Driving Around the University of Michigan Campus and downtown Ann Arbor in 4k Video

Filmed on Tuesday, July 4 2023, I drive around the campus of Michigan University to see what's going on.

The University of Michigan was founded on August 26, 1817, as the Catholepistemiad, or the Catholepistemiad Michigania, under an act of the Michigan Territory.

The seven-syllable Catholepistemiad, a neologism, translates roughly as "School of Universal Knowledge."

Established in 1817, the Catholepistemiad was not a university in the contemporary sense but rather a centralized system of schools, libraries, and other cultural institutions borrowing its model from the Imperial University of France founded by Napoleon a decade earlier.

On April 30, 1821, the Michigan Territory passed a new act changing materially the appearance, and slightly the nature of the existing educational organization.  University of Michigan took the place of the Catholepistemiad Michigania as the legal name of the corporation.

The years 1837–1850 disclosed serious weakness in the organization and working of the university. Regents of the university discovered that the organic act from which they derived their powers, made them too dependent upon the legislature. Such a situation ultimately led to a change in the organic act of the university. Remodeled, the act, which was approved April 8, 1851, emancipated the university from legislative control that would have been injudicious and harmful.

The requirements for admission to the freshman class were first published in August 1841, with fluency in ancient languages, such as Latin and Greek, being among the many requirements.

Candidates for admission to the freshman class were examined in English grammar, geography, arithmetic, algebra, Virgil, Cicero's Select Orations, Jacob's or Felton's Greek Reader, Andrews and Stoddard's Latin Grammar, and Sophocles's Greek Grammar.

In 1851, the university dropped the requirement for students who did not wish to pursue the usual collegiate course embracing the ancient languages.

Michigan was the first university in the West to pursue professional education, establishing its medical school in 1850, engineering courses in 1854, and a law school in 1859.

In 1856, Michigan built the nation's first chemical laboratory.

In 1869, Michigan opened the first university hospital in the country.

Women were first admitted in 1870, although Alice Robinson Boise Wood had become the first woman to attend classes in 1866.

Michigan manages one of the largest annual collegiate research budgets of any university in the United States. According to the National Science Foundation, Michigan spent $1.639 billion on research and development in 2021, ranking it 3rd in the nation.

Michigan received over 83,000 applications for a place in the 2021–22 freshman class, making it one of the most applied-to universities in the United States.

Around 16,000 students are offered admission annually, with a target freshman class of more than 7,000 students.

As of 2023, The University of Michigan has one of the biggest college endowments in the nation, with a market value of 17.3 billion dollars.

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