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The University of Michigan
— which, in January of this year,
was ranked last in overall social
mobility in a report from the
Equality of Opportunity Project
website — has been aggressively
ramping up its efforts to recruit
a greater socioeconomic range of
students. In June, the University
presented its Go Blue Guarantee,
which allows any in-state student
coming from a family with
annual income below the state
median of $65,000 to have their
tuition completely covered by the
University.
Kedra Ishop, vice provost
for
enrollment
management,
said even though the Go Blue
Guarantee isn’t vastly different
from what the University already
offers in terms of total aid, one of
its major intents was making the
message clearer for students.
“One of the premises of the
Go Blue Guarantee was to recast
our message, in the sense that we
have aid available for students at
the University of Michigan and
we wanted to make sure that the
public understands we have that
aid available for students at the
University of Michigan,” she said.
And,
at
least
in
certain
underserved communities, the
guarantee has had that effect.
Rackham student Richard Nunn
advises the student organization
PILOT, which runs a project
aiming to create meaningful
relationships with new students
from
underrepresented
and
marginalized
communities.
Earlier this month, Nunn hosted
an orientation of high school
students from the Little Traverse
Bay Bands of Odawa Indians and
he said the students seemed very
responsive to the news of the
guarantee.
“For a lot of these students
and
for
(their
mentors)
as
professionals, it really kind of
made U of M seem more attractive
in some ways, in terms of, ‘Now
we know we can afford to go
there,’ “ he said.
Kerstine Bennington, a higher
education specialist for and citizen
of the tribe, agreed that for many
of the students she works with,
attending college — especially the
University of Michigan — seems
unattainable.
“Last semester, I had a lot of
high school students who aren’t
going to pursue college because
they just think that they can’t
afford it and they’ll have family
members that couldn’t do that in
the past and then go off of their
experience and it’s just really hard
trying to get through to them,”
she said. “You hear ‘university’
and you already think that you
can’t afford it. This is coming
from students that may not have
even done the research, they just
assumed — so being able to hear
about the opportunity definitely
changed their minds.”
In addition to incorporating
messaging about the Go Blue
Guarantee into the visits to the
With the January deadline
for the implementation of the Go
Blue Guarantee free tuition pledge
on the horizon, the University of
Michigan posted a record number
of applicants in figures released
Thursday morning. The University
also saw increased enrollment
of
underrepresented
minority
students and students receiving
federal Pell Grants. Overall, campus
enrollment increased 2.9 percent
from last year to 46,002 students,
with 29,821 undergraduates and
16,181 graduate and professional
school students.
The University also increased
the
amount
of
financial
aid
provided
to
undergraduate
students by 10.6 percent, totaling
$176.7 million. This aid is available
to students with family incomes of
up to $180,000.
Announced in June, the new
Go
Blue
Guarantee
program
functions as the administration’s
commitment to free tuition for
in-state students from families
with incomes less than $65,000.
Approximately half of in-state
families are expected to qualify.
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INDEX
Vol. CXXVII, No. 18
©2017 The Michigan Daily
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O PI N I O N . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
A R T S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
S U D O K U . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
CROS SWO R D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
SPORTS..........B-SECTION
1
2
3
4
SOCIAL WORK
MASTERS PROGRAM FIELD PLACEMENT
REQUIREMENT
228 hours per term
912 hours over four terms
<85%
73%
40%
1 ALL
out of
of MSW students receive
some form of fnancial aid
of FLO survey respondents work at
least 1 more job on top of classes
and feld placement
FLO survey respondents
rated their mental health as 5
out of 5
of FLO survey respondents
said fnancial stability is
directly related to their
mental health
$
CAMPUS LIFE
Enrollment
data shows
increase in
diversity
ADMINISTRATION
Fall 2017 freshman class
also saw a 2.9 percent
increase in enrollment
KAELA THEUT
Daily Staff Reporter
Overall Student Enrollment:
Entering freshman between 2013 and 2017
Underrepresented Minorities:
Eligible for Pell Grants:
First-generation:
10.6% in 2013
14.5% in 2013
10.9% in 2013
12.4% in 2017
17% in 2016
15.6% in 2017
13.8% in 2016
13.9% in 2017
46,002 up 2.9% from last year
DESIGN BY MICHELLE PHILLIPS
Go Blue Guarantee aims to rebrand
message of affordability for applicants
While actual financial aid spending will not change greatly, intent is clearer message
ANDREW HIYAMA
Daily Staff Reporter
Sad state of affairs
New Jersey has developed
as a hotbed for college
football recruits, and as elite
programs have taken notice,
Rutgers has struggled to
keep in-state talent.
