President of the University of Michigan | |
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University of Michigan | |
Reports to | Board of Regents |
Residence | President's House |
Appointer | Board of Regents |
Constituting instrument | Constitution of Michigan |
Formation | 1850 |
First holder | Henry Philip Tappan |
Salary | $1,014,000 [1] |
Website | president |
The president of the University of Michigan is a constitutional officer who serves as the principal executive officer of the University of Michigan. The president is chosen by the Board of Regents of the University of Michigan, as provided for in the Constitution of the State of Michigan. Fifteen people—fourteen men and one woman—have held the office, in addition to several others who have held it in either an acting or interim capacity.
The University of Michigan's current president is Santa Ono, formerly the president of the University of British Columbia in Canada. He took office on 14 October 2022. [2]
The office was created by the Michigan Constitution of 1850, which also specified that the president was to be appointed by the Regents of the University of Michigan and preside at their meetings, but without a vote. [3] The precise wording has evolved through subsequent state constitutions, and as of November 2018 the office is defined by Article VIII, section 5 of the Constitution of 1963: [4]
The regents of the University of Michigan and their successors in office shall constitute a body corporate known as the Regents of the University of Michigan; ... Each board shall, as often as necessary, elect a president of the institution under its supervision. He shall be the principal executive officer of the institution, be ex-officio a member of the board without the right to vote and preside at meetings of the board. ...
Between the establishment of the University of Michigan in 1837 and 1850, the Board of Regents ran the university directly; by law, they were supposed to appoint a chancellor to administer the university, but they never did, and a rotating roster of professors carried out the day-to-day administrative duties instead. [5]
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 University of Michigan. [6]
The first president of the university was Henry Philip Tappan. The position had originally been offered to Henry Barnard, but he declined, and Tappan and John Hiram Lathrop (then Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison) were nominated as new choices, after which Tappan was unanimously elected. Barnard later succeeded Lathrop at Wisconsin.
The 15th and most recent president of the university is Santa Ono, appointed in 2022. Of the previous presidents:
No. | Name | Portrait | Years in office | Notes |
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Rev. John Monteith | 1817–1821 | First and only president of the University of Michigania; 4 years in office | ||
Vacant | 1821–1837 | Office abolished in favor of a Board of Trustees | ||
1837–1852 | Board of Regents replaces Board of Trustees | |||
1 | Henry Philip Tappan | 1852–1863 | First president of the University of Michigan, removed by regents; 11 years in office | |
2 | Erastus Otis Haven | 1863–1869 | Resigned to become President of Northwestern University; 6 years in office | |
acting | Henry S. Frieze | 1869–1871 | Following President Haven's resignation. | |
3 | James Burrill Angell | 1871–1909 | Retired after 38 years in office (longest-serving president) | |
acting | Henry S. Frieze | 1880–1882 | While President Angell is U.S. Minister to China | |
1887–1888 | While President Angell is on the commission negotiating the Bayard-Chamberlain Treaty | |||
acting | Harry Burns Hutchins | 1897–1898 | While President Angell is U.S. Minister to Turkey | |
interim | 1909–1910 | Following President Angell's retirement. | ||
4 | 1910–1920 | Was the first student to receive a degree from James B. Angell at Michigan; retired after 10 year in office | ||
5 | Marion LeRoy Burton | 1920–1925 | Died in office | |
acting | Alfred Henry Lloyd | 1925 | From February through September after the death of President Burton | |
6 | Clarence Cook Little | 1925–1929 | Resigned to conduct research at Bar Harbor, Maine; 4 years in office | |
7 | Alexander Grant Ruthven | 1929–1951 | Retired after 22 years in office | |
8 | Harlan Hatcher | 1951–1968 | Retired after 17 years in office | |
9 | Robben Wright Fleming | 1968–1979 | Resigned after 11 years in office; was chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting | |
interim | Allan Frederick Smith | 1979 | Following President Fleming's resignation. | |
10 | Harold Tafler Shapiro | 1980–1988 | Resigned to become president of Princeton University; 8 years in office | |
interim | Robben Wright Fleming | 1988 | Following President Shapiro's resignation. | |
11 | James Johnson Duderstadt | 1988–1996 | Resigned to return to teaching; 8 years in office | |
interim | Homer A. Neal | 1996 | Following President Duderstadt's resignation. | |
12 | Lee Bollinger | 1996–2002 | Resigned to become president of Columbia University; 6 years in office | |
interim | B. Joseph White | 2002 | Following President Bollinger's resignation. | |
13 | Mary Sue Coleman | 2002–2014 | Retired [7] after 12 years in office as the first female president of the University of Michigan | |
14 | Mark Schlissel | 2014–2022 | Removed [8] by regents | |
interim | Mary Sue Coleman | 2022 | Following President Schlissel's termination | |
15 | Santa Ono | 2022–present | Incumbent, took office on October 14, 2022 | |
Source: ( Bentley Historical Library 2004 )
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