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STUDY BRE AK
he was appointed to his current
position by President Obama
only last year, he worked as a
congressional aide during the
Clinton administration and has
spent much of the last 25 years
in various jobs with the Army,
Navy and Air Force.
“My team likes to call me
the oldest millennial, because
I’ve had a bizarre career path,”
Fanning
said.
“But
I
was
moving into many different
things, seizing many different
opportunities. People can get
very focused on wanting to do
‘X’ and that’s not necessarily
the best way to come into
Washington. The best way to
come into Washington is to find
good bosses doing interesting
things and start there.”
Fanning also offered advice
given to him by his first boss
to students looking to go into
any
kind
of
management
position. According to Fanning,
communication is crucial to
managing any organization.
“Never
underestimate
the
degree
you
need
to
communicate,” Fanning said.
“That is a non-stop, ongoing
requirement for any leadership
job. I find that even in a large
organization like the Army, you
can drive change very quickly, so
long as you have the right people
involved and you just prioritize
and focus on them. If I tried to
have a handle on everything
the Army did, I would grind to
a halt. You have to size up the
people you trust and tell them,
‘Come to me when you need help
because you’re on your own.’ ”
The event was put on by the
College of Engineering as part
of Entrepreneurship 390, a class
taught by Max Shtein, associate
professor of material sciences
and
entrepreneurship.
The
event was open to anyone, and
the auditorium was nearly filled
by students, staff and faculty
from all areas of the University.
The advice Fanning gave,
Shtein felt, fit perfectly into his
curriculum.
Entrepreneurship
390
focuses
mostly
on
entrepreneurial
design,
but
the class also deals with more
general
topics
regarding
business and management.
“He wanted to talk about the
importance of public service,
and how they do need somebody
with
entrepreneurship
skills
and desire to innovate and
business acumen, as well as
technical skills, to get into the
service line of work,” Shtein
said. “In the class we focus a
lot on problems — what are
high quality problems, what
are difficult problems, what
are problems that affect a lot
of people. And this is certainly
within that realm, so I think it
was good for folks to see that,
yeah, this is a huge organization
… how do you run something like
that?”
The audience responded to
Fanning’s talk enthusiastically.
Engineering senior Alexander
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spin it, and whoever it lands on is
immediately called through the
app for a thirty-second video chat.
After the chat, users can give each
other “kisses” to signify interest;
if both people give a kiss, the pair
matches and can message further
through the app’s interface.
Safety features are included
to
protect
users
from
the
uncertainties
that
could
be
involved in video chatting. For
instance, the app operates using
facial
recognition,
so
if
the
camera doesn’t recognize what it’s
pointed at as a face, the call will be
immediately blurred out.
Cohen
is
confident
video
chatting can lead to a more
successful
online
dating
experience. He wrote the Daily
in an email he found it difficult to
learn any real facts about a person
from a dating profile through his
own online dating experiences.
But he thinks adding video chats to
the mix can change this.
“Sure you can get some insight
from a profile or photo, but you still
don’t know how they act, how they
sound and what their personality
is like,” Cohen wrote. “When it
comes to online dating, video is
better because it allows for face-to-
face interaction right from the very
first contact, meaning that you can
assess not only physical attraction
but also personality and chemistry,
all from your mobile device.”
Columbia
University
junior
Chapman
Hughes,
the
app’s
campus representative at Columbia
and a junior at the university,
thinks the impromptu video-
chatting
feature
is
partularly
well-suited to college students —
especially those who are looking to
enter a more serious relationship.
“It’s well-suited to a college
campus, especially in our day
and age, because it’s so hard to
find someone who’s willing to
take the time to possibly be in a
relationship,” Hughes said. “When
you have an app where you’re
immediately facing this person,
you kind of have to be on your feet
and able to say why you’re there
and what you’re looking for.”
According
to
Hughes,
her
classmates have found that the
type of person who uses Spin
the Bottle is much more likely to
follow up online communication
with actual dates than people on
other apps, like Tinder. Because of
this, she sees the app moving more
toward older college students.
