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This Week in History 

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B Crichton
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University of Michigan 
graduates 79% of students. 
Ohio State 59%. Good to 
know they have a good 
football team

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why does michigan have both 
a michigan state university 
AND a university of michigan 
how many do you need

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I hate being a University of 
Michigan fan. I HATE IT

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The more college campuses 
I visit the more I realize 
the University of Michigan 
is mad pretty (April-
September)

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I started my personal 
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UMich is going to miss a 
huge part of my personality

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Muñoz has been a Michigan 
resident ever since his family left 
Mexico 20 years ago. 
“I got here when I was four 
years old, I turned five here,” 
Muñoz said. “I stayed in Detroit, 
Michigan. Literally from there 
forward I never left state. I’ve 
been going to Michigan schools 
since then and I’ve been going 
to school continuously. Even 
after graduating (high school), I 
never stopped, but I’m still being 
considered out-of-state.”
When Muñoz was accepted to 
the University, he was ecstatic, 
but it was not until he was already 
enrolled in Taubman College 
of 
Architecture 
and 
Urban 
Planning in fall 2018 he found 
out he did not qualify for in-state 
tuition. At the time Muñoz 
entered the University, residency 
eligibility required students to 
have attended an accredited 
Michigan high school for at least 
three years, attended a Michigan 
middle school for two years and 
to enroll at the University within 
28 months of graduating high 
school. Muñoz satisfied the first 
two requirements, but because 
he enrolled 60 months after 
graduating high school, he was 
told he owed the University out-
of-state tuition for the fall 2018 
semester. 
“I was already in the fall 
program when it turned out that 
there was nothing that could 
be done,” Muñoz said. “Even 
with my appeals … I was already 
enrolled. That meant that I had to 
pay that tuition. We went to try 
and get it resolved with Regents. 
The policy was not resolved in 
the fall. For winter semester, my 
professors allowed me to attend 
the classes, do the work, get an 
informal grade, but I couldn’t 
register, so it’s not formally on my 
transcript.” 
In July, the Board of Regents 
approved a revision extending 
the enrollment time limit from 
28 months to 40 months, but 
the policy revision still does not 
apply to Muñoz. After appealing 

his enrollment status, applying 
for scholarships and revising the 
policy, Muñoz said he exhausted 
all efforts and had to start the 
GoFundMe, his last resort and an 
option he wished he did not have 
to use. 
“I tried everything,” Muñoz 
said. “I tried changing the policy, 
I tried scholarships, I tried 
everything else that I could and 
that didn’t work. This is why 
I’m doing it. It’s not like, ‘Give 
me money.’ That’s not what I’m 
trying to say. I just want to finish 
my education.” 
Muñoz said taking an extended 
amount of time to complete an 
associate’s degree and transfer 
to the University was a common 
situation 
for 
undocumented 
students who often come from 
lower 
income 
backgrounds. 
According to a University Record 
article on the July update, Kedra 
Ishop, vice provost for enrollment 
management, said there was 
sufficient evidence supporting a 
residency time limit extension. 
“It’s not surprising that these 
students often need to take longer 
to finance and achieve their 
eventual successful application 
and enrollment,” Ishop said. 
“We need to make sure that we 
maintain reasonable access for 
those who need to stop along the 
way, for instance to work, but 
who continue to achieve and are 
great candidates for U-M.”
University spokeswoman Kim 
Broekhuizen wrote in an email 
interview with The Daily that 
residency rules apply to all of 
those who qualify and noted the 
appeals process for students and 
families who wish to have their 
residency decision considered.
“Residency rules apply to all 
students who qualify,” Broekhuizen 
wrote. “Additionally, an appeals 
process exists for students/families 
who wish to have their residency 
decision reconsidered.”
Muñoz said he tried appealing 
the decision, but his case was 
rejected. 
The University is now requiring 
him 
to 
pay 
approximately 
$106,000: the remaining balance 
of his fall 2018 tuition, which is 
$26,700 per semester, and $80,000 

