Histories of UM Schools, Departments, and Programs
The University's schools, departments, and programs have not remained static since they were established. Names have changed, missions have evolved, some have been discontinued and others have merged with existing units. The purpose of this page is to help direct you to brief histories and timelines that may answer your questions about these University units. Please note that these have been taken from already existing online documents created by a variety of University offices or from finding aids describing records from these offices housed in the Bentley Library. Watch this page for further resources as they are developed.
Note: many of the links below lead to web sites outside the Bentley Library's own site.
Timelines and Histories
- A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning (TCAUP)
- Army ROTC
- Center for Chinese Studies
- Center for Japanese Studies
- Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies
- Center for Russian and East European Studies
- Center for the Education of Women (CEW)
- Comprehensive Studies Program,
- C S Mott Children's and Women's Hospital
- Department of Aerospace Engineering
- Department of Astronomy
- Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences
- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology
- Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology
- College of Engineering
- Department of Chemical Engineering
- Department of Classical Studies
- Department of Dermatology
- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS)
- Department of Human Genetics
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology
- Department of Otolaryngology
- Department of Mathematics
- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
- Department of Physics
- Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
- Department of Statistics
- GEO (Graduate Employee Organization)
- Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
- Industrial and Operations Engineering
- Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology
- The Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies
- Kellogg Eye Center
- Kresge Hearing Research Institute
- Latin American & Caribbean Studies
- Law School
- Life Sciences and Society Program
- Life Sciences Institute
- Medical School Timeline
- Michigan Marching Band
- Museum Studies Program
- Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering
- Plant Operations Division, History of
- Program in American Culture
- Res Comp History (Residential Computing)
- Ross School of Business (School of Business Administration)
- SAPAC (Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center)
- School of Education)
- School of Information Timeline
- School of Nursing
- School of Public Health (timeline)
- U of M Health System
Histories from Bentley Library Online Finding Aids (EAD)
The finding aid to the records of central administrative offices, schools, colleges, departments, centers, libraries, museums and other units include short historical sketches of the unit. A complete list of university finding aids is available at University of Michigan Finding Aids
Further Reading:
- A Century of Stories: The 1900's at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI: Ann Arbor News, 1999)
- History of the University of Michigan by Burke A. Hinsdale, ed. by Isaac N. Demmon (Ann Arbor, MI: Published by the University, 1906)
- The Making of the University of Michigan, 1817-1992 by Howard H. Peckham, edited and updated by Margaret L. Steneck, Nicholas H. Steneck (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan, Bentley Historical Library, 1997)
- More Than a Handsome Box: Education in Architecture at the University of Michigan by Naancy Bartlett (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan College of Architecture and Urban Planning, 1995)
- Proceedings of the Board of Regents by University of Michigan Board of Regents (Ann Arbor, MI: The University, 1837-)
- A Short History of the University of Michigan by Wilfred B. Shaw (Ann Arbor, MI: G. Wahr, 1937)
- Social Science in the Public Interest: A Fiftieth-Year History of the Institute for Social Research by Anne Frantilla (Ann Arbor, MI: Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan, c. 1998)
- Stories and Amusing Incidents in the Early History of the University of Michigan by Noah W. Cheever (Ann Arbor, MI: Register Publishing Co., 1895)
- The University of Michigan by Wilfred Shaw (New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Howe, 1920)
- The University of Michigan: An Encyclopedic Survey Wilfred B. Shaw, ed. (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1942)