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Thursday, May 21, 2015
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com
NEWS

City Council talks 
amendments to 
2015-2016 budget

University grants 
$6.4 million for 
faculty projects 

Council approves 
$89,000 allocation 

toward hiring 

sustainability associate

By ANDREW ALMANI

Daily Staff Reporter

The Ann Arbor City Council 

met Monday evening at City Hall 
to discuss a multitude of proposed 
amendments to the city’s 2015-2016 
fiscal year budget, which takes 
effect July 1.

The proposed changes to funding 

related to the creation of outdoor ice 
rinks for public use, climate change 
initiatives and expansion of capa-
bilities for processing organic waste 
in the city.

The council voted unanimously 

to approve a proposal to establish 
natural ice rinks in Allmendinger, 
Burns and Northside parks for cost 
free usage by city residents. Coun-
cilmember Stephen Kunselman (D–
Ward 3) proposed the amendment, 
which will submit $89,169 in general 

fund cash to create the ice rinks.

With acknowledgment of the 

importance of sustainability in the 
Ann Arbor community, the council 
approved putting $80,000 toward 
hiring 
a 
full-time 
sustainabil-

ity associate to advise the city and 
$85,000 toward programs associ-
ated with the city’s Climate Action 
Plan, guiding residents and busi-
nesses to decrease emissions of 
harmful greenhouse gases.

The council also approved an 

allocation of $100,000 from the 
solid waste budget to create a com-
prehensive plan to manage and pro-
cess organic waste in the city.

The city spends money annually 

to send materials that aren’t com-
posted to a private landfill. Upwards 
of 40 percent of materials going to 
landfills from Ann Arbor consists of 
organic waste that has potential to 
be processed. Currently, Ann Arbor 
residents compost roughly half of 
their solid waste. The amendment 
was introduced by Councilmembers 
Julie Grand (D–Ward 3), Graydon 
Krapohl (D–Ward 4) and Kirk West-

See BUDGET, Page 8

Projects focus 
on innovation in 

learning, education 

By EMMA KINERY

Daily Staff Reporter

To celebrate the University’s 

upcoming bicentennial, six Uni-
versity faculty projects received 
funding grants totaling almost 
$6.4 million from the University’s 
Third Century Initiative.

The Third Century Initiative 

is $50-million five-year project 
established by University Presi-
dent Mark Schlissel and Univer-
sity Provost Martha Pollack meant 
to encourage faculty to brain-
storm ways to improve student 
learning. The recent grant comes 
from Transforming Learning for 
a Third Century, a part of the ini-
tiative dedicated to creating new 
ways for students to experience 
learning.

Four other projects, two of 

which are new, received smaller 
grants that will go toward testing 
their potential for future viability.

James Holloway, vice provost 

for global and engaged education, 
said while the bicentennial allows 
for reflection on what the Uni-
versity has accomplished in the 
past 200 years, the efforts are also 
focused on future innovations.

“As we approach the bicen-

tennial of the University, we are 
thinking very consciously about 
what teaching will mean in the 
third century of the University 
of Michigan,” Holloway said. “A 
residential, public, research insti-
tution like the University of Mich-
igan can provide a unique form of 
engaged learning for students, in 
which activities like undergradu-
ate research, education abroad, 
projects and practica, and engage-
ment with the cultural assets 
of the University and the wider 
world will lead to learning that 
is the foundation of our students’ 
future success.”

Holloway said the overall goal 

of the program is to capture the 
innovative spirit of University fac-
ulty, students and staff, as well as 
challenge the current philosophy 
on student engagement in an edu-

cational environment.

“Of course, as the core of a 

liberal education, we have long 
developed students’ critical think-
ing, writing ability and quantita-
tive reasoning skill,” Holloway 
said. “With the Third Century 
Initiative, we hope to further 
develop our students personally, 
intellectually and professionally 
along dimensions of learning that 
build their understanding of cre-
ativity as a process, their intercul-
tural ability and understanding 
of the role of values in decision-
making, their social and ethical 
reasoning facility, their under-
standing of and capability to col-
laborate, and their self-agency of 
entrepreneurial mindset.”

In total, $25 million was allo-

cated for distribution across three 
project tiers, the top tier being the 
Transformation Learning grants, 
which vary from $100,000 to $3 
million each.

Holloway said these projects 

were chosen by the Transform-
ing Learning for the Third Cen-
tury Committee over 15 other 
proposals in the second round of 
Transformation grants and were 
chosen because of their potential 
for future impact and investment.

“They look for evidence that 

the proposal will have a transfor-
mative impact on learning at the 
University and that the project 
will provide access and visibility 
for engaged, action-based learning 
experiences for a significant num-
ber of University students,” Hollo-
way said. “They also consider the 
extent to which there is evidence 
for the learning effectiveness of 
the transformation, for its sustain-
ability in the long term.”

Six projects received grants 

from the program, including 
“Reimagining Legal Education,” 
a project that aims to innovate 
first-year law student curriculum 
by adding more hands on learn-
ing. The project, which received 
$1.57-million grant, calls for the 
creation a law clinic where first-
year law students can help upper-
level 
students 
with 
intricate 

judicial case.

“Gameful Assessment in Michi-

gan Education: Building of Engaged 
Learners and Teachers Supported 

See GRANTS, Page 3

