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… that the University has to help them succeed.” The Office of Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs and the Arab Student Association also hosted an event called SALAM — Successful Arab Leaders at…

… Michigan. SALAM is a two- day program that aims to introduce incoming Arab students to campus resources, support networks and the Arab community. They met with current students and faculty, and as…

… building the social and emotional wellbeing of incoming students. “I know that we’ve done programs like Arab and Latinx Wolverine Day where we’re trying to show new admitted students all the…

…. As students make their way back into classrooms this week, multiple departments and professors include clauses on free speech and dialogue in their syllabi. “Now as interim dean, I plan…

… to champion some fundamental values of a liberal arts and sciences education — citizenship, engagement, and true dialogue,” LSA interim dean Elizabeth Cole wrote in an email to students Thursday…

…. Education senior Camyrea Barnes, BSU secretary, said Umoja and other Black Welcome Week events can be crucial programming for incoming students. “The Black community, when I was a freshman…

… with microaggressions, when they deal with bias incidents that happen to them, or just being a student here — that they know that they have the Black community here to lean on.” Music, Theatre…

… support for incoming Black students,” Levy said. “You can sign up to be a big sib or a little sib. So for freshmen, I’m a little sib so you’ll get a mentor ... at the event, they gave us soul food…

… Week for their new peers. Students groups such as Black Student Union, the African Student Association, the Caribbean Student Association, Arab Student Association and Assisting…

…’s multicultural student organizations often play an critical role in creating communities for minority students. This year, multiple student organizations made strides to create a more inclusive Welcome…

… Latin@s to Maximize Achievement all held events during this year’s Welcome Week to welcome students back to campus. The Office of Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs assisted in a number of events as…

… well. While this year’s enrollment report has yet to be released, underrepresented minorities make up 12.8 percent of the undergraduate student body, according to last fall’s figures…

…. Students participate in events for Black Welcome Week on the Diag Monday. Buy this photo Sarah Kunkel/Daily The second annual Umoja Festival was one of the many events organized by the Black…

… Welcome Week committee this year. “Umoja” is a Swahili word for unity, and the BSU, African Student Association and the Caribbean Student Association all planned the event. The festival, held on…

… be publishing recaps of the summer’s breaking news. This past summer, the University of Michigan Board of Regents weighed decisions involving student fees, tuition rates, investment…

… committee MATT HARMON Daily News Editor Multicultural student orgs welcome new students with community events Events emphasize belonging, offer support for incoming minority freshmen CATHERINE NOUHAN…

… in Nov. CARLY RYAN Daily News Editor SARAH KUNKEL/Daily Students participate in events for Black Welcome Week on the Diag Monday. GOT A NEWS TIP? Call 734-418-4115 or e-mail news…

… a work stoppage. U-M nurses’ union to vote on potential work strike Symposium highlights LGBTQ inclusion, mentorship in research CAT MYKOLAJTCHUK/Daily Students, faculty and staff attend the…

… moment of silence, and then proceeded to silence all debate on gun reform. Finally, after last month’s shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School where 17 high school students were murdered in one of…

… actors who are not part of the gun industry, including themselves. Republican leaders blamed the police, the FBI, the school’s administration and even the students in Parkland, Fla. To a certain…

… Authority’s Bureau of Statistics. According to numerous scholars, including Yoram Ettinger and Caroline Glick, the population of Arabs living in the Palestinian territories has been greatly…

… inflated. In particular, Ettinger identifies almost 400,000 Palestinians living abroad, 300,000 Jerusalem Arabs with dual ID cards who have been double counted by Israelis and…

… Palestinians, and an overexaggerated Arab birth rate. This, among other disparities, contributes to a total of almost 1.15 million “invisible” Arabs who aren’t counted in the census. The importance of…

… this apparent miscalculation cannot be overstated. This existence or absence of 1.15 million Arabs can very well determine which group (Jews or Arabs) will be the majority demographic in the…

… Editor 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. ALEXA ST. JOHN Editor in Chief ANU ROY…

… radical column to bona fide Daily section, MiC continues to grow to meet the needs of communities of color across campus. Along with sharing the narratives of the lives of students of color, we are…

