ahead and get started Good afternoon, university boardings, University Board of Governors is now all support. We are joined today by many members of our university community, including eight individuals who have signed up to give to provide public comment. We ask that everyone in attendance please be respectful of this meeting, to silence electronic devices and to adhere to university policies, guidelines and instructions if the meeting is disrupted to the point where the board's business cannot be completed, the meeting has to be recessed or adjourned, and the public comment will not be held as we begin this afternoon. Let me also welcome the newest member of the board. Governor sunny ready as begins to serve the University. Welcome.
Governor, Secretary
to please call the roll. Thank you. Governor Eggman here, Governor Reggie and Governor ready. Thank you, Julie. Our first item of business is the approval of the consent agenda. Governor sakato, thank you, President, I'd like to make a motion to modify the consent agenda by adding three remaining action items, key approval, personnel, recommendations, the establishment of endowed funds and repurposing of the endowed fund. I'd like to add those to that agenda. You heard the motion. Is there support
board questions?
All in favor? Opposed?
Abstain. Abstentions. The motion passed, I will now move to the approval of the revised consent agenda. I ask for a motion to approve the consent agenda as revised item, a approval of the official proceedings of December 11, 2024, regular board meeting from the Academic and Student Affairs Committee, establishment of an undergraduate certificate in adaptive physical education and establishment of a new program for the Master of Health Administration and Finance, a contingency fund transfer of $275,000 parking structure number six repairs and maintenance. Parking structure number seven, repairs and maintenance, the block and cast heart, flood response, biologic science and building fire damage restoration, biologic science of building fire suppression. Item J, campus plan, concentrating academic activity and creating strategic departmental adjacencies. They. 81 and the personnel recommendations as presented. Item L, establishment and endowment funds totaling $4,422,000 for the purposes presented and the repurposing of the sharana and my endowment fund. May I please have a motion support? All in favor, opposed. Abstentions. The motion carries thank you. Before moving on, let me express our gratitude to all of the donors for their support and the endowment funds that were just approved. Please join me in special recognition of the endowment fund of $500,000 from the estate of Jan Adams to support the College of career initiative, the $2 million gift from Dr Alvin and Harriet Saperstein for their Summer Symposium, and the $1.25 million gift From the DR Werner Smith endowed chair and pathology applause. Now we move on to the board committee reports from our three standing committees to met this morning, beginning with the academic student affairs committee, Governor psychos. Thank you very much. The Academic and Student Affairs Committee met this morning with a short agenda. The Committee approved two recommendations, one for the establishment of undergraduate certificate in adaptive physical education, and the other, establishing a new program for the Master of Health Administration, both there are interesting and exciting options for our students. Both of these were approved on the Consent Agenda earlier this afternoon. Next the committee heard a presentation highlighting examples of college to career and action. First, Dean Richard burchbach from the law school talked with us about the outstanding work being done in the Law Clinic, which trained JD students in the field while serving the Metro Detroit community. We introduced Catherine sherdon, a third year law student, who share their experiences working with the legal advocacy for people with cancer next independent life of the Mike Phillips School of Business provided an overview of the Business School's programs preparing students to be future business leaders. We met working with them and supply chain management major who talked about her own experiences in the school and the success you've been able to achieve with that experience. These are two great examples of the College and Career initiative, and we look forward to hearing more of these in the future. That concludes, Thank you, Governor. Now we're here from Dr Barnhill, from the budget Finance Committee. Governor Barnhill, thank
you Budget and Finance Committee that this morning and considered a number of items on this agenda. Those included consideration and approval of several capital expenditures the committee
approved. Prepares for two parking structures, flood remediation for the black and Cass Park, funds for restoration and suppression activity before fire
damage experience earlier this year at the biological sciences
program, the Committee
also received detailed overview of phase one of the candidates, concentrated academic activity and space optimization, approval of 12 million in funding for this very exciting initiatives, and our faculty representatives who share the
needs have increased engagement for future
space. All of these projects were approved on the incentives earlier this afternoon. The Committee also received and repeated two stands. Summarizing activity on basic capital projects and the other report on purchasing exemptions contracts
over $50,000 last but certainly not please, I call on Governor besuito to report on the Health Affairs research
