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Public university in Flint, Michigan

University of Michigan-Flint
UMFlintSeal.jpg

Former names

 Flint Senior College of the University of Michigan (1956–1964)
Flint College of the University of Michigan (1964–1971)
Motto Artes, Scientia, Veritas

Motto in English

 Arts, Knowledge, Truth
Type Public
Established 1956

Parent institution

 University of Michigan
Endowment United states$113.1 million[one]
Chancellor Deba Dutta[two]
President Mary Sue Coleman
Provost Sonja Feist-Cost

Academic staff

 568[iii]

Administrative staff

 526[3]
Students vi,418[4]
Undergraduates four,995[four]
Postgraduates 1,423[4]
Location

Flint

,

Michigan

,

United states of america


43°01′07″N 83°41′19″Westward  /  43.0184961°N 83.6886902°West  / 43.0184961; -83.6886902 Coordinates: 43°01′07″Northward 83°41′xix″West  /  43.0184961°North 83.6886902°W  / 43.0184961; -83.6886902
Campus Urban
Colors Maize and Bluish[5]
Nickname
  • Wolverines
  • The Victors[half-dozen] (unofficial)[7]
Sports Order level[8]
Website umflint.edu
University of Michigan–Flint logo.svg

The Academy of Michigan–Flint (UM-Flint) is a public university in Flint, Michigan. It is one of the two regional universities operating under the policies of the University of Michigan Board of Regents.

UM-Flint is ane of the v doctoral/professional person universities in the Country of Michigan[9] The academy'southward enrollment is approximately 6,400 students, behind 1000 Valley State University and Ferris State University, alee of University of Detroit Mercy and Andrews Academy. There are 138 majors/concentrations that apply to 12 Bachelor's degrees and 43 graduate majors/concentrations. UM-Flint besides offers graduate degrees, including xv primary'southward degree programs and 12 doctoral degree/specialist programs.

The academy's colleges and schools include the Higher of Arts and Sciences (CAS), College of Health Sciences (CHS), School of Teaching & Human Services (SEHS), School of Direction (SOM), School of Nursing (SON) and College of Innovation and Engineering science (CIT).

History [edit]

Flint Higher [edit]

The thought of establishing a office of the University of Michigan in the urban center of Flint started in the twelvemonth 1837 when Sarah Miles wrote a letter of the alphabet to her family unit stating, "A co-operative of the Michigan University at Ann Arbor is to be established in Flint at some futurity day."[10] In May 1944 the Flint Board of Education requested that the University of Michigan open a satellite campus in Flint.[xi] In June 1944, Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Chiliad.I. Bill into law. The demand for higher education increased with the return of soldiers subsequently World War II, and was a major cistron in the establishment of a branch of the University of Michigan in the city of Flint.[12] During 1947 the Regents of the University of Michigan approved a higher teaching needs cess for Flintstone. The community indicated that they wanted a four-year liberal arts college like to Ann Arbor's College of Literature, Science, and the Arts.[thirteen]

Later, in February 1956, David M. French was named the beginning dean of the Flint Senior College of the University of Michigan.[12] Flint College opened on the Flintstone Community Inferior College campus.[14] The college's initial enrollment was 167 enrollees. Degrees were offered in bachelor's degrees in liberal arts and sciences and in the professional fields of education and business assistants.[13] Original donors to construction buildings was C.S. Mott and the Sponsors Fund of Flint. The college's showtime course graduated in 1958.[xi]

The college became a four-twelvemonth establishment in 1964, adding its first freshman class the next year. In 1970, the Due north Key Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools granted accreditation to the Flint Higher of the University of Michigan.[xiii]

University of Michigan–Flint [edit]

The Regents of the University of Michigan approved the proper name change to The University of Michigan–Flint in 1971, and named William East. Moran as the first chancellor of the University of Michigan–Flintstone.[xiii] 2 schools were formed at Flint in 1975, the College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Management.[15]

The customs and city assisted U of Chiliad–Flint in acquiring forth the Flint River 42 acres.[thirteen] $five 1000000 over five years was pledged towards a new campus in 1972 by the C.S. Mott Foundation.[14] During September 1972, sixteen temporary buildings were erected to ease campus overcrowding, pressuring the Regents to move U of Thousand-Flint to its current location along the Flintstone River.

