Former HUD secretary 
talks diversity and equity

Obama appointee 
stresses importance 
of teaching in speech

By JENNIFER MEER

Summer Managing News Editor

On 
Wednesday 
afternoon, 

Julián Castro, former Secretary of 
Housing and Urban Development 
under President Barack Obama 
from 2014 to 2017, addressed a 
crowd of approximately 100 at 
the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre 
in the Michigan League. 

The talk, titled “Leadership in 

a Changing Democratic Society,” 
was put on by the National 
Forum on Higher Education for 
the Public Good — an initiative 
housed at the University of 
Michigan’s School of Education 
and overseen by the Center 
of Higher and Postsecondary 
Education to encourage higher 
education in the public sphere 
and 
communicate 
knowledge 

of higher education issues; it 
is funded by foundations, such 

as Kellogg and Ford, and also 
sponsored 
by 
the 
American 

Association for Hispanics in 
Higher Education.

The event was also presented 

in partnership with the Office of 
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, 
the School of Education and 
Rackham Graduate School.

The 
National 
Forum, 
in 

collaboration with the National 
Center for Institutional Diversity, 
also oversees the New Leadership 
Academy 
— 
a 
program 
to 

empower leadership development 
in 
higher 
education; 
several 

fellows from the New Leadership 
Academy were in attendance at 
the event. Also in attendance 
were the leaders of several units 
of the University who work in 
advancing and implementing the 
University’s five-year plan for 
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, 
which launched in October.

In an interview, John C. 

Burkhardt, the director of the 
National 
Forum 
and 
special 

assistant to the provost for 
University 
engagement, 

explained 
that 
the 
Forum 

strives to better the relationship 
between higher education and a 
changing democracy.

“Our role is to help to enhance 

the role that higher education 
plays in a changing, increasingly 
diverse 
democratic 
society,” 

he said. “The New Leadership 
Academy is a partnership we have 
with the American Association of 
Hispanics in Higher Education … 
(The organization) partners with 
us in developing a fellowship 
for individuals who aspire to 
leadership in higher education.”

Prior 
to 
Castro’s 
keynote 

speech, Carol Fierke, Dean of 
Rackham 
Graduate 
School, 

welcomed the audience with 
some opening remarks, noting 
the progress of the DEI plan. 

“This 
effort 
is 
currently 

about eight months old but 
we’ve already made many gains 
because we are building on a 
long history and foundation of 
effort from our students, faculty 
and staff to increase access, 
promote awareness of our diverse 
backgrounds and understand the 

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NEWS ....................................
OPINION ............................... 
ARTS ......................................
CLASSIFIEDS.........................
MiC.........................................
SPORTS................................

NEWS
Bilingualism

Researchers receive grant 

for interdisciplinary study 

of a bilingual community. 

>> SEE PAGE 3

NEWS
Conference on 
learning

Rackham hosts four-day 

event on learning and 

decision-making. 

>> SEE PAGE 2

OPINION
Climate change

“the University should 

reaffirm its commitment to 

sustainability programs...”

>> SEE PAGE 4

ARTS
Artist Profile: 
Tigers Jaw 
discusses new album 
to promote upcoming 
show

>> SEE PAGE7

SPORTS
Phelan wins title

The junior became 

Michigan’s first national 

champion in the 1,500.

>> SEE PAGE 12

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Several attendees 
voice distrust over 
review’s methods at 
community forum

By ANDREW HIYAMA
Summer Daily News Editor

Dozens of residents showed up 

to the Bryant Community Center in 
southern Ann Arbor Tuesday night 
to listen to and participate in a forum 
on police-community relations. The 
event was hosted by representatives 
of Hillard Heintze LLC, the Chicago-
based 
security 
firm 
currently 

conducting a review of the Ann Arbor 
Police Department.

The first phase of the review — 

so far the only phase approved by 
City Council — consists of the firm 
gathering of data and listening to 
community and police perspectives 
through surveys and community 
forums. Then, the firm will present 
a report to City Council containing 
recommendations based on their 
findings.

Debra Kirby, the Senior Vice 

President 
of 
Law 
Enforcement 

Consulting at Hillard Heintze, said 
at the forum she anticipates the 
report will be delivered to the City 
around the end of July, and that she 
had received assurances from City 
Administrator Howard Lazarus that 
the report will be made public “once 
it’s accepted by the city.”

“I think that’s an important step 

here, because in some cities, these 
types of reports never see the light of 
day,” Kirby said. “And so Ann Arbor, 
the city itself, has put itself out there, 
willing to say, ‘Come in, look at us, tell 

ANN ARBOR

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COURTESY OF JENNIFER MEER

Julian Castro, former Housing and Urban Development secretary, speaks at the Michigan League on Wednesday. 

Residents 
not pleased 
by current 
progress of 
AAPD audit

