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About Partners In Academic Leadership
For the past five decades, Anne and Jim Duderstadt have enjoyed being members of the Michigan family, while serving in a variety of roles and seeing the University and its surrounding community from an array of perspectives. From the academic perspective, Jim’s rise through the ranks as a faculty member in Engineering was rather traditional with most activities in teaching, research, graduate student supervision, and hustling for research grants. However, he soon became involved in broader campus issues in faculty governance, chairing the advisory committee for two provosts (Frank Rhodes and Harold Shapiro). Such activities caught the attention of University leadership, and over the next two decades Jim would descend through the various levels of Dante’s inferno of academic administration to Dean of Engineering, Provost, and finally President of the University, only to be reincarnated once again as a faculty member–albeit mostly unseen and unheard on the Michigan campus as a has-been president.Anne, the other member of the Duderstadt team, rose even more rapidly to leadership roles in the University community: first as chair of the Faculty Women’s Club Newcomers group, then later as president of the Faculty Women’s Club organization; as a member of other campus and community groups; as “deanette”, “provostess”, and “first lady” of the University, and as institutional advancement officer, managing hundreds of events, renovating several major facilities, and hosting thousands of faculty, students, alumni, and guests of the University. Anne also found “life-after” productive, by continuing her strong efforts to document the remarkable history of the University of Michigan through a series of books and websites and sustaining important community groups of University faculty and families.Hence, the Duderstadts began their years in Ann Arbor in University Family Housing, later to return again to University housing some twenty years later, this time to reside in the President’s House. Unlike man university presidential couples, they decided after their presidential role that they would remain at Michigan, returning to the faculty and the community. Jim and Anne would continue to serve as best they could–if only as ghosts of the University past.
