Wayne State University — Board of Governors, 4.25.2025

12:05AM Apr 26, 2025

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This meeting of the Wednesday University Board of Governors is now called to order. We're joined today by many members of our university community, including seven individuals who signed up to provide public comments, we ask that everyone in attendance please be respectful of this meeting, to silence electronic devices and adhere to university policies, guidelines and instructions. If the meeting is disrupted to the point where the board's business cannot be completed and the meeting has to be recessed or adjourned, public comment will not be held. I thank the leadership of faculty and staff of the College of Fine Performing and Communication Arts, including in the Maggie Alicia department of theater, for hosting us in this beautiful facility. We are so pleased to be here for today's meetings. The Hillary weighs a remarkable venue to showcase the talents and expertise of our students and faculty, and so fitting for our meeting where we dive into the Outreach and Engagement focus area of WSU strategic plan, I've asked in us on Alani and department chair Bucha Barnes, to take just a few minutes to share some Important information with the board about this awesome facility. Okay,

after 62 years in a temporary building, next time, see two years in a temporary building for very instrumental in making this building happen. So thank you for your support. Here couple of things about this. Here, we are a presenting venue board city, Detroit, and one thing's really important to know this is really important to notice is the fact that we are deeply engagement. But really, you know, let me show you a little bit about we all know about this idea about the chart being the city of arts and culture, our identity as a state. This is the most creative city in America. This is create American culture in the city, and we are the university for the city. In that way, we also present for the city. We're presenting men. As a matter of fact, 80% of our ticket sales go to non winning state votes. This is highly unusual college skaters, for college skaters and most of the audiences students, because they're required to go.

In this case, our audience is the city of Detroit. We

reflect that in the way we work in our program. Last year, we're part of the new trick, Cultural Center Association. People in the community involved. These are not ticketing events. Many of these months last year with 40,000 people. So I think with that, said academic sides.

Thank you, as Dean

already said, Welcome to our home here at the Library gateway. As he said, we were in a temporary space since 1950 I believe when we opened this space, and it really gave the infrastructure to keep what we have done for all of this time, training the artists in theater and dance for the future, a place to live and have true laboratories. This this space in the same way that I bio is a laboratory for the sciences, this is a laboratory for the arts, and we're very fortunate to have a space that now is state of the art, where we are able to bring students in that are coming to a better theater than they had in their high schools. We have, we are very active dance program, theater garden. We produce six plays a year into the theater we do two major dance concerts. We have three dance companies and two theater companies that are student run with three small concerts, two small theater shows a year. We three of these companies go out into the community and go to high schools, go to community centers to perform pieces that really reflect our community. Besides this space, I really go to space next door. Our studio here is a black box high school space where we're able to do things that are a little bit more experimental and change the very nature of the space, and every time you come into it. So since we've been there, it has been like five formations in the last two years. It's a remarkable place for our students to really play and grow as artists. And we thank you so much for supporting us in the work that we. Do Thank you. And by the way, if any of you want to come, please feel free to reach out to me. Our new season begins October 3. We have Michigan Shakespeare Festival here all during the summer, and I can pull tickets from them too, but please, board members, please reach out and I will get you into seating for our students. Thanks. Thank you. My Hamilton

with us today too. Who's the builder and architect of this beautiful facility, Randy, will you stand so we can recognize

it? COVID on the agenda,

Item as the secretary call the roll. Governor here, Governor this week, Governor Kelly, Governor Kumar here, Governor land here, Governor ready. Governor Detroit, open. The

first consent

agenda. I ask for a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented, I'm

going to read for you thank you from the regular board meeting. The audience appreciates that too, approval of the official proceedings from february 14, 2025 from Academic and Student Affairs, discontinuance of The Bachelor of Science in dietetics and discontinuance of The Bachelor certificate in dietetics from the Budget and Finance Committee, contingency reserve transfer authorization to sell bonds, the Harwell field and Gary rice field renovation, the football locker room facility renovation, campus camera improvement project, building facade restoration and the 89 laboratories moved to CS month.

Thank you, Julie, may I have a motion so moved support. All in favor, any opposed extensions The motion carries. Thank you. And next is the agenda item three, before the board runs the first recommendations submitted by I ask for a motion that the board covers approved enforcement. Recommendations will attend your promotion to full professor and administrator appointments other than those separately submitted may have a motion

support.

Second all, in favor opposed. Extension of motion carries. Next is a gratification of an action the board approved on March 21 2025 which seems to be entered into the public market. I ask for a motion that the board ratify the action approving the renaming of the College of Engineering to the James and Patricia Anderson College of Engineering, approved by the Board of editors of March, 21 2025 I have a motion

support. Support All in favor.

Abstentions. The motion carries. Now think that might have honored the faculty recreation awards each year, the board looks forward to the opportunity to recognize the recipients of our governor's faculty recognition awards through these awards chosen by committee of their peers. The Board recognizes members of white states faculty who have made extraordinary contributions to scholarships last year Governor sukano, will you please join me in the front table and Governor Kelly, Will you please join me to present the award?

You So Governor Kelly, will you please come forward to present the board to progress units of the Department of Music, college and fun and performing Communication Arts would govern County and professional aspects. Please come to

professor,

we need you back to our Detroit.