“I personally see this moving
more towards older students,”
Hughes said. “Juniors and seniors,
and possibly our large graduate
student
population,
because
they’re (more often) the ones
who are looking for a meaningful
relationship… On other apps,
there aren’t a lot of people who
are coming out of that with a
relationship, or even a great story.”
Stanton, who helped to build
the app’s interface from scratch,
is 35 and married. He doesn’t have
much personal experience with
online dating, but he’s hopeful
that breaking into the college
demographic can be a gateway to
other groups of users.
“It’s kind of like what the
college kids do is cool for people
my age,” Stanton said. “It just
spreads. We feel that if we can
capture the college market, it will
grow from there.”
For now, though, the app is
concentrating on college students.
Cohen said the team has begun
promoting Spin the Bottle in
Ann Arbor, and is currently in
the process of hiring a campus
representative
to
help
with
promotion efforts here.
Though
the
app
isn’t
as
popular at the University yet, LSA
freshman Ben Fu thinks Spin the
Bottle could become a campus
fixture. He said he has only used
Tinder in the past, but said he
would be open to trying Spin
the Bottle if he was looking for
something more serious.
“I
think
it’s
better
than
(Tinder),” Fu said. “You get a
better sense of who the person is,
rather than just reading their bio.
Most people don’t even read the
bio anyway. They just swipe right
or left.”
On the other hand, Fu hasn’t
used dating apps in a while and
he thinks he might try his luck
outside the digital realm.
“My success with women was
a lot better after I stopped using
Tinder,” Fu said. “I just learned
how to approach them in real life.”
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enrollment increased 25 percent.
Meanwhile, in this same time
span, total enrollment of U.S.
citizens and permanent residents
has increased by only 1.09 percent.
An
article
published
by
Bloomberg in late December
references the report and notes its
finding that, since the recession,
there has been a demand for “full-
tuition-paying” students at state
schools.
Statistics from the Institute of
International Education show that
565,000 international students
enrolled at U.S. postsecondary
schools
in
the
2005-2006
school year, versus 1.04 million
international students in the 2015-
2016 school year — an 85 percent
increase.
Further,
according
to the State Higher Education
Executive Officers Association,
while tuition made up only 35.8
percent of public universities’
revenue in 2008, it made up 46.5
percent in 2015.
However, the article notes
that while in general, reliance on
tuition has dropped recently, it is
still above 2008 numbers.
State Funding and University
Response
to
International
Enrollment
The University faced a 21.6
percent funding cut by the state
in 2011, as part of a general cut in
higher education funding under
Gov. Rick Snyder. 2016 saw a 4.3
percent increase in state funding
overall, bringing most schools’
numbers back to where they
were before the 2011 cut, but the
University’s allotment remains
7.8 percent less than it was prior
to 2011.
In June 2016, the University’s
Board of Regents voted to increase
tuition for both in-state and out-
of-state students, leading to an
overall increase of $86.35 million
in University funds. Lower state
funding was cited as one reason
for the increase.
State Rep. Adam Zemke (D–
Ann Arbor), who has voiced his
opinion in the past about the need
for more state funding, said he is
confident the University is acting
appropriately given the decrease
in funding.
“I’m certain that the University
is taking steps that they have
deemed necessary, unfortunately,
to figure out another way to
generate revenue due to the
fact that the state has been
underfunding them for quite
some time,” he said.
Zemke said the 2011 funding
cut was very significant, and does
not think it is fair for the schools to
have to generate its own revenue.
“The idea that we as a state
have decided through our lack
of appropriation that it is okay
for universities to generate most
of their operating revenue from
tuition, I think is really terrible
and speaks to the tremendous
amount of student debt in this
country,” he said.
University officials, however,
are quick to emphasize that the
spike in international enrollment
does not represent an explicit
strategy to make up for lost
funding.
Kedra Ishop, vice provost for
Enrollment Management, said it
makes sense that international
enrollment
has
increased
nationally overall. She explained
other schools that have a difficult
time appealing to domestic out-
of-state students look to potential
international student.
