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Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press. ISBN 0-472-10674-0. Holtzer, Susan., ed. (1990). Special to the Daily: The 1st 100 Years of Editorial Freedom at the Michigan Daily. Caddo Gap Press. ISBN 0-9625945-2-0. Peckham, Howard H. (1994). The Making of The University of Michigan 1817–1992. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press.
The University of Michigan (U-M, UMich, or simply Michigan) is a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Founded in 1817, it is the oldest institution of higher education in the state. The University of Michigan is one of the earliest American research universities and is a founding member of the Association of American Universities ...
Michigan's oldest university, the University of Michigan was founded in Detroit in 1817 and was later moved to its present location in Ann Arbor. The state's oldest cultural institution, the Historical Society of Michigan, was established by territorial governor Lewis Cass and explorer Henry Schoolcraft in 1828.
The Regents continued to treat 1837 as the founding year of the University of Michigan until 1929, when they reversed policy and adopted 1817 as the official founding date. That act makes the University of Michigan officially, if not actually, the oldest university in the Big Ten; in actuality, Indiana University, founded in 1820 and granting ...
While the modern office was created in 1850, the University of Michigan itself now traces its date of founding to 1817, when its precursor, the University of Michigania, was founded. The only president of that institution, Rev. John Monteith , appears in the list of presidents but is not officially considered to have been a president of the ...
List of Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapters. Sigma Alpha Epsilon was established at the University of Alabama on March 9, 1856, and has since grown to be an international fraternity. In the following list, active chapters are indicated in bold and inactive chapters are in italics. [ 1][ 2][ 3] Chapter. Charter date and range. Institution. City. Status.
Contents. Michigan Wolverines football. The Michigan Wolverines football team represents the University of Michigan in college football at the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision level. Michigan has the most all-time wins in college football history. [ 3 ][ 4 ] The team is known for its distinctive winged helmet, its fight song, its ...
The following is a list of University of Michigan alumni. There are more than 640,000 living alumni of the University of Michigan in 180 countries across the globe. [1] Notable alumni include computer scientist and entrepreneur Larry Page, actor James Earl Jones, and President of the United States Gerald Ford