We want to congratulate you, sir and close the honorable

voucher the Board of Governors recognizes Jack roscowitz, Assistant Professor in the Department of Music, College of Fine Performing and Communication Arts for the publication of fanfare, first city music and the urban imagination in Houseman Paris, University of California Press 2024 in January, 1 city jacket Jack Vasco X investigates the sounds of Paris during the Second Empire, 1852 and 1870 a regime that affected the dramatic social change in the British capital by exploring the Spanish worlds and exhibitions, cafes, streets and markets, he demonstrates how the city's musical life shaped urban narratives about the past, present

and future. Paris,

a metropolis at the crossroads between his classical Roman past and his capitalist Imperial future at the seminar, this emerging narrative was Baron Hausman, engineer of Imperial urbanism and the inspiration for a range of musical responses to modernity, from The enthusiastic to the nostalgia last of which draws on theoretical approaches from historical Musicology, urban sociology and sound studies as he interrogates newly surfaced archival material, ultimately arguing for Urbanism as a driving force In the production performance and policing of 19th century music. Blaskowitz and monograph was written with support from the American musicological Society, the National Endowment for the Humanities, a Fulbright scholarship, the Andrew W Mellon Foundation, and a first gen grant from the University of California Press and was featured in The New York Review of Books prior to train of university glass voices. Work was featured in the 19th century music Cambridge, opera journal Current Musicology, Journal of musicology and opera court. The Board of Governors is pleased to recognize Professor Jack Westwoods for amazing contributions to Wayne State University and the Department of Music.

To present the award to Professor Anne Duncan of the Department of class, literature, cultures, college, Arts and Sciences. Governor Atkinson, Professor Duncan, please come forward

to go. The Board of Governors recognizes and second professor in the Department of classical and modern language, literature and culture, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences for the publication of the lost princess. Women writer women, writers and the history of classic

fantasy fairy tale. Fairy

fantasy, fairy tales read in books 2023 The Last Princess women, writers and the history of classic fairy tale represents a significant intervention in imagining the pre Disney fairy tale. Cannon professor and again, traces the history of Cinderella beauty cat tails and Amazon warrior tales and wave aids to question our assumptions about the genres, association passes and rail authors and edited tradition, these assumptions are based on projecting the current notions of the genre onto earlier periods. But as a vocab, the heroines of fairy tales text often prove more empowered than you might imagine today, breaking up the breaking up the tradition of friends, Coronavirus, Anderson seven shows how Marie, Catherine, del Boyd, Marie Shane, latch dala forest and on charge Henri X, Julie de Morrow, produced tales that she's the fairy tale genre and enjoy vibrant legacies from the night from right. Themes from 1690s through the 20th century and various genres, including poetry, music, film

and comic books, while Charles

version of Cinderella serves as the basis for the Disney film and sought to limit the women living sphere of passion. Dow boys the next genetics, cinders, her own version of Cinderella, enjoys popularity oral tradition, France, Germany and the Czech Republic and Missouri, and with inspiration for Czech Germans production, produced film Three, three basal maps for Cinderella in 1973 Becky shows that Bill boys tale is particularly this particular and enjoys a broad appeal, not only in Western and Eastern Europe, but also in Mexico, taking the form of A comic book adaptation of her finish fail the white hat throughout Duggan leads us to question our assumptions about what fairyfields are, who wrote them, and what they can do. The Board of Governors is pleased to recognize Professor Anne Duggan for her contribution to Wayne State University and the Department of classical, modern

language, literature,

next governor masuido will present the award Professor the Department of Psychiatry, medical neuroscience Professor John About please come forward. You.

The Board of Governors recognizes Arash jadenbach, Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral neurosciences School of Medicine for the publication of afraid, understanding the purpose of fear and harnessing the power of anxiety. Dr Ross jovenbach is the director of the stress trauma and anxiety research clinic and a psychiatric expert in trauma research and treatment. He is a pioneer in the study of trauma and PTSD among refugees and first responders, and inventor of highly advanced AI powered augmented reality technologies. He is highly engaged in public education, and his public scholarly work has been featured in many national, international and specialized media outlets consumed by millions afraid. Understanding the purpose of fear and harnessing the power of anxiety is a resource for clinicians, scientists and the public alike. This book covers many aspects of fear and anxiety, including evolution fear in the brain and body, why we love to be scared, fear and bravery, meaning creative, creativity, diseases of fear and trauma and their cutting edge treatments and politics of fear and media and many other aspects of fear, stress and trauma in modern life, afraid not only presents solid science in an understandable manner, but also has a more positive, practical approach to fear and anxiety. Afraid is the best seller and has been featured on NPR PBS and several leading podcasts. The Board of Governors is pleased to recognize Professor Raj javenbach for his contributions to Wayne State University and the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral neurosciences. Thank you.

To present professor, applause.

The Board of Governors

recognizes Boris nor COVID, distinguished professor in the Department of Mathematics, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences for the publication of variational analysis, optimization, variational stability and control theory, algorithms and applications. The new book second order, variational analysis and optimization, variational stability and control theory, algorithms, applications, is the first book in the literature that is entirely devoted to this rapidly developing area of applied mathematics, the book of about 800 pages presents a comprehensive theory of second order, generalized differentiation with broad applications to optimization, optimal control, equilibrium stability and other areas of Mathematical Sciences, the book also develops miracle algorithms to solve practical models arising in various fields of data science, machine learning, artificial intelligence, neural networks, economics, engineering, behavioral science, etc, besides its research value, the aim is to use the book in graduate level classes, which are accessible to upper undergraduate students. To add to the didactical value of the book, many exercises, figures, tables and commentaries are included as a fall 2024 the book is used in teaching one doctoral and one master special topic classes on optimization and applications. The Board of Governors is pleased to recognize Distinguished Professor forest mordagovich for his contributions to Wayne State University in the Department of Mathematics. Thank

you. And last but certainly the police. Professor shou Shin for the Department of Physics and Astronomy, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, for Governor Kumar and Professor Shen, please come forward. You.

