Expanding Its Reach

Hillel of Metro Detroit opens doors to Jewish students
at Eastern Michigan University.

LYNNE MEREDITH COHN

STAFF WRITER

H

illel of Metro Detroit is
expanding its reach
into Washtenaw County,
adding the Jewish students
at Eastern Michigan University
to its roster of campus con-
stituents.
Previously, EMU's Jewish
student population of between
900 and 1,500 could look to Ann
Arbor's U-M Hillel for program-
ming, but a Detroit Jewish Fed-
eration study found that Eastern
students actually have more in
common with their peers at De-
troit area colleges, says Miriam
Starkman, HMD director.
Through the end of December,
they were supervised by the U-
M Hillel because of proximity,
says Taron Tachman, the new
HMD program director for East-
ern.
Jordana Weiss, a planning as-
sociate at Federation, says Fed-
eration gave HMD $122,375 for
1996-97. Last month, it gave a
special grant to HMD to begin

working with Eastern this se-
mester.
New allocations will be made
in May and June, says Ms. Weiss,
at which time HMD will receive a
$45,000 annual increase to include
Eastern in its full-year operating
budget.
The additional funds will en-
able HMD to employ a program
director specifically for Eastern
and to provide services to the stu-
dents on the Ypsilanti campus.
`There's more overlap with Hil-
lel of Metro Detroit than with Uni-
versity of Michigan Hillel.
Approximately one-third of [Jew-
ish EMU students] are com-
muters from the Detroit area,
actually live in Detroit. About one-
third come home on weekends,
even if they live up there, and the
remaining one-third stay up
there," says Ms. Starkman. The
study was conducted by Mr. Tach-
man while he was working for
Federation on a Project STaR in-
ternship.

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Mr. Tachman, 26, grew up in
Grand Rapids and received an un-
dergraduate degree in psycholo-
gy from Michigan State. He has
lived in Israel with Project Otzma
and worked for the College Edu-
cation Department of the Union
of American Hebrew Congrega-
tions, planning its 1995 college
convention. He is currently a sec-
ond-year Project STaR, graduate
student at U-M, expecting a si-
multaneous master's degree in so-
cial work and certificate in Jewish
communal service this May.
Previously, EMU had a small
group for its Jewish students "at
the level of a club," says Mr. Tach-
man. He wants to make Jewish
campus involvement "bigger and
better, new and exciting and the
place to be." He will work to build
up student leadership, Jewish in-
volvement and work with the Yp-
silanti Jewish community.
Mr. Tachman is in the process
of meeting new students and plan-
ning his first program, 8:30 p.m.

Taron Tachman: New HMD program director at Eastern.

Thursday, April 17, when a co-
median and a cappella group will
appear in the ballroom of the
McKenny Union. The cost is $2.
"Obviously, serving college stu-
dents and the idea of Hillel foun-
dations for Jewish campus life is
a very big priority for us," says
Federation's Ms. Weiss. "That's
why we're starting to look at cam-

puses that are under-served, to
make sure they're getting services
that other college campuses are.
There are a lot of Jewish students
at Eastern, and I think the num-
ber is increasing. It's really im-
portant for us to realize that even
campuses that have a smaller con-
centration of Jewish students
need to be served." El

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