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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.
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 ...
Under the tenure systems adopted by many universities and colleges in the United States and Canada, some faculty positions have tenure and some do not. Typical systems (such as the widely adopted "1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure" of the American Association of University Professors [5]) allow only a limited period to establish a record of published research, ability ...
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.
13 dual-degree programs, [15] ranging from a degree from the Ross School of Business, to the University of Michigan Law School. Joint PhDs [16] in Public Policy and Economics, [17] Political Science, [18] and Sociology, [19] respectively, which allows students to combine their public policy studies with disciplinary work at another school at U-M.
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
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 Retired from the university 13 Stephen W. Director 1996–2005 9 years Electrical