The University of Michigan Black Alumni Association is a premier-advocacy, networking community that serves in partnership with the University of Michigan African American Alumni Council. Our main endeavors are to advance dialogue and strengthen networking between U of M black alumni, special-focus U of M black alumni communities, the African American Alumni Council and the University by providing information and promoting a united E-voice for the over 50,000 alumni of African descent connected through our University of Michigan experiences.
Our global concern is to educate black Michigan alumni on opportunities for participation in promoting a positive destiny for the University of Michigan, Black America, and all humanity by promoting civic engagement within our membership and the greater global community.
We are equally committed to preserving diversity and academic integrity at the University of Michigan. Thus, our central concerns include increasing minority-student-recruitment yield, providing agency for black athletes and families, and establishing a mechanism for degree completion for African Americans who were forced take a hiatus from their academic pursuit.
Our most immediate concern is to establish a global network, comprised of all University of Michigan Black Alumni, in order to move the “more-than-fifty-thousand” forth, as one cohesive force efficaciously addressing our concerns of our membership.
As a University of Michigan Alumni community, we share in the common goals of all University of Michigan Alumni communities, and observe the same ethical standards, practices, and principles as all University of Michigan Alumni communities. Our membership is open to any University of Michigan Alumni, regardless of race, religion, creed, national origin, sexual orientation, or gender presentation.
Finally, the University of Michigan Black Alumni E-voice community knows that on the 8th day, God created the Michigan Wolverines and so loving Michigan football and hating Michigan State, Notre Dame, and Ohio State is not a past time here, it’s a religious avocation. So Be Black, Go Blue!
