As
a
result
of
a
new
partnership between the Ross
School of Business’s Center for
Social Impact in Ann Arbor and
the University of Michigan-
Flint’s
Office
of
University
Outreach, the sixth annual
Social Impact Challenge will
take place in Flint this semester
instead of Detroit.
In previous years, the Center
for Social Impact has held
its Social Impact Challenges
in
Detroit,
where
teams
partnered
with
different
community
and
nonprofit
organizations
to
develop
solutions
to
problems
in
the city. Last year, students
aided in the launch of Detroit
Police Athletic League’s Kids
at the Corner Campaign in
partnership with the old
Tiger Stadium Conservancy.
However, after the Flint
Water Crisis left community
members feeling devastated,
student
participants
of
the Challenge shifted the
program’s focus to bring
economic
development
to
Flint neighborhoods, as well as
the city center, through their
collaboration, innovation and
entrepreneurship.
Glenn Bugala, marketing
manager for the Center for
Social Impact, said the Center
is not only working with
UM-Flint for the Challenge
but also the city of Flint itself
in an effort to join the two
communities together.
“In addition to working with
UM-Flint Office of University
Outreach, we will be working
on the case with community
partners, the city of Flint and
Skypoint Ventures — a venture
capital and real estate company
with strong social impact ties,”
Bugala said. “Furthermore, our
finals will be presented March
15 at the Flint Institute of Arts
as part of the Arts
and Social Entrepreneurship
Symposium, at which School
of Music, Theatre & Dance
Dean Aaron Dworkin will be a
keynote speaker.”
Bugala noted the connection
between the Center for Social
Impact and UM Flint is special
because, for the first time,
students
can
form
teams
consisting
of
participants
from more than one campus,
bringing diversity of thought to
the program.
“Being in Flint puts us on
the front line of a city that has
captured the attention of the
country,” Bugala said. “For the
first time, we will be partnering
with another University of
Michigan
campus
to
offer
this opportunity. UM-Flint’s
Outreach Office is uniquely
poised to provide background,
contacts and insights for future
After serving the University
of Michigan for seven years,
Holly
Rider-Milkovich,
the
director of the Sexual Assault
Prevention
and
Awareness
Center, announced on Jan. 13
she is stepping down from her
position.
SAPAC, a University entity,
trains students to act as a peer
network for survivors of sexual
assault on campus and further
aims to advocate for social
change by offering professional
services, such as counseling and
crisis hotlines, for the campus
community. During her tenure
as
director,
the
University
was placed under Title IX
investigation, and the sexual
assault policy was updated.
In an email interview with
the Daily, University spokesman
Rick Fitzgerald wrote Rider-
Milkovich contributed greatly
in bringing sexual misconduct
to the forefront of University
discussion.
“Holly
Rider-Milkovich
has been director of the U-M
Sexual Assault Prevention and
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O PI N I O N . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
A R T S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
S U D O K U . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
CL A S S I F I E DS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
S P O R T S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
See SAPAC, Page 3
SAPAC
director
to leave ‘U’
on Feb. 5
CAMPUS LIFE
Director to pursue role at
EverFi, aims to develop
campus health initiative
KAELA THEUT
Daily Staff Reporter
Social Impact Challenge to move in
light of partnership with UM-Flint
The competition will relocate from Detroit where it was housed for five years
KAELA THEUT
Daily Staff Reporter
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See SOCIAL IMPACT, Page 3
The University of Michigan
Central
Student
Government
featured
on
their
Facebook
page the first five students who
were selected to be a part of its
new initiative, “200 for 200,”
Wednesday morning. The “200
for 200” initiative, launched last
semester, will feature 200 of the
University’s most accomplished
students in a year-long Facebook
photo series in honor of the
University’s bicentennial.
LSA junior Aaron Cahen, chair
of CSG’s Bicentennial Planning
Commission, said the initiative
was created by the Bicentennial
Planning Commission to recognize
heavily involved students currently
enrolled at the University.
“There would be no University
to celebrate the past 200 years
without the student body, so we
wanted to take this opportunity to
honor them,” Cahen said.
