and we were trying to see if there 
were similar programs at different 
universities that would just be 
studying class more broadly, and 
there weren’t any,” Schandevel 
said. “It’s another way to make 
sense of the world, and having 
a space to study it as its own 
minor gives it some credibility. 
And, 
hopefully, 
we’ll 
attract 
people across the country who 
are studying it in their own ways 
to come to the University and 
have this be a central location for 
analyzing those types of things.”
When 
Schandevel 
started 
looking into creating a new 
minor, she met with LSA senior 
Meaghan Wheat at the end of their 
freshman year. They discussed 
the idea further that summer, 
then began emailing faculty in 
different departments to gauge 

interest. After talking with people 
from various academic fields, 
Schandevel said she and Wheat 
met with Rosario Ceballo, who 
was the Women’s Studies chair in 
the 2017 winter term. Schandevel 
said Ceballo expressed interest in 
housing a program of class studies 
as a minor within the department.
From there, Schandevel said 
this partnership turned into a 
task force comprised of faculty 
from 
the 
Residential 
College 
and the Sociology Department. 
In addition, the task force had 
representation 
from 
different 
groups on campus, including the 
Program on Intergroup Relations, 
First-Generation College Students, 
Black-Asian 
Student 
Coalition, 
South Asian Awareness Network 
and Native American Student 
Association. 
The 
group 
met 
monthly to create the proposal for 
the minor.
“We found all the people for 
the task force: the faculty and the 

students,” Wheat said. “We really 

had a goal of having students 
who have different identities and 
different experiences … so that 
we weren’t just getting the same 
story about social class over and 
over and over again. We wanted 
to have that diversity and breadth 
of experience, and I think that 
we did succeed in that in the 
best of our ability. It was a lot of 
brainstorming among people who 
are super passionate, which was 
super empowering to be there and 
to listen.”
The task force finished its 
work at the end of the Winter 
2017 term. To get the minor 
approved, 
it 
would 
have 
to take its proposal to the 
Women’s Studies faculty for a 
vote and the LSA Curriculum 
Committee to be approved.
Schandevel 
said 
the 
proposal almost failed the 
full-faculty vote because of 
concerns about the curriculum 
requirements 
from 
some 
staff members. One of the key 
reasons it passed was because 
of faculty like Abby Stewart, 
a Sandra Schwartz Tangri 
distinguished 
university 
professor of psychology and 
women’s studies, who helped 
garner faculty support for the 
minor.
Stewart worked with the 
Women’s Studies faculty and 
edited the proposal based on 
their input. In October 2018, 
the proposal passed the faculty 
vote and now awaits a decision 
from the LSA Curriculum 
Committee.
“The 
task 
force 
asked 
Women’s Studies to consider 

sponsoring the minor, and the 
Department held discussions of it 
last spring, and then discussed it 
again this fall and voted to sponsor 
it,” Stewart wrote in an email. “We 
will propose it to LSA this semester 
for their consideration, which will 
take place on their timeline.”
In April 2018, former LSA 
Dean Andrew Martin emailed 
department chairs about the LSA 
Executive Committee’s decisionto 
place a hold on new minors housed 
within 
LSA. 
The 
reasoning, 
according to the email, was to 
halt the production of new minors 
and instead focus on reviewing 
existing minors. At the time of the 
decision, there were 111 minors 
available in LSA.
Though 
the 
Executive 
Committee’s 
ruling 
stands 
through 
this 
semester 
— 
theoretically barring approval of 
the proposal — Schandevel said the 
class minor will receive a decision 
thanks to help from LSA Associate 
Dean Angela Dillard and other 
administrators.
Now, Schandevel said what 
happens to the minor is mostly 
out 
of 
the 
students’ 
hands. 
She said the Women’s Studies 
administrators are tweaking the 
proposal based off concerns from 
faculty. Then, the administrators 
themselves will present it to the 
LSA 
Curriculum 
Committee. 
Schandevel 
said 
Dillard 
is 
advising the administrators on the 
presentation.
While the minor would be 
housed in LSA if approved, it is 
not restricted to students in other 
schools. 
Schandevel 
has 
had 
interest from students in the Ford 
School of Public Policy and Ross 
School of Business, in addition 
to students pursuing a variety of 
majors within LSA.
Schandevel said she and Wheat 
are still in disbelief that the minor 
is in its final stages. While she has 
had support, she said there have 
been people who questioned the 
necessity of the minor. 

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percent increase in the 
fall freshman class of 
students whose 
household incomes are 
$65,000 or less. 
Additionally, about 26 
percent of in-state 
undergraduates are 
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In a survey of 435 
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students conducted by 
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polled students who are 
registered to vote in 
Michigan plan to vote in 
the gubernatorial election 
on Tuesday.

At a panel last Monday 
night, City Council 
members urged voters to 
fail Proposal A, which 
would reject the plans of 
constructing a 17-story 
building in the Library 
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Among surveyed students 
who are registered to 
vote in Michigan, 69 
percent plan to vote for 
Gretchen Whitmer, 14 
percent plan to vote for 
Bill Schuette, 15 percent 
are unsure and 1 percent 
plan to vote for another 
candidate.

The panelists argued that 
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