The Board of governance recognizes Professor Shin Associate Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy sciences the publication of plasma from Green Energy scan data. This is a recent publication of a paper in Physical Review. Physical Review levels represent getting major breakthrough in theoretical high energy nuclear physics as the first ACM inference, spelling incorporating three plus 1d dynamical simulation of relativistic any ion collisions. This paper must be a major advance relative to prior works that primarily rely on simplified two plus 1b simulations and opens the way to a greater understanding of the dynamics of heavy ion collisions and relativistic energy and the matter produced in These collisions. This innovative work overcomes substantial computational hurdles, providing an unprecedented tool for exploring the properties of hot and dense nuclear man, especially the poorly constrained empirical dependent sheer and birth discusses and the unknown value of density dependence. Professor, Shen is acknowledged for using data from the Rh, IC beam energy scan, programming and achieving a meaningful determination of the specific shear and bulk viscosities of four through one Plasma and finite baryon density, a milestone for qgP characterization. This achievement not only pushes the boundaries of high energy nuclear physics and data science, but also enhances the research experience at Wayne State University. Students in Chem research group now greatly benefit from developing this cutting edge framework and engaging actively in global scale research efforts, thereby positioning Wayne State as a hub of advanced nuclear studies in man properties. The Board of Governors is please recognize Professor Chen Chen for his contributions to Wayne State University and the Department of Physics and Astronomy, a confession I've been to chat GPT, I still don't understand, but

prospective disciplines, their accomplishments, faculty and their academic leadership. With our university, we will now move to the regular agenda this afternoon. Of course, you need to leave for other activities. This afternoon, our university photographer will catch you outside for additional photographs. Thank you all very much for your outstanding work. Our team has changed camp.

You. Next is the reports from our three state committees. Event this morning, beginning with the academic and state affairs committee Governor Chicana, the Academic and Student Affairs Committee met this morning. The short agenda, the committee approved two recommendations, decision programs. These programs have been on moratorium for accepting students with the convention. These two recommendations were included consent agenda earlier this afternoon, the committee spent the remainder of me learning more about student success efforts from two presentations. The first focus on the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, which provides research opportunities to undergraduate students. It fosters transformative, high impact learning experiences, helping students develop critical competencies and career readiness skills. One of our graduating seniors tomorrow shared his experiences his own research project, whose focus on future treatments for liver failure. Deb was recognized also as one of the postal presentation award last year's 2024 warrior scholars conference

athletic director Gary Wallace, providing background on our warriors, student athlete,

providing demographics. 406

athletes who compete on 17 teams. These students, their first priority. These athletes have an impressive 3.45 all student athlete COVID, 15, GPA, 84 of them holding a 4.0

officially, 76% graduating in six years. They also have an impressive commitment to community service, averaging 10,000 volunteer hours per year. Director Wallace shared some of the college degree opportunities these students have undertaken. Many of us are here at the university. We had a chance to meet Ahmed Elsa yet, who started as a student athlete at Wayne State and is now an assistant coach in men's defense. Ahmed was recognized as an Assistant Coach of the Year by the central collegiate fencing conference, and it was clear, tremendous asset, advocate for the university meeting, both Deb and I live really brought the college degree initiative and focus for us all. Very much inspired at the end of their presentations. This concludes my report. Now budget, Finance Committee, Governor, the budget of

mine. Committee that this morning covered a large number of critical issues with the university. The Committee received a number of reports regarding our financial health as an institution. Those included a summary report on the university's 2024 audit subcommittee. We also received the annual report on the Cash Pool investments and debt program and the annual report on long term investments. Also on the agenda were two standard reports the Budget Committee seeks each meeting, which are updates on the major capital projects, as well as purchasing exceptions for those contracts that are awarded without competitive bids. A large number of action items were also reviewed, discussed, and the committee approved a request for a transfer from the contingency fund six capital projects and a bond reauthorization for the Health Sciences Research Building, all of which were included from the consent agenda approved earlier this afternoon. The remainder of our time was spent discussing the fiscal year 2025, 26 campus board rate recommendation and the proposed race for the fiscal year, 2025 2026 School of Medicine, tuition actions related to the setting of fees for our students are important matters of critical importance of the board, and are also ones that do not take lightly. And as a result, we had a very thoughtful discussion on these matters.

I would now like to turn the floor over to President este for action on those recommendations.

Thank you. The first action request is asking for a motion to the Board of Governors to approve the FY 2526 board rates as presented, as proposed, all meal plans increased by 3.5% annual current rates for 2526 remain flat. Tables will be included in the proceeds for this meeting that will detail the specific rates and changes for the meal plans for FY, 2526 they have a motion. So moved support,

all in favor.

Motion carries. Next up is the School of Medicine, 2526 tuition rates ask for a motion. Sorry, increases in the FY 2526 based tuition rate of 9.5% for resident students and 7.5% for non resident students for school events is further recommended to the Board of Governors adopt an increase of 7.5% support fee, annual fee, and as a student service fee, which is a virtual fee, but the German version in 2022 all students registered for at least 10 credits per term will be charged with flat rate with

the German version In 2022 all students registered for at least 10 credits for terms will be charged with flat term rate, along with associated fees. All students registered for less than 10 credits return will be charged per credit hour along with associated fees. As part of this resolution, the Board of Governors authorizes the President, for her designee, to adjust tuition rates and fees for special or joint programs or where otherwise appropriate. Finally, this tuition recommendation applies only to students enrolled in the School of Medicine MD program, and is not an indication of rates for the general student body or an obligation by board governors regarding the rates that will be set for thrust of the University's program. David's detailing tuition and fees by program year and the student fees will be included in

the proceeds of this meeting. Thank you. Julie, support. All in favor opposed

the extensions. The next committee is Health Affairs research and economic development.