the Health Affairs Research and Economic Development Committee this morning and received two informational reports. The first was an update from Vice President elbasi on the research awards report from the fourth quarter of fiscal year 24 which summarized and obligated sponsored research awards the University of this team by sponsor type of the quarter, which ended in December, the committee spent the remainder of its time hearing a presentation by Dr Doris ash, director of the Coronavirus Cancer Institute, who provided an overview of the journey to KCI, a strong research and academic partner from the University, has undertaken to where it stands today. He covered a wide array of information about KCI research focus initiatives and service areas of the tremendous. Quality of care and dedication to cancer patients it provides to families, not only here in Michigan, but across the country and even internationally. We also learned about the research undertaken by our faculty and the strides they are making at all levels of cancer care. I think I can speak for all of us in second, how proud we are to have the carmonas Cancer Institute and NCI designated cancer center here at Wayne State University, there are only 72 such centers in the country. They do phenomenal work, and we look forward to hearing more about their accomplishments in the future. That concludes
my report. Thank you, Governor. Item six on the agenda is a special topic presentation that provides a regular update on our progress towards goals and objectives outlined in the university's Board approval strategic plans our moment in time. These presentations provide a review and analysis of our progress, utilizing veterans and achievements on each of the Codd focus areas of plans. Today, we will dive into the research and discoveries of this area, the Vice President Obama chairs key goals, investment strategies and early achievements that the university has already seen in this area. Dr Obama, thank you. Well, thank
you all for allowing me to present an exciting for the first time a year ago. This was actually the first board of graduate meeting in this national group again. So it's awesome. So we're excited to be here today. I really wanted to get into a deep dive and some of the stuff that we're working on across the University of research discovery, and wanted to sort of begin with where our strategic plan actually said we expand and nurture initiatives address both regional goals, staff challenges and overall problems. We do this by veterans, friends and talents across the department, schools and colleges, centers and institutes as a platform for university community of educational access, research and a lot of things that truly are one person. What does that actually look like? How do we organize thinking through, how we think about challenge, how to bring disappearance together team science work so we can accelerate scientific breakthroughs. And ultimately, what is our identity? Who are we? What do we do? And how do we, sort of, when we look at our strategic plan, we have four goals. The first goal is to expand research initiatives to address local, regional cyber challenges. Second goal is to further development technologies, infrastructure, local system to support scholar activity. The third goal is to increase research awards and expenditures. And the fourth goal is to expand recognition of creativity, so everything that I present today, first, I just want to begin with our actual scorecard. As you can see, Wayne as was able to increase our recent expenditures based on her data that was recently recorded, we were able to increase our expansions by about 4.7 and as you can see, it has led to some decreases in some of our rankings. And so I'll talk to you about how it's possible for exponential to increase the actual rankings, to increase across time. One of the other things is that we wanted to highlight as part of the scorecard, and what
that really does allows us to correct survey and we want to build bit more of a potential job, as we've been seeing. Hopefully we can continue to grow this train across time where we of go into that if you look to the right hand side, you can begin to see our peer institutions are generally similar indicators if you Look at our national peers. But overall, everybody
just say, has the same zone reduction.
So first I want to focus on exposures. Exposures were the primary range. I thought it would be COVID. COVID, as you can see in this graph, graphic, we have about 70% of our work is funded by Health and Human Services, and what that speaks to is the vast amount of work that we're doing in health sciences. This includes the presentation,
but it also includes board of the state of medicine, but it also includes other parts of the university where there's a class engineering contributing to this health research of this number, I think it's important to to also note that about 60 to 70% of our experience versus NIH from good
funder for we begin to dig into are the expenditures of our peers. See in red, our years have gone down. Black represents increases in that particular year. Wayne State has experienced two years in a row of increase. These increases range in those respective years. As you can see, some of our peers have decreased and some of that experience has been increasing. So if you look at the top two, it kind of skews the
data a little bit. But I want to show graphic where we have this for us. And so if you look at this goal board, it shows where it stays on the quantity over the past five years. As you can see, it's kind of been a little flat, and we work whereas our peers, but recognizing that a large part of that have that sort of greatest is influenced by three institutions. But in order for us to begin to start to move the needle upon our national rankings, we're going to have to fill this curve a little bit more aggressive. This is what our match past five years, and
an appropriate advantage overall rate 78 University,
it would be great over the next five years, top 75 our students progress.
