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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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Vol. CXXVII, No. 18
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SPORTS..........B-SECTION

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2
3
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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
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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