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The University of Michigan–Flint (UM-Flint) is a public university in Flint, Michigan, United States. Founded in 1956 as the Flint Senior College , it was initially established as a remote branch of the University of Michigan, offering upper-division undergraduate courses.
List of research universities School Location [note 3]Control [note 4]Type [note 5]Full-time faculty [5] (fall 2022) Undergraduate enrollment [5] (fall 2021) Graduate enrollment [5]
As of fall 2023, the University of Michigan employs 8,189 faculty members at the Ann Arbor campus, [1] [2] including 44 living members of the National Academy of Sciences, [3] 63 living members of the National Academy of Medicine, [4] 28 living members of the National Academy of Engineering, [5] 98 living members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, [6] 17 living members of the ...
Ruth J. Person was the first woman and the seventh chancellor of the University of Michigan–Flint.In January 2014, she announced her intention to resign as chancellor and return to the faculty in the University of Michigan–Flint School of Management in January 2015.
The Michigan Legislature created the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 1838, and that year allocated funding for a library. [7] The next year (three years before classes began), the Board of Regents of the University of Michigan acquired the University Library's first volume, John James Audubon's Birds of America, purchased at a cost of $970. [8]
Over time, teachers began assembling their handouts at the beginning of the course, or having school administrators assemble them and charge students enough fees to recoup costs. As copy shops such as Kinko's became a thriving business in the late 1970s and early 1980s, they developed a market for making these coursepacks, offering different ...
Armin O. Leuschner (BS Math 1888), astronomer at Berkeley, first graduate student at Lick Observatory; devised a simplification of differential corrections; improved the methodology for determining the courses of planetoids and comets; oversaw a survey of all the known minor planets; founded the Astronomy Department at Berkeley and served as ...
The Flint Institute of Arts, also called FIA, is located in the Flint Cultural Center in Flint, Michigan.The second largest art museum in Michigan, it offers exhibitions, interpretive programs, film screenings, concerts, lectures, family events and educational outreach programs to people of various ages, serving over 160,000 adults and children a year.