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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A R T S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

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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

DESIGN BY: MICHELLE PHILLIPS

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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