On September 1, 1973, the Regents passed the plans for the first building past Sedgewick-Sellers & Associates, originally planned for a site at Lapeer Road and Court Street. Instead, the first building was moved to a site on the Flint River, the current campus location. The university acquired the Ross House and the Hubbard Edifice. Its ground breaking anniversary was held on May 9, 1974, at the Wilson Park bandstand.[14] In 1977, construction concluded on the Course Room Office Building (CROB), later named David M. French Hall, and the Central Free energy Plant.[14] CROB included a library and theatre.[13] In 1979, the original Harrison Street Halo Burger location was vacated to make way for University of Michigan–Flintstone parking.[sixteen] While, the Harding Mott University Eye (UCen) was finished that same year and the Recreation Center in 1982.[17]

William S. Murchie Scientific discipline Building was completed in 1988.[17] In 1991, U of M-Flint took over buying of the Water Street Pavilion as the University Pavilion[eleven] keeping restaurants at that place while moving in authoritative offices.[17] The library moved to its own building in 1994 with the completion of the Frances Willson Thompson Library. The 25-acre site across the river on the north side was acquired in 1997.[xiii] Northbank Centre was caused in 1998.[17]

In 1989, the Schoolhouse of Health Professions and Studies was formed and after renamed the Higher of Health Sciences in 2018. The School of Education and Human Services was formed[15] in 1997.

In September 1999, Juan E. Mestas began his tenure every bit the 5th chancellor of the University of Michigan–Flintstone.[11] The William S. White Building was completed on the north side of the Flint River in 2002 for School of Wellness Professions and Studies[17] and the Schoolhouse of Management.[xviii] Halo Burger returned to the campus in September 2002 only to be forced out due to on-campus housing food regulations in 2008.[sixteen]

Ruth Person became chancellor in 2008.[xix] The first on-campus dorms, First Street Residence Hall, were completed in 2008.[17] The University of Michigan–Flint in 2010 was the fastest-growing public university in the country of Michigan.[twenty] The Schoolhouse of Management moved to a leased floor of the Riverfront Residence Hall in early 2013 from the White Edifice at renovation cost of $5.3 1000000.[eighteen] In 2013, Person's five-twelvemonth term was up and was extended for a twelvemonth by U of Thousand President Mary Sue Coleman to 2014.[19]

In Baronial 2014, Sue Borrego began as chancellor.[21] On Oct xv, 2015, University Board of Regents canonical the purchase of the 160,000-square-human foot, 10-story n belfry building of the Citizens Cyberbanking Buildings from FirstMerit Banking company for $6 million expected to close in March 2016.[22] In mid-December 2015, the Uptown Reinvestment Corporation donated the Riverfront Residence Hall and Banquet Center to the university with the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation forgiving the remaining redevelopment loan for the heart.[23] On October 20, 2016, the Regents formed the School of Nursing from the Department of Nursing in the School of Wellness Professions and Studies.[24] The Harrison Street Annex, at Kearsley and Harrison Streets in the Harrison Street parking structure, has been remodeled to be the university'south engineering pattern studio.[25]

Academics [edit]

College/schoolhouse founding [xv]
Higher/schoolhouse Year founded
Higher of Arts and Sciences 1955
School of Management 1975
College of Health Sciences 1982
Schoolhouse of Instruction and Human Services 1997
School of Nursing 2016
Higher of Innovation and Technology 2021

There are 138 majors/concentrations that utilize to 12 Bachelor'south degrees and 43 graduate majors/concentrations. U of M-Flint also offers graduate degrees including primary's degrees, Professional Doctorals, and Ph.D. degrees. The academy's colleges and schools include the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS), College of Wellness Sciences (CHS), School of Education & Human being Services (SEHS), School of Management (SOM), School of Nursing (SON) and College of Innovation and Technology (CIT).

Rankings and accreditation [edit]

Academic rankings
National
U.S. News & World Written report [26] 293-381
Washington Monthly [27] 339

USNWR undergraduate rankings [28]

Acme Performers on Social Mobility 214
Engineering (no doctorate) 110

USNWR graduate rankings [29]

Nursing-Anesthesia 22
Online Chief's in Nursing 53
Concrete Therapy 53
Best Public Diplomacy Programme 216
Function-time MBA 127

The Princeton Review included U of M-Flint in the "Best Midwestern" category in their publication 2020 All-time Colleges: Region by Region.[thirty] They also included U of Yard-Flint's Schoolhouse of Direction as one of the Best Business organisation Schools in their 2017 publication.[31] The Part-Time MBA Program was ranked 41st in the Usa (overall) and ninth in the Midwest (by region) in 2010 by Businessweek.[32]

