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

For more stories and coverage, visit

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

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