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in Ann Arbor, Michigan
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. Founded in 1817 by an act of the old Michigan Territory
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, as the ''Catholepistemiad'', or the ''University of Michigania'', 20 years before the territory
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became a state, the university is Michigan
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's oldest. The institution was moved to Ann Arbor in 1837 onto of what is now known as Central Campus, a U.S. historic district. Since its establishment in Ann Arbor, the university has expanded to include some 500 buildings spread out over the city. The university has been governed by an elected board of regents independently of the state since 1850, when the state's second constitution was officially adopted.
The university consists of nineteen colleges and offers degree programs at undergraduate
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and postdoctoral
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levels in some 250 disciplines. Michigan has ten professional schools: the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
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, the Ross School of BusinessThe Stephen M. Ross School of Business (Ross; formerly known as University of Michigan Business School) is a business school operated by the University of Michigan
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, the Medical School
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, the Ford School of Public Policy, the College of Pharmacy
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, and the . It affiliates with two regional universities (satellite campuses
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) in Flint
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and Dearborn (each separately accredited universities), and a Center
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in Detroit.
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institution since 1871. The university's enrollment is approximately 32,000 undergraduate students and 16,000 graduate students.[ Undergraduate admission to the university is categorized as "most selective."] Nearly half of the students are from out of state. International students from some 130 countries account for 5 percent of the entire student body.[ In 2021, Michigan's six-year graduation rate was 93 percent.]
Michigan is one of the earliest American research universities
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, part of the URA, as well as a founding member of the Association of American Universities
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. The university achieved the fourth-highest overall research publication output among American research universities in the 2020 Nature IndexThe Nature Index is a database, that tracks institutions and countries and their scientific output since its introduction in 2016. Each year, Nature Index ranks the leading institutions (which can be companies, universities, government agencies, rese ...
, after Harvard
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, Stanford
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and MIT
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. It has been consistently ranked among the top universities in the United States by college and university rankings. In international comparison, the university occupies top positions in rankings and enjoys a high academic reputation. The university's noted alumni include eight domestic and foreign heads of state
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; 42 cabinet-level officials; and 26 living billionaires.
Michigan is home to the country's oldest continuously existing legal organization, oldest international professional dental fraternity, oldest continuously running university hospital and longest-standing laboratory for interdisciplinary research in the social sciences. , 26 Nobel Prize winners, 53 MacArthur "genius award" winners ( 29 alumni winners and 24 faculty winners), six Turing Award winners, one Fields Medalist and one Mitchell Scholar have been affiliated with the university. It also has many alumni who are Fulbright Scholars
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. As of 2021, Wolverine athletes have won 155 medals at the Olympic Games
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.
History
The University of Michigan was founded in 1817,[ as the ''Catholepistemiad'', or the University of Michigania, by an act of the ]Michigan Territory
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. Of the total amount subscribed to start the institute two-thirds came from Zion Masonic Lodge and its members. Early benefactors of the university included businessman (donor of Ferry Field
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), Arthur Hill (regent, donor of Hill Auditorium
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), the Nichols family (regents, donors of the Nichols Arboretum), William E. Upjohn (donor of the Peony
Garden), William P. Trowbridge, John S. Newberry, who funded the construction of Helen H. Newberry Residence, and Henry N. Walker, a politician who led a group of prominent Detroit businessmen to fund the Detroit Observatory
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. Clara Harrison Stranahan, a close friend of Scottish-American industrialist Andrew Carnegie
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, donated $25,000 to the university in 1895 as a memorial of her father, Seth Harrison.