The Health Affairs Research and Economic Development Committee meeting focused on two areas. The first was an opportunity for the committee to review and comment on two action items that the board will be going on this afternoon. The first is a conflict of interest contract between math corps, national and university. Math Corps is an outstanding and award winning initiative created and overseen by Professor Steve Kahn in our math department, and the committee recommends approval of this contract. The second review item was the charter renewal for the Institute of June. Ecology. The institute dedicates research in the social and behavioral sciences and cognitive neurosciences to issues of aging and urban health. The University has a specific review process for charter renewals for centers and institutes, and board approval is the final step in this process. The committee endorsed renewal of the charter for this important Institute. Following the reviews, the committee heard her presentation on Wayne innovation, which focused on two areas, the update on technology commercialization from Tanya Phillips provides an overview of the innovation process and highlights of recent commercialization achievements. She touched on strategies to increase invention disclosures and accelerate technology licensing and provide examples and provide examples of current faculty innovations underway. Ned standler then talked about the work underway at Tech town, which began in 2004 as the Wayne State University Research and Technology Park. Its mission is to help tech startups and small businesses develop launch to grow innovation and Wayne is the city's first innovation district and only heavy DC smart zone. And through it, Wayne State is partnering, advising and connecting with Detroit's emerging innovation districts to advance economic development in our city. These are exciting initiatives, and we look forward to further updates in the future. With that, I would like to turn the floor medical president on the committee's recommendations on the conflict of interest contract and the charter meeting, first the charter renewal

for the institute deer County, the Institute of gerontology, I ask for a motion the updated charter for the Institute of Detroit through April 2031 as recommended by the CI two committee, vice president for research and information of The Academic Senate concur with the six year term entrepreneurship occur so moved or All in favor,

ask for A motion or contract with a nonprofit organization to perform services in support of the WSU medical university program. This one requires a local vote.

Please call the law, yes.

Governor, yes. Governor,

yes. Governor, thank

you. That concludes my report. Sorry. The

next item, please. The next

item is from the Division of development and President asked for a motion that the

Board of Governors establish totaling $725,000 All in favor.

The motion here is, we have a second Development and Alumni Affairs. The

President answer a motion that the Board of Governors platform for undergraduate student success in physics and related fields, as the Ratna and Dallas fellowship for undergraduate scholarship

for undergraduate majors. Of the agenda.

It's a special topic presentation that provides a regular update of our restaurants on goals and objectives, board strategic plan our opening time. These presentations provided review. Provide a review on analysis, provide

a review and analysis of the university's progress, utilizing metrics and achievements on each of the five focus areas of that strategic plan. Today we will provide an update on outreach engagement, which one is the. Progress on a number of key objectives in these areas. This will be a team effort, including Vice President.

And I'll turn to Vice

President. Thank you. So as we start the presentation, it's always good to connect with the actual strategic plan. That's kind of the work that we're doing. And so we have three specific goals that's covered with health provision, engagement. The first goal was the leading participant, prosperity of Detroit and Michigan. We were looking at how prosperity, looking at how do we expand partnerships, and specifically those that impact urban communities, and how we advance, engage, communicate, research and service learning opportunities. Within goal two, we're looking at keeping our engagement with Detroit and Michigan business partners to address challenges of discovery, innovation, talent and workforce pipeline development, engaging in activities around partnering with employers, providing internships and employment opportunities for students, providing iPhone learning opportunities for our employees, for their employees, increasing innovation and Entrepreneurship, advancing universities resources around business engagement, technology research. Within goal three, we're looking at strengthening our efforts as a nation of social mobility, specifically thinking through how to help Detroiters overcome and graduate from college degrees and how to research pursue wealth building opportunities through that experience, how do we strengthen institutional infrastructure and think about expanding entrepreneurial education opportunities in order to achieve this? These objectives and goals, we are actually running this through our research, our regional competitiveness team. This team is co chaired by myself, Provost. Within this team, we have three specific areas that we focus on, the Talent Team, Christ Provost Jackson, innovation team that's led by myself, looking at Tech commercialization industry and JRD and economic development team, Vice President entrepreneurship, corporate engagement and place based economic development.

So vice president of lawsi described the importance of cross functional teams in our region engagement work. I'm pleased to tell you that this work is also receiving national recognition at its most recent national meeting, the Association of Public and Land Grant Universities awarded the innovation and economic engagement connections award its highest prize in innovation and economic prosperity, cohorts, competition to Wayne State. You by now become used to seeing these scorecards that report on our progress, both comparing ourselves, ourselves to ourselves over time, and ourselves to our 10 peer institutions over the most recent year. In the scorecards for outreach and engagement are obviously shared responsibilities between vice president state political bosses and my team. And so we're going to I'm going to walk you through the data related to student economic mobility. The first is the economic mobility index, and we're looking at where we stand in 2024 compared to where we stood at best, same state

over the our average over the prior

three years. You will see the economic mobility index is the ability of individuals or families to move between income or wealth brackets over time, meaning, essentially, in this slide, that about 38% 30% of graduates from Wayne State experience significant upward economic mobility, which is typically defined as moving from a lower income background to earning a middle or higher income salary after graduation. This method is intended to reflect the institution's effectiveness in fostering economic advancement for its students, particularly those from low income backgrounds, you'll see that this metric is actually red our comparison to the prior three years. And you can see, while this metric is a very robust metric, it is it's not a mature metric, and the methodology has evolved. So in 2021 the. A third way which calculates this metric, used median income as the basis for their calculation, and 2022 moved to median income as the basis for that calculation. So you'll see we draw and so do all of our peers, and I'll show you that in

