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RateMyProfessors.com (RMP) is a review site founded in May 1999 by John Swapceinski, a software engineer from Menlo Park, California, which allows anyone to assign ratings to professors and campuses of American, Canadian, and United Kingdom institutions. [1]
The University of Michigan traces its origins to August 26, 1817, [1] when it was established in the Territory of Michigan as the Catholepistemiad or University of Michigania through a legislative act signed by acting governor and secretary William Woodbridge, chief justice Augustus B. Woodward, and judge John Griffin.
As of fall 2023, the University of Michigan employs 8,189 faculty members, including 44 living members of the National Academy of Sciences, 63 living members of the National Academy of Medicine, 28 living members of the National Academy of Engineering, 98 living members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and 17 living members of the American Philosophical Society.
The rate of tenure (percent of tenured university faculty) increased to 52 percent. [ citation needed ] In fact, the demand for professors was so high in the 1950s that the American Council of Learned Societies held a conference in Cuba noting the too-few doctoral candidates to fill positions in English departments.
Faculty at the University of Michigan, Michigan’s oldest institution of higher education, submitted 274 responses to the survey, making it the university with the most faculty surveyed and the ...
Nafe Katter (BA, MA, PhD), professor of theatre at the University of Connecticut and frequent stage actor and director [21] Alexandra Killewald (BA, MA, PhD), professor of sociology at the Harvard Kennedy School; Mark Kilstofte (D.M.A. 1992), composer; professor at Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina; Guggenheim award winner
Scott E. Page is an American social scientist and John Seely Brown Distinguished University Professor of Complexity, Social Science, and Management at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he has been working since 2000.
Professor at the university 10 James J. Duderstadt: 1981–1986 5 years Nuclear 11th president of the University of Michigan 11 Charles M. Vest: 1986–1989 3 years Mechanical 15th president of MIT: interim: Daniel E. Atkins III: 1989–1990 1 year Computer Professor at the university 12 Peter M. Banks 1990–1996 6 years Climate and Space