Rev. John Monteith became its first president, and Father Gabriel Richard
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, a Catholic priest, was vice president. In 1821, the territorial government reorganized the ''Catholepistemiad'' as the University of Michigan. A board of trustees was appointed to oversee the university; the positions of president and vice president were eliminated, and Monteith and Richard were appointed to the board.[ The ''Catholepistemiad'' was not a university in the modern sense but rather a centralized system of schools, libraries, and other cultural institutions borrowing its model from the ]University of FranceThe University of France (french: Université de France; originally the ''Imperial University of France'') was a highly centralized educational state organization founded by Napoleon I in 1808 and given authority not only over the individual (previo ...
founded by Napoleon
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a decade earlier. It was only after the State of Michigan entered the Union in 1837 that a new plan was adopted to focus the university on higher education.
After the State of Michigan entered the Union in 1837, the new state’s early constitution granted the university an unusual degree of autonomy as a “coordinate branch of state government”. It delegated full powers over all university matters granted to its governing Board of Regents. On June 3–5, the Board of Regents held its first meeting in Ann Arbor ANN may refer to:
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and formally accepted the proposal by the town to locate the university there.[ The town of Ann Arbor had existed for only 13 years and had a population of about 2,000. The original was the basis of the present Central Campus.] This land was obtained through the Treaty of Fort Meigs
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In 1838, the Regents contracted with Alexander J. Davis, who provided landmark campus designs in the Gothic Revival style
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. Although approving Davis's designs, the tight budget of the fledgling university forced the Regents to ultimately abandon them and instead build in other classical styles, including Greek Revival
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and Italianate
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and Carpenter Gothic
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. The superintendent of construction on the first structure to be built for the university was Isaac Thompson, an associate of Davis. Asa Gray
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was the first professor appointed to Michigan on July 17, 1837. His position was also the first one devoted solely to botany
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at any educational institution in America. The first classes in Ann Arbor were held in 1841, with six freshmen and a sophomore, taught by two professors. Eleven students graduated in the first commencement in 1845.
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in 1850, engineering courses in 1854, and a law school
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in 1859. The university was among the first to introduce instruction in fields as diverse as zoology
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and botany
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, modern languages
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, modern history
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, American literature
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, pharmacy
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, dentistry
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, speech
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, journalism
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, teacher education
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, forestry
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, bacteriology
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, naval architecture
'' in Tórshavn
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, aeronautical engineering
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, computer engineering
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, and nuclear engineering
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. In 1856 Michigan built the nation's first chemical laboratory
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. It was the first structure on the North American continent that was designed and equipped solely for instruction in chemistry. In 1869 Michigan opened the first university hospital
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in the country. James Burrill Angell
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, who served as the university's president from 1871 to 1909, expanded the curriculum to include professional studies in dentistry
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, architecture
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, engineering
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, government
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, and medicine
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. Michigan also became the first American university to use the seminar
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method of study.
By 1866, enrollment had increased to 1,205 students. Women were first admitted in 1870, although Alice Robinson Boise Wood
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had become the first woman to attend classes (without matriculating) in 1866–7. Among the early students in the School of Medicine was Jose Celso Barbosa
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, who in 1880 graduated as valedictorian and the first to get a university degree in the United States. He returned to Puerto Rico to practice medicine and also served in high-ranking posts in the government. Michigan was involved with the building of the Philippine education, legal, public health systems during the era of the American colonization of the Philippines through the efforts of Michigan alumni that included Dean Conant Worcester
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and George A. Malcolm.
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in Boston
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and Columbia University
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(then known as Columbia College) in New York
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during the 19th and early 20th centuries, and then holding this position of national leadership until the emergence of the statewide public university systems in the post-WWII years. By the turn of the century, the university was the second largest in the United States after Harvard University
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.
From 1900 to 1920, the growth of higher education
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led the university to build numerous new facilities. The Martha Cook Building was constructed as an all-female residence in 1915 as the result of a gift from in honor of his mother, Martha Walford Cook.
Cook planned to endow a professorship of law of corporations, but eventually made possible the development of the Law Quadrangle. The five buildings comprising the Law Quadrangle were constructed during the decade of 1923–33 on two city blocks purchased by the University: Lawyers Club, Dormitory Wing, John P. Cook Dormitory, William W Cook Legal Research Library, and Hutchins Hall. The buildings, in the Tudor Gothic style, recalled the quadrangles of the two English ancient universities Oxford and Cambridge.