U of M-Flintstone is accredited past the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) of Colleges and Schools.[33] Program-level accreditation is maintained past many programs in affiliation with: the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology,[34] the American Chemical Order, Clan for the Accreditation of Human Enquiry Protection Programs, the Association to Advance Collegiate Schoolhouse of Business concern – International,[35] Association of University Programs in Wellness Administration, the Committee on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Educational activity,[36] Committee on Accreditation in Respiratory Intendance, the Committee of Collegiate Nursing Pedagogy, the Council for Accreditation of Teacher Instruction, the Council on Accreditation for Nurse Anesthesia Educational Programs,[37] the Council on Social Work Education,[38] the Joint Review Committee on Education in Radiologic Technology,[39] Michigan Department of Education, the National Clan for the Didactics of Immature Children and the National Association of Schools of Music.[40]

Residential and educatee life [edit]

On campus housing [edit]

In November 2004, the Board of Regents of the University of Michigan approved the request of the Flint Campus to explore the feasibility of student housing. Subsequently several assessments, studies, and surveys showing the probable progression of growth of the campus, pupil housing was approved. On July 16, 2007, the first-ever student dormitory, the Showtime Street Residence Hall, opened for students.[41]

In December 2015, Uptown Reinvestment Corporation donated the Riverfront Residence Hall, a privately owned high-rising edifice that houses both U of 1000-Flint and Baker College students, to the university.[42] The 16-story Residence Hall tin house up to 500 students.

Student Organizations [edit]

There are over 100 recognized educatee organizations and 8 Sponsored Student Organizations (SSOs). They are organizations for various academic departments, religions, and cultural backgrounds, as well as organizations for honors, guild sports, social fraternities and sororities, service groups, and special interests.

University sponsored organizations:

  • The Michigan Times, the student newspaper of the University of Michigan–Flint.
  • Black Pupil Union
  • Campus Activities Board
  • College Panhellenic Clan
  • Interfraternity Council
  • National Pan-Hellenic Council
  • Qua Literary and Fine Arts Magazine
  • Student Government

Greek life [edit]

The university is home to several fraternities and sororities:[43]

Radio station [edit]

The school owns WFUM (91.1 FM), a public radio station affiliated with the Michigan Radio network.

Student newspaper [edit]

The Michigan Times is a student-run campus newspaper. In 2008, the Michigan Press Association'south "Meliorate Higher Newspaper Contest" awarded The Michigan Times with nine awards in a statewide competition. This achievement was surpassed in 2009 by winning 23 awards.[44] The newspaper is printed weekly and is available free-of-cost on campus, at other area colleges, in the surrounding downtown area and elsewhere in the Greater Flintstone surface area.

Student government [edit]

The Academy of Michigan–Flint Student Regime represents the students and manages student funds on the campus. Student Government is a member of the statewide Association of Michigan Universities.

Athletics [edit]

U of Thousand–Flint does not offer varsity intercollegiate athletics, but there are a number of society sport teams and intramural sports leagues available to students. Teams accept competed as Wolverines, while an unofficial student vote in 2009 selected The Victors to avoid confusion with the main campus.[six] [vii] Students, staff and alumni are also able to buy tickets to the flagship campus' sporting events at a discounted price.

Current Club Sports include:[45]

  • Men's & Women's Basketball
  • Cheer
  • Men's Ice Hockey
  • Men's & Women's Soccer
  • Women'due south Volleyball
  • Softball

In 2013, the men's hockey team earned a spot in the ACHA Division Iii National Tournament for the first time, eventually advancing to the National Championship Game confronting fellow Michigan Collegiate Hockey Conference foe Adrian College. In 2015, the women'southward hockey team went xviii–0 in conference play.

Football was previously offered every bit a club sport, before financial shortfalls led to the discontinuation of the NCFA club in 2015.

Notable faculty and alumni [edit]

  • Jim Ananich – Michigan Senate minority leader
  • Shari Ballard – former Best Buy senior executive VP[46]
  • Deborah Blood-red – former Michigan state senator
  • John D. Cerise – 62nd lieutenant governor of Michigan[11]
  • Bobby Crim – former Michigan Speaker of the House and state representative and founder of the Crim Festival of Races[11]
  • Christopher Paul Curtis (2000) – writer and Newbery Medal winner[eleven]
  • Erin Darke – actress[47]
  • Mona Haydar – rapper, poet, activist and chaplain
  • LaKisha Jones – vocaliser, American Idol contestant
  • Michael Moore – documentary film director, author[48]
  • Don Riegle (1960) – United States Senator from Michigan[49]
  • Marietta Due south. Robinson – former commissioner of the U.South. Consumer Product Prophylactic Commission[50]
  • John Sinclair (1964) – poet, political activist[51]
  • Tim Sneller – member of the Michigan Firm of Representatives from the 50th district[52]
  • Woodrow Stanley – quondam Michigan state representative, Mayor of Flintstone

See also [edit]

  • The Michigan Times

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External links [edit]

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