The president of the University of Michigan is a constitutional officer of the state of Michigan who serves as the principal executive officer of the University of Michigan. The president is chosen by
Domenico Grasso, 2024
Henry Philip Tappan
Clarence Cook Little
Allan F. Smith University of Georgia School of Law Commencement 1980
Kent Syverud
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Kent Douglas Syverud is an American legal scholar.
President of the University of Michigan
…Dearborn campus. Grasso was appointed by the Board of Regents on May 8, 2025 as interim president, and he was named the 16th president in May 2026 after Kent Syverud, who had been elected to become the next president of the University of Michigan, announced that he had been diagnosed with brain cancer and would not…
Syverud in 2014