I think this graphic really shows grants to how we
grow public space. As you can see, top 75 spending. And so that kind of gives you a sense of the level of increase in order
to begin to sort of pass up. I think this graphic really shows sort of what that trend looks like. As you can see, we have been illegal to increase our expenditures for that, we've also been decreasing our
overall risk. And part of what that means is that our overall people are sort of increasing at five
to 7% average anytime we vote on that average, we're a brand new risk, and so they're moving on. Our rankings are really Detroit not being able to change
this slide the record. Little shortcuts by National Research Council.
But one of the things that I really want to highlight is that this this covers a wide range of art sciences. Is not just the art sciences. We have social science, physical science, engineering. So there's a broad range of spaces where we can
actually not only is it good to honor folks here's some hard work to change those careers, and then once you get some of these prestigious awards, you get access to things, you begin to be movies and shakers discipline. And we want to be a little bit more intentional. Historically, we have sort of hoped on that faculty would pursue these things on their own, and now we want to put some structure together. They can actually use things that we have invested in to identify who those faculty are. I think this slide just provides some good examples of recent under fixed. We have seen we have a NSF career award by Dr Zhang. One of the things that's nice about the NSF career award is that you can be engineering science, you can be in education. There's a lot of different states that qualify for this career who are stuck
in time to start a new career, early career stage? I think there's programming to kind of build out a pipeline. I think on the other example, around the organization, American historians who command this example, where this organization gives one award each year. And what that means is that we work with one awardee this year, as it relates to a book that Dr Williams wrote in regards to the Civil War. And what is the most
impactful ground faithful book that was published that addresses either the Civil War to see that we have faculty being recognized for their
history, as you might imagine, north of business curve, you have
to have a quick
strategy colleges with do they see their future and development standpoint?
I meet regularly with our deans, associate deans on research, as presidents, directors and institutes and overarching staff to think about, what are some of the barriers or infrastructure to collaboration with team science? Address positive engagement with the faculty senate, having some really good conversations with our budget, around the vision, around the impact of our work, the future of supporting the faculty scholarship division of other areas across campus and areas across campus. I think the last piece here was just really being creative, so having a diverse platform communication through university wide announcements, through research, through newsletters, but also seeking faculty inputs
during surveys out there, faculty, there's and so all that to say that many of the things comes from a lot of engagement at almost every
level on campus. So that truly embarrassing. There are two items that I'm really excited about within the visual Research Foundation. The first one is Connie Phillips, who's masters or Assistant Vice
President for technical she's done a phenomenal job as a short term. She's been carried foods on the ground, engaging our colleges truly those relationships back. Opportunities, streamlined processing
turnaround times and so forth. And you know, we gotta believe that I feel started in this time frame where basically things with our psyche right now,
and so we think about preposter What does that look like under the current conditions? How do we continue to submit grants and have confidence in the work that we're doing? And how do we motivate them?
But I think what is critically important is that there is no way for members to go up. We can't provide good service, and so we have our faculty to make sure they have a much more positive experience, similar to goal one strategic plan, there's also thought into how do we come up with those big areas, those big ideas, how do we think about ways in which we can have a very real, more targeted impact on some of the challenges that we're experiencing in Detroit and
Michigan proper students
and and so as I moved to earlier this morning, he goes to make America website, one of the things that tie back in here is just. It, and where does that actually mean, how
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help us, the School of Public Health Just really engaging. I'm also acknowledging that sometimes around the partnerships with folks that are in our area, that maybe we have historical relationships with the US, Army vehicle system centers? Phenomenal opportunity for us to exchange both equipment teaching research and networks. Provides a space for students to get research research experience, but it also sets the stage for future partnerships in order. So we're currently exploring and what it does is a lot of us, such in such a way that, you know, the army comes to us and says, here's where our big challenges are addressed. Patents. That sort of forces. But what are our capabilities? How can we, even if I didn't think about that, forcing us to think outside and across various different academic rooms, we hear a lot about FNA, and what does it mean? Example of how we actually use FNA to invest in our research around oftentimes, in order to show this concept of reason. In order to show just the concept of research opportunities, and these are ways in which we invest in programs internally, but also recognizing that sometimes you have to have investments that target very specific pricing. Addition to other spaces, one of the software packages
that was approved by how this is really interesting. How do you know you can simply go and type large research models and then certain.