In 1920, the university reorganized the College of Engineering
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and formed an advisory committee of 100 industrialists to guide academic research initiatives.
After World War II, enrollment expanded and by 1950, it reached 21,000. In 1947, the Regents appointed a War Memorial Committee to consider establishing a war memorial in honor of students and alumni who fell in World War II, and in 1948, approved a resolution to “create a war memorial center to explore the ways and means by which the potentialities of atomic energy may become a beneficent influence in the life of man, to be known as the Phoenix Project of the University of Michigan,” leading to the world’s first academic program in nuclear science and engineering. The Memorial Phoenix Project was funded by over 25,000 private contributors by individuals and corporations, such as the Ford Motor Company
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.
Because of its high standards, Michigan gained the nickname "Harvard of the West." In the 1960 Presidential campaign, U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy
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jocularly referred to himself as "a graduate of the Michigan of the East, Harvard University" in his speech proposing the formation of the Peace Corps speaking to a crowd from the front steps of the Michigan Union
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. Lyndon B. Johnson
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gave his speech outlining his Great Society
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program as the lead speaker during the University of Michigan's 1964 spring commencement ceremony.
During the 1960s, the university campus was the site of numerous protests against the Vietnam War and university administration. On March 24, 1965, a group of U-M faculty members and 3,000 students held the nation's first-ever faculty-led "teach-in
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" to protest against American policy in Southeast Asia. In response to a series of sit-in
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s in 1966 by ''Voice'', the campus political party of Students for a Democratic Society
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, U-M's administration banned sit-ins. In response, 1,500 students participated in a one-hour sit-in inside the Administration Building, now known as the LSA Building. In April 1968, following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., a group of several dozen black students occupied the Administration Building to demand that the university make public its three-year-old commitment as a federal contractor to affirmative action and to increase its efforts with respect to recruiting more African American students, faculty and staff. At that time there were no African American coaches, for instance, in the Intercollegiate Athletics Department. The occupation was ended by agreement after seven hours. Michigan alumnus and noted architect Alden B. Dow designed the current Fleming Administration Building, which was completed in 1968. The building's plans were drawn in the early 1960s, before student activism prompted a concern for safety. But the Fleming Building's fortress-like narrow windows, all located above the first floor, and lack of exterior detail at ground level, led to a campus rumor that it was designed to be riot-proof. Dow denied those rumors, claiming the small windows were designed to be energy efficient. The following year, the radical left-wing militant organization Weather Underground
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was founded at the university. It was later designated a domestic terrorist group by the FBI
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.
In the 1980s, the university received increased grants for research in the social and physical sciences. During the 1980s and 1990s, the university devoted substantial resources to renovating its massive hospital complex and improving the academic facilities on the North Campus. In its 2011 annual financial report, the university announced that it had dedicated $497 million per year in each of the prior 10 years to renovate buildings and infrastructure around the campus.
In 1987, a DJ on WJJX, a student-run radio station, attracted controversy by allowing racist jokes to air on his program. The station was shut down for a month following the incident. It was shut down permanently in the 1990s.
In the early 2000s, Michigan faced declining state funding due to state budget shortfalls. In fact, the university did not receive direct state appropriations until 1867, and for most of its history, state support has been limited. James Duderstadt, Michigan president from 1988 to 1996, had argued for years that it was a misnomer to call schools like the University of Michigan "state universities." The state's annual contribution to the school's operating budget was less than 6%. "The state is our smallest minority shareholder," he said. In 2011 less than 5% of its support comes from state appropriations, a number continued to drop still further in the years ahead. Around the time, the university was engaged in a $2.5 billion construction campaign after an eight-year capital campaign raised $3.11 billion, at the time a record for a US public university.
