The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Created | Updated Jul 5, 2002
The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA is an undergraduate university with numerous graduate and post graduate programs. The school is located in south eastern Michigan, approximately 40 miles west of Detriot. U of M participates in the Big Ten conference in most of its intercollegiate athletics.
The University was known from 1965ish to 1970ish as the Midwest, U.S., haven for the hippies. It is now know as the 'diversity' hub of the collegiate U.S. Simultaneously, the University has produced outstanding athletic competition in multiple sports, which is only surpassed by the rabidness of its loyal fans and alumni.
The hippie tag came about due to the many protests and counter-cultural events that sprang up during this tumultuous period of U.S. history. The diversity tag came about when the University began employing its plan to diversify the school with the use of strict racial/ethnic quotas. The argument over whether this gives and unfair advantage to some minorities, or whether it finally allows the educational scales to be leveled after years of oppression is still ongoing. The athletics tag has been around as long as the University.
the University colors are maize and blue. The nickname is the Wolverines. The alma mater is "Yellow and Blue" and the fight song is "Hail! to the Victors". The undergraduate student body is approximately 25,000. The largest sector is the School of Literature, Science and Art, "LSA". The university has several other large colleges including the School of Engineering and the School of Art and Architecture. Some of the other undergraduate programs include the School of Education, the School of Information Technology and the School of Forrestry. U of M also has many graduate schools: Law School, Medical School, School of Dentistry and the School of Business. Graduate degrees and other advanced degrees are also offered in many departments in the undergraduate colleges.
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Chronology of the University of Michigan
This chronology is adapted from A Book of Days: 150 Years of Student Life at Michigan, researched and compiled by Nancy Bartlett and Kathleen A. Koehler of the Bentley Historical Library and published by the Alumni Association of the University of Michigan in 1987.
1817 - Legislative act establishes the Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania.
1837 - Ann Arbor chosen as permanent site for the University of Michigan.
1841 - University's first year of classes in Ann Arbor; the student body consists of six freshmen and one sophomore taught by two professors.
1845 - First commencement held at the First Presbyterian Church; the graduating class consists of eleven men.
1848 - Regents authorize organization of Medical Department. The department becomes a school in 1915.
1853 - University begins to offer courses in engineering.
1859 - Regents establish Law Department, with James V. Campbell as its first dean. The department becomes a school in 1915.
1864 - Founding of the University Baseball Club, the first organized baseball on campus.
1867 - Maize and azure blue adopted as class colors by a student committee and become official school colors in 1912 by action of the regents.
1869 - Michigan establishes the nation's first university-owned hospital.
1873 - Founding of the University Football Association, the first organized football on campus (although informal student games were played as early as 1862).
1875 - Homeopathic Medical College established with Samuel Arthur Jones as dean.
1875 - School of Mines established; includes a course on architecture which grew to become a four-year course in architecture established in 1906. This unit is designated the College of Architecture in 1931, with Emil Lorch as director.
1875 - College of Dental Surgery established with Jonathan Taft as dean.
1876 - School of Pharmacy established with Albert Prescott as dean.
1879 - Michigan plays and wins its first intercollegiate football game against Racine College at Stocking Park in Chicago.
1880 - Instructorship in music established in the Department of Literature, Science, and the Arts.
1889 - Charles Gayley, lit. 1878, writes the words to "The Yellow and Blue."
1891 - School of Nursing is established within the Medical Department in the form of a two-year training course for nurses directed by Jane Pettigrew. The school becomes an autonomous unit of the university in 1941.
1895 - Department of Engineering established with Charles Ezra Greene as dean. It becomes a college in 1915.
1896 - University of Michigan Marching Band organized.
1898 - William R. Cunningham, med. 1899, selected as Michigan's first Al-American football player.
1898 - "The Victors" written by Louis Elbel, a senior music student.
1901 - Fielding H. Yost begins his long and remarkable term of service as football coach with his famous "Point-a-Minute" teams.
1902 - Michigan appears in and wins the first Rose Bowl Game (January 1), defeating Stanford by a score of 49-0.
1907 - Lawrence C. Hull, '05, is the first Rhodes Scholar chosen from Michigan.
1921 - School of Education established with Allen S. Whitney as dean.
1924 - School of Business Administration established with Edmund E. Day as dean.
1926 - School of Forestry and Conservation established with Samuel Trask Dana as dean.
1940 - School of Music established.
1940 - Tom Harmon, '41, wins Michigan's first Heisman Trophy.
1941 - School of Public Health established with Henry Frieze Vaughan as dean.
1951 - School of Social Work established with Fedele Fauri as dean.
1954 - Thomas H. Weller, '36, M.S. '37, is the first Michigan graduate to receive the Nobel Prize.
1955 - Salk polio vaccine announced at the University of Michigan.
1960 - John F. Kennedy announces concept of the Peace Corps during a presidential campaign stop on the steps of the Michigan Union.
1964 - President Lyndon Baines Johnson delivers his "Great Society" address to a crowd of more than 80,000 people gathered for spring commencement in Michigan Stadium.
1965 - Astronaut Edward H. White, M.S. '59, becomes the first American to walk in space during the Gemini Four mission commanded by James A. McDivitt, '59.
1967 - Students stage a sit-in against classified research at the Administrative Office Building.
1971 - First "Hash Bash" held on the Diag (April Fools' Day).
1971 - Astronauts David R. Scott, '49-50, Alfred M. Worden, MA '63, and James B. Irwin, M.S. '57, travel to the moon aboard Apollo 15.
1974 - Gerald R. Ford, '35, sworn in as the 38th President of the United States.
1994 - The University institutes 'The Code', a code of conduct that 'protects' groups and individuals from suffering racial/sexist/mean language usage. The 'Code' defined the "politically correct' period of the early '90s.
Athletics
The University of Michigan prides itself on maintaining a very deep program in athletics. Mens and womens sports, large and small, are sponsored by the University. With the application of title IX women's sports have flurished at the University1. In addition to the National Championships listed below U of M has won numerous conference titles.
National Collegiate Athletics Association, U.S. college champs
| Baseball | 1953, 1962 |
| Men's Basketball | 1989 |
| Football | 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, 118, 1923. 1932, 1933, 1947, 1948, 1997 |
| Men's golf | 1934, 1935 |
| Men's Gymnastics | 1963 1970, 1999 |
| Ice Hockey | 1948, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1964, 1996, 1998 |
| Men's Tennis | 1957 |
| Men's Tack and Field | 1923 |
| Men's Trampoline | 1969, 1970 |
| Men's Swimming and Diving | 1927, 1928, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1948, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1995 |
| Field Hockey | 2001 |
Alternate Lifestyles at U of M
A few of the more popular annual events at the university are Hash Bash, the Naked Mile and the Mud Bowl. The University is not really a participant in these events, but the happen on and around campus and are usually flocked to by the student body.