“(In admissions,) your ability
to market to your residents, your
non-residents and international
students varies,” she said. “You’re
going to have, in some cases,
institutions that are able to recruit
and market themselves amongst
students from foreign countries,
perhaps more than they are
able to do the same for students
domestically, out of state.”
She
added
that
foreign interest in a
U.S. education has increased
exponentially over the past decade.
However, she said the University
does not use a purposeful or
deliberate recruitment strategy
for international students because
there has never been a shortage of
applicants.
She noted that according to
the enrollment summary’s new
freshmen enrollment data, the
percentage
of
international
students in incoming classes has
been very consistent since 2012,
lingering around 4 percent — a
statistic that often surprises
people.
“There is a belief that our
international student population
in our freshman class and in
our new student population is
much larger than it is, when in
reality, it hovers between two
and a half and 4 percent, which
is considerably smaller than
many institutions who are more
deliberately recruiting from an
international population,” she
said.
Ishop said about two-thirds
of
University
applicants
are
out of state — the bulk of that
being U.S. citizens — and these
numbers have grown drastically
since 2010 and 2011. She said
admissions focuses more on
balancing the in-state and out-of-
state populations, and there is no
need to fill a financial quota.
“We are able to attract a high-
quality class from the state of
Michigan and also respond to
almost overwhelming demand
from an out-of-state population of
students who are equally strong,”
she said. “We haven’t been in a
position to need to bring forward
an
international
recruitment
strategy to fill financial coffers.”
She noted that the University’s
out-of-state and international
fees are the same.
International
Student
Response
Despite
Ishop’s
evidence,
international
students
said
they feel that admitting more
foreign students does benefit the
University financially, and had
mixed responses to the increase.
Engineering
freshman
Edmond Tsoi, an international
student from Hong Kong, said he
thinks the rise in international
enrollment is a more direct effort
to boost the University’s ranking.
Though Tsoi completed three
years of high school in the United
States, he pointed to what he
called the “high standard” of
students coming directly from
other countries. He added these
students bring in more revenue.
“I have a couple of friends
who came directly from China or
even Korea or other countries,”
he said. “Usually they are one of
the top students in their country.
By accepting more international
students,
especially
those
who come directly from other
countries, they are bringing the
standards up. They can also get
more tuition money from them
too.”
Tsoi noted that international
admissions
and
out-of-state
admissions are more competitive
than
in-state
admissions,
allowing the University to accept
superior applicants to increase
ratings.
He also thinks, as Ishop
mentioned, a significant reason
for the increase stems from
the desire of Asian students —
particularly those from countries
like China or South Korea — to
come to American schools.
According
to
Tsoi,
most
students in China aspire to go to
Peking University, the country’s
top school, which he said is
ranked lower than the University
internationally.
However,
he
said, it is incredibly difficult to
get accepted.
“In order to get into a better
college and also to compete in a
less competitive area, they are
trying to go to the U.S. or to the
U.K. for college,” he said.
LSA
sophomore
Daria
Belyaeva,
an
international
student from Russia, said she
didn’t think an increase in
international
students
would
serve the University’s rankings as
much as it would serve funding.
“Michigan is a great, huge
school in general,” she said. “I feel
like we never had a huge shortage
of international students. I feel
like the financial aspect is more
currently important.”
In addition to mentioning
that her tuition has increased
by 4 percent since last school
year — as is consistent with
the
aforementioned
tuition
increase
—
Belyaeva
noted
that international students can
receive very little money from the
school through grants, studies
or other special circumstances.
Most international students, she
explained, pay full tuition.
“This feels very unfair,” she
said. “Obviously, it’s a state
school, so why should I get stuff
from the state of Michigan?
But still it’s a crazy burden for
international students.”
Engineering
junior
Madhav
Sharma
addressed
the
University’s
engineering
program specifically, noting a
significantly larger international
student
population
in
Engineering than in LSA.
Looking at raw numbers from
the aforementioned enrollment
summary, Sharma noted the
decrease in in-state enrollment
between 2012 and 2016 — from
24,095 to 23,095 — a small but
evident
decrease,
given
the
increase in out-of-state students
from 19,331 to 21,623.
