President Mark Schlissel is cautiously optimistic that U-M will deliver a high-quality fall semester, with as much in-person instruction as possible.

The details of the fall 2020 semester are being guided by public health experts paired with guidance from the U-M community.

While still a U-M student, Nicole Khamis, BA ’17, responded to an international crisis by founding a refugee assistance program.

It’s been home away from home for Jewish students for nearly a century, offering everything from free Shabbat dinners to spiritual support and academic guidance.

The smallest of all U-M housing units is a vibrant model of the University’s diversity ideal.

In 1910, U-M students attended class in unventilated buildings; spit on the floors and sidewalks; and contracted tuberculosis in alarming numbers. Good times!

In the 1920s African-American and white students joined hands to fight racial bias — but the University was unsympathetic.

In the 1960s the title of hippest town in the Midwest most certainly belonged to Ann Arbor, home to a vibrant music scene and a host of hip clubs. Among the very hippest was a small converted print shop called Canterbury House.

Your life was probably changed forever by the dorm you were assigned to. But in U-M’s early years, there were no dorms.