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Thursday, May 21, 2015
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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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