“What I’ve heard from other
students is that maybe the
undergraduate
admission
is
turning more to out-of-state
students, because less financial
aid can be given and more tuition
can be collected,” he said.
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organizational psychologist,
because you can see his
passion for the research he’s
done,” Abad said.
Grant disagreed with the
belief that seeking advice in
the workplace makes them
seem amateur. He discussed
the importance of asking for
advice, as it may further one’s
goals and ideas.
Series host Jane Dutton,
a
professor
of
business
administration
and
psychology,
said
Grant’s
efforts
have
improved
attitudes toward relationships
in the workplace.
“He’s really had a huge
impact on the conversation
in business and in work
organizations,” she said.
This semester’s Positive
Links
Speaker
Series
will
continue
throughout
January,
February
and
April
with
presentations
from the Business School
faculty
and
a
professor
from Case Western Reserve
University. Upcoming topics
include promoting a society
encompassing
the
world’s
poorest people, presenting
oneself
positively
and
confidently,
and
building
positive organizations and
their impact on modern day
business.
“I
hope
(this
series)
exposes
(its
audience)
to
top
researchers,”
Dutton
said. “I hope it helps to
build community, (among)
researchers and practitioners
and students, who also care
about creating more life-
giving workplaces.”
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local activists, could come
together
and
share
their
knowledge
about
sanctuary
campuses while also answering
questions from the community.
Many students in attendance
said they were proponents
of making the University a
sanctuary campus. LSA senior
Jerry Graham said he thinks
the change is an important one,
adding it would benefit some of
his friends and professors.
“This is something that I’d
like to see for this campus,”
Graham said. “I’ve spoken
with a professor and friends
that could really benefit from
something like this, and that
know people that could benefit
from something like this. So I
think it’s very important.”
The difficulty of working
with both campus and city
police in ensuring that the
forces do not inadvertently
inform
U.S.
Immigration
and
Customs
Enforcement
of
undocumented
students
on
campus
was
frequently
discussed
by
speakers.
Christine Sauvé, member of the
Michigan Immigrant Rights
Center, offered strategies to
build a trusting relationship
with the police.
“We have found, in Michigan,
a lot of local police end up
calling ICE or border patrol
for their translation services,”
Sauvé said. “So if your local
police does not have something
as simple as Language Link,
which is very imperfect, even if
they don’t have something like
that, it could be something that
pushes people to involve ICE
and border patrol. Investing
in language access is very
critical for local communities.
Community policing strategies
and
building
that
trust
relationship
with
police
is
going to be critical.”
Another
common
theme
evident throughout the teach-in
was taking the meaning of the
word “sanctuary” and making
it a practical and operational
concept to apply to the campus.
Rackham
student
Vikrant
Garg, a member of campus
organization Students4Justice,
said the University must make
quantifiable
policy
changes,
rather than merely applying the
concept.
“For us, I think, as a
campus, what we need to think
about is how we’re going to
operationalize what it means
to advocate for a sanctuary
campus,” Garg said. “It means
tuition affordability, it means
decreases in the cost of living …
it means to actually take what
sanctuary means, and turn
it into an actual, operational
definition.”
In a December interview,
University
president
Mark
Schlissel
explained
his
hestitation to employ the term
“sanctuary campus” due to its
possible ambiguity.
“There’s
some
confusion
about what that term means,”
he said. “It’s a label that has no
specific fixed definition and I
don’t want to put a label on us
that other people can define
that may not be accurate.”
Schlissel penned a statement
in support of undocumented
students in late November, while
many University departments
made
resources
available
to members of the campus
community in fear following
the election of president-elect
Donald Trump. Trump has
repeatedly deemed executive
orders signed by President
Barack
Obama
protecting
undocumented
adults
and
children unconstitutional.
“We already do many of
the things that come under
definitions
of
‘sancturary,’”
Schlissel
said.
“We
offer
resources but don’t keep lists...
it maintains everyone’s privacy
and safety.”
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