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Public university in Flint, Michigan

University of Michigan-Flint
UMFlintSeal.jpg

Erstwhile names

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

Motto in English

 Arts, Knowledge, Truth
Type Public
Established 1956

Parent establishment

 University of Michigan
Endowment US$113.1 meg[1]
Chancellor Deba Dutta[2]
President Mary Sue Coleman
Provost Sonja Feist-Cost

Academic staff

 568[3]

Administrative staff

 526[three]
Students 6,418[4]
Undergraduates four,995[4]
Postgraduates 1,423[four]
Location

Flint

,

Michigan

,

United States


43°01′07″N 83°41′19″W  /  43.0184961°North 83.6886902°W  / 43.0184961; -83.6886902 Coordinates: 43°01′07″N 83°41′xix″W  /  43.0184961°N 83.6886902°W  / 43.0184961; -83.6886902
Campus Urban
Colors Maize and Blue[five]
Nickname
  • Wolverines
  • The Victors[6] (unofficial)[7]
Sports Social club level[8]
Website umflint.edu
University of Michigan–Flint logo.svg

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

UM-Flint is ane of the five doctoral/professional universities in the State of Michigan[nine] The university's enrollment is approximately six,400 students, backside Grand Valley State University and Ferris State University, ahead of University of Detroit Mercy and Andrews Academy. There are 138 majors/concentrations that use to 12 Bachelor's degrees and 43 graduate majors/concentrations. UM-Flint too offers graduate degrees, including fifteen primary's degree programs and 12 doctoral degree/specialist programs.

The university's colleges and schools include the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS), College of Health Sciences (CHS), School of Instruction & Human Services (SEHS), School of Management (SOM), Schoolhouse of Nursing (SON) and Higher of Innovation and Technology (CIT).

History [edit]

Flint College [edit]

The thought of establishing a part of the Academy of Michigan in the city of Flint started in the year 1837 when Sarah Miles wrote a letter to her family stating, "A branch of the Michigan University at Ann Arbor is to be established in Flint at some future day."[x] In May 1944 the Flint Board of Instruction requested that the University of Michigan open a satellite campus in Flint.[11] In June 1944, Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Yard.I. Nib into constabulary. The need for higher education increased with the return of soldiers after World State of war II, and was a major factor in the establishment of a co-operative of the University of Michigan in the city of Flintstone.[12] During 1947 the Regents of the University of Michigan approved a higher education needs assessment for Flint. The community indicated that they wanted a four-year liberal arts college like to Ann Arbor'due south College of Literature, Scientific discipline, and the Arts.[13]

After, in Feb 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 Flint Community Junior Higher campus.[14] The college'southward initial enrollment was 167 enrollees. Degrees were offered in bachelor'southward degrees in liberal arts and sciences and in the professional fields of didactics and business administration.[13] Original donors to construction buildings was C.S. Mott and the Sponsors Fund of Flint. The college'southward first form graduated in 1958.[11]

The college became a iv-yr institution in 1964, calculation its commencement freshman class the adjacent year. In 1970, the Due north Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools granted accreditation to the Flintstone College of the University of Michigan.[13]

University of Michigan–Flint [edit]

The Regents of the University of Michigan approved the name modify to The University of Michigan–Flint in 1971, and named William Due east. Moran as the first chancellor of the University of Michigan–Flintstone.[13] 2 schools were formed at Flintstone in 1975, the College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Management.[xv]

The customs and city assisted U of M–Flint in acquiring along the Flint River 42 acres.[13] $5 1000000 over five years was pledged towards a new campus in 1972 by the C.Due south. Mott Foundation.[14] During September 1972, sixteen temporary buildings were erected to ease campus overcrowding, pressuring the Regents to move U of One thousand-Flintstone to its current location along the Flintstone River.

On September 1, 1973, the Regents passed the plans for the first building by Sedgewick-Sellers & Associates, originally planned for a site at Lapeer Road and Court Street. Instead, the first edifice was moved to a site on the Flint River, the current campus location. The university acquired the Ross House and the Hubbard Edifice. Its footing breaking ceremony was held on May 9, 1974, at the Wilson Park bandstand.[fourteen] In 1977, structure ended on the Class Room Part Building (CROB), later named David M. French Hall, and the Central Energy Found.[xiv] CROB included a library and theatre.[xiii] In 1979, the original Harrison Street Halo Burger location was vacated to brand manner for Academy of Michigan–Flint parking.[16] While, the Harding Mott University Heart (UCen) was finished that aforementioned year and the Recreation Middle in 1982.[17]

William S. Murchie Science Building was completed in 1988.[17] In 1991, U of M-Flint took over ownership of the H2o Street Pavilion as the University Pavilion[11] keeping restaurants there while moving in administrative offices.[17] The library moved to its own building in 1994 with the completion of the Frances Willson Thompson Library. The 25-acre site beyond the river on the north side was acquired in 1997.[13] Northbank Center was acquired in 1998.[17]

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

In September 1999, Juan E. Mestas began his tenure as the fifth chancellor of the Academy of Michigan–Flintstone.[eleven] The William S. White Edifice was completed on the due north side of the Flint River in 2002 for School of Health Professions and Studies[17] and the School of Management.[xviii] Halo Burger returned to the campus in September 2002 only to exist forced out due to on-campus housing food regulations in 2008.[16]

Ruth Person became chancellor in 2008.[19] The offset 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 state of Michigan.[20] The Schoolhouse of Management moved to a leased floor of the Riverfront Residence Hall in early 2013 from the White Building at renovation toll of $v.three million.[18] In 2013, Person's five-twelvemonth term was up and was extended for a year by U of M President Mary Sue Coleman to 2014.[xix]

