Chapter 3: Administrative Structure
Save chapter as a PDF- 3.A General Principles
- 3.B Regents
- 3.C President and Executive Officers
- 3.D The Office of the Provost (Ann Arbor Campus)
- 3.E Chancellors (UM Flint and UM Dearborn)
- 3.F Faculty/Governing Faculty
- 3.G Deans and Directors (Ann Arbor Campus)
- 3.H Executive Committees
- 3.I Academic Units
- 3.J Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies
- 3.K University of Michigan Libraries and Museums (Ann Arbor Campus)
- 3.L Institutes and Centers
3.L Institutes and Centers
Save section as a PDFThe University supports more than 100 centers and institutes, all of which have research, service, and in some cases, teaching missions, and are typically run by a director and an executive committee. As a general rule, institutes are separate administrative units reporting to a major University unit, whereas centers are units within a school or college or sometimes spanning several departments within a school or college. Many centers and institutes are established by the Regents on recommendation of the president (Chapter VI. Schools and Colleges: Program Definitions bylaw 6.03).
The Office of the Provost provides a list of most centers and institutes as well as material on Best Practices for Centers and Institutes.