In 2003, two lawsuits involving U-M's affirmative action
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admissions policy reached the U.S. Supreme Court
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('' Grutter v. Bollinger'' and '' Gratz v. Bollinger''). President George W. Bush
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publicly opposed the policy before the court issued a ruling. The court found that race may be considered as a factor in university admissions in all public universities and private universities that accept federal funding, but it ruled that a point system was unconstitutional. In the first case, the court upheld the Law School
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admissions policy, while in the second it ruled against the university's undergraduate admissions policy. The debate continued because in November 2006, Michigan voters passed Proposal 2, banning most affirmative action in university admissions. Under that law, race, gender, and national origin can no longer be considered in admissions. U-M and other organizations were granted a stay from implementation of the law soon after that referendum. This allowed time for proponents of affirmative action to decide legal and constitutional options in response to the initiative results. In April 2014, the Supreme Court ruled in '' Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action'' that Proposal 2 did not violate the U.S. Constitution. The admissions office states that it will attempt to achieve a diverse student body by looking at other factors, such as whether the student attended a disadvantaged school, and the level of education of the student's parents.
In 2014, the University of Michigan was named one of 55 higher education institutions under investigation by the Office of Civil Rights "for possible violations of federal law over the handling of sexual violence and harassment complaints." President Barack Obama
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's White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault was organized for such investigations. Seven years later, in 2021, the university attracted national attention when a report commissioned by the university was released that detailed an investigation into sexual assault allegations against doctor Robert Anderson who reportedly sexually abused at least 950 university students, many of whom were athletes, from 1966 to 2003. Several football players from that time say legendary football coach Bo Schembechler
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ignored and enabled the abuse and told players to "toughen up" after being molested. Schembechler reportedly punched his then 10-year old son Matthew after he reported abuse by Dr. Anderson. Following the exposure of a similar history of abuse at Ohio State University
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, male survivors of both Dr. Anderson at Michigan and Dr. Strauss at Ohio State have spoken out together to shine a light on sexual abuse.
Due to concerns over the university's financial situation, restricted academic freedom
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succumbing to public pressure, and repercussions of the state's surging partisan hostility, from 2000 and onwards, there has been an ongoing demand for the complete separation of the university and state through privatization
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.
In 2021, music professor Bright Sheng
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stepped down from teaching an undergraduate
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musical composition
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class, where he says he had intended to show how Giuseppe Verdi
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adapted William Shakespeare
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's play ''Othello
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'' into his opera ''Otello
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'', after a controversy over his showing the 1965 British movie ''Othello'', allegedly without giving students any warning that it contained blackface
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.
Historical links
* University of California
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: had its early planning based upon the University of Michigan.[ Page 138 of this source incorrectly states that the date of the final negotiations in which Governor Low participated was October 8, 1869, but it is clear from the context and the endnotes to that page (which cite documents from 1867) that the reference to 1869 is a typo.]
* Cornell University
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: had its Law School
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founded by Michigan alumni Charles Kendall Adams
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and .
* Harvard University
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: Michigan alumnus Edwin Francis Gay
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was the Founding Dean of the Harvard Business School
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from 1908-1919, instrumental in the school's planning.
* Johns Hopkins University
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: had its pharmacology department established by John Jacob Abel
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, an alumnus of Michigan.
* Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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: had its , the world's leading research laboratory
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, founded by Michigan alumnus Jerome Wiesner
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.
* Tufts University
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: had its College of Civic Life founded by John Angelo DiBiaggio, an alumnus of Michigan.
* Wellesley College
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: Michigan alumna Alice Freeman Palmer
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, the President of Wellesley College from 1881 to 1887, "transformed the fledgling school from one devoted to Christian domesticity into one of the nation's premier colleges for women."
* Yale University
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: had its residential college system co-organized by James Rowland Angell
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, a graduate of Michigan. Michigan alumnus Henry Wade Rogers introduced the "case system" and the college degree requirement into the Yale Law School
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.
