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Thursday, May 21, 2015
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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