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B Crichton
@CrichtonBrad
University of Michigan
graduates 79% of students.
Ohio State 59%. Good to
know they have a good
football team
incorrect 5fgwz quotes
@5fgwz
why does michigan have both
a michigan state university
AND a university of michigan
how many do you need
Craven Moorehead
@McPlvce
I hate being a University of
Michigan fan. I HATE IT
Fun Girl.
@crowned1_
The more college campuses
I visit the more I realize
the University of Michigan
is mad pretty (April-
September)
Amanda
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Hey, anyone know of any
good voids I can scream into
@UMich?
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@imagepoor
I started my personal
statement with “I talked
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counselor deleted it. Now
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.
Read more at
MichiganDaily.com
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