So this are our new investigators, and for some of those folks in these collaborations that were put together, I mentioned who cloud earlier, just trying to provide a couple of slides to show you the impact of how we do business moving forward, historically. You know, data typically set in the lab and when you went to cloud. And now, with this, in this sort of environment, we can have a data driven cloud. So we're not going to get into the cloud shared space. We other
challenges, so we went out always,
taking care of through those babies that also speaks about requirements as a mix of California, some of the Google games being able to leverage this AI, use your CV.
Publishers are your CV being able to do research and say, summarize the past
10 years using
an AI. Right now we're sitting in a
very beautiful mission, which is the beautiful and I think what you also saw MCI presentation was really important, but not just innovative, but innovated in how it's going to force their collaboration. So when you think of that's happening, Health, Science Research, we're trying to force collaboration specific areas that aren't actually right.
Here, just a lot of cool
events happening in this building to sort of help accelerate I thought it would be worth highlighting a project by Dr Christ Morris, who runs our discipline for Environmental Health Sciences, for receiving a 5.2 center.
Community, and we think about environment stress. And it's not just increasingly, because I see trio, it truly is like how what you agree with all these variables, how that affects, how that helps.
Areas looking forward. You know, I do want to acknowledge that there's a lot of opportunities for growth, and one of the spaces that we are covering this scorecard is that community that that community, as you might recall,
presentation is, how do we represent to increase. And the state government foundation, I think there's just a lot of opportunity for growth in that aspect of our funding, so that while we do
one federal funding, we also
referral. Ultimately, you know, we have a two year increase in her expenditures. We're optimistic that this will be a third year increase as well. These numbers are being finalized as we speak. So, unfortunately, want to acknowledge that we are we have to
give this
much. That's the whole
point of having
strategies. I'm really excited about who we are as an institution, and I think we an institution. Getting away from this presentation, does that
impact crisis? Ourselves in front of local media outlets? I wouldn't see more of our
faculty
in media outlets happening anyway. We'll be
setting up that kind of alignment with you
Yeah, I think I pretend for Talking about clean science,
and he really do appreciate.
I wide range of university
updates from our schools, our colleges and divisions since the board met last you'll see a lot of great work from so many members of our university community to make a difference every day for our students, for our families and for our community. So I really encourage everybody to check it out. Let us take a couple of minutes now to show a couple of highlights from that report so you can start a new year without comment. Year, where more than 3800 graduates earned their degree amongst the whole across the year, six and 300 graduates in the environment, 2024 that includes our first generation students, more than half of those 3800 graduates, including 1200 healthcare professionals, but also exciting for collaborating with our employers, with 1000 of these students having engagement jobs and really to meet our employer. Workforce demands really exciting work, and I know everyone enjoys that event as much as I'll do I started out today welcoming Governor ready, and wanted to take the time for the board to welcome Governor ready campus members of the Board of Governors, I appreciate so much your dedication the way State Commission and its transformers and I know and look forward to the positive impact and legacy that you both impact on legacies that you both believe in our university. We also, on January 17, posted the 2015 life and the legacy of the brother, dr, Martin, Jr. It was seen 60 years after selling and we're still marching couple of program highlighted in regards on behalf of the board, the key to speaker, Reverend Dr Frederick Douglas Haynes, the third inspired standing room only. The performance inspired WSU freedom player, the social justice theater ensemble brands, Academy artists trying to show fire for three. Really understand, we had an opportunity to present an award to Senator Debbie Stabenow for the Warriors Service Award and the DR Arthur L Johnson Community Leadership Award was awarded positively to Dr Millie about her part and was accepted by his daughter Mary. The Tribute already earned almost like 100,000 views on the first day alone. So it's not only a celebration at Wayne State, but it's a celebration for our city and our entire state, our faculty, our staff, win awards all of the time. So these are just a couple of highlights. Dean, Dean Denise from indeed, as you always say with our Dean of College of Education, and she and Kim burrows were recognized by the Michigan chronicle of 2025, women of excellence. I can think of two folks. There's no one more Missouri than these two. We work hard on behalf of Wayne State, our students, faculty and staff every day for their work in community development and innovation and education and academics. This is a view of many slides we have a lot that was one thing. On. We have two faculty who were elected fellows at the I triple E, Dr gabriek and Dr long for their work was an engineering technology as well as batteries and design doctoral school was a board of districts for a fellowship,
