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The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (UM, U of M or U-M) is a coeducational public research university. It was founded in 1817, about 20 years before the territory of Michigan officially became a state. The University was established in 1817 by the Michigan Territory legislature in Detroit, on 1,920 acres (7.76 km²) ceded through the Treaty of Fort Meigs by the local Native American tribes. The university moved to Ann Arbor in 1837. Today, it is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan system. UM has more than 420,000 living graduates and claims the only alumni association with a chapter on the moon, established in 1971 when the all-UM crew of Apollo 15 placed a charter plaque for a new UM Alumni Association on the lunar surface.