University of Michigan 
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
3/4/2022
When University Marketing Suppresses Academic Freedom
by Silke-Maria Weineck
For 31 years, the University of Michigan has sponsored an academic freedom lecture named for three professors suspended for refusing to cooperate with HUAC. This year, its marketing team did everything it could to conceal the identity of the lecturer: a lawyer who fights the silencing of pro-Palestinian activists.
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SOURCE: Mother Jones
3/30/2021
One Man’s Quest to Crack the Modern Anti-Immigration Movement—by Unsealing Its Architect’s Papers
John Tanton donated 25 boxes of documents related to his work with anti-immigration advocacy organizations beginning in the 1960s. The gift stipulated that much of the collection be sealed until 2035. An immigration advocate says that Tanton's connections to right-wing anti-immigrant groups and the pro-eugenics Pioneer Fund means the university should unseal the papers now.
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SOURCE: Inside Higher Education
9/21/2020
U of Michigan Faculty Vote No Confidence in President
The university's reopening plans were at the center of a narrow vote by the university's faculty to declare no confidence in President Mark Schlissel.
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7/19/2020
The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Black Action Movement and the Way Forward
by Martin Halpern
Activists in today’s struggles against institutionalized racism and for black lives can benefit from studying a local victory of fifty years ago. In the spring of 1970, the Black Action Movement (BAM) at the University of Michigan led a thirteen-day strike that won a commitment to change by the university administration.
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SOURCE: The Michigan Daily
11-26-17
University of Michigan’s Victor Lieberman objects that he was silenced at a debate over divestment from Israel
"This is not a partisan but a serious national concern. So far this year alone, at least 29 speakers have been disinvited or prevented from speaking on college campuses."
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SOURCE: Michigan News
4-10-17
And the Pulitzer Prize in history goes to … ?
The answer is Heather Ann Thompson for her book on the Attica Prison uprising.
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