At a special meeting in early April, the school board voted 4–3 to have superintendent Jazz Parks warn most of the district’s unions of impending layoffs. They did so, president Torchio Feaster says, because they needed “to send a realistic plan to the state” for how to address a $25 million shortfall.
Read MoreQ. The U-M is always growing, and when it purchases property in the city, it is removed from the city’s tax rolls. Does the U-M make any payments to the city for services such as police and fire protection, road maintenance,...
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“Do you have a medical marijuana card?” asked a woman from HireRight, the company the U-M uses for...
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A distraught woman stares into the middle distance against an ominous red background; from a jagged voice bubble comes her anguished cry: “… NOW WHAT?”
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The U-M’s enrollment fell less than 1 percent during the pandemic and it’s been rising ever since.
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The Ann Arbor Board of Education voted 5–2 on September 13 to accept superintendent Jeanice Swift’s resignation.
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“This could be what makes the next rocket to Mars possible,” says Ravi Pendse, his voice sparking...
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On Sunday, August 6, the Ann Arbor board of education canceled its meeting scheduled for the...
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After Affirmative Action: At the end of June, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down affirmative...
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After a long weekend wrangling 5,000 high school scullers at the Midwest Scholastic Rowing...
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No one was expecting a global pandemic in November 2019, when voters passed a twenty-year, $1...
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In February 2022, the regents voted to build a 1,200-bed dorm on North Campus. Less than ten...
Read MoreQ. What is the background to the memorial for Edward Lorraine Walter in the U-M Grad Library? The inscription on the stained-glass window reads “Lost at Sea.” A. Walter was a U-M professor of languages, born in Litchfield,...
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Playing the academic game: The life of an academic can be difficult. There’s the challenge of...
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After sorting through thirteen candidates, voters last month returned twenty-year vet Susan...
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In his eleven years at CHS, Strassel taught acting and produced thirty-three shows for the...
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The digital age is tough for memorabilia collectors like Ken Magee. The law enforcement consultant...
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Control of city council was effectively decided in August, when candidates supported by mayor...
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In 1882, Moses Fleetwood Walker led the U-M baseball team to a 10–3 season. The next year, he...
Read MoreQ. Why does campus have a Diag? Was it planned from the start? A. An 1854 map of campus shows a dozen university buildings placed on the edges of the campus, but no Diag. The pastoral campus interior was without trees, allowing...
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