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See DIVERSITY, Page 3A
See GUARANTEE, Page 3A
Pulitzer-Prize-winning
Washington Post reporter David
Fahrenthold used social media
throughout the 2016 presidential
election to expose inconsistencies
in the claims of now-President
Donald Trump.
Trump
insisted
throughout
the campaign he donated money
to veterans groups, but upon
contacting dozens of organizations
— and documenting his finds on
Twitter — Fahrenthold revealed
there was no evidence to suggest
Trump did so.
Fahrenthold was also the first
reporter to reveal the “Access
Hollywood”
video
in
which
Trump
was
heard
bragging
about
inappropriately
grabbing
women. For these reports and
more, Fahrenthold received the
2017 Pulitzer Prize for national
reporting in April.
Fahrenthold came to campus
Thursday
to
discuss
these
experiences, fake news, social
media and the importance of
reporting processes in an event
sponsored
by
the
University
of
Michigan’s
Wallace
House
See TRUMP, Page 3A
Prominent
journalist
talks Trump
and media
CAMPUS LIFE
Washington Post reporter
David Fahrenthold talked
2016 election campaign
ALEXA ST JOHN
Managing News Editor
As a part of the Bicentennial
celebration, the University of
Michigan held the Campus of
the Future competition finale at
the Power Center on Thursday
to celebrate the finalists in
the Student Project Showcase
competition, held earlier that
day at the Duderstadt Center.
The third and final President’s
Colloquium looked to the future
of campus, turning to students
to see what their imaginations
saw for the University going
into its third century. More
than 100 students participated
in the competition.
Thirty-four
student
projects were featured in the
competition, with three judges
choosing the winner. Kwame
Anthony
Appiah,
professor
of law and philosophy at New
York
University,
Amazon
Vice President Babak Parviz
and
Jenny
Sabin,
Design
and
Emerging
Technologies
assistant
professor
and
director of graduate studies
in
architecture
at
Cornell
University, selected winners
by analyzing their projects
on the “Six C’s of Academic
Innovation”:
Challenge,
Creativity
and
Innovation,
Conceptual
Development,
Coherence, Consistency and
Changing Education. $30,000
in prize money was distributed
among the top three groups.
University President Mark
Schlissel
gave
the
opening
address, citing his optimism for
the University’s third century
and his relief at not having to
Bicentennial
Colloquium
features Mars,
innovations
See BICENTENNIAL, Page 3A
The Campus of the Future competition
finale celebrated University innovation
RACHEL CUNNINGHAM
For the Daily
Social Work masters students
view unpaid field work as unfair
Required field education programs lack paid positions, contribute to financial instability
Despite being ranked first in its
field for best graduate programs
by
the
U.S.
News
&
World
Report earlier this year, a survey
conducted last March by Fair Labor
Organizing, a subcommittee of
the School of Social Work Student
Union, reported 73 percent of 110
Social Work School respondents —
more than 25 percent of Social Work
students — said they work at least
one more job on top of classes and
field hours.
Masters of Social Work students
say the discrepancy between being
ranked as the best social work
program in the country and the
large number of students who have
to work outside their class schedule
is a result of the program’s 912 field
placement hours requirement —
most of which are often completed
through unpaid positions, such
as
mentorship
programs
with
social workers and public outreach
positions.
According to Lisa Raycraft, Social
Work
School
communications
and public relations manager, field
education positions are a required
part of the MSW program. Students
complete on average 228 hours of
field placement work per term and
the School of Social Work’s Office
of Field Instruction reports over 550
MATT HARMON
Daily Staff Reporter
See SOCIAL WORK, Page 2A
DESIGN BY ROSEANNE CHAO