the honors Catholic fellowship, the honors team coming doctors received the VA mayor, torn from the VA, our student success team, led by Dr Darryl Gardner, was earned and awarded a $650,000 grant from Michigan, learning from Miley and will really accelerate some of Our work and not the credit for prior learning and recognizing experiences to bring to our university. And last, but certainly not least, Dr Miller School of Medicine was selected to receive a robber society and special board of science. As I said, these are just being significant of all the great work happening at Wayne State that I always bring one of my favorite parts to recognize our faculty and staff, and also comes together to recognize and result in Wayne State, once again, being at the forefront of research excellence and doctoral training. The Carnegie Foundation again designated Wayne State as a research loan institution, one that has very high spending and Doctor of production. They've changed the criteria this year, so we are now one of up underneath six universities across the country that were so designated, and we are really proud to be amongst those universities. It's not only about meeting at the university, we're also meeting, but nationally, as well as globally, I have the opportunity to chair the Council of the annual meeting and policy forum of the Ura. The ura represents universities that have high energy physics programs to collaborate with our national laboratories are working together to understand the fundamental aspects of discovering physics so physics go from local. You all were even local, and I had the opportunity to serve on a panel at our Detroit Regional Chamber of policy conference in January for the three or one president, because next year, before the Michigan Technological University joined to talk about innovation, universities are driving workforce, retaining talent and spotting innovation to support economic development. Our own admin team also needs a keynote that was very well received, and how we're partnering with other entities in our community to really bolster on economic development for Detroit and New York, one of our favorite things the provost and I have the opportunity to connect with our students and engage with our alums. These are just a couple of pictures from my life, whether it's the basketball team above women and men, whether it's our graduate students and the picture on the top right, we've welcomed many alums at our Field House about taking the game learn some updates about where we take it, and really share the enthusiasm about our great university and folks, I'm just so excited to be able to share our success. We are telling our story. How many of you have seen this came out right before the winter holiday, which, again, the theme of telling our story. I'm really proud. Thank you so much for our communications team and across our University, who put together an outstanding magazine that really represents, just again, a snippet of great work going on at our campus. It's beautiful, engaging, and I hope you all enjoy it, and the link is right there. And then, last but not least, the at the American Council on Education convention this week in Washington, DC. I got a text from a colleague that President Ted Mitchell was delivering his keynote address, and he gave a great shout out to Wayne State University when he was described in a student of ours, a military veteran, medical student. Of course, that student is actually occurs a Marine Corps veteran and WSU. Among us who was the 2023 ace student leader? This honor is given nationally those who have benefited from using ace credit recommendation for awarding academic credit for prior workforce and military training and demonstrating achievement in the community or workplace. We should just another example of how our prosperity agenda is at work and our college or career initiative. Or career initiative is really making a difference, and students like COVID, I want you to hear a little about about what happens here. Imagine everyday,
while I was in the military, I was able to earn 35 credits through a combination of military training courses, cluster bans and media DLC, as far as testing and through those, I was able to transfer through the joint services credit.
Those credits towards the General
Education Department, not only about those two degrees, but also towards my current degree in their plan. So I'm very thankful that 35 prizes really goes on to about a year and over $30,000 in tuition. So tuition. So I'm very, very glad, and it definitely made decisions easier to go back to school, not having said that additional money or time at my current institution or state, we have probably the best sports that we could ever ask for our graduate students have five designated staff members that are able to help with enrollment in our Canada. I feel very fortunate to be part of that committee and have access to the support that I do want to definitely play a role in allowing to be as successful as I have. On the agenda is public comment. I turn to board chairs for opening remarks on behalf of the board members. Thank you. Representative. The board welcomes the opportunity to hear from students, faculty, staff and all of our broad community comments.