the next slide, economic

mobility index tier grants, various universities in five tiers. We are one. We are one of only four of our peers who rank in EMI top tier, meaning in the top 20% of institutions nationally for economic mobility, for our graduates, pep in years is the time that it takes students from families to, I'm sorry, the time that it takes students to recoup the cost of obtaining their credential, which is based on net price paid and earning foods they receive from attending. In other words, it would take for our students approximately 3.3 years of earnings for a graduate to recoup the cost of their education, assuming they devoted all of their income to covering these costs. You'll see pep for low income families, which also reflects how long it will take students from families who earn a year or less to recoup the cost of obtaining their potential the percentage of students who are Pell eligible, obviously has gone up for us in the last three years, and median Total debt after graduation has gone down by about 3.8% last year over the prior three year average, and we are still certified classified by the US Department of Education as a minority serving institution. So now we can look at these a little more carefully over where we've changed since last year. We remain in third ways, top tier for economic mobility. Our PDP again for low income students has decreased, meaning it takes less time for students from low income families to recoup the cost of their education. We rank in about the 65th percentile for low income, PDP, time to recoup the cost of their education, meaning that, obviously our students do better than average in their ability to pay back that debt, early pep input our median income that they use in this town is about $50,000 percentage of students eligible for Pell actually is flat. It shows as red. There change, and our economic mobility index has actually increased by 523,

one way to look at this is where we compare to our peers, and this is our economic mobility index. And as you will see, not only are only three of our peers moving on economic mobility at a pace greater than ours, but also that the slope of our improvement exceeds all of our how we compare to our national peers, you'll see, as I said, three of our peer institutions have economic mobility indices that are higher than ours, and the remaining seven economic mobility indices that are below the Wayne State, and if you look at who is in the class of schools that are below us, I think there are some surprises there that campuses who've taken populations who are much like ours, have much lower economic mobility and distance. And then this is the this is another piece of break news is that among students who take out federal loans, we have been able over the past, since 2016 20 plus coming in, 2016 so the class coming in 2020 have reduced median total debt after graduation by a rate of 7.2% our peer institutions have Been able to decrease median peer debt only by 3%

Thank you, Provost. I'm going to continue on essentially the same format, but now talking about community partnerships. So the first slide based on sort of the raw data what we're looking at. You might ask yourself, what are community partnerships definitions? I certainly did this, and essentially it's the sum of three different connections. One is partnerships, business that are funding research, nonprofits that are funding research, and. State and local governments that are public research. So note that I mentioned research doesn't include all the other types of interactions you may have with a foundation or a state or local government. But again, state and local government, not so the federal government. So that is another important aspect to look at. The next thing I draw your attention to this chart is the data is most recently from 2023 you might ask yourself, why in April of 2025 are we looking at data from 2023 and the answer is that is the most recent data that is collected, so that this data just came out in the last quarter. And so you always have this flag. So next year we see this presentation. You'll see presentation 2024, just how it works. And then, of course, similar to the provost presentation, red is generally not good, green is generally good. And you can see the total category. We're not doing so well. It's down about 5% of total community partnerships. Our rank has also dipped just a little bit, but if you dig a little deeper, you see business partnerships stay relatively flat, down 3% nonprofit partnerships actually up versus our average of about 9% but then you'll see state and local government significantly lower, down 37% you know, you start thinking, why did this happen? And I think, you know, one of the big changes is 2021 too. We had a lot of COVID money coming out, that will affect our numbers, but that'll also affect others. So let's dig in a little bit and we'll see. So sure enough, here's our total number. This is just looking at it a little more detail on what I described because we were looking at it in 2023 versus the previous three year average. There's actually the raw data over the last few years, and it shows that, yes, indeed, we have dropped a little bit relative to where we were back in 2019 I can't go back. Just know

what the last five I can't go back to it's fine. Are we comparing ourselves to colleges and universities that are in Michigan? Or this is national data. Okay, so this, I mean, we're talking about different governments and different investments, not necessarily half of staff. California

could invest more in partnerships

than state and local partnerships and foundations, you know. So we are relatively fortunate in Detroit. I was often cited that we used to be rich in that we have a lot we have a pretty decent foundation community here, but our state and local government necessarily don't have the same level of funds to use. That's why we're peers a little bit later. But again, different space locality, so it makes it a little harder. So thanks for bringing that up. So again, as I said, Here's drilling down just a little bit into those three sub categories, businesses stayed relatively lower, non profit organizations, while it looked like we were going level to the career average. That was, you know, somewhat artifact of the dip that we had last year, last year, but last week's data, and then state and local government, again, is sort of, indeed, we had a decline. But again, it's not necessarily a trend. Again, we want to talk about our peers to see how we're doing there. And the answer is, if you take, if you don't look at Virginia common law, which is the top line there, peers are all sort of hanging out in the same sort of level we are. Virginia, Commonwealth has had a big increase again, one year, year on year increase. But we're going to dig into that a little bit and take a look and see what VCU has found the magic formula, or this is the one you're flipping the data. But generally speaking, we were fit in our 10 years, we're continue to be fit, but again, not happy about where we are. But also it's not so the question comes in, what are we going to do about it? Because we want to be happy about where we are. We want to turn moving into sunshine roses. So, you know, we have a goal, because we try to put numbers and metrics about everything to move up to move up to 75th by 2030 that's a stretch, because we're currently in 97 so we've got some room to go. The good news is the 2030 data will be out till 2032 so we actually have a little more time in phase. But that has to increase our annual expenditures by 15 to $20 million we want to get there, which is pretty significant. What have we done so far? Well, we essentially have a new working group that has all the relevant parties, whether it's sponsored programs, administration or spot, the Office of tech commercialization, open foundation relations, University Relations, etc. We all got together and said, All right, what are we going to do? And the answer is a multi pronged approach. First, we're going to count everything we can. We think there are some money that we're leaving on the table in our accounting, if you will, because different groups have different definitions of what was corporate reserve, what was Foundation research, etc, etc. So that's step one, let's let's all be on the same page. Secondly, we want to map out the systems to make sure that we're counting but it's in there, again, in different parts of the organization, using different software platforms and attracting different things. We want to make sure it's going up the second one, second approach is ensuring we're using all of our monies and doing it in a timely fashion. I think that's a reasonable thing to do, and we have some good models. So foundation relations, for example, has a post award stewardship program that they use, that they need. They check in with the researchers and to make sure that they are hitting their milestones and doing so in an appropriate fashion. We don't do that as effectively across the entire organization, so we're going to move that model into other areas. And then third, I think most important, we don't want to just count the money we're already getting better. We don't want to spend it better. We want to go get some new funds as well. So we're new tools, like we stay open, that we'll talk more about in a minute. Also the innovation that we stay branded we heard about from this morning. We are introducing digital tools and faculty education center sessions the office of research fellows to make sure that everyone knows about the opportunities that exist. If we're going after them appropriately, we're modifying so far research communications to make sure that folks know what they are. And then we are more formally, working with our local, city, county leaders, because that's an area we think there's a lot of opportunities to improve in that area. So those are the three ways that we're going to try to meet alumni. And then finally, I did want to give you an update on COVID, just to refresh corporate engagement and partnerships. Office, COVID stands for opportunity, partnerships, engagement and networking. We are about six months in to when we created that office last fall. So I want to give you sort of a six month update. And the answer is, so far been really successful. We've had more than 130 inquiries come in from outside parties. About 80 of them were from for profit corporations, 13% of those inquiries were career services related looking for students to hire. Pipeline you might say to everybody, you tell us about 13% that this is particularly high number. And the answer is, because that's not far out. That was the category that had the most. The rest of those, you know, 100 and 100 inquiries or so. We're for disparate things, and it's one of the reasons why we're so happy we created open because, you know, it created a central place for anyone looking for for connections to the university, whereas if you were going for something that's kind of a one off, you might not know where to go. So this creates more of a central place to not only deal with those increases, but also to report out on to you, right? So we're only getting one or two inquiries of six months of engagement. Respondent only increase within 24 hours. So far, we're greater than 95% of those. So there's a couple or two or three who haven't gotten there yet. We'll keep working on that. And of course, part of the goal of coordinating this effort is raising money from those folks. So today, we've made 186 corporate solicitations through the office, total of over $12 million those solicitations have represented 17 different schools, colleges and divisions. So it really is across the University of the next six months, because we operate in these sprints, is to $9 million more funding totaling 21 million and to bring a total of 100 more solicitations pipeline. And of course, we want to continue growth job research. So research to talk about growth.

