The Office of the Provost supports an array of initiatives that enhance the university’s academic excellence. Our combination of strong schools and colleges, interdisciplinary research centers, and educational innovation enables us to recognize emerging ideas and foster their development.
AI in Education
The AI in Education Working Group report offers recommendations for how U-M can respond to the rapid development of AI while preserving the central purposes of education, including critical thinking, deep learning, and human judgment.
Disability Scholarship Initiative
The Office of the Provost is delighted to announce that six research teams have been awarded funding through the Disability Scholarship Initiative. Made possible by gift funds, this initiative is intended to support the pursuit of new scholarship aimed to better understand and address the concerns of faculty and staff on the Ann Arbor campus who have a disability. A broad definition of disability is foundational to the initiative, which may include mental, physical, and cognitive differences.
Interprofessional Health Education
The driving force behind Interprofessional Education (IPE) is to promote the development of skilled expert teams of collaborative care practitioners who positively impact the delivery of high-quality, safe, and effective health care services. With renewed support from the Office of the Provost and deans of the 10 U-M health science colleges and schools, The Center for Interprofessional Education is focusing through 2026 on four areas: better health, better patient experience, lower cost, and improved provider well-being.
Look to Michigan Faculty Expansion Program (FEP)
The Look to Michigan Faculty Expansion Program seeks to recruit to our campus colleagues with exceptional potential to expand capacity for transformative inquiry in high-impact areas of research/scholarship and societal challenge. We seek to recruit mid-career tenure-track faculty who will catalyze, collaborate, and provide intellectual and institutional leadership in areas aligned with at least one of the impact areas of the Look to Michigan framework: Life-Changing Education; Human Health and Well-Being; Democracy, Civic and Global Engagement; Climate Action, Sustainability, and Environmental Justice; Advanced Technology.
Provost’s Faculty Fellows Program
The Provost’s Faculty Fellows Program engages U-M faculty in shaping university-wide academic strategy, policy, and innovation. Faculty Fellows lead projects that advance U-M’s scholarly, educational, and operational priorities, while deepening their own understanding of university leadership and governance.
Responding to Threats and Harassment of Faculty
The University of Michigan is taking several steps as part of a larger effort to address growing concerns and experiences of harassment, threats and intimidation against faculty members as a result of their research or academic work.
U-M 2024 Gender Salary Study
A new study of faculty salaries at the University of Michigan revealed no statistically significant difference between the salaries of men and women faculty members once key factors are taken into account.