comparative literature, said the 
plan was formed without sufficient 
faculty input.

“It has not been debated at 

SACUA and it has not been debated 
at Senate Assembly, and so we 
feel like there hasn’t been enough 
broad consultation because this is 
something that affects everyone, 
faculty and students,” Weineck said.

Comments 
written 
on 
the 

evaluations will not be released, 
nor will the data collected from 
course evaluations of classes taught 
by graduate student instructors or 
instructors with fewer than seven 
terms of teaching experience.

Holloway said though student 

organizations have compiled course 
evaluation data in the past by 
obtaining the information through 
Freedom 
of 
Information 
Act 

requests, the process has often been 
inconsistent.

“It was sometimes done in some 

rather idiosyncratic ways,” he said. 
“And of course it’s difficult for a 
student group, with students cycling 
in and out, for them to maintain some 
consistency in quality. So the data 
was being released but not always 
presented in a meaningful way.”

Holloway said the data, which 

had been requested by Central 
Student 
Government, 
LSA 

Student 
Government 
and 
the 

Rackham Graduate School Student 
Government, is important to students.

“The primary drivers for this are 

that the students have requested it 
and have made the point that the data 
is data they give us with their own 
volition, and they have some agency 
and interest in this data,” he said.

However, 
SACUA 
members 

expressed 
concern 
with 
the 

University’s plan to release current 
course evaluation data.

Weineck said a majority of faculty 

members dislike the current course 
evaluation methods.

“In my 17 years at the University 

of Michigan, I have not heard from 
a single person that thinks this is a 
good instrument providing good 
data,” she said. “In sum, nobody 
thinks that these are good data. 
And whatever they are, they were 
not designed to assist students in 
choosing classes; it is the wrong 
instrument for that. So what we’ve 
been saying at the Senate Assembly, 
it’s not that we don’t think students 
don’t have a legitimate interest in 
having more and better information 
on how to choose classes, but we 
think at a world-class University it 
behooves us to design an instrument 
that can actually deliver the data 

needed for that purpose. “

Kinesiology 
Prof. 
Stefan 

Szymanski, a SACUA member, 
questioned the University’s decision 
to release data that could affect 
faculty’s personal and professional 
lives. 

“I’ve met people who have had 

their lives more or less ruined 
by this,” Szymanski said. “What 
happens if some day somebody 
commits suicide because this went 
public and all their students were 
talking about how bad it was. Is it a 
good idea for us to uptake a process 
that might wind up ruining people’s 
lives?”

Responding 
to 
Szymanski, 

Holloway said he “rejects the 
premise of the question.”

Engineering Prof. Bill Schultz, 

SACUA’s vice chair, questioned 
the educational implications of 
releasing course evaluation data.

“Are you at all concerned that if 

more emphasis is put on this that 
faculty will teach to the evaluations 
and will that have a negative 
learning effect?” Schultz asked. “I 
think the answer has to be yes.”

Committee 
members 
also 

debated 
the 
extent 
to 
which 

final student grades, as well as a 
professor’s gender and race can 
invoke bias in course evaluations.

Weineck said faculty governance, 

student government and experts 
in assessment at the University — 
such as the Center for Research on 
Learning and Teaching — should 
work together to form a new 
evaluation instrument, one that will 
better address student and faculty 
needs.

In response, Holloway said the 

process would take too long.

“It’ll take longer than a year,” 

he said. “We’re a long breath 
institution, but I think our students 
who are here for a shorter time 
deserve a faster response than that.”

SACUA members and Holloway 

did not reach a consensus during 
the meeting, and Weineck said it 
is hard to know how the plan to 
release course evaluation data will 
proceed from here.

“We don’t know what his long 

term reaction to this meeting will 
be,” Weineck said after the meeting. 
“But we will discuss this at the 
next Senate Assembly meeting 
in October because we think lots 
of faculty members should be 
consulted.”

The 
next 
Senate 
Assembly 

meeting will be held Oct. 26.

Print paper 

continues while
 growing online 

presence

By TANYA MADHANI

Daiily Staff Reporter

In the past 25 years, The 

Michigan Daily has cut its print 
paper down from more than 12 
pages to eight, adopted a more 
digital-focused platform, started 
a weekly news magazine and cre-
ated several smaller online blogs 
to add in extra digital content.

And all of these changes are in 

line with the shifting nature of 
the journalism industry.

Chris Baxter, one of this 

year’s Knight-Wallace Fellows 
and a statehouse reporter for NJ 
Advance Media, said the shift to 
promote online content is noth-
ing to be surprised by.

“The reality is, the Internet 

changed everything in terms of 
delivering the news and present-
ing the news and how the news 
is being consumed and who is 
consuming it,” he said. “So really, 
a wide array of the way things 
have been done have changed 
very quickly with the advent of 
the Internet and news essentially 
becoming free rather than a pub-
lic commodity.”

While physical copies of The 

Michigan Daily have been avail-
able for free for decades, major 
newspapers such as The New 
York Times, The Wall Street 
Journal and USA Today still 
charge for theirs. With the rise 
of the online content, Baxter 
said these papers have also been 
forced to offer up their content 
for free on their website — or at 
least part of it.

The question for most news-

papers trying to keep up with 
changing technology is how to 
continue making money.

Business models like online 

paywalls are an effort to increase 
physical paper circulations and 
print advertising revenues, both 
of which have, according to the 
Pew Research Center’s State of 
the News Media 2014 report, con-
tinue to fall each year. Digital ad 
revenues, on the other hand, digi-
tal advertising has grown, with 
$50.7 billion spent on digital ads 
last year alone. 

