What’s Next for AAPS?
A week after school let out in June, the Ann Arbor Board of Education voted to release a devastating report on the mistakes leading to a multimillion-dollar hole in the district’s budget.
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Education
Preparing Public Defenders
The U-M Law School’s Public Defender Training Institute, led by Primus with assistance from three alumni, prepares students for the realities of work— and life—as a public defender.
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Emerson Turns Fifty
Emerson celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in April at Michigan Stadium. “We raised a significant amount of money,” Beckerleg emails, “with the bulk of it going to support our financial aid program—including a new middle-school scholarship in honor of Jean Navarre.
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Funding Fight
The assembly controls a budget of about $1.2 million that traditionally supports dozens of student organizations. Chowdhury and Atkinson, who spent nights at the encampment on the Diag in April and May, want to give it to Palestinian groups instead.
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Over the Cliff
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 MoreQuestion Corner | March 2024
Q. 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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Fired for CBD
“Do you have a medical marijuana card?” asked a woman from HireRight, the company the U-M uses for...
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Do the Humanities Have a Future?
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 Big Get Bigger
The U-M’s enrollment fell less than 1 percent during the pandemic and it’s been rising ever since.
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Ten and Done
The Ann Arbor Board of Education voted 5–2 on September 13 to accept superintendent Jeanice Swift’s resignation.
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Chatbots Go to College
“This could be what makes the next rocket to Mars possible,” says Ravi Pendse, his voice sparking...
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Swift Decision
On Sunday, August 6, the Ann Arbor board of education canceled its meeting scheduled for the...
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After Affirmative Action
After Affirmative Action: At the end of June, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down affirmative...
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Kit Bennett
After a long weekend wrangling 5,000 high school scullers at the Midwest Scholastic Rowing...
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Jeanice Swift’s Decade
No one was expecting a global pandemic in November 2019, when voters passed a twenty-year, $1...
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New Dorms at Last
In February 2022, the regents voted to build a 1,200-bed dorm on North Campus. Less than ten...
Read MoreQuestion Corner | January 2023
Q. 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
Playing the academic game: The life of an academic can be difficult. There’s the challenge of...
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Boards and Judges
After sorting through thirteen candidates, voters last month returned twenty-year vet Susan...
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Plays at Pathways
In his eleven years at CHS, Strassel taught acting and produced thirty-three shows for the...
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