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NEWS
Research Grants
The University granted
more than $6.4 million to
several projects on education
>> SEE PAGE 2
NEWS
City Council
City Council members dis-
cussed amendments to the
2015-2016 budget
>> SEE PAGE 2
OPINION
Modifying the MIP
Legislation would
transform the MIP into a
civil infraction
>> SEE PAGE 4
ARTS
Ashley-Brooke
Sandall
University alum talks about
building her fashion career
>> SEE PAGE 6
SPORTS
‘Sauce’ returns
Nik Stauskus comes back
to Ann Arbor this summer
with a new nickname
>> SEE PAGE 8
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Davis-Blake
says she plans to
focus on broader
educational issues
By ALYSSA BRANDON and
LAURA SCHINAGLE
Summer Managing News Editor
and Summer Editor in Chief
In an e-mail to Ross School
of Business students Monday,
Business School Dean Alison
Davis-Blake announced she is
stepping down.
“... I will step down from the
deanship at the completion of my
term on June 30, 2016,” Davis-
Blake said in the e-mail. “The
Provost’s Office will convene a
search committee to select the
next dean. I am confident that,
with your help and support, Pro-
vost Pollack and President Schlis-
sel will be able to conduct a very
successful search.”
The University’s Board of
Regents approved Davis-Blake’s
five-year term in 2011. Davis-
Blake came to the University
after serving as dean of the Carl-
son School of Management at the
University of Minnesota since
2006. She was the first female
dean in both schools’ histories.
Davis-Blake’s term coincided
with real estate mogul Stephen
Ross’s
$200-million
donation
to the University. The donation,
which was split between the
Business School and the Athletic
Department, was the largest in
the University’s history. Davis-
Blake was among administrators
involved in discussion regarding
the donation’s beneficiaries.
During her tenure, Davis-
Blake helped create the Master
of Management program, expand
the Executive MBA program to
Los Angeles and reorganize the
undergraduate BBA curriculum.
Business
senior
Madeline
Walsh, who was the Central Stu-
dent Government representative
for the Business School during
the 2014-2015 academic year
and will serve in the upcoming
academic year as well, said the
Business School’s curriculum has
undergone positive change under
Davis-Blake’s leadership.
“As a rising senior, my entire
Ross experience has been under
the leadership of Dean Davis-
Blake,” Walsh said. “In just four
years, I’ve been impressed and
inspired by her initiatives to chal-
lenge the process of what a busi-
ness education looks like.”
Walsh
said
the
programs
Davis-Blake helped create have
diversified
opportunities
for
undergraduate Business students
to prepare for the increasingly
global workforce.
“She has lead a complete
revamp of the BBA program to
allow for more flexibility, the
option for a longer global expe-
rience, and further exploration
beyond the core classes with
increased electives,” she said.
“I’m especially excited by the
Sanger
Leadership
Initiative
which is arising from a ($200-mil-
lion donation) she helped secure.”
Davis-Blake said she values
how her deanship allowed her to
help find solutions for challenges
faced in the Business School, but
wants to shift her focus to broad-
er issues in professional and lib-
eral education.
“I find myself eager to contrib-
AMANDA ALLEN/Daily
Alison Davis-Blake, dean of the Ross School of Business, announces the graduation of business students at Spring Com-
mencement at Michigan Stadium on May 2.
See DEAN, Page 3
Students request
meeting in response
to Harbaugh’s tweet
supporting the film
By LAURA SCHINAGLE
Summer Editor in Chief
Michigan football coach Jim
Harbaugh met with Middle East-
ern, North African, Muslim and
South Asian students in a private
meeting in the Michigan Union on
Wednesday to discuss the Univer-
sity’s April screening of the movie
“American Sniper,” a film based on
the autobiography of former U.S.
Navy Seal Chris Kyle.
E-mails obtained by the Daily
sent Tuesday to listservs for various
student organizations — including
Students Allied for Freedom and
Equality, the Middle East and Arab
Network, the Arab Students Asso-
ciation, the South Asian Awareness
Network,
Michigan
Pakistanis,
and Muslim, Lebanese, Malaysian
and Persian students — announced
plans for the meeting. The e-mails
said several students requested
the meeting in response to a tweet
Harbaugh sent April 8 regarding
the movie.
“Michigan Football will watch
‘American Sniper’! Proud of Chris
Kyle & Proud to be an American &
if that offends anybody then so be
it!” the tweet read.
Harbaugh’s tweet came amid
national media coverage of the Cen-
ter for Campus Involvement’s April
7 announcement that it would can-
Business School dean to
step down in June 2016
Coach Jim
Harbaugh
meets with
students on
‘American
Sniper’
CAMPUS LIFE
See MEETING, Page 3
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