Students can be nominated
through a survey, which was
created for CSG to receive a
diverse array of nominees who are
involved in many different parts
of campus, Joe Shea, Public Policy
See CSG, Page 3
CSG aims
to highlight
students in
200 for 200
STUDENT GOVERNMENT
Facebook posts to feature
influential students
through bicentennial year
RACHEL COHEN
Daily Staff Reporter
Through
the
University
of
Michigan
is
currently
embarking upon a series of
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
initiatives,
the
University
still ranks low nationally in
socioeconomic diversity among
students.
According to a recent report
from The Upshot in the New
York Times, the median family
income of a student is $154,000
— the highest of 27 public
colleges classified as “highly
selective.”
The Upshot also reported
that 66 percent of students
come from the top 20 percent of
the income distribution, and 9.3
percent of students come from
the top 1 percent of the income
distribution — also the highest
of the 27 institutions.
Additionally, the University
ranked last out of 25 highly
selective
public
colleges
in
terms
of
economic
social
mobility. The report states that
only 10 percent of University
alumni moved up two or more
income quintiles. Stony Brook
University in New York came
in first with 34 percent and
University of California-Irvine
came in second with 27 percent.
University spokesman Rick
Fitzgerald said it will take time
for the DEI initiatives to make
significant gains, but there are
many promising programs in
the works, and the University
has
already
begun
to
see
progress.
Regarding the University’s
2016
enrollment,
Fitzgerald
noted first generation students
made up 14 percent of the
freshman class, up from 8.5
percent in 2015. The percent
of Pell Grant-eligible students
was 17 percent in 2016, up from
15 percent, and it has been on
the rise in recent years. He
added that the transfer student
enrollees — a group which, he
said, consists of relatively more
first generation students, lower
income students and students of
underrepresented minorities —
University
receives low
grade in SES
diversity
GOP intent to repeal ACA poses
questions for Michigan Medicaid
See INCOME, Page 3
Impact of Michigan’s Medicare Expansion
BILLION
30,000
600,000
2016-17:
+$413
$2.3
+$162
$152
jobs created annually
net impact on state
budget
low-income adults
enrolled
cost of michigans
medicaid set to
increase
million
million in
in economic activity
2017
million in
2021
on the Economic Industry
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ADMINISTRATION
New York Times Upshot rates ‘U’ among
worst nationwide for low income families
JENNIFER MEER
Daily Staff Reporter
The state’s unique health care plan relies on funding from the national program
With both the United States’
House of Representatives and
Senate voting to approve budget
resolutions last week in the first
step toward repealing President
Barack
Obama’s
health
care
law, the future of health care —
particularly Michigan’s unique
Healthy Michigan Medicaid Plan
— is uncertain.
The Healthy Michigan Plan
made available in 2014 uses
funding
through
the
health
care law or “Obamacare,” as it is
commonly referred to, to expand
Medicaid coverage to adults with
incomes at 133 percent of the
federal poverty level, or about
$16,000 per year.
A
recent
study
conducted
by University of Michigan lead
researchers John Ayanian and
health economist Helen Levy
concluded Michigan’s Medicaid
expansion will leave the state
with more money than it actually
spends on the program until 2021.
Ayanian, director of the UM
Institute for Healthcare Policy
and Innovation, said the goal
of the study was to evaluate the
broader economic effect of the
Healthy Michigan Plan, such
as additional employment and
economic activity.
“As of January 2017, the state
is responsible for covering five
percent of the health care costs,
and that will go up to 10 percent
in 2020,” Ayanian said. “For 2017,
Michigan is getting about $3.4
billion in federal funding for the
Healthy Michigan Plan, so we
wanted to estimate what effect
that has on employment, personal
income and state tax revenues as
those dollars come in.”
The study concluded that in
addition to over 600,000 low-
income adult enrollees, 30,000
new jobs and an additional $2.3
billion of economic activity will
be generated in Michigan as a
result of the plan.
“We found that from 2015
through 2021 we estimate this
funding is adding over 30,000
jobs to the state economy each
year — about a third of them are in
CALEB CHADWELL
Daily Staff Reporter
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