Sessions For: Ofc Provost & Exec VP Acad Aff

Each year, the Faculty Senate Office has the honor of bringing together the members of the Senate Assembly, its committees, and the distinguished executive officers of our University to celebrate our time together over the past academic year. No formal program is planned. The event is an opportunity to share a meal together and engage in casual conversation. We are thankful for your service to the University and hope your schedule will permit you to enjoy lunch with your advisory committee colleagues.

A special meeting of the University Senate (~7,600 members) has been called pursuant to a petition of more than 200 faculty. Per the rules of the Faculty Senate, which permits the calling of a special meeting by a petition of not less than fifty members of the Senate, a University Senate meeting shall now be convened. The purpose of the special meeting, as provided in the petition, is the following:
A significant number of faculty members -- along with staff, and graduate students, lecturers, and Ann Arbor residents -- have expressed grave concerns about about the threats to the foundational principles of American higher education and the need for faculty to take collective action within the University of Michigan and in concert with other university faculties across the U.S
The following resolutions has been submitted and will be included in the meeting agenda:

Resolution to Establish a Mutual Defense Compact for the Universities of the Big Ten Academic Alliance in Defense of Academic Freedom, Institutional Integrity, and the Research Enterprise
Statement in Support of the Core Mission and Values of Higher Education in the United States of America
Resolution to continue DEI initiatives that are in alignment with our university values, an extension of the mission of our schools, and legally compliant.
Resolution Urging the University of Michigan to Protect International Students, Faculty, and Staff from Unwarranted DetentionIn-Person Attendance
If you would like to attend in person, please register to do so below.
Virtual Attendance
The meeting may be attended virtually as a Zoom webinar via the following link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/91877172924
Main Event Page
More information about the meeting is available here.

The UM Ann Arbor chapter of AAUP and SACUA invite you to the seminar series, Resistance and Reality Checks. These three seminars will highlight the work of UM scholars who offer alternative models and counter-analyses to the executive orders being issued from the Trump administration.