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… communities and our ability to feel welcome on campus.” Public Policy junior Arwa Gayar, the co-president of the Arab Student Association, echoed Muñoz’s sentiments about the convenience of a…

… centrally located Trotter Center. “A lot of the Arab students, when they come together after class, they’re usually in the Fishbowl and last year it would be in the basement of the Union,” Gayar said…

…“It really started decades and decades ago when folks were calling for a new Trotter to recognize Black student rights in general, since the ’70s and ’80s and ’90s,” he said. Collier earned his…

… for students of color. But, like I said, I always mention the Black student organizations because Trotter started off as the Black house and then it moved to the multicultural center. I just want…

… to make sure that this remains a house and a safe space for Black students here on campus.” This sentiment of paying homage to those who came before was a common thread in many of the words…

… Thaddeus R. Harrison, the only student activist with a criminal conviction for his role in BAM that has not been overturned. Student activism has been a driving force for the prosperity of these…

… movements, and these efforts are apparent in the construction of the Trotter Center’s space. During all steps in the process of the Trotter Center’s design and planning of its architecture, student…

… McKinney and Secretary Camyrea Barnes. Barnes spoke of the tireless, accumulative efforts of Black students who have fought for a space to share their experiences. “I’m speechless. My heart is…

… full right now. Just knowing the work and the efforts that many of the Black students on this campus have been putting into for 50 years now, and now that it’s being fulfilled, it’s like a full…

… circle of life. It’s up for the future generation of Black students to keep the momentum going.” E. Royster Harper, vice president for student life, reiterated this in her speech to the packed…

…/NA-identifying students formed the #WeExist campaign, asking the University to add the ME/NA identity category to University documents. At the time, the University followed the U.S. Census, which does not have…

… a ME/NA identity category. Thus, ME/NA-identifying individuals can only mark themselves as white or other, which many — including Public Policy senior Arwa Gayar, co-present of the Arab…

… Student Association — feel do not accurately represent their identity. “There was something uneasy about putting white, and I didn’t want to put African American because I don’t want to co…

… identity data on internal University documents, such as on surveys, undergraduate admissions applications and Rackham Graduate School admissions applications. The email explained some students may…

… find the extended ethnicity data they shared during the admissions process already entered in Wolverine Access. The email also noted the new process gives students “greater flexibility in…

… every student at the University must fill out the form. He expressed excitement for the new extended ethnicity process on Wolverine Access, which he sees as a means to collect potentially…

… useful supplemental data on the student population. To Elharake, however, the new ethnicity designation process is also critical for better understanding the University’s faculty and staff…

… population, for which there is no mechanism such as admissions applications to collect ethnicity data. “It’s great that this collects extended ethnicity data for students, but the more important…

… also illuminate issues of representation, such as how many staff and faculty of a given identity there are across different units, and if the makeup of faculty and staff reflects the student…

… Fadlallah, founding sister and president of Epsilon Alpha Sigma, the first Arab sorority in the United States, was also a leader in the #WeExist campaign. She noted the data could help the…