…. She said: “Take us for exam- ple. Someone could write a book about being an Arab American from Dearborn and just walk us through their every-day lives. It doesn’t even have to be heavy! It could…

… as your founding editors, we want you to keep MiC’s history in mind as you invest in its future. R ima: I grew up in Dear- born, Michigan — home to the largest concentration of Arabs in one city…

… outside of the Middle East. Ironically, I didn’t realize how “Arab” I was until I came to Michigan, a school that is 72 percent white. I spent my first three years trying to understand why I felt…

…’s publica- tion should make room for a space like this if it was going to claim to be rep- resentative of all students on campus. I first approached the Daily expressing interest in one of their columnist…

… applications for that position and, no offense, but we usually only offer those positions to really important people. Like students who are really heavily involved on campus. You can still join edit…

… biting my tongue was something I would have to get used to doing while in the student publication building. After all, that’s what the other two POCs in the room did — even when [white] people on…

…meeting, the board, led by University President Mark Schlissel, voted to increase student tuition rates for the third year in a row. In-state tuition increased by 2.9 percent and out…

…-of-state student tuition went from $47,452 to $49,326. The board voted 7-1 to approve the tuition hike. Regent Andrea Newman, R, was the only board member to oppose the hike. In the meeting, she said she…

… voted against the motion in an effort to keep University costs affordable for students. “I’ve said this before, and I feel this is the real opportunity to make this statement,” Newman…

… regents pointed to recent initiatives such as the Go Blue Guarantee — a full-tuition financial aid package for all in-state students whose families make less than $65,000 a year — as worthwhile…

…, including Stephen Ross, Sandy Robertson and more. After the Detroit Free Press report, student organizations such as Roosevelt Institute and College Democrats published public callsfor…

… only when non-Arabs are involved.” Graduate student instructor Elizabeth Walz spoke against all study-abroad programs located in Israel, claiming they contribute to the violation of Palestinian…

… move forward with creating your carbon neutrality taskforce, I strongly encourage you to engage students, especially undergraduate students, in this endeavor,” Stults said. “I also encourage…

… you to think about engaging youth, these are the next generation of leaders.” Moving on to conversations around the University’s relationship with the state of Israel, Rackham student…

… letter of recommendation for a student wishing to study abroad in Israel. The University’s decision to admonish Cheney-Lippold stirred discussion on campus regarding the role of faculty’s academic…

… freedoms in regards to their students. Following Cheney-Lippold’s punishment, Provost Martin Philbert appointed a faculty panel to investigate these issues, though the group has been criticized as…

… resolutions in the past. Students Allied for Freedom and Equality, a group of students promoting social justice and human rights of Palestinians, brought the original resolution, which sought to divest…

… funds from companies committing human rights violations against Palestinians in Israel, to the forefront of University conversation over the past decade and a half. Last year, Central Student…

… Government passed the divestment resolution for the first time ever, joining student governments on the Flint and Dearborn campuses in their support. However, a majority of the regents refused to…

… consider SAFE’s call for a committee to investigate the University’s investments, releasing an online statement on the matter weeks after the resolution. U-M Dearborn student Susan Yaseen spoke of a…

… lack of support Palestinian students felt from the University on its Dearborn campus. Yaseen also expressed disappointment in the University’s handling of the resolution for divestment. “We…

… joining TFA. When she started teaching at a predominantly Black school in Detroit, she saw that the most of her fellow teachers hailed from much more affluent upbringings than their students…

…. As someone who grew up in a predominantly Arab school with white teachers who also didn’t share her life experiences — and therefore had trouble relating to her culture and identity — Rima…

… quickly realized the need for teachers to empathize with their students. She felt her impact would be felt most if she worked within the system and educated her co-workers on approaching people of…

… color and cultural responsiveness. This realization allowed her to impact her workplace because it opened up previously closed lines of communication between her, her co-workers and the students…

… with recruiting students of color. After realizing that both of these goals could be achieved by working together, the three went to Andrew Weiner, the editor-in-chief in 2013. This meeting with…

…’s multitudes in mind while reading submissions,” she told us. “As students of color have such a wide range of perspectives and experiences that all contribute to the vibrancy and dynamic of MiC.” We ended…