What is culture?
Culture is all around us. It’s our environment. It consists of patterns of behavior that are supported by the shared experiences, values and beliefs of an organization.
Why focus on values?
Values inform the behaviors and norms that we expect to see. They guide our choices and actions and should be reflected in everything we do. From how we hire and promote, make decisions, educate and conduct research, and treat one another. Values should reflect who we are and what we stand for.
Scope
The scope of the Culture Journey includes the identification of values and related behavioral norms for the Ann Arbor campus and Michigan Medicine.
Culture partners
Several partners across the university are working to enact meaningful policy and process reform, and develop and implement culture change at U-M, including the Office of Equity, Civil Rights and Title IX (ECRT), the Ethics, Integrity and Compliance Committee (EICC), the Office for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (ODEI), and many others.
Culture Change Values Identification Working Group
Twenty-one U-M faculty, staff and students were members of the working group in 2021-2022.
Co-Chairs
Patricia Hurn
Dean of the School of Nursing
Sonya Jacobs
U-M Chief Organizational Learning Officer, Senior Director for Faculty and Leadership Development at Michigan Medicine
Members
Zarinah Aquil
Project Manager, Office of the Provost
Ellen Bauerle
Executive Editor, University of Michigan Press
David Brown
Associate Vice President and Associate Dean for Health Equity and Inclusion, Michigan Medicine
Katherine Burson
Associate Professor of Marketing, Stephen M. Ross School of Business
Tabbye Chavous
Director of the National Center for Institutional Diversity
Blessing Egbuogu
Student Representative, Rackham
Maria Fields
Student Representative, North Campus
Sophia Fortunato
Student Representative, Central Campus
Hannah Glick
Student Representative, Medical School
Rachel S. Goldman
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, College of Engineering, Professor of Physics and Associate Director, Applied Physics, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, and Sacua Nominee
Grace Haubert
Student Representative, Central Student Government
Freda Herseth
Professor of Voice, School of Music, Theatre & Dance
Anne Huhman
Associate Director, Sapac, Student Life
Reshma Jagsi
Director of the Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences, Michigan Medicine
Tiffany Marra
Director of the Center for the Education of Women.
Sascha Matish
Associate Vice Provost and Senior Director of Academic Human Resources
Patty Petrowski
Associate Vice President and Deputy General Counsel
Byron Roberts
Deputy Chief of Staff, College of Engineering
Tami Strickman
Associate Vice President for Institutional Equity
Katrina Wade-Golden
Deputy Chief Diversity Officer
Eric Ward
Project Representative, Office of Research and Sponsored Projects, and Voices of the Staff Representative
Staff Support
Carol Lee
Chief of Staff, Organizational Learning
Jane Pettit
Director of Programming, Organizational Learning
Carmeda Stokes
Strategic Initiatives Consultant, Organizational Learning
Sara Wiener
Project Manager, Organizational Learning