After bringing the likes of
Migos, J. Cole and Common
to campus, MUSIC Matters’
SpringFest
will
be
hosting
headliners 2 Chainz, Lil Yachty
and Desiigner at the Crisler
Center for the organization’s
largest planned concert to date.
MUSIC Matter’s sixth annual
charity festival will take place
on Friday, April 14 and will
consist of a day-long festival
with live performances from
local and emerging talent, a
pitch competition, food trucks
and a closing performance at the
Crisler Center from a headlining
trio of 2 Chainz, Lil Yachty and
Desiigner, with proceeds going
toward a summer camp for
Detroit youth to be hosted at
the University of Michigan this
coming summer.
Grammy-winner 2 Chainz
will be making his second
appearance on campus, last
performing at Hill Auditorium
for
SpringFest
in
2014.
Additionally, in a change from
SpringFest’s
usual
single-
headliner concerts, 2 Chainz
will also be joined by hip-hop
artists Lil Yachty and Desiigner.
The
two
artists
both
boast meteoric rises to fame,
immediately finding themselves
in the public eye after breakout
projects released early last
year. “Broccoli,” Lil Yachty’s
The University of Michigan
Digital Innovation Greenhouse,
housed within the Office of
Academic Innovation, released
a new version of Academic
Reporting Tools earlier this
week, which will make course
evaluation data more readily
available to students.
Mike Wojan, a DIG user-
experience
designer
who
worked with students and other
team members to design ART
2.0, said the major difference
between the newest version of
ART and previous iterations
is the inclusion of the course-
evaluation data, a decision based
largely on student feedback. He
said the ultimate goal of ART
is summed up in the slogan:
“explore, discover and decide.”
“Those are the three things
we’re trying to help facilitate
right now: students exploring
their options when it’s time to
register courses, discovering
things they might not have
known
about,
courses
or
instructors or topics that the
might not have known about,
and then making more informed
decisions when it comes time to
register,” he said.
Wojan explained the data
will be represented in terms
of a bar graph showing the
percentage of students who
responded to course evaluations
questions in a certain way, like
the percentage that “strongly
agree.”
These
feature
will
include icons representing the
sentiment behind each question,
like a crystal ball to indicate
many students agreed that they
knew what was expected of
them in the course.
“We had to decide how are we
going to give this information
back to the user,” Wojan said.
“What is going to be the easiest
way for students to look at
these evals, and right away
understand what the data’s
actually saying about the course
or about the instructor?”
Amy Homkes-Hayes, lead
innovation advocate of DIG,
said
student
feedback
has
been
instrumental
to
the
improvement of ART, and will
be necessary for its continued
success.
“We also have a lot of student
support,”
she
said.
“That’s
one of the major ways that
we’re spreading the word is
by going through our student
representatives to say this is a
tool we want students to use
while they’re engaging the
backpacking process and for
course selection.”
She said the decisions of
what information from course
evaluations
to
include
in
ART were based on criteria
established by the Office of the
Provost, the Senate Advisory
Committee
on
University
Affairs and Central Student
Government.
The
groups
agreed on including standards
set for data shown based on
class size, number of evaluation
responses
and
number
of
semesters taught. In addition
to the use of aggregate data
and displaying the number of
student responses compared to
the number enrolled in the class,
these
parameters,
Homkes-
Hayes explained, heighten the
validity of the data shown.
“One of the benefits of using
ART 2.0 is that this is official
University data,” she said. “We
have the blessing of all of the
relevant parties in order to
show it, and we also believe
that we’re showing it in a really
sophisticated way … that makes
it easy to understand.”
In an email interview, August
Evrard, professor of physics
Hosted by the Ford School of
Public Policy and the National
Poverty
Center,
a
research
center within the school, an
event surrounding issues of race,
poverty and housing in American
cities was held Tuesday night
in
Rackham
Ampitheatre
and consisted of a discussion
between
Matthew
Desmond
and Alex Kotlowitz about their
work within the context of the
nationwide
affordable-housing
crisis.
More than 200 University of
Michigan students, faculty and
Ann Arbor community members
packed the auditorium to hear
from
Desmond,
a
Harvard
sociologist
and
MacArthur
“Genius” grant recipient who
recently published the award-
winning book, “Evicted: Poverty
and Profit in the American City,”
an ethnographic account of low-
income residents in northern
Milwaukee facing the loss of
their homes. Kotlowitz is also
an award-winning author and
prominent journalist covering
issues of urban poverty for
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SpringFest to
ft. 2 Chainz,
Lil Yachty,
Desiigner
Higher education funding takes hit
in proposed Trump budget cuts
See SPRINGFEST, Page 3A
DESIGN BY: KATIE BEUKEMA
COMMUNITY CULTURE PREVIEW
Annual show to be held at Crisler, will
feature three headliners instead of one
ANAY KATYAL
Managing Arts Editor
Programs aimed at helping lower income student, such as Pell Grants, to decrease
President Donald Trump’s budget
proposal suggests downsizing the
Department of Education by 13
percent, or $9 billion, and eliminates
multiple grants, including Pell
Grants and other programs aimed
at helping low-income students.
The proposed budget reduces or
eliminates funding for more than 20
departmental programs, including
removing $2.4 billion in grants for
teacher training and $1.2 billion in
funding for after-school programs.
At a rally in Tennessee, Trump said
this budget will be more efficient,
cutting programs on the basis of
redundancy.
“(The budget will lower) costs
to the taxpayer by reducing or
eliminating funding for programs
that are not effective, that duplicate
other efforts or that do not serve
national needs,” Trump said at the
rally.
Secretary of Education Betsy
DeVos agreed, promising the most
“vulnerable”
students
will
be
protected despite the large cuts
being made.
“This budget maintains our
department’s focus on supporting
states and school districts with
the goal of providing an equal
opportunity for a quality education
to all students,” DeVos said at a
CARLY RYAN
Daily Staff Reporter
See CRISIS, Page 3A
Housing
crisis talk
highlights
race issues
CAMPUS LIFE
Notable authors Matthew
Desmond and Alex
Kotlowitz addressed 200
ALON SAMUEL
Daily Staff Reporter
DESIGN BY: OLIVIA STILLMAN
New version of ART to be less biased,
more informative than other ratings
Academic Reporting Tools 2.0 will make course evaluation data available
EMILY MIILLER
Daily Staff Reporter
michigandaily.com
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See ACADEMICS, Page 3A
See TRUMP, Page 3A
To celebrate and reflect on
the
University
of
Michigan’s
bicentennial,
M-BARC,
the
Michigan Bicentennial Archive, is
designing, creating and launching
the first-ever space time capsule
into
space,
which
will
orbit
the Earth for 100 years. As the
University
continues
to
push
toward space research, the launch
of the capsule marks a new era of
discovery.
Business senior Saanya Sethi,
the
M-BARC
interview
team
leader, said the bicentennial is
about celebrating the past and
embracing the future — themes
the time capsule will be able to
represent in a tangible way. With an
anticipated launch date in 2018 or
2019, there will be a test launch by
the end of 2017, for which M-BARC
was given an award to have a free
rideshare test launch with three
other winners.
Part of the time capsule will
include interviews with students,
faculty, staff and alumni talking
about their experiences at the
University, which will be recorded
and stored on a data chip in the
See CAPSULE, Page 3A
‘U’ orgs to
collaborate
on space
capsule
ADMINISTRATION
The first ever launch aims
to commemorate the
University bicentennial
KEVIN BIGLIN
Daily Staff Reporter
statement