Michigan Social Work is thrilled to announce exciting and meaningful news. Thanks to the extraordinary generosity of Jim and Maureen Lico, the School has established the Lico Family Professorship — the first endowed professorship created for the School in more than 25 years, and the single largest lifetime gift the School has received in its history. The Lico Family Professorship will support a leading scholar whose work addresses housing insecurity through innovative approaches, including emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence.
As the nation’s leading School of Social Work, our ability to prepare the next generation of social work leaders depends on recruiting and supporting exceptional faculty. Endowed professorships are one of the most powerful ways to do this.
By pairing compassionate, human-centered social work with cutting-edge tools, the Lico Family Professorship will help generate new insights, inform policy, and develop scalable solutions to both support unhoused individuals and prevent housing instability.
The School is deeply grateful to the Lico family for investing in the future of social work scholarship and impact.
If you have questions about how endowed professorships or other gifts to the U-M School of Social Work strengthen the School’s mission, please contact [email protected].
Jim and Maureen Lico
About the Lico Family Professorship
“Ending homelessness begins when we see every person not as a problem to fix, but as a potential waiting to be restored, proof that dignity, hope, and opportunity can rebuild lives and communities alike,” the Licos stated when documenting their gift. “When we unite compassion with creativity, the challenge of housing insecurity transforms from an impossible burden into one of humanity’s greatest chances to prove what love in action can achieve.”
Meet Jim and Maureen Lico
