The School of Art & Design
has
begun
to
implement
strategies to increase diversity
in teaching and in coursework
as part of the University of
Michigan’s
campus-wide
plans to increase diversity,
equity and inclusion.
Karina Moore, director of
admissions at the Art & Design
School, said as part of the DEI
initiative, grants have been
given to different areas of the
University to allow them to
increase inclusion specifically
within their space, which the
school has received. The exact
monetary amount of the grants
has not been released.
The
Stamps
Diversity,
Equity & Inclusion Strategic
Planning
Committee
submitted its specific plan to
University
President
Mark
Schlissel before he released
his campus-wide plan. The
original Art & Design School
plan included concepts for
better recruiting and retaining
diverse faculty.
Moore said after receiving
feedback
and
financial
commitments
from
the
University, the Art & Design
School decided to use the
funding to focus on the aspects
of their plan tied to curriculum
and faculty teaching.
Irina
Aristarkhova,
professor of Art & Design and
head of the DEI commitee
for the Art & Design school,
wrote
after
meeting
with
students to receive input on
ways to improve the plan, the
school has started running
workshops with the Center
for Research on Learning
and Teaching in response to
desires for a more diversity-
oriented curriculum.
“Our next workshop is this
coming
Friday,
December
9, where faculty will share
their syllabi and workshop
new ideas for assignments,
examples, and strategies to
make inclusive teaching a more
explicit part of their courses
for Winter 2017 semester,” she
wrote.
Art & Design Prof. Franc
Nunoo-Quarcoo, former head
and current member of the
planning
committee,
noted
the Art & Design School had
not received all the funding
it requested, but said the
committee
will
focus
on
achieving its goals in other
With the fall semester
coming to a close, Central
Student
Government
has
set
the
groundwork
for
campaign
initiatives
it
hopes to carry out next
year,
including
engaging
more with the student body
through scholarships and an
anti-racism campaign called
“It Starts with Me.”
In late September, CSG
released a diversity report
that indicated the Student
Assembly
was
mostly
made up of wealthy, white,
heterosexual males. White
students
made
up
69.8
percent
of
the
assembly
while Asian students made
up
the
second
largest
portion of members with
9.3 percent. The diversity
report noted 58.1 percent of
members identified as male,
40.7 percent as female and
1.2 percent preferred not to
answer. A 2015 analysis by
The Michigan Daily noted
the past seven CSG presidents
had been men.
CSG
President
David
Schafer, an LSA senior, said
after the survey’s release that
the student government was
committed to diversity both
on campus and within the
organization.
“Diversity is critical to
Whip’s Dog Days has been a
staple business at the University
of Michigan for almost 25 years,
serving students Koegel hot dogs
at C.C. Little out of the back of a
trailer.
Owner LeRoy Whipple has
operated the stand alone for 13
years after inheriting it from his
father’s friend, Richard Eisley,
who ran it for 12 years. In April,
Whip’s Dog Days will celebrate
its 25th anniversary on campus.
“He had people who had
been coming to him for years,”
Whipple said. “He was here for 12
years. And he said he had a pretty
good clientele base built up. So he
didn’t want to just let it go, so he
asked me to come out and I fell in
love with it.”
The Owosso native works at
Barry Bagels at the Westgate
Shopping Center in Ann Arbor
in the morning and afternoon,
where he starts preparing food
for the day as early as 7 a.m. He
then drives his trailer over to C.C.
Little and opens his cart around
10:30 a.m.
Every weekday he fires up
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See CSG, Page 3A
CLAIRE MEINGAST/Daily
Theatre Prof. Anita Gonzalez and Dance Prof. Robin Wilson hold a discussion about diversity in the arts for the Diversity Next! series at North Quad Wednesday
night.
An
opera
professor,
an
investigative choreographer, an
Ann Arbor resident, a graduate
student and about seven other
arts-interested
individuals
all convened Wednesday in
a community room in North
Quad to discuss the importance
of
including
arts
in
the
diversity conversation as part
of the Diversity Next! series
organized by the Center for
World Performance Studies.
The event was the first of the
series, which, according to the
event’s flyer “is an arts-inspired
series of conversations… that
seeks to broaden the horizons
of diversity deliberations on
the U-M campus and beyond.”
The CWPS said they aim to
host three more panels during
the winter semester.
Diversity Next! is separate
from
the
University
of
Michigan’s Diversity, Equity
&
Inclusion
plan
launched
by
University
President
Mark
Schlissel
in
October
and includes campus climate
related
training
and
the
opening of the new Trotter
Multicultural Center to create
a more diverse and inclusive
campus.
See HOT DOGS, Page 3A
HALEY MCLAUGHLIN/Daily
Students relax with therapy dogs in the Ugli Wednesday.
The B-Side
Daily Arts Writer Sam
Rosenberg explores virtual
reality and its place in the
new age
» Page 1B
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See STAMPS, Page 3A
See DIVERSITY, Page 3A
Earlier
this
month,
the
Michigan
House
of
Representatives
introduced
a bill to adjust the Michigan
National Guard State Tuition
Assistance
Program.
The
bill, which was introduced by
Rep. Bruce Rendon (R–Lake
City) would allow any current
member of the National Guard
to apply for tuition assistance
while attending a university or
college in Michigan.
The
Michigan
National
Guard
assistance
program
is housed within the state’s
Department of Military and
Veteran Affairs. Brig. Gen.
Mike Stone, assistant adjutant
general for installations of
the Michigan Army National
Guard, said the revamping
of the program is a welcome
change that will strengthen
Michigan’s National Guard.
“The program is all about
readiness,”
he
said.
“Our
number one priority in the
military
is
readiness.
Are
we prepared to go fight and
respond at home if there is a
See GUARD, Page 3A
THE R APY DOGS
CSG execs. to
launch push
to improve
‘U’ climate
Discussion highlights the role of
art in increasing campus diversity
STUDENT GOVERNMENT
Initiative follows diversity report on
homogeneity of student assembly
NISA KHAN
Daily Staff Reporter
Professors connect their work as artists with greater goals for University
ERIN DOHERTY
Daily Staff Reporter
Whip’s
Dog Days:
Nearly 25
years later
BUSINESS
Owner LeRoy Whipple
reflects on his time selling
hot dogs on campus
KEVIN BIGLIN
Daily Staff Reporter
Stamps School of Art and Design begins
implementation of DEI strategic plan
New initiatives to focus on curriculum and teaching style
RACHEL COHEN
Daily Staff Reporter
Bill aims to
adjust state
National
Guard aid
GOVERNMENT
Legislation would change
how tuition assistance
is administered
CAITLIN REEDY
Daily Staff Reporter
Is Virtual
Reality the
New Reality?