for the three remaining semesters. 
LSA 
senior 
Barbara 
Diaz, 
co-founder and outreach chair 
of 
Student 
Community 
of 
Progressive 
Empowerment, 
a 
student organization supporting 
undocumented 
students 
on 
campus, said many states already 
have 
in-state 
tuition 
policies 
specific to undocumented students. 
These policies often require a 
certain number of years attending 
a middle school and high school in 
the state and ask the student to sign 
an affidavit agreeing to apply for 
citizenship as soon as they are able. 
“Michigan for some reason 
doesn’t have a policy like that,” 
Diaz said. “It’s really up to each 
university to come up with its 
own policy on how they want to 
move students in. U of M is in a 
very complicated situation because 
there is such a large difference 
between in-state and out-of-state 
students. In terms of coming up 
with a way to amend the policy, it 
was trying to find a way to increase 
access, but not too much where 
people who aren’t from the state 
are able to apply or get in-state 
tuition.” 
Diaz is also a DACA recipient 
and noted the importance of 
showing 
prospective 
students 
who are undocumented they can 
apply to and attend the University. 
She emphasized the significance 
of building community in a time 
where the continuation of DACA is 
uncertain at the federal level. 
“You always hear about students 
thinking that they can’t go to college 
because they’re undocumented,” 
Diaz said. “Something with SCOPE 
is how do we reach out more to 
people? How can we mentor other 
students? How can we form those 
connections? Sometimes it feels like 
our goal is just to survive … especially 
right now with DACA going back 
to the Supreme Court … We’re 
worried about what happens if we 
lose status in a couple months.” 
While 
acknowledging 
the 
potential benefits from Muñoz’s 
GoFundMe would outweigh the 
risks, Diaz noted the mental and 
emotional burden of being an 
undocumented student.
“Just by being undocumented, 
and you being in this country, 
that inherently makes you not 
entitled to anything,” Diaz 
said. “You spend your whole 
existence trying to prove other 
people wrong about that.”
Muñoz and Diaz said the 
current hold on DACA puts 
immense pressure on DACA 
recipients, many of whom feel 
left in the dark about their 
immigration status. The DACA 
application halt has not stopped 
all 
undocumented 
students 
from enrolling at the University, 
but they are now enrolling as 
undocumented and not DACA-
documented.
“Currently, 
the 
program 
is 
still 
there,” 
Diaz 
said. 
“Hopefully it stays safe and 
expands 
and 
allows 
more 
people to apply.” 
The U.S. Supreme Court 
is currently considering if 
President Trump can continue 
with a shutdown of DACA for 
nearly 700,000 undocumented 
immigrants, and the decision 
would determine if DACA 
has an immediate end as 
opposed to a gradual wind-
down. However, a decision 
is not expected until 2020, 

and if a Democrat wins the 2020 
presidential race, Trump may lose 
his chance to end the program 
altogether. 
Muñoz echoed Diaz’ sentiments, 
noting in his senior year of high 
school he was unaware he could 
attend 
the 
University 
as 
an 
undocumented student. Fear of 
revealing his immigration status to 
the University restrained him from 
asking for help, he said. 
“My dream in high school was to 
get here as a freshman, but I didn’t 
even think that an undocumented 
person could come here,” Muñoz 
said. “Disclosing status is very 
scary, so I didn’t try and ask anyone 
here. It’s a big institution, it’s also a 
public institution which has ties to 
the government, so I wasn’t going to 
disclose. If I could have come here 
as a freshman I would have done 
so. I couldn’t, also, financially so I 
decided to go through community 
college.” 
Muñoz 
said 
starting 
his 
GoFundMe 
was 
terrifying 
because he had to disclose his 
undocumented status — possibly 
endangering his family by openly 
sharing his status with strangers on 
the Internet. 
“I was terrified, I had fear of 
backlash, I had fear of failure,” 
Muñoz said. “Now that my status 
is disclosed, at first it was okay, but 
after a day, I got a hateful message. 
And then more and more started 
just showing up … I see that it’s 
getting shared more and more and 
that means more people are going 
to know my status. I knew this came 
with it, I knew it was a risk, but this 
was my last resort … I don’t want to 
give up on being an architect.”
In October 2017, the U-M Student 
Community 
for 
Progressive 
Empowerment 
held 
a 
rally 
with four key requests: clearer 
resources 
for 
undocumented 
prospective 
students, 
an 
extension of the requirements to 
qualify for in-state tuition, a point 
person within administration for 
undocumented students and fully 
met financial aid for those who 
qualify. 
Broekhuizen 
cited 
the 
University’s 
resources 
for 
DACA 
recipients 
and 
other 
undocumented 
student 
as 
continued engagement with 
the undocumented community 
and organizations like SCOPE. 
 
“The University maintains 
a dedicated site specifically 
designed to address the needs 
of our undocumented student 
community,” 
Broekhuizen 
wrote. 
“Furthermore, 
the 
University 
has 
actively 
engaged 
with 
the 
DACA/
undocumented 
community 
through 
the 
Office 
of 
Enrollment 
Management; 
Office of Diversity, Equity 
and Inclusion; Student Life; 
the International Center; CEW+; 
Office of Government Relations, 
and others to identify resources 
and to make transparent how 
DACA/Undocumented 
students 
can navigate these issues.” 
Additional 
resources 
Broekhuizen highlighted included 
undocumented-specific sites for 
admissions, financial aid and 
Rackham, as well as the Spanish-
language sites for admissions and 
financial aid. 

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