The Michigan Union is a student union at the University of Michigan. It is located at the intersection of South State Street and South University Avenue in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The building was built in 1917 and is one of several unions at the University of Michigan.
Michigan Union
West & east elevations of Michigan Union, sheet 1, 29 January 1917, revised 4 September 1917
Irving Kane Pond (left) and sculptor Murphy at looking at Athletics statue at Michigan Union, 1918
A student center is a type of building found on university and some high school campuses. In the United States, such a building may also be called a student union, student commons, or union. The term "student union" refers most often in the United States to a building, while in other nations a "students' union" is the student government. Nevertheless, the Association of College Unions International has several hundred campus organizational members in the US; there is no sharp dichotomy in interpretation of union in this context. The US usage in reference to a location is simply a shortened form of student union building.
Student Activity Center on the campus of Texas Tech University
Photograph of Houston Hall of University of Pennsylvania taken in 1896, the year the student center was opened.
The first student activity center in America was Houston Hall at the University of Pennsylvania
The William Pitt Union as the Schenley Hotel
