Robert
Ortega,
chair
of
the
Senate
Advisory
Committee
on
University
Affairs,
opened
Monday’s
meeting by alerting members
of the groundbreaking of the
new
Trotter
Multicultural
Center and the release of the
diversity, equity and inclusion
survey results.
The climate survey found
1 in 5 University of Michigan
students
experienced
a
discriminatory event during
the past year, even though
the large majority of students
— 72 percent — reported
satisfaction with the current
campus climate.
Ortega began the meeting
by asking members to think
deeply about the findings of
the survey.
“There’s
important
differences that we ought
to be taking a look at and
thinking about what they
mean in terms of some of the
views that could easily get
masked if we’re not thinking
about those different voices,”
Ortega said.
Some
members
questioned
the
survey’s
representativeness.
SACUA
member
Neil
Marsh
said
the
survey’s
randomness
was
questionable
because
respondents had to choose to
respond.
“Ninety-three
percent
of
the
respondents
are
heterosexual;
slightly
over
half are male,” Ortega said.
Other members, such as
mechanical
engineering
professor
Bill
Schultz,
expressed concerns over the
survey’s length and scope.
“Some of it was definitely
repetitive, I think just to see
if you were paying attention,”
Schultz said.
Schultz added the survey
was advertised to take 20
minutes, but actually took
some people about 50 minutes.
He then prompted meeting
attendees to raise their hands
if they got a survey.
Members
were
also
confused why data collected
in Fall of 2016 was being
published over a year later.
The Office of Diversity,
Equity and Inclusion recently
announced a new upcoming
survey of 5,000 librarians,
curators,
postdoctoral
fellows and house officers at
Michigan Medicine. This will
be similar to the prior climate
surveys sent to students and
University
Council
met
Monday
evening
for
its
biweekly
meeting
in
the
Michigan Union, discussing
the possibility of a resolution
to support and provide a
greater
awareness
toward
student caregivers, as well as
other topics such as Central
Student Government’s meeting
Tuesday on the Diag and this
week’s Diversity, Equity and
Inclusion summit.
Business
senior
Grace
Nasr proposed an idea for the
resolution to raise awareness
of
student
caregivers
—
students who have children on
campus — specifically through
modifying syllabus language.
“We’re just hoping to plant
the seeds for change so that
maybe one day this can be
implemented
in
syllabus
language … whether it be
through the language we have
presented, or something else,
for nontraditional students,”
she said. “It’s just something
to kind of get the ball rolling,
whether it be passing this
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See COUNCIL, Page 2A
‘U’ Council
discusses
caregiver
resolution
STUDENT GOVERNMENT
Council met to provide
sense of awareness for
students with children
JORDYN BAKER
Daily Staff Reporter
ALEXANDRIA POMPEI/Daily
Sami Malek, Senate Assembly member, discusses the results of the DEI survey at the Fleming Building Monday.
SACUA body discusses DEI results,
groundbreaking of new Trotter Center
SACUA members discuss survey methods and lack of diversity in respondents
AARON DALAL
Daily Staff Reporter
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See SACUA, Page 3A
The results of Ann Arbor’s
Changing
Driver
Behavior
Study were released Monday.
The
study,
geared
toward
pedestrian safety and local
drivers, showed a doubling
in
stopping
at
crosswalks
with increased enforcement
from the Ann Arbor Police
Department.
The study began in June
with increased enforcement
at
crosswalks
on
major
commuting routes in Ann
Arbor and ended the last week
of October. Through the course
of the study, officers stopped
hundreds
of
drivers
and
issued failure-to-yield tickets
and warnings. The Changing
Driver Behavior Study says the
final round of the study will
start on November 7.
At the targeted crosswalks,
the
rate
of
stopping
for
pedestrians
went
from
27
percent to 58 percent. At the
sites where no enforcement
took place, stopping rates went
from 37 percent to 49 percent.
In
2011,
Ann
Arbor
See CITY, Page 3A
Pedestrian
crosswalks
priority for
A2 citizens
ANN ARBOR
Enforcement increased at
targeted crosswalks, with
nearly 400 citations issued
COLIN BERESFORD
Daily Staff Reporter
Office of Diversity, Equity and
Inclusion reveals survey results
ALICE LIU/Daily
Dr. Katrina Wade-Golden, from the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, presents data from the Student Climate Survey at the Union Monday.
Survey was conducted to measure the “temperature” of campus, assistant vice provost says
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As a kickoff to its week of
summit events, marking one
year since the launch of the
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
plan, the Office of Diversity,
Equity and Inclusion debriefed
results of its sample climate
survey Monday to the student
body at the Michigan Union.
The event also allowed for
dialogue
between
students,
faculty, staff and the U-M
Survey
Research
Center
and SoundRocket team who
conducted the survey. About
20 students, faculty and staff
attended.
The meeting began with
Robert Sellers, the vice provost
for equity and inclusion, who
discussed the purpose of the
survey and its significance to
the DEI initiative.
“In this day of alternative
facts, where facts have lost
a little bit of its value, we
feel strongly that what we
are attempting to do needs
to be based on the very best
(measurements) at hand, and
we also need to find ways to
RACHEL CUNNINGHAM
Daily Staff Reporter
See SURVEY, Page 3A
Science,
technology
and
innovation
are
well-
established and prioritized
in
developed
countries
and
have
often
been
highlighted
through
research
and
the
work
academic institutions. But
on Monday, Thirumalachari
Ramasami, former secretary
of science and technology
for India, spoke about the
role of science, technology
and
innovation
policy
in
developing countries.
Ramasami
began
his
presentation — which was
a part of the Ford School of
Public Policy’s Policy Talks
series — by discussing the
perceived roles of science,
technology and innovation
in developmental economies
and national prosperity. He
explained that countries that
have the greatest need for
STI have fewer resources to
invest in it, and developments
in STI could help the people
in developing countries the
most.
“The resources available
for the developing economies
to invest in the STI are not
properly
matching
with
the needs that they have,”
Ramasami said.
Former Sec.
of Science of
India talks
innovation
See SCIENCE, Page 3A
CAMPUS LIFE
Thirumalachari Ramasami discussed
tech growth in developing countries
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