Engineering 
than 
females. 
Of 

the total undergraduate students 
enrolled as of last fall, 3,307 were 
white, 1,002 were Asian, 296 were 
Hispanic and only 138 were Black, 
according to the Office of the 
Registrar Ethnicity Report.

“In a lot of ways, ethnic diversity 

is a bigger problem than gender 
diversity,” Fedewa said.

In 
an 
already 
white-male-

dominated field — despite the 
increase of Science, Technology, 
Engineering and Math programs 
geared 
toward 
females 
and 

minorities — the question is 
raised as to what exactly these 
figures mean for the College of 
Engineering.

Faculty and Staff

Faculty and staff positions at 

the University as a whole have 
traditionally been male-dominated. 
According 
to 
the 
Faculty 

Headcount report as of March 30, 
2016, of total professor positions, 73 
percent were held by males and 27 
percent were held by females. Only 
20 percent were held by minorities.

Though more associate professor 

positions were given to females and 
minorities — with 63 percent being 
held by males, 37 percent held by 
females and 30 percent being held 
by minorities — this information 
sheds light on an obvious gap.

Seventy-five 
percent 
of 
all 

faculty and staff at the Ann Arbor 
campus as of November 2015 were 
white, according to the University 
Human Capital Reporting Tool 
Demographic Trends — a slight 
decrease from 76.6 percent in 2011. 
The report also indicated 54.7 
percent of all faculty and staff were 
male, with 45.3 percent female. 
This, too, was more balanced with 
gender representation than in 2011.

Noemi Mirkin — a faculty 

adviser for the University chapter 
of the Association for Women 
in Science who has been at the 
University for over 30 years — said 
she has experienced sexism in the 
past, particularly as a physicist, 
but she added that she’s seen an 
improvement in recent years.

“There’s 
this 
feeling 
that’s 

called subtle sexism, and what 
it is is it’s a form of exclusion: 
collegial exclusion,” Mirkin said. 
“Women are made to feel invisible 
or unimportant, either through 
physical, social or professional 
isolation. I did feel that in many 
instances where you’re not taken 
seriously or whatever, I would say, 
if a man said it, it was OK. If I said 
it, it was like I was invisible. I think 

that that has changed. It mostly has 
changed because there are more 
women — even though we haven’t 
reached a critical mass in some 
places, there are more women — 
and so it’s a lot harder to discard 
them.”

While 
the 
University 
has 

been making efforts to improve 
the campus climate, there is 
room 
for 
improvement 
with 

the 
consideration 
of 
females 

and 
minorities, 
especially 
in 

collaboration 
with 
University 

President Mark Schlissel’s new 
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion 
Plan. 
Efforts 
have 
included 

increasing student discussion and 
the creation of a strategic plan.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

According to the Office of 

the Registrar Total Enrollment 
Overview, only 4.82 percent of 
incoming freshman in fall 2015 
were Black — a number that has 
remained fairly consistent in recent 
years. Last September, Schlissel 
formally 
launched 
a 
planning 

process 
to 
improve 
Diversity, 

Equity and Inclusion on campus. 
The DEI campaign comes in wake 
of requests for an increase in Black 
student 
enrollment 
following 

the#BBUM campaign, an initiative 
started by the Black Student Union 
in 2013 to draw attention to issues 
of race and diversity on campus.

“Dedication 
to 
academic 

excellence for the public good is 
inseparable from our commitment 
to diversity, equity and inclusion,” 
Schlissel said at the diversity 
summit held September 9, which 
aimed to create dialogue about 
creating a more inclusive campus. 
“We cannot be excellent without 
being diverse in the broadest sense 
of that word.”

At 
the 
summit, 
Schlissel 

highlighted 
the 
importance 

of enhancing diversity, which, 
according 
to 
him, 
depends 

on 
collaboration 
between 
the 

University administration and each 
department on campus.

Robert Scott, director of the 

University’s Center for Engineering 
Diversity and Outreach, said each 
college within the University has 
its own unique plan to increase 
diversity, equity and inclusion 
through a series of programs, 
recruitment 
methods 
and 

strategies aimed at improving the 
racial climate on campus.

“(Diversity) 
goes 
beyond 

ethnicity and gender to also sexual 
orientation, 
able-bodiedness, 

personality, socioeconomic status, 
international status, et cetera,” 

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evidence?
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proposed particle
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an obstruction
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one’s own neck
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example
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and a hint to
solving eight
puzzle answers
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of Famer Aoki
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city
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landmark, with
“the”
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perjury
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host Hansen
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69 “The Conspiracy
Against
Childhood”
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choice
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Bryson
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operators
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defenseman
Krupp
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cutlery brand
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be in one
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Right Thing”
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Square honoree
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“for”

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slope
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“Downton
Abbey”
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offering
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to America”
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chance

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records
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dog, say
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Magic
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branches
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