Yeah, so as we transition into growth enterprise, this is really looking at some of the presentations you gave this morning, a number of disclosures that we were doing on campus. As you can see, we compared the last reporting year 23 up against the previous three year average. We are up about 5.7% which is about 15.5% increase. Our active licensing have decreased by about 4% 54% going down about 4.7 our licensing revenue has actually nearly doubled. So it's really good news. We look at where we are in 23 versus prior three year average, looking at our licensing revenue rate, we have gone from. Uh, average of about 90 to currently at 85 so we moved up direction down.

My startups have moved up to three, which is an increase of about 131% and designation for innovation economic prosperity. This morning, I can provide two good, excellent examples of what this work actually looks like in action, seeing how we're manufacturing smart materials and taking up ways of creating artificial muscles with reprinting that goes into Lexington traditional action rates, which I thought was a pretty fascinating presentation, and then looking at the programming, the pre programming sounds, particularly in the cancer space, and also demonstrating sort of that path where both of them have benefited from both engagement with socialization, and hopefully we can continue to build out of these detective impacts. When we look at our digital disclosures, there were largely unchanged over the last two reporting periods. But as you heard, we are bringing together much more proactive strategy for moving mediums, looking at faculty engagement, looking at specific colleges like Engineering and Physical Sciences, thinking about how to advance our visibility on campus and so where they're located, how they're engaging various schools and colleges and so forth, and also thinking about the technical process and policy that from education standpoint, not everyone knows the details of what this entails, so we're doing the best that we can provide professional development education, but also make it easier on them to be able to execute on the new spaces, and Ultimately countering some of the barriers, whether it's looking at submission processes, any sort of places that we can improve turnaround times as it relates to our engagements between councilor or other parts of the university. And so I think we've done a great job of looking at our processes, trying to screen my reforms, visible accident planning for moving forward.

Maybe look at our invention

and disclosures in comparison to national peers, as you can see, we're, you know, a little bit below seven. Minimus trend up a little bit. But as you can see, almost all of our peers were either having their state prior to decrease over this past report.

On the positive news side, as I mentioned earlier, we've covered our gross licensing income, really starting to improve our national rankings in that space, going from 9785 over a one year cycle, which is pretty impressive, and beginning to connect startup within Dory to tech organization to tech tab, so that we have a medical fluid process various stages. And as of 20 in 2023 we were able to create the new from startups

one of the slides, I think is really impressive for us, is being able to show that we're one of the very few amount of institutions across the whole country, and all these Three designations being both the minority serving institution being classified as regarding the quant engaged institution, and also holding API news, innovation and prosperity, authentication, I think you would find those commonly across the whole country. And so even though three MLS are in our sort of peer group, the current meeting will be on that sort of circuit. This is something that the institution. And then sort of in closing, you know, I think one of the things I wanted to show in that original sort of org chart piece is that we are really trying to tackle many of these areas across many different divisions, versus just having a single division approach, having their conversations around the big picture and working with folks that are, you know, at the ABG level offices, to sort of hear different perspectives and sort of including their strategies and whatnot. We have these very detailed, you know, charter documents that show all the specific steps. We're not taking a chance approach. We're really taking a very strategic approach to which, I think across time, and what we gave this sort of signature to that labor coming into fruition. I think, in conclusion, just wanted to be clear that we. Know, we're just getting started to reverse these trends. I think we have a very good opportunity with an innovation at USU enterprise that really can drive the prosperity for us. Really excited times for us. Thank you. Any questions,

question the PP is that used at all

students to

comparing degrees. Do you actually measure that on a degree level, and then the metric we use actually the national metrics, and it's only calculated across campus, not by major, although there are other metrics that utilize that, and I know that as we move to the next iteration of our Career Services Unit, For example, that kind of data accessibility to students, not not as they get ready to graduate, but at day one.

