The University of Michigan’s Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs met in the Alexander G. Ruthven Building Monday afternoon for the first regular SACUA meeting of the academic year. Topics of the meeting included cuts to federal research funding, the reported closing of the Consulting for Statistics, Computing & Analytics Research and the presidential search process .

SACUA Chair Derek Peterson opened the meeting by reporting his work over the summer, including the retraction of a Michigan Medicine policy which was opposed by SACUA. The retraction would have made faculty with “professionalism issues” ineligible to run for seats in the University’s Senate Assembly . He also reported that the new Protections for Faculty Working Group convened to begin their revie

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