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Thursday, May 21, 2015

The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com NEWS

SACUA talks OIE’s use of recording devices

Committee says 
it will conduct 

additional research 
on privacy policies

By ALAINA WYGANT

Daily Staff Reporter

The Senate Advisory Committee 

on University Affairs met Monday 
to discuss grievance procedures 
within the University’s Office of 

Institutional Equity.

In March, SACUA, the executive 

committee of the body that formally 
represents faculty, filed a report to 
the Office of Institutional Equity 
stating there are several flaws with 
how OIE treats faculty members 
who are subjects of harassment and 
discrimination investigations. The 
report mainly concerned the ade-
quacy of due process protections in 
OIE procedures and OIE’s applica-
tion of those procedures in the cases 
of three faculty members who sub-
mitted complaints to SACUA.

At Monday’s meeting, the commit-

tee focused on the role and usage of 
recording devices during the investi-
gation of one such faculty member.

Michigan’sLaw on Recording 

and Privacy states that if either the 
accused or the complainant express 
concern for privacy , they have a 
right not to be recorded.

Bioethics Prof. Angela Fager-

lin advised having a note-taker if 
recording is not an option during a 
grievance investigation.

“To me, you would want two peo-

ple there: the lawyer and the note-

taker, somebody who doesn’t have to 
do anything but take notes,” she said.

The committee concluded they 

would conduct additional research 
regarding the recording policy, with 
hopes to disseminate knowledge of 
this policy to all University faculty.

SACUA also discussed the new cur-

riculum and training programs offered 
at the University’s medical school.

Pharmacy Prof. David Smith 

announced the Medical Affairs 
Advisory Committee is discussing 
a new curriculum and training for 
medical school students that would 

bring together science and practice.

The new curriculum would allow 

students to learn material through 
hands-on 
experience 
rather 
than 

learning through lecture and discussion.

“For example, instead of learning 

about disease, students will check 
the heart and see how disease func-
tions in the heart,” Smith said.

Smith said the integrated cur-

riculum plan will carry through all 
four years of medical school.

The next SACUA meeting is 

scheduled for June 1.

 

AMANDA ALLEN/Daily

Greenville resident Glen Allen, a member of the Bloodstained Men activist 
group, protests child circumsicion on the corner of State Street and North Uni-
versity Avenue on Monday.

CIRCUMCISION PROTEST

be a time of significant change in 
higher education,” she said. “After 
much consideration and consul-

tation with my closest advisers, 
friends, and family, I have decided 
that I want to turn the focus of my 
professional service to the broader 
problems and opportunities facing 
universities.”
-cel the movie’s screening sched-
uled for April 10’s UMix. The 
CCI said it made the decision in 
response to a student petition that 
raised concerns about how the 
film portrays Arabs, Muslims, the 
Middle East and North Africa.

However, following another 

student-generated petition call-
ing for the University to reverse 
this decision, E. Royster Harper, 
vice president for student life, 
issued a statement April 8 say-
ing, “the initial decision was not 
consistent with the high value the 
University of Michigan places on 
freedom of expression and our 
respect for the right of students 

to make their own choices in such 
matters.”

Throughout the week’s dis-

cussions about the film and the 
University’s actions, Muslim and 
Arab students reported harass-
ment and death threats.

The 
University 
ultimately 

screened “American Sniper” and 
“Paddington” simultaneously at 
UMix.

The e-mails, which were sent 

by the student who launched a 
petition in April calling for the 
University to cancel the sched-
uled screening, said the coach 
was invited to talk with students 
about the screening “and get a 
dialogue going about how a uni-
versity leader’s social media can 
impact campus climate.”

Harbaugh 
has 
more 
than 

270,000 followers on Twitter, and 

his tweet about “American Sniper” 
was retweeted 31,775 times and 
favorited 38,305 times.

Approximately 
15 
students, 

Harper and Interim Athletic 
Director Jim Hackett attended 
the meeting Wednesday.

Administrators and student 

organizers requested the Daily 
not attend the meeting. All stu-
dents approached by the Daily 
following the meeting declined 
comment.

Harbaugh said, “It went great.”
In a follow-up e-mail to the 

Daily, University spokesman Rick 
Fitzgerald said there was good 
discussion and the coach is glad 
he was able to meet with the stu-
dents.

Daily Staff Reporter Lindsey 

Scullen contributed reporting.

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Supported 
by 
Gradecraft” 

received the largest grant from 
the program at $1.88 million. The 
project aims to develop a cur-
riculum that integrates gameplay 
through the software program 
GradeCraft.

Barry Fishman, who was a 

co-author of the Obama admin-
istration’s 2010 U.S. National 
Educational 
Technology 
Plan 

and is now a key researcher of the 
project, said the funding is allo-
cated toward implementing the 
program in classes across campus 
and teaching instructors how to 
use it in their classrooms.

Fishman said gameful learning 

gives the students the opportu-
nity to feel a stronger connection 
with the material they are learn-
ing.

“We use the term gameful to 

describe courses that are intend-
ed to maximize students’ feelings 
of autonomy — the ability to make 
choices about their learning that 
matter — a sense of belonging or 
being part of something larger 
than yourself and also support 
for students’ developing compe-
tence,” Fishman said. “Our team 
has been experimenting with 
gameful course designs for about 
five years now. We realized early 
on that such classes can be com-
plicated to manage — for both fac-
ulty and for students.”

Fishman said GradeCraft will 

manage the classes with their 
own unique approach.

“The centerpiece of GradeCraft 

is a tool we call the ‘Grade Predic-
tor,’ which is designed to support 
student autonomy by helping 
them visualize the possible ways 
a course can be completed suc-
cessfully,” Fishman said. “The 
tool enables students to actively 
experiment with which assign-

ments they will work on and visu-
alize the course grade they will 
earn as a result.”

The project aspires to create 

tenable innovation at the Univer-
sity. Fishman said he anticipates 
gameful learning and Game-
craft will be used in many places 
beyond the University.

“The University is unusual in 

that we manage to do so many dif-
ferent things well across such a 
broad range of areas, not least of 
which is teaching and learning,” 
Fishman said. “The entire Third 
Century program is a testament 
to how central educational inno-
vation is at Michigan. The GAME 
project and GradeCraft are just 
one example of how we continual-
ly work to reinvent the classroom 
experience. Gameful teaching is 
just one of many different class-
room innovations that will make 
an impact in the coming years.”

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