other things that we start now 
and we are going to have to be 
continued for a long time and 
there’s still other things that 
we learn about and decide there 
are better ways to do the things 
that we already started doing. 
So it’s very much a living and 
continuously renewing plan.

Some of the things I’m most 

excited about is we’ve got a 
number of pipeline programs 
up 
and 
running, 
including 

Wolverine 
Pathways 
that 

works with students in seventh 
through 12th grade and it’s after 
school, on the weekend and (in) 
summertime and, at the end, if 
they do well, and they get into 
the University, we promise them 
a generous scholarship at the 
end. And we’ve launched the 
Go Blue Guarantee in January, 
which is designed to promise 
socioeconomic 
diversity 
on 

campus, and when you get 
socioeconomic diversity you also 
get geographic diversity and all 
different kinds of diversity come 
along with that, so those things 

are going well. The schools and 
colleges are working on their 
local plans to work on the climate 
locally and in each of our schools 
to gauge how well we appreciate 
and address issues of difference 
between humans. There’s an 
inventory work that has been 
done — diversity inventory work 
has been done in the dorms, so 
there’s a lot of activity. Another 
big thing that we’ll talk about at 
the summit was one of our major 
goals of the first year, which 
was a campus climate survey. 
We’ll be releasing the results in 
the coming days. … It asks the 
question: How are we doing? 
What is it like to be a student, 
or a faculty or a staff member 
here at the University and it’s 
disappointing but not surprising 
I guess is that different people 
experience this campus very 
differently 
based 
on 
where 

they’re coming from. So I think 
those results are very important 
to show us where to focus our 
efforts, to establish a baseline we 
can use to track whether we are 
improving the campus climate. 
The end goal is to have each 
individual here — no matter 

where they come from — have 
equal opportunity and a similar 
quality of experience, feel like 
they’re being equitably treated 
and being a full member of this 
large and diverse community. 
So we’re going to roll out that 
and speak during the diversity 
summit on what we’re learning 
or what we’ve learned from the 
climate survey. There will also 
be a fantastic keynote address 
by perhaps one of the most 
famous senior scholars in this 
area, a professor from Stanford 
named Claude Steele, who came 
up with a theory that has lots 
of support about something he 
calls “stereotype threat.” In 
effect, people internalize what 
the stereotypes are for their 
identity and that internalization 
affects their behavior and can 
self-perpetuate 
that 
identity, 

sometimes unfairly. So it’ll be a 
great talk; I encourage people to 
go.

It’s been a lot of effort — we’ve 

maintained the engagement and 
interest across all the schools 
and colleges, a lot of good initial 
things are happening and there’s 
a long way to go.

TMD: As you mentioned 

campus 
climate 
and 
the 

fact that different students 
have different experiences 
here, is there anything else 
specifically that you would 
say needs further specific 
attention as far as the DEI 
plan or anything that hasn’t 
been up to your standards or 
expectations?

Schlissel: I wish that all 

the things we’re working on 
could go faster. I wish that 
we could more quickly get 
to an environment where 
the quality of everyone’s 
experience is quite similar to 
everyone else’s experience. 
I wish that we wouldn’t be 
derailed by these episodic 
episodes of racism and other 
kinds of hurtful, insulting 
messages in our environment. 
I wish that our campus 
demographic could improve 
more quickly — in other words, 
get a more representative mix 
of students in our society. I 
think we’re making progress 

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