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The University of Michigan continues to exponentially grow the number of staffers dedicated to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion, with at least 241 paid employees now focused on DEI and payroll costs exceeding $30 million annually, according to an analysis conducted for The College Fix.The payroll costs are $23.24 million for salaries and $7.44 million for benefits, or $30.68 million, an amount that would cover in-state tuition and fees for 1,781 undergraduate students.Thirteen DEI staff members earn more than $200,000 and 66 earn more than $100,000 when factoring in benefits.In addition, 76 faculty or staff members work part-time as “DEI...

In a stunning miss, University of Michigan Sentiment collapsed in preliminary June data, crashing from 58.4 to 50.2 (massively below the 58.1 expectations). Source: BloombergThat is the lowest reading ever for UMich. Worst consumer confidence IN HISTORY pic.twitter.com/EW5UtBc1AY — zerohedge (@zerohedge) June 10, 2022 Don’t worry though, ‘they’ are on it… *YELLEN: AMAZING HOW PESSIMISTIC HOUSEHOLDS ARE GIVEN JOB GAINS Maybe you should give them more stimmies to cheer them up? — zerohedge (@zerohedge) June 9, 2022 Developing…

In a bid to help heal a divided country, Anthony Fauci encouraged the University of Michigan’s Comeback Commencement crowd to challenge untruths and push back on the “egregious distortion of reality” that permeates social media and “so-called news organizations.” Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden, spoke at the May 7 event, two years in the making due to the COVID-19 pandemic for which Fauci helped guide the nation’s response. In his Michigan Stadium address, he discussed the divisiveness of the nation and his view of its...

MADISON, Wis. — It was a tale of two halves as Wisconsin blew out Michigan Sunday, 77-63. The first half was back-and-forth. Neither team gained an inch, and the score at halftime was tied, 31-31. But Greg Gard’s halftime speech must’ve stirred something, as the Badgers came out of the locker room on fire. A massive scoring run in the first 10 minutes gave the Badgers a double-digit lead, which they held onto to grab the win. That scoring run was driven in large part by Johnny Davis. The man who has been the game-changer for the Badgers changed the...

A student activist group at the University of Michigan is demanding campus officials provide them with “a permanent designated space on central campus for Black students and students of color to organize and do social justice work.”

The Washtenaw County Prosecutors Office will not file charges against a University of Michigan student suspected by the Ann Arbor Police Department of a hate-crime hoax, an official with the office confirmed Monday to The College Fix. In November, a female University of Michigan student told police days after the election that a white man demanded she remove her hijab or he would set her on fire with a lighter, an allegation later deemed false by police. “This office has declined to authorize charges in that matter,” Steven Hiller, Chief Assistant Prosecutor, told The College Fix via email. “The office...

College campuses often seem culturally biased against non-liberals. But in some cases, political bias so deeply and obviously pervades official campus policy that no one can even defend it when challenged. On that front, the Young Americans for Liberty declared victory in their legal battle with the University of Michigan after administrators agreed to pay out $14,000 and revise discriminatory funding policies. Last year, YAL asked the university for $1,000 to bring anti-affirmative action activist Jennifer Gratz to speak on campus. UM collects mandatory fees from all students and uses them to subsidize events hosted by recognized student groups. But...

My daughter called me tonight..."Dad...you'll never guess who is our graduation speaker...I'm in the car with Maggie...[laughing]..."So I say: "Obama!" And she said: "I told my friends I'm not going!" (I raised all good conservatives).

First the good news: “The federal workforce is graying at a very fast rate—nearly half will be eligible to retire in five years, and there is not sufficient interest or knowledge from top talent,” according to Max Stier, president and chief executive of the Partnership for Public Service. Now the bad news: Stier is trying to do something about it. “Stier said the Partnership for Public Service is working with government agencies to improve their hiring process, and conducting marketing research at nearly 600 schools to figure out ways to persuade graduates to work for the government,” according to an...

When children can support themselves, they generally leave their parents’ home. When state colleges and universities can do the same, they find it difficult to leave the nest of taxpayer-subsidized state and federal supports. “Ours is an economy of scarcity,” Gary A. Olson writes in The Chronicle of Higher Education. “Even well-endowed institutions find themselves in a constant struggle to find enough money to do everything that they want to do.” “That economy of scarcity extends to salaries: Most academics and administrators are not compensated at the level that their education, skills, and experience would garner in business and industry.”...

I have been receiving these SPAMS about twice a week. They appear to be generated from an IP that is part of the University of Michigan campus network. I called the U of M hotline to report abuse of their system, but I have a suspicion that the perp may be someone with admin privileges. Here is the SPAM (recipient email addresses have been removed for privacy) I am including only the first few paragraphs of this SPAM since it is so sickening. ----------------------------------------- Return-Path: Received: from inbound-mx8.atl.registeredsite.com ([64.224.219.118]) by imta03a2.registeredsite.com with ESMTP id <20040922010630.HBTN6886.imta03a2.registeredsite.com@inbound-mx8.atl.registeredsite.com> for <>; Tue, 21 Sep...

<p>The anonymous posters began to speckle the campus of St. Lawrence University in upstate New York last month. They carried an eye-grabbing message--"Republicans: The Other White Meat."</p> <p>Elizabeth Wardell, a senior, thought she knew who was responsible for their appearance: a certain assistant professor with the reputation of a provocateur. Surfing around her school's Web site, she landed on the sociology department's homepage and read a paragraph about Robert J. Torres. Then she clicked on his name and was transported to his personal blog. There, Ms. Wardell--who is president of the local College Republicans--discovered an entry headlined "Fascist, Racist College Republicans."</p>

<p>The University of Michigan is hiding behind an obscure legal exception to avoid complying with the Freedom of Information Act. It is an unseemly position for a public institution of U-M's stature.</p> <p>The university is refusing a FOIA request from an Ann Arbor-based free-lance investigator to turn over the first few years of data used in a report U-M contends proves diversity on campus produces important educational benefits.</p>