MIDTERM REPORTl. The Daily football beat y breaks down the team ALREA by position group. See if sh you agree.KNOW be ffiidigan 0ai Ann Arbor, Michigan Friday, October 15, 2010 michigandaily.com UNIVERSITY ENDOWME1' Rebounding from losses, endowment grows 12.3% CHRIS RYBA/Daily University President Mary Sue Coleman at the monthly regents meeting yesterday. At the meeting, the regents voted to give Coleman a 3-percent raise. SRegents give Coleman 3% pay increase After 21-percent drop in 2009, endowment climbs back $600M to $6.6 billion in 2010 By KYLE SWANSON Daily News Editor After a severe 21-percent drop in its value last year, University officials announced yester- day afternoon that the University's endowment rebounded somewhat in the pastyear,growing12.3 percent. The growth, from $6 billion to $6.6 billion as of June 30, 2010, begins the recovery from last year's $1.6 billion loss. However, the figure leaves much more to gain back before the University's long-term portfolio is back to its 2008 level when the endow- ment reached an all-time high of more than $7.6 billion. The return is higher than was expected by Uni- versity officials like Tim Slottow, the University's executive vice president and chief financial officer, who told the regents in June that he was predicting an 11.5-percent return on the endowment invest- See ENDOWMENT, Page 2A ON THE WAY BACK? After hefty losses in the 2009 fiscal year, the University's endowment made back some ground, settling at $6.6 billion as of June 30, 2010. 1.1 5.7 4.9 7.6 4.2 3.5 3.6 3.5 6.6 6.0 2.3 2.5 2.0 1.6 1.3 1.0 0.6 0.8 0.4 0.5 6 , '90 '91 '92 '93 '94 '95 '96 '97 '98 '99 '00 '01 Year '02 '03 '04 '05 '06 '07 '08 '09 '10 SOURCE: UNIVERSITY REPORT oN INVESTMENTS Raise will bump 'U' president's base salary to $570,105 By JOSEPH LICHTERMAN DailyStaffReporter The University Board of Regents voted unanimously at its monthly meeting yesterday afternoon to give University President Mary Sue Cole- man a 3-percent salary increase. The raise took effect Aug. 30, 2010. Coleman's previous base salary was $553,500, while her total compensation package was $783,850. The 3-percent raise will result in a $16,605 increase in Cole- man's base salary, bringing it to $570,105. Aside from her base salary, Cole- man received a $100,000 retention bonus, $75,000 in deferred compen- sation, $24,500 in retirement pay and $30,850 in supplemental retire- ment pay in 2009. Coleman also has an account for herbusiness-relatedtravelexpenses and other operations. In addition, she is given a car and is provided full use of the President's House at 815 South University Ave. Coleman accepted a 4-percent raise in 2008, but requested in 2009 that the regents not give her a merit- basedsalaryincrease.In2007,Cole- man received a 3-percent raise, but decided to donate the money back to the University. According to data published by The Chronicle of Higher Educa- tion last January, Coleman was the sixth-highest paid university presi- dent in the country in 2009. The Board of Regents Person- nel, Compensation and Governance Committee conducted a perfor- mance review before awarding this year's salary raise. At yesterday's meeting, Regent Andrew Richner (R-Grosse Pointe Park) read the regents' recommen- dation for the raise. Speaking on behalf of the regents, Richner said Coleman's performance as well as market trends supported the deci- sion to award the raise. "The committee and the board, in addition to extending our personal gratitude for a job well done, is rec- ommending a 3-percent increase in PresidentColeman's salaryeffective August 30, 2010," Richner said. "I should note that this recommenda- tion is well supported by the mar- See RAISE, Page 7A 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE PEACE CORPS Peace Corps and University leaders at a 50th anniversary event for the Peace Corps on the Union steps yesterday. Peace Corps leaders return to ''fr anniversary celebrtion0 University announces new Peace Corps grad program By NICOLE ABER Daily News Editor As part of its celebration marking the 50th anniversary of the Peace Corps, the University announced that three schools will begin a program next year offering master's students credit for partaking in the Peace Corps duringctheir graduate studies. The program, called Master's International, allows masters students in the Schools of Social Work, Natural Resources and Rnvironment and Education, to go into the Peace Corps while getting their master's degrees, Alex Pompe, the