President of the University of Michigan

The office was created by the Michigan Constitution of 1850, which also specified that the president was to be appointed by the Regents of the University of Michigan and preside at their meetings, but without a vote. The precise wording has evolved through subsequent state constitutions, and as of November 2018 the office is defined by Article VIII, section 5 of the Constitution of 1963: Between the establishment of the University of Michigan in 1837 and 1850, the Board of Regents ran the university directly; by law, they were supposed to appoint a chancellor to administer the university, but they never did, and a rotating roster of professors carried out the day-to-day administrative duties instead. While the modern office was created in 1850, the University of Michigan itself traces its date of founding to 1817, when its archaic precursor, the University of Michigania, was founded. The only president of the institution, Reverend John Monteith, appears in the list of presidents but is not officially considered to have been a president of the contemporary university. == List of presidents ==

The current interim president is Domenico Grasso, former chancellor of the University of Michigan-Dearborn. Of the previous presidents of the university: • 1 had the office abolished • 1 died in office • 2 were removed by the regents • 5 retired at the end of their careers • 2 resigned to return to teaching or research • 4 resigned to take posts at other institutions (Northwestern University, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Princeton University, Columbia University, and the University of Florida) The following persons have served as president of the University of Michigan: Source: == Notes ==