The University of Michigan’s Board of Regents scheduled a special meeting to vote on Syracuse University Chancellor Kent D. Syverud as the university’s next president. Syverud, who has a law degree and an economics master’s from Michigan and served more than a decade at Syracuse, would replace interim leadership and become the fifth person to lead Michigan since 2022. Regents described Syverud as a consensus builder with a record of institutional strategy and fundraising. The vote follows an expedited search amid campus debate over diversity and governance; approval would cap a period of rapid leadership turnover at one of the country’s largest public research universities.