University of Michigan

Every university president encounters the need to balance an ongoing agenda with new priorities that, combined, will shape the future of the institution. In my two presidencies, I have learned that sometimes the issues choose the president, but at other times, the president can choose the issues she wants to advance.

When I arrived on campus twenty months ago, we faced some monumental events that affected not only the University, but the entire nation.

I have watched the great monuments of our architecture come back to life this semester, with the reopening of Hill Auditorium and the Rackham Building. We have launched the ambitious Life Sciences Institute. We overcame the investigation into our former basketball program with the triumph of the championship at the National Invitation Tournament. And, we had the great privilege of learning how it feels to win landmark decisions at the Supreme Court of the United States.  

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