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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The money would probably be better spent on scholarships for disadvantaged, low income kids. [/quote]

They have that for in-state kids.

https://goblueguarantee.umich.edu/ann-arbor/
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Now compare the funding.[/quote]

The clearest brochure I could find says $333M in undergrad aid in 2022-2023 (one year).  Other literature is showing 90-100% of estimated financial need met under very middle class income levels.

I re-read the article.  The $250M sum appears to be funding since 2016 when the DEI initiative being directly examined began.

So crudely, the DEI initiative since 2016 is in  the same magnitude as one year of aid (low hundreds of $M).  There are a lot of ways to deconstruct spending and all the details are not public, so I'll go with this as a comparison point.  Elsewhere I saw that an older year (2019-20) of free college was $20M for just the "free" guarantee.  So that would be $160M at that rate over 8 years.  There were other sources of grants.

Found elsewhere: a proposed 570 space parking lot is $35M.  For those who care about parking.

A new building for the B-school was $150M ish a decade or so back.  Plus $135M renovation to other buildings in the complex.

I understand that many people implicitly oppose $250M in spend on DEI programs over 8 years.  But the spend amount is not way out of line with other big ticket items and initiatives that the University is engaged in (and there are many of those).  A services-providing organization that has revenues in the $10B range deals with large sums.

Rereading the article, I get the impression that the unexpected circumstances of the pandemic definitely complicate the assessment of success or failure.  Particularly organizational culture and sentiment analysis.

It would be instructive to look at general societal surveys with similar time frames.

Or we could just declare the experiment a failure. [/quote]

Read the article which specifically discussed the arboretum’s lack of parking. That point wasn’t pulled out of thin air. [/quote]

Actually I did re-read the article and it's new/additional parking at the botanical gardens that hasn't been funded.  The Arb is brought up more because of the shared management structure.

But Michigan classes can get free chartered bus trips for custom times if they reserve them.

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