January 10, 2019 (vol. 128, iss. 50) • Page Image 3
… Middle Eastern/ North African community was not included on any University of Michigan documents. Arab students marked themselves as white or other. Kedra Ishop, vice provost for enrollment…
… in an email interview with The Daily. LSA junior Silan Fadlal- lah, who is currently the group coordinator for the IWG, believes the inclusion of a ME/NA identity helps Arab students feel…
… students accountable, much like Alpha Sigma Phi did, and not use a chapter of 150+ members as a scapegoat or a mechanism to retaliate against because the chap- ter voluntarily surrendered campus…
… manage- ment, oversees key offices within the University that supervise the collection and reporting of student data. Ishop said input from the Islamophobia Working Group, the organization in…
… response to input from groups, such as the Islamophobia Working Group and student organi- zations including CSG, that sought better reflection of MENA identities in Univer- sity statistics,” Ishop wrote…
… race and ethnicity categories for reports to them.” However, many Arab stu- dents feel including the Middle Eastern and North African identities under the white racial category is sim- ply…
… different cultures and customs from the ME/NA region. If you go by the Cen- sus, yes it says we are white, but try turning on the news and listening to them talk about any Arab and/or ME/ NA country…
…- ties between the Latinx and Arab communities. “The Latinx and Hispanic category is very similar in that you have racially Black identifying Latinx individ- uals, or racially white iden- tifying, or…
… its own separate ethnic identi- fier.” Brammer empathized with Middle Eastern and North African students who feel their identities are not accurately represented under a white racial cat…