Campus
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includes more than 500 major buildings, with a combined area of more than . The Central and South Campus areas are contiguous, while the North Campus area is separated from them, primarily by the Huron River. There is also leased space in buildings scattered throughout the city, many occupied by organizations affiliated with the University of Michigan Health System. An East Medical Campus was developed on Plymouth Road, with several university-owned buildings for outpatient care, diagnostics, and outpatient surgery.
In addition to the U-M Golf Course on South Campus, the university operates a second golf course on Geddes Road called Radrick Farms Golf Course. The golf course is only open to faculty, staff and alumni. Another off-campus facility is the Inglis House, which the university has owned since the 1950s. The Inglis House is a mansion used to hold various social events, including meetings of the Board of Regents, and to host visiting dignitaries. The university also operates a large office building called Wolverine Tower in southern Ann Arbor near Briarwood Mall
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. Another major facility is the Matthaei Botanical Gardens, which is located on the eastern outskirts of Ann Arbor.
All four campus areas are connected by bus services, the majority of which connect the North and Central campuses. There is a shuttle service connecting the University Hospital, which lies between North and Central campuses, with other medical facilities throughout northeastern Ann Arbor.
The 2021 state budget
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boosted University of Michigan funding by 5% across all 3 campuses.
The University has also seen increases in their sustainability efforts through climate, energy, food systems, water, and construction.
Central Campus
Central Campus was the original location of U-M when it moved to Ann Arbor in 1837. It originally had a school and dormitory building (where Mason Hall now stands) and several houses for professors on of land bounded by North University Avenue, South University Avenue, East University Avenue, and State Street. The President's House, located on South University Avenue, is the oldest building on campus as well as the only surviving building from the original campus. Because Ann Arbor and Central Campus developed simultaneously, there is no distinct boundary between the city and university, and some areas contain a mixture of private and university buildings. Residence halls located on Central Campus are split up into two groups: the Hill Neighborhood and Central Campus.
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, the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, the Law School
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and the , are on Central Campus. Two prominent libraries, the Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library and the Shapiro Undergraduate Library (which are connected by a skywalk
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), are also on Central Campus. as well as museums
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housing collections in archaeology
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, anthropology
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, paleontology
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, zoology
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, dentistry
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and art. Ten of the buildings on Central Campus were designed by Detroit-based architect Albert Kahn between 1904 and 1936. The most notable of the Kahn-designed buildings are the Burton Memorial TowerImage:BurtonTowerUofM.jpg, The Burton Memorial Tower
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and nearby Hill Auditorium
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.
North Campus
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, whereas most Central Campus buildings are classical or Collegiate Gothic
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in style. The architect Eero Saarinen
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, based in Birmingham, Michigan
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, created one of the early master plans for North Campus and designed several of its buildings in the 1950s, including the Earl V. Moore School of Music Building. North and Central Campuses each have unique bell towers that reflect the predominant architectural styles of their surroundings. Each of the bell towers houses a grand carillon
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. The North Campus tower is called Lurie TowerImage:UniversityofMichiganLurieTower.jpg, 200px, The Lurie Tower on North Campus, view from the southwest
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. The University of Michigan's largest residence hall, Bursley Hall, is located on North Campus.
North Campus houses the College of Engineering
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, the School of Music, Theatre & Dance, the Stamps School of Art & Design, the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
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, and an annex of the School of Information. The campus is served by the Duderstadt Center, which houses the Art, Architecture and Engineering Library. The Duderstadt Center also contains multiple computer lab
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s, video editing
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studios, electronic music studios, an audio studio, a video studio, multimedia workspaces, and a 3D virtual reality
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room. Other libraries located on North Campus include the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and the Bentley Historical Library
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.
South Campus
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, Crisler Center, and Yost Ice Arena. South Campus is also the site of the Buhr library storage facility, Revelli Hall, home of the