Along those lines, Governor the New York that just came up with a really great piece that you enable study of this, and just came up last week that sort of the value of college education. And sure enough, it is at an all time high right now, with a 12 and a half percent IRR or another and that sort of in the highest Yeah. The only reason it's not even higher is that the opportunity cost, as if you just graduated from high school and started working, has has gone up. That is, there are higher wages in the last couple of years for people who were doing that, but that's an immediate 12 and a half percent, and they dig deeper, and then in some majors, it is much smaller, but still higher than the rate return for stocks at 8% or poly 4% it's still a great investment, but if you're really trying to maximize your investment, there is definitely some availability of data.

Yeah, I think right now it's almost 11 years longer lifespan for some colleagues

from President's Report. Under tab nine, you will find the university report that includes updates from our schools, colleges and divisions. Not surprisingly, there are so many exceptional efforts you probably don't want to hear when you come through. So I will go and click through the slides, because I will not take I want to make sure we take the opportunity to recognize our wonderful faculty, and I'll be awards. Big one. This is just a couple of snapshots are awesome students. So someone can just click through the slides slowly, because they're really beautiful and well done. Look at this landmark poet horrific. For example, three of our faculty were nature lights, poet laureate for the state of Michigan. Is that awesome? Look at this national disciplinary honorifics across the board, outstanding, nationally competitive awards and grants. Graduate students are many awesome awards. Champions in golf, we opened our Student Success every morning rises. I know many people run this to your success hub. It was awesome. Finally, our state is investing in our success. We want three of these grants to support our students, support our faculty and staff doing this work that makes such a difference. The Andersons made a transformative investing in us and our success that will continue to transform record breaking gig and take second yard of row of 2100 donors, two to 3 million times again for students and our faculty, our support, we're working really hard to advocate for the benefits of what we do every day here at Wayne State, whether it be in DC or in Lansing or state and our alumni showcasing the impact that we're doing such an honor and pleasure to hear their stories of how Wayne State transformed their lives, how they can engage to pay forward for our students here and Then urban thinks that we do every day in Detroit, our existing partnerships, for example, within the advantage that urban leadership form the product together people across our city to discuss housing, such an important issue for our location. And then new partners, like dcsc, this was a celebration of see the Wayne State, love. On the back, I hope everyone takes advantage of the discount tickets, and I think that's

it during public comments, the board also written, video comments through our website. This session is for individuals to share their perspectives with the board, not interactive dialog. No matter how you share your thoughts and

ideas with us, please know we're listening, reading and taking your perspectives into consideration, as the board supported continues. Today's public comment session includes seven speakers who registered to speak before Wednesday's deadline. Each speaker has three minutes to speak when the time elapsed, some clock the remarks are concluded. Secretary Miller, please call each speaker to provide comments. Thank you. Thank you. Governor sancano, before I call the first name. I'd like to remind all speakers and attendees that Harris COVID materials to be shared with the board must be given to Deborah Harris, Assistant Secretary, seated at the main column opposite the podium. Deborah, just going to raise your hand. These materials will be shared with the board after this meeting we call the first speaker Samir Sam to the podium at the main item. Could we bring up the clock please?

Esteem Board of Governors, ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon. As you all know that you know, in United States students, 60% of students are going through anxiety, I mean to the extent where they are unable to function. 50% of students are depressed. I mean to the extent where they don't know what to do, they don't have any solution. And the suicide ideation rate is 25% which is important for students, is contemplating on human society. And as leaders, we need to do something about it. Yeah, and I'm here to offer solution the sky campus happiness program, which is evidence based program, and we are on 145 campuses in United States, as in wonders like in just three and four days, people are out of their anxiety depression, and it provides them complete tools and techniques to stay out of anxiety and depression. It's very natural. It has four main pillars, evidence based, breath work and meditation, then social connection and, of course, leadership and service activities. And we know these are the real pillars for any person to grow as a leaders. And this is what we are making in mainstream right tomorrow's leaders, and so I request and urge this board to give us teacher time to present about this program and present all the research. As director was invited at the United Nations last year to present and lead this Mental Health Initiative. Would be happy to come and present this, either online or in person, but this is a great opportunity so that in our students, when they grow out of this university, they don't find any extreme of either aggression or depression with all this uncertainty around we provide them with tools which which they can actually implement in their day to day life, just like I did in 2008 when it was the recession, I didn't know what to do and I was just graduating, but these techniques really helped me to, you know, go through the all the ups and downs of my life, and I'm here to really, you know, I wish that I would have known the solutions before, when I was in studies, but I was late, like the situation had to take me, really to go to this. So here's another request for all of you to consider this, and thank you so much for your time, and please continue doing the great work. Thank you.

I am the political action chair to the graduate employees organizing committee, or gpoc, and I am here to speak to you today on behalf of GPO sees international members, as we are all aware, the current situation for international scholars and students in the US is on certain and chaotic. Visas are being revoked, and records in the Student Exchange Visitor Information System of seven are being targeted at short notice and often with little or no solid reason given at the way to almost all earlier this month, some way to State students have been affected by such targeted behaviors already international students who are not currently being directly affected are nonetheless concerned that they may end up in a similar situation. We the geoc ask that Wayne State acknowledge and support our international student members and all other national students at the University in their time of uncertainty and fear. Our other national students do not currently have a clear understanding of what Wayne State may be planning to do for their protection. We ask that the university make clear what it is planning to do to protect international students. Such protection is needed to support their continued education here to facilitate their ongoing contributions to the Wayne State academic and administrative communities and to allow their scholarly work to continue for the improvement and increase of human knowledge, our international students need to know what Wayne State will do the system if their visas are in jeopardy or if their service standing is revoked, especially if this happens In their final semester, we ask that the university clearly and publicly communicate what they intend to do to help our international students, so that their fears may be relieved and they may feel confident that ways the administration hears them and cares about their plight, we at gplc feel that it's only right for the University to give our international student members to follow assurance that their services value and that they are viewed as an important part of the Wayne State community. Thank you. Applause.