In Baronial 2014, Sue Borrego began equally chancellor.[21] On October fifteen, 2015, University Board of Regents canonical the purchase of the 160,000-square-foot, 10-story north tower building of the Citizens Banking Buildings from FirstMerit Bank 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 Middle to the university with the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation forgiving the remaining redevelopment loan for the center.[23] On October 20, 2016, the Regents formed the School of Nursing from the Section 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 design studio.[25]

Academics [edit]

College/school founding [15]
College/school Yr founded
College of Arts and Sciences 1955
School of Management 1975
College of Wellness Sciences 1982
School of Education and Human Services 1997
School of Nursing 2016
College of Innovation and Engineering science 2021

There are 138 majors/concentrations that apply to 12 Bachelor'southward degrees and 43 graduate majors/concentrations. U of M-Flint besides offers graduate degrees including master's degrees, Professional person Doctorals, and Ph.D. degrees. The university's colleges and schools include the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS), College of Health Sciences (CHS), School of Education & Homo 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 Report [26] 293-381
Washington Monthly [27] 339

USNWR undergraduate rankings [28]

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

USNWR graduate rankings [29]

Nursing-Anesthesia 22
Online Master's in Nursing 53
Concrete Therapy 53
Best Public Affairs Plan 216
Part-time MBA 127

The Princeton Review included U of Grand-Flint in the "All-time Midwestern" category in their publication 2020 Best Colleges: Region by Region.[30] They also included U of Thou-Flint'southward School of Direction every bit one of the Best Business concern Schools in their 2017 publication.[31] The Part-Fourth dimension MBA Program was ranked 41st in the United states of america (overall) and 9th in the Midwest (by region) in 2010 by Businessweek.[32]

U of M-Flint is accredited by the College Learning Committee (HLC) of Colleges and Schools.[33] Program-level accreditation is maintained past many programs in affiliation with: the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Engineering science,[34] the American Chemical Club, Clan for the Accreditation of Human being Research Protection Programs, the Association to Advance Collegiate School of Business – International,[35] Association of University Programs in Health Assistants, the Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Didactics,[36] Committee on Accreditation in Respiratory Intendance, the Committee of Collegiate Nursing Didactics, the Council for Accreditation of Teacher Educational activity, the Quango on Accreditation for Nurse Anesthesia Educational Programs,[37] the Council on Social Work Instruction,[38] the Joint Review Commission on Education in Radiologic Technology,[39] Michigan Section of Teaching, the National Association for the Education of Immature Children and the National Clan of Schools of Music.[xl]

Residential and student 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. After several assessments, studies, and surveys showing the probable progression of growth of the campus, pupil housing was approved. On July xvi, 2007, the first-ever educatee dormitory, the Showtime Street Residence Hall, opened for students.[41]

In Dec 2015, Uptown Reinvestment Corporation donated the Riverfront Residence Hall, a privately owned loftier-ascent edifice that houses both U of M-Flint and Bakery Higher students, to the academy.[42] The 16-story Residence Hall can firm up to 500 students.

Student Organizations [edit]

At that place are over 100 recognized pupil organizations and 8 Sponsored Student Organizations (SSOs). They are organizations for diverse bookish departments, religions, and cultural backgrounds, as well as organizations for honors, club sports, social fraternities and sororities, service groups, and special interests.

University sponsored organizations:

  • The Michigan Times, the student newspaper of the University of Michigan–Flintstone.
  • Black Pupil Wedlock
  • Campus Activities Lath
  • College Panhellenic Association
  • Interfraternity Council
  • National Pan-Hellenic Council
  • Qua Literary and Fine Arts Mag
  • Student Government

Greek life [edit]

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

Radio station [edit]

The school owns WFUM (91.i FM), a public radio station affiliated with the Michigan Radio network.

Pupil paper [edit]

The Michigan Times is a pupil-run campus paper. In 2008, the Michigan Press Association'south "Better Higher Paper Contest" awarded The Michigan Times with nine awards in a statewide competition. This accomplishment 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 University of Michigan–Flint Student Government represents the students and manages student funds on the campus. Student Regime is a member of the statewide Clan of Michigan Universities.

Athletics [edit]

U of Grand–Flint does not offer varsity intercollegiate athletics, but there are a number of social club 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 avert confusion with the main campus.[6] [7] 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'due south Basketball
  • Cheer
  • Men'south Water ice Hockey
  • Men's & Women's Soccer
  • Women'south Volleyball
  • Softball

In 2013, the men's hockey team earned a spot in the ACHA Sectionalization Iii National Tournament for the outset time, eventually advancing to the National Championship Game confronting beau Michigan Collegiate Hockey Conference foe Adrian College. In 2015, the women's hockey team went 18–0 in conference play.

Football was previously offered as a order sport, before fiscal 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 Cerise – former Michigan country senator
  • John D. Carmine – 62nd lieutenant governor of Michigan[xi]
  • Bobby Crim – erstwhile 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[11]
  • Erin Darke – actress[47]
  • Mona Haydar – rapper, poet, activist and chaplain
  • LaKisha Jones – vocalist, American Idol contestant
  • Michael Moore – documentary movie director, writer[48]
  • Don Riegle (1960) – United States Senator from Michigan[49]
  • Marietta S. Robinson – former commissioner of the U.Southward. Consumer Production Safety Committee[50]
  • John Sinclair (1964) – poet, political activist[51]
  • Tim Sneller – member of the Michigan House of Representatives from the 50th commune[52]
  • Woodrow Stanley – former Michigan land representative, Mayor of Flint

See also [edit]

  • The Michigan Times

References [edit]

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External links [edit]

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