The Wall Street Journal and
Times Higher Education released
their annual college rankings on
Tuesday, naming the University
of Michigan being ranked the
number one public university in
the country.
This ranking is different from
many traditional college rankings
in that it places emphasis on
factors other than the average
test scores of incoming freshmen
and how many students were
rejected upon application.
Instead, it’s based on four
categories: student outcomes
such as salary and job placement
after graduation, school
resources, how well the school
engages with students and finally
the learning environment, or
diversity on campus. The ranking
found the highly ranked schools
were those that performed well
in multiple categories.
The ranking also took into
account more than 100,000
student responses to a survey
sent out by the Wall Street
Journal and Times Higher
Education, asking questions
on students’ interactions with
professors, if they thought they
were pushed to think critically
and if they would recommend
their school to prospective
students. In a press release, The
Wall Street Journal and Times
Higher Education said they also
consider their ranking unique
because it focuses on how much
a college spends on classroom
instruction, awarding a higher
ranking to those schools that
place an emphasis on teaching
and research excellence.
The University, while the
top-ranked public university,
came in at number 24 in the
overall ranking. The other
public institutions that ranked
among the top 100 included
University of California, Los
Angeles and University of
California, Berkeley.
The University was also
ranked as the best public
university earlier this month by
QS World University Rankings
and number 23 overall. The
only other public university
to make the top 50 in the
QS rankings was University
of California, Los Angeles at
number 31.
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For many, keeping a car in
Ann Arbor as a student can be
difficult, because parking is in
such high demand. Maven, a new
car sharing company, is hoping to
remedy this problem by making
it easier for students to get to
where they need to go and back
affordably and quickly.
The company, launched in
January as a subsidiary of General
Motors, joins other car services
such as ZipCar which allows
people to rent cars. Like ZipCar,
users use an app on their phone
to locate, reserve and unlock
vehicles and then pay based on the
half hour. Ann Arbor, along with
New York City, Boston, Chicago
and Washington D.C., is one of
five offices opened within their
first nine months of operation.
GM spokesman Stefan Cross said
the move to go into car-sharing
was all about expanding into
different forms of transportation.
“The goal from a GM standpoint
is to expand into alternate modes
of transportation,” Cross said.
“So we figured, to stay relevant,
we have to get into different types
of transportation.”
Speaking to why Maven chose
the University as one of its first
locations, Cross said with such
a large campus there is a need
for ways to get places not so
conveniently located, and noted
how keeping a car as a student
in Ann Arbor can sometimes be
a challenge due to limited space
and cost. He also said Maven
was drawn to the city because
of its openness to new ideas and
services, both as a community
and University.
“Ann Arbor — the community
and the University — has really
shown a willingness to adapt to
new modes of transportation,”
Cross said. “We thought Ann
Arbor is a very progressive market
that could use and would adapt to
a car sharing service.”
Engineering
sophomore
Nicholas
Martin
said
he
downloaded Maven last year after
reading about their program in
January. He said it’s beneficial for
going out for food late at night and
going to the grocery store.
“I have used it five times on
campus,” Martin said. “I used it to
drive to late night food off campus
and once to Meijer.”
Ann Arbor has 20 locations
to pick-up and drop-off cars for
Maven, spanning from downtown
Ann Arbor to the University’s
North Campus, as well as out to
I-94 and M-14.
General Motors launches Maven,
car sharing app, in Ann Arbor
Company allows users to locate, rent vehicles from their phone
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ON THE DAILY: UNIVERSITY RANKS FIRST IN WSJ POLL
I do think that since it wasn’t
done then it has been part
of the growing mistrust in
government.”
Public
transparency
has
been a significant, ongoing
issue in Michigan for several
years. In a 2015 study done
by the nonprofit organization
Center for Public Integrity, the
state ranked last in the country
for executive, legislative and
judicial accountability.
According to the Center
for
Public
Integrity,
this
was partially because of the
numerous
protections
that
the state FOIA laws currently
provide to the judicial branch,
as well as the protections
provided
to
the
executive
branch.
The 10 bill package passed
Wednesday contains two bills
— HB 5469 and HB 5470 —
which specifically amend the
current FOIA law to address
the issue of transparency for
the executive branch, and eight
bills that establish and define
LORA.
“The last two bills remove
the
exemptions
that
the
governor has had under the
Freedom of Information Act,”
McBroom said. “While it still
provides for a few exemptions,
this is a big change for the
governor’s office, and brings
Michigan in line with most
other states.”
Currently,
the
governor’s
office is exempt from FOIA,
which means that they do
not have to release records
to
the
public.
Under
the
bills, the exemptions would
remain in place only for
documents that are for judicial
appointments,
prepared
remarks to the state House of
Representatives, pardons and
state budgets.
McBroom said in addition
to providing great protection
to the governor, Michigan’s
FOIA law was also ineffective
at making documents from
the legislature available to the
public, which is why LORA
is also a part of the package.
Currently, the legislature is
also exempt from FOIA.
“The other eight bills in
the package create a new
act — called the Legislative
Open Records Act,” McBroom
said. “LORA closely follows
FOIA; however, it is specific
only to the legislature, which
is something that we think
is very important. We need
transparency and more open
records in this branch of our
government.”
LORA, like FOIA, would be
managed by coordinators that
would oversee records requests
at the same cost as FOIA
requests, and will only apply to
records after Jan. 1, 2017.
McBroom
said
the
bill
package has received much
bipartisan
support
in
the
House, and is expected to be
reviewed by the state senate by
November.
“In the past, it was usually
the minority party that talked
about reforming FOIA, but it
never got done,” McBroom said.
“About a year ago, we decided
that it was time to get serious
about this bipartisan issue, and
after much hard work we are
confident that these bills will
accomplish the reform we have
long wanted to see.”
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