From the

next speaker,

Chris, on.

Hello, everyone.

I came here today to prepare to speak out against the usual Hamas sympathizers who show up to these meetings, those who are asked Jewish students and defend terrorists and silent in the face of rape and murder genocide, all while not knowing anything about what's going on in our state or local community. But it seems that issues no longer popular to them, or they might have, they might have finally got a job regardless. My name is Krishna. I have the honor and privilege of serving as youth chair in the Michigan Republican Party. I'm here today representing the voices of concerned students and families across Michigan who are watching many with alarm as our public universities driven away from their core mission of education and towards political activism and ideological conformity. First, I want to commend Governor ready, Governor Lynn and Governor residue, for their timeless efforts and for standing firm in their convictions. Your leadership is appreciated and needed now more than ever. Let's be very clear, the baseline expectation of any university is simple, to guarantee safety, respect and opportunity for every student, no matter their race, religion, background or beliefs. Look at me, for example, I'm a Hindu, I'm brown, I'm young, I'm not the average Republican, but I care about this country. My parents came here legally, and I fight for our state. Across the country. We're and right here at Wayne State, we're witnessing a dangerous trend. Radical ideologies are taking precedent over economic excellence. Our campus, once proud place of rigorous debate and free inquiry, are now environments where dissenting opinions are punished and conformity is demanding. This is not indoctrinate. This is not education. This is indoctrination while students face rising tuition, crumbling infrastructure and declining national rankings, Michigan currently ranks 41st in education, 40% infrastructure, 38 in crime and 29 in healthcare. University Leadership spends more time in enforcing political narratives and addressing the real issues. Facing students and families, you don't fight for your own community, you don't fight for your own state. You simply prop up whatever ideology is fashionable while ignoring the real, measurable challenges right outside these doors. And let's be honest about Dei, diversity, equity, inclusion in in theory, dei sounds no no and practice is to become a mechanism for censorship, favoritism and division. It is not inclusive to silence students who hold their appeals. It is not equitable to lower standards or handout opportunities based on identity rather than merit. All right, thank you so much. Tyler Campbell,

good afternoon, governors. I'm Tyler Campbell. I'm a philosophy student here at Maine state, and today I would like to speak to you guys in favor of equal treatment, college admissions. So it is my intent to give a solid argument in favor of meritocracy, which is the source that which would have equal treatment, college admissions. So to begin, we all know that it's self evident that we're all created people. That is true, and that is a fact. Our founding fathers wrote that that is self evident, that we're all created people. It's not based upon your race or religion or creed. It's repairing our human nature, understanding our equality and the intrinsic value of humanity, such as that Emmanuel Kant wrote about that all of us are intrinsically valuable. Is not based upon any of your mental faculties or anything else is grounded upon your human nature. And through that intrinsic value, we are all entitled human dignity. That is respect. That is where our human rights derived from, it's from this concept of human dignity, and through this,

we understand that

with these human rights and with our human dignity, we're entitled that respect. And so we consider college admissions. One thing we need to understand is that there are limited resources in this world. Not everyone can have everything, and knowing that they're all entitled evil treatment and respect, how do we figure out how food is supposed to be admitted to mold, or how we should head of scholarship to wherever else it is. Well, due to this, our equal, our equality. I'm emphasizing inequality because this is the biggest point. It is through this equality we're entitled people treat we're we're entitled people treat them with our college admissions, because it's not based upon the inverted mental factor people, whatever else it is, based upon our equality so that we can, so that we can. I

God. So because we have our equality, and through that, we understand who should, who is entitled human resources. It is through meritocracy. It is through any partial admissions. I understand who is the title are college admissions. It's not based on anything else. And so through that, we understand that it is those who are the illustrious and who have the merit to get in college. I second

Good afternoon. I'm Jennifer Sheridan Moss, professor of classics and the president of the Wayne academic union in recent weeks, the punches thrown by the federal government strike at the heart of Wayne State. We pride ourselves on the advances our scholars have made in fields such as urban health equity. We are also a university opportunity that not only welcomes but celebrates the diversity of our student body, and we are an important driver of the vibrancy of the city of Detroit. We are the living, breathing proof that diversity, equity and inclusion enhance education and communities. I have presented to you today a petition you all have a. Copy that was signed by 850 members of our community, faculty, staff, students, alumni and concerned community members. We cannot share the names of the signatories, because in today's environment, many fear for their safety. Our petition asks the following, first that the university take a public, unequivocal stand in defense of Wayne State against the actions of the federal government, including a clear commitment to Wayne's strategic prioritization of a diverse, equitable and inclusive university in both composition and practice second that the administrative team reaffirmed the constitutional rights of students and staff to assemble and participate in public protests on campus, we call for an end to the use of police to stop those exercising their constitutional rights when there are left ways to address conflicts. Third, that the administrative team return to norms of shared governance in making decisions during this critical time, the expertise and experience of faculty and academic staff should not be discounted. Fourth, in more practical terms that there be an administrative hiring freeze rather than cuts to instruction until such a time as we can understand the impact of

funding cuts,

regardless of what our leadership decides, we will stand behind commitment to an inclusive community where every person is valued, welcomed and given opportunities to thrive, better to stand our ground and retain our identity and to fight through the budget cuts and executive actions than to throw away our distinct qualities faced with the choice between fighting for the unique character and value of Wayne State, we love and capitulation to a capricious federal agenda dead set against inclusive public

education, we Choose Wayne State, thank you. No further

business. Ask permission.