s a pleasure to be with all of you this afternoon, for our final meeting of 2023.  We’ve had a fantastic year together.  To be sure we have had our challenges. But we have also had a year of sustained growth and inspired achievement.  To offer just one example, at our …

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 …

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 …

Remarks as prepared for delivery It’s such an honor to be here with all of you this afternoon – regents, our executive officers, and deans, our colleagues from Michigan Medicine, and our staff, student and faculty leads. You exemplify our credo of the leaders and best. You are the reason we are a world-leading public …

I was heartbroken to hear of the passing of Charlie Munger, and join with his family and friends in mourning his passing. Charlie was a great friend of the University of Michigan, and even more, he was a member of our family. He was an undergraduate mathematics student at U-M in the 1940’s, and returned …

Jeff Selingo and Michael Horn take their conversation on the road with another stop on the Future U. Campus Tour, this time visiting the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. They sat down with president Santa Ono to discuss the future of higher education and Michigan’s role in the local and global communities. Following that …

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. …

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 …

(As prepared for delivery) Before we begin, I want to acknowledge that it has been a difficult two weeks for many in our community. We’ve watched in horror as the ongoing violence continues to unfold in the Middle East. I’ve had hundreds of students, faculty, staff, alumni, parents and others reach out to me to …