The University of Michigan has long been recognized as a leading research institution. The Department of English Language and Literature, with a full-time faculty numbering over seventy, offers course work in all aspects of the English language and its literatures. The School of Education, with a full-time faculty numbering over sixty, provides opportunities to explore the relationship between pedagogical theory and practice as well as to work in secondary schools. Ann Arbor is a pleasant community with a population of over 100,000, situated about fifty miles from Detroit, MI and Toledo, OH, convenient to public transportation and major highways. A rich cultural life, including concerts, student and professional theatre and dance companies, several fine museums, many film series, and the extensive activities of the Schools of Art and Music, is available here.
Graduate students enjoy excellent athletic and recreational facilities as well.
The University of Michigan is committed to a policy of nondiscrimination and equal opportunity for all persons regardless of race, sex, color, religion, creed, national origin or ancestry, age, marital status, sexual orientation, disability, or Vietnam-era veteran status in employment, educational programs and activities, and admissions. The University of Michigan is committed to being a racially, ethnically and religiously heterogeneous community. This commitment stems from many sources, including the conviction that such diversity is essential to creating an intellectual and social climate which promotes the freedom of thought, innovation, and creativity so fundamental to an academic community. Further, I believe that the University has a special responsibility to seek this diversity and to nurture the sensitivity, tolerance and mutual respect that are such necessary characteristics of a community in which all may thrive. Each member of the University community bears a special and continuing responsibility to articulate, reinforce, and reflect those values that support our highest aspirations as a scholarly and humane community.