meeting, the board, led by
University President Mark
Schlissel, voted to increase
student tuition rates for the
third year in a row. In-state
tuition
increased
by
2.9
percent and out-of-state rose
by 3.9 percent. Since 2002,
tuition revenue has increased
by more than 135 percent.
Compared to last year’s
rates, tuition for Michigan
residents went from $14,826
to $15,262 and out-of-state
student tuition went from
$47,452 to $49,326.
The board voted 7-1 to
approve the tuition hike.
Regent Andrea Newman, R,
was the only board member
to oppose the hike. In the
meeting, she said she voted
against the motion in an
effort
to
keep
University
costs affordable for students.
“I’ve
said
this
before,
and I feel this is the real
opportunity to make this
statement,”
Newman
said.
“In the past 10 years, we’ve
raised in-state tuition over
30 percent for freshmen and
sophomores — an average of
3.3 percent per year — and
more for juniors and seniors.”
Schlissel and the regents
pointed to recent initiatives
such as the Go Blue Guarantee
— a full-tuition financial
aid package for all in-state
students whose families make
less than $65,000 a year — as
worthwhile
affordability
investments
that
require
further funds to support. To
counteract this tuition hike,
this year’s budget included
a 16.3 percent increase —
about $28.9 million — in
undergraduate financial aid
funding.
This 2.9 percent tuition
increase
still
puts
the
University below the state’s
increase cap of 3.8 percent.
Room and board rates also
increased by 3 percent —
now between $296 and $400
more — as part of the vote. A
statement in the University
Record from the regents said
the additional funds from
the increase will be used
to improve residence hall
facilities.
“This
marks
the
ninth
consecutive year of residence
hall operating cost increasing
by 1 percent or less,” the
statement
reads.
“With
eight residence halls still in
need of major upgrades, the
overall 3 percent increase
will cover essential housing
services
while
supporting
future
renovations
and
maintenance.”
Regents
may
move
investment decisions out of
public meeting agendas
University
officials
are
currently
considering
removing
voting
on
investment decisions from
the regents meeting agendas,
bringing previously public
investment
conversations
behind closed doors.
According to a statement
from the University, the board
would vote to establish broad
guidelines
for
investment
decisions and then allow the
previously public votes to be
made by the investment office
staff.
University
spokesperson
Rick Fitzgerald said in a press
release the current protocol
far more public compared to
other institutions and is not
necessary.
“U-M goes beyond what
peer
institutions
consider
necessary by presenting new
investments to the Board
of
Regents
in
public
session to be approved
before the investments
are executed,” Fitzgerald
wrote. “A more common
practice would be for
the Board of Regents to
annually
approve
the
types of investments that
are appropriate for U-M
and what percentage of
total
investments
are
appropriate
for
each
investment type.”
The
decision
came
months after the Detroit
Free Press published an
investigation claiming the
University had invested
funds into the properties
of large donors to the
University,
including
Stephen
Ross,
Sandy
Robertson and more.
After the Detroit Free
Press
report,
student
organizations
such
as
Roosevelt
Institute
and College Democrats
published public callsfor
the
University
to
be
more transparent about
investment
practices.
LSA
senior
Christopher
Olson,
an author of a resolution
from
Roosevelt,
requested
the
University
publicly
characterize the nature of
endowment funds and future
investments.
“As students we have a
vested interest in how the
endowment is used to promote
the educational excellence of
this University,” Olson wrote.
“Conflicts of interest with
University endowment have
the potential to reduce the
returns of the endowment
which in turn will reduce the
money which could be used to
reduce the cost of tuition.”
Judge rules in favor of
Bias Response Team in First
Amendment case
In May, a group of students
backed by an advocacy group
called Speech First sued the
University
for
infringing
on their First Amendment
rights with the use of the
Bias
Response
Team.
A
federal judge sided with the
University in early August,
denying
Speech
First’s
motion to end use of the BRT.
The BRT, housed under
the Dean of Students office,
responds to students’ reports
of bias incidents involving
race,
ethnicity,
gender,
sexuality, religion, age and
other identities.
The lawsuit was the first
of its kind nationally and
alleged
the
University’s
speech
code
was
too
broad and vague to punish
students. As Judge Linda
V. Parker stated, however,
the BRT’s investigations do
not constitute a significant
threat to a student accused of
perpetuating bias.
“Even
if
the
record
reflected that the BRT had
criticized
an
individual’s
speech, there would be no
First Amendment violation
‘in the absence of some actual
or
threatened
imposition
of governmental power or
sanction,’”
Parker’s
ruling
read.
The Department of Justice
filed a statement in support of
Speech First’s suit, accusing
the University of censoring
student speech.
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