The University of Michigan Press is a "vital component" of the University of Michigan Library. It publishes "about 170 new titles" each year in the humanities and social sciences "with special emphasis on English language teaching" and the "changing environment of Michigan and the Great Lakes." In 2010, Bard Graduate Center partnered with The University of Michigan Press to produce Cultural Histories of the Material World.
According to former Director of the University of Michigan Press Phil Pochoda in 2007, "out of 90 university presses nationwide, Michigan's is within the top ten in size." He also stated in the same interview that the "University Press was founded 77 years ago to disseminate scholarship."**
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