University alum Joseph Lich-

terman, who was the Daily’s 
editor in chief in 2012 and now 
writes for the Nieman Journal-
ism Lab at Harvard University, 
said print advertising continues 
to make up a larger chunk of 
advertising revnue than digital 
advertisement, even as print cir-
culation decreases. 

“That’s probably the biggest 

reason why the Daily is still 
printing every day,” Lichterman 
said. “It’s because print advertis-
ing really makes far more.”

LSA senior Rose Filipp, the 

Daily’s current business manag-
er, said print advertising is criti-
cal to the paper’s operation. 

“Many people I have talked to 

assume that print advertising is 
dead, but that just isn’t the real-
ity yet,” she said in an e-mail. 
“Advertisers still value the abil-
ity to put their information into 
their clients’ hands. Addition-
ally, the Daily has put out some 
new special guides, which we 
consider to be niche advertising 
products.”

Baxter said print papers aren’t 

going away just yet.

“Even at The New York Times, 

while digital revenue at compa-
nies that are making a go of it is 
increasing double digits every 
year, it’s still way behind what 
print advertising revenue was,” 
he said. “Print advertising rev-
enue still far eclipses digital rev-
enue and frankly, that’s why the 
age-old prediction that’s been 
being made since I was in high 
school, that newspapers are going 

to die, that’s why it hasn’t hap-
pened.”

But many newsrooms are 

increasingly embracing a digital-
first model, according to Danya 
Bacchus, another Knight-Wal-
lace fellow. Bacchus, an NBC 
anchor in San Diego, said when 
she works on a story, the first 
thing she does is post it on the 
web.

“I’m tweeting and I’m posting 

on Facebook,” she said. “They 
want us to periscope. Now they 
want us to Snapchat so the main 
focus isn’t about putting the prod-
uct on air, but it’s more so getting 
it to digital first and then trying 
to figure out how you can get the 
viewer or the person who’s look-
ing at their phone to then watch 
the newscast.”

But with the increasing use of 

social media among journalists, 
Bacchus said, they should also 
take increased precautions when 
using sources obtained through 
social media.

“There’s still room for so 

many little mistakes,” she said. 
“Though it’s all this access to 
information, you still have to do 
your due diligence in making sure 
that information is correct.”

But despite the majority of 

news moving online and mobile, 
Baxter said the core journalistic 
values remain the same. 

“There is a lot about journal-

ism that hasn’t changed and 
that really is the foundation of 
the skills of what makes a good 
journalist,” Baxter said. “Ram-
pant curiosity, ability to ask, 
sharp insightful questions, an 
ability to see through noise and 
nonsense, an ability to ascertain 
documents and work human 
sources and structure complex 
stories and write in a way that’s 
clear and concise and accurate, 
these are all skills that are just 
as relevant and important and 
necessary for high-achieving 
journalists now as they were 25 
years ago.”

Daily changes with 
news industry shifts

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SHOULD KNOW TODAY

The Michigan men’s 
golf 
team 
finished 

second at the Windon 
Memorial 
Classic 

in Glencoe, Illinois. Kyle 
Mueller, Nick Carlson and 
Chris O’Neill each finished 
in the top 10 for Michigan.
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At a press conference on 
Monday morning, NASA 
announced it had found 

signs of liquid water on Mars. 
According to CNN, liquid 
water has never been detected 
beyond Earth. NASA found 
signs that water formed dark 
streaks on the surface.

1

The 
Taliban 
have 

overrun 
the 
Afghan 

city 
of 
Kundunz, 

BBC reported. Kundunz, a 
transport hub, is the first 
provincial capital taken by the 
Taliban since they lost power 
in 2001.
3

Lecture on 
disability

WHAT: Stephanie 
Kerschbaum, an associate 
professor at the University 
of Delaware, will discuss 
identity and disability. 
WHO: Department 
of English Language 
and Literature
WHEN: 1 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
WHERE: Angell 
Hall- Room 3222

Costume 
design

WHAT: This display 
has 100 years of the 
Department of Theatre 
& Drama’s designs. 
WHO: School of Music, 
Theatre & Dance
WHEN: 12 p.m. to 6 p.m.
WHERE: Duderstadt 
Center

Film 
screening 

WHAT: The Anonymous 
People is a film about 
people living in recovery 
from addition to 
alcohol and drugs. 
WHO: Office of Digital 
Education and Innovation
WHEN: 5 p.m. 
to 7:30 p.m.
WHERE: Trotter 

Sustainable 
Systems Forum

WHAT: The Biomimicry 
Institute is hosting a talk 
about how entrepreneurs 
are applyig lessons from 
the natural world to solve a 
variety of challenges. 
WHO: Center for 
Sustainable Systems 
WHEN: 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
WHERE: Dana Natural 
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Philharmonia 
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WHAT: This is the first 
Philharmonia Orchestra 
concert of the year. 
WHO: School of Music, 
Theatre & Dance
WHEN: 8 p.m. 
WHERE: Hill Auditorium
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Camp Davis 
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WHAT: For students 
interested in attending 
Camp Davis, this 
information session will 
cover classes, financial 
aid and course fees.
WHO: Earth and 
Environmental Sciences 
WHEN: 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
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Natural Resources 

Lunch and 
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Career Center
WHEN: 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.
WHERE: The 
Career Center 

Economic 
history

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Professor at George 
Mason University Mark 
Koyama will cover the 
heterogeneous effects 
of the Black Death and 
Long-Run Growth. 
WHO: Department 
of Economics 
WHEN: 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
WHERE: Lorch Hall 

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