University's Peace Corps campus coordi- nator, said in an interview last night. After applying and being accepted to both the Peace Corps and the University program of their choice, participating stu- dents would complete one year See PROGRAM, Page 7A MICHIGAN FOOTBALL Michgan to take Season opener our players a chance to display who they are, show that we'll go any- will be played at where and play anybody," Michigan Athletic Director David Brandon Cowboys Stadium told The Michigan Daily on Sept. 25 when asked about the possibility in Dallas of the matchup after rumors sur- faced. "That's the kind of program By TIM ROHAN we have. I believe in that. I think it's DailySportsEditor what our fans want. It's something we're going to try to make happen." Those waiting for the Michigan This is the third attention-grab- football team to schedule a premier bing matchup to be announced college football program to open within a year. In January, the Ath- non-conference play got their wish letic Department finalized plans on Thursday. to host "The Big Chill at the Big The Wolverines will play Ala- House," an outdoor hockey game bama at Cowboys Stadium on Sept. against Michigan State to be played 1, 2012, in the "Cowboys Stadium at Michigan Stadium. In addition, Classic," according to an Athletic Brandon announced in March that Department press release distrib- the Wolverines will face Notre uted yesterday. The game will be Dame under the lights in 2011 for televised nationally in primetime. the program's first-ever night game "Going out and doing some of in Michigan Stadium. these innovative things that really The game against Alabama will drive attention to our program, one mark the fourth meeting between that we're really proud of and give See FOOTBALL, Page 2A Tom Hayden, former Sen. Wofford talk founding of prog. By KAITLIN WILLIAMS Daily StaffReporter "Kennedy's idea is time- less. It is as vibrant today as it was half a century ago," said Peace Corps Director Aaron Williams yesterday during the 50th anniversary celebration of then-presidential candi- date John F. Kennedy's speech on the steps of the Michigan Union. Fifty years ago, on Oct. 14, 1960, Kennedy gave a sponta- neous speech at 2 a.m. More than 5,000 students crowded around the steps of the Union to hear the then-Senator talk about his idea for an interna- tional service organization. Yesterday, about 800 Uni- versity students, faculty, poli- ticians, community members and past Peace Corps volun- teers gathered in front of the Michigan Union to hear speak- ers commemorate the historic day. After an opening speech from Dean of Libraries Paul Courant, University President Mary Sue Coleman and hon- See ANNIVERSARY, Page 3A OBI* TRY"* Med. student dies in accident while researching abroad Sujal Parikh was studying pediatric HIV/AIDS in Africa By SUZANNE JACOBS Daily StaffReporter Sujal Parikh, a fourth-year student at the University's Medi- cal School, passed away Tuesday night in Kampala, Uganda after being injured in a motorcycle accident. Parikh was researching pedi- atric HIV and AIDS at the Joint Clinical Research Centre in Kam- pala as a Fogarty International Clinical Research Scholar. Elizabeth Petty, associate dean of the University's Office of Medi- cal Student Education, said in a phone interview that Parikh was a "very inspirational, visionary young man who was incredibly humble and incredibly generous with his time." Petty wrote in an e-mail inter- view that Parikh "will be dearly missed" by the medical school community. "Sujal was such an exceptional human being - a true humanitar- ian," Petty wrote. "He was tire- less and selfless in his passionate efforts to address social injustice and health disparities globally. He touched us all so profoundly with his insightful words, visionary thoughts and generous actions." Petty wrote that Parikh had a passion for social justice and international health, which could be seen in the variety of organiza- tions he participated in. Parikh partook in the Student Advisory Board for Physicians for Human Rights, the Student Advisory Committee for the Global Health Education Consortium and the American Medical Student Asso- ciation's AIDS Advocacy Network Steering Committee. Originally from Dallas, Texas, Parikh got his undergraduate degree in public health and neu- robiology at the University of California, Berkeley. He came to the University in 2007 for his first year of medical school. 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