Coleman, 
launched 
the 

campaign in 2013, and more 
than 382,000 donors have 
contributed since. The $5 
billion in funds includes $1.1 
billion for student support, 
surpassing 
the 
campaign’s 

designated $1 billion goal. 
Schlissel 
emphasized 
the 

importance of the school’s 
$11 billion endowment and 
fundraising efforts like the 
Victors 
campaign 
to 
the 

University and its reputation.

“The difference between 

Michigan being a very good 
public university in the Big 
Ten and being one of the global 
leaders in higher education 
and research is the Victors 
campaign,” Schlissel said.

Schlissel thanked donors 

for their support, including 
Richard and Susan Rogel, 
who 
committed 
$150 

million to the University of 
Michigan 
Comprehensive 

Cancer Center in March. The 

center was renamed the Rogel 
Cancer Center in their honor. 
Schlissel said the donation 
was the largest gift in the 
history of Michigan Medicine.

Eric R. Fearon, the center’s 

director, said the donation 
helped 
to 
advance 
cancer 

research 
and 
technology 

while 
providing 
support 

to hire new scientists and 
offer scholarships to medical 
students.

“Philanthropy is critical,” 

Fearon said. “It allows us 
to launch high-risk, high-
reward research and support 
promising young faculty, as 
well as senior faculty, to pursue 
new directions in their work. 
It provides the foundation 
to generate the preliminary 
studies and data needed to be 
successful in obtaining federal 
grant funding.”

During 
a 
question-and-

answer 
session, 
sociology 

lecturer Ian Robinson asked 
Schlissel about the possibility 
of including the University’s 
Flint and Dearborn campuses 
in the Go Blue Guarantee, 
which promises free tuition 

for in-state students in Ann 
Arbor who have with family 
incomes under $65,000.

“I’m 
wondering 
with 

the kind of resources the 
University 
has, 
based 
on 

the 
capital 
campaign’s 

extraordinary success, if it 
wouldn’t be possible to do that, 
to extend the Go Blue promise 
to those campuses, where a 
much higher percentage of the 
students probably qualify for 
that,” Robinson said.

Schlissel said the Go Blue 

Guarantee in Ann Arbor was 
“driven by the fact that we 
don’t have nearly adequate 
economic diversity on this 
campus,” whereas the Flint 
and Dearborn campuses have 
higher levels of socioeconomic 
diversity. He also said because 
the 
three 
campuses 
have 

separate finances, Ann Arbor 
did not have the financial 
means to extend the Go 
Blue Guarantee to the other 
campuses.

“What I think we need 

to do together, to be honest, 
is the state of Michigan is 
49th of the 50 states in their 

direct-to-student support 
for 
need-based 
student 

scholarships,” 
Schlissel 

said. “State governments 
have to step in and protect 
and support their citizens, 
and even a great university 
like Michigan can’t replace 
the state government.”

Parity 
between 

campuses 
has 
been 
a 

longstanding 
source 

of 
tension. 
Last 
year, 

the 
University’s 

lecturers’ union lobbied 
for the same salary levels 
for members teaching on 
the Flint and Dearborn 
campuses. 
Schlissel’s 

remarks 
about 
varying 

economic 
diversity 
is 

largely correct — students 
on 
the 
University’s 

other 
campuses 
come 

from 
lower-income 

backgrounds, 
according 

to data from the Equality 
of Opportunity project. 
The medican household 
incomes of students on the 
Flint campus is $105,200 

and $94,500 for students in 
Dearborn, as compared to the 
$154,000 median on the Ann 
Arbor campus.

The 
Thursday 
breakfast 

was Schlissel’s final formal 
leadership convening of his 
current term. Last month, 
the Regents voted to extend 
the president’s contract by 
another five years.

Schlissel’s 
pledge 
comes 

after the Regents meeting in 
September, where students 
criticized 
the 
University 

for the size of its carbon 
footprint and urged it to 
do more to combat climate 
change. Engineering junior 
Logan Vear is a member of the 
Climate 
Action 
Movement, 

which has been advocating 
for a commitment to carbon 
neutrality on campus since 
the beginning of the year 
by pressuring the Board of 
Regents 
and 
Schlissel 
to 

commit to carbon neutrality.

Vear 
said 
Schlissel’s 

commitment was a “great 
start” in the discussion of 
carbon neutrality, but noted 
the lack of “minutiae” in his 
announcement.

“Within his comment, there 

was no explicit statement 
committing 
the 
University 

to 
carbon 
neutrality, 
but 

rather, commiting to ‘putting 
U-M on a trajectory towards 
carbon neutrality and levels of 
greenhouse gas release that are 
environmentally sustainable’ 
which does not clearly define 
what the exact scope of the 
reduction goal may be,” Vear 
wrote. “Additionally, he failed 
to present a deadline in which 
this ‘goal’ may be achieved. 
Therefore, although we are 
gratified 
to 
see 
progress 

towards this complex issue, 
we will continue to push for 
a concrete date as well as the 
establishment of intermediate 
goals to get there. We are 
excited 
to 
continue 
this 

conversation.”

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