SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The University of Michigan on Monday announced the selection of Syracuse University (SU) Chancellor Kent Syverud as its next president. His five-year term as Michigan’s 16th president will begin July 1.
Syverud is in his final academic year at SU, having announced plans to step down in late August 2025. He started his duties leading Syracuse on Jan. 13, 2014.
Syverud earned graduate degrees from Michigan in the early 1980s.
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Syverud will replace Michigan’s interim President Domenico Grasso, per the website of Michigan Live. The website also reported that Grasso has been interim president since May 2025, when former President Santa Ono stepped down in an attempt to become president of the University of Florida.
A graduate of Irondequoit High School near Rochester, Syverud went on to earn a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University in 1977, a law degree from the University of Michigan in 1981, and a master’s degree in economics from Michigan in 1983.