The Board also encourages you
to submit written for video comments to our website this session for individuals to share their perspectives with the board, not no matter how you share your thoughts from that is with them. Please know we're listening, reading and taking your perspectives into consideration
that the board continues. Today's public
comment section includes eight speakers who registered to speak before Wednesday, and each speaker has three minutes to speak when the time elapses on the clock, the remarks are concluded. Secretary Miller, would you please call each speaker to provide comments? Thank you. Thank you, President. Before I call the first name, I'd like to remind all speakers and attendees given the materials to be shared with the board must
be Using the Denver mirror. I am theater black, Chairman, graduate. Care for the graduate employee organized in 1945 the first doctoral programs were established at landing, chemistry, physiological health and education. Three years later, in 1948 the first graduate student worker positions were established in a college education. These graduates were served in curricular, non curricular and administrative positions. By the late 1950 graduate workers were an established part of the academic community at Wayne State in 1959 Samuel fall wrote the Doctorate of Education dissertation that the program of what was then called doctoral student instructorship in providing a quality social faculty and a faculty with broad and varied backgrounds, and have permitted ways to expand certain curriculum. Over the decades, many more grad students have taken on such positions in many departments throughout the university, and many of us hold this position today. One of us perform research or administrative work as well assist faculty in their teaching duties or serve as instructor themselves and myself in my third year of teaching here, since 1998 the graduate employees Organizing Committee has run. Centered graduate teaching assistants and graduate student assistants at Wake state supporting these graduate employees in their valuable work. Graduate research assistants are now ultimately represented by geocc as well. As of last week, geoc has begun bargaining sessions with the university to negotiate the terms of our next contract. It is aforementioned. Dissertation, Earl mal described the salary earned by graduate workers as rather adequate. He stated that the recruitment returns made it apparent that those responsible for the development of the program had apparent that those responsible for the development of the program had a matter of salary for folks in mind so that groundworkers will be able to support themselves in all working we the geoc, also have a matter of salary foremost in mind, and would like to ensure that, given the significant cost in rising cost of livings in recent times, the compensation we receive for our labor and restate service could still be accurately termed, adequate to cover that cost of Living. We also want to ensure that the buildings and classrooms in which we and our only students labor and learn representative working environment and given the current political climate, we especially want to be sure that our international student members will be safe and secure at the university. We the gpoc form these things for our membership, not only because they are good things to have, but because we believe they are a just recompense for the value of the labor we provide to make safe, it is our hope that these ongoing bargaining sessions will result in contract which will allow us to continue without conscience in the decades long tradition of Providing that valuable labor to the university. Thank you. Hello. Afternoon board. My name is Tyler brown. This is my first semester here at blank faith. I am a tragedy of a non traditional
student. I'm usually the older someone dollars in
my class. What I came here today for was when I initially registered to go to school here, I wasn't really thinking of campus life. I'm kind of beyond that. But what I was interested in was radio at my previous school. I got a certificate in communication, so I just gave this I would be something that I would be able to do here. I looked up Wayne radio and found out that if practicing doesn't exist and what does exist isn't very diverse, and it doesn't seem to be up and running. I've asked where the antenna is here. Nobody seems to know. Is there one here? And I obviously know that this won't be an interactive exchange, but I do hope this one will answer my question, When will this radio station be back up? I keep hearing that there's a budgetary issue with it, but I know it Wayne State with the tuition that doctor debris and I pay out of pocket, that could possibly be so there needs to be a radio station here. I'm looking and there's, I've seen this magazine tell your story, tell your story. How better to tell the story than to listen to it on the radio? However, I'm a parent. I'm engaged in a lot of things. Sometimes I don't have time to sit down and read someone else's story. I would much rather hear it in the podcast or somebody talking about it on a radio station. And although definitely is there, it is not landscape carried out station. They determine what goes on the radio. And here's the other better way that you all can engage with the students. How better than to come down to a landscape radio station and talk about what you want to talk about. There are some people here that want to talk about these things, and it would be nice to hear their point of view on a radio station or something here at the campus that gives students a voice outside of the newspaper or a booklet asking to tell their story. If there is a budgetary issue, I would like to hear about it. I would definitely like to follow up, because there are students here interested in radio and communication. There is a radio station or a group that has already had some form of the radio station. But as I said, it's not inclusive. They know it's not inclusive. It almost feels like they did an idea. Hit a wall with ideas. And I think other people have ideas that should be heard, and that's something that should be resisted. Again. Thank you. You
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Consistently standing firm in justice witnesses for Allah, even if it be against yourself or parents or relatives, this university has no moral background, no more, no moral background, not any at all. After the charges of the students were dismissed, the university and Captain Derek continue to push these students to the ground. Quite literally, the university did this drew my most consistent faith, and now they are doing it in non academic photography. How are you going to sleep at night? These are your students. You are a little into the floor. A lot of you. I know a lot of you, I've met a lot of you have group hood. It's disgusting. Leave them alone. Why? Because they're giving you morality. And you guys have methods. That's why administrators can also learn. They can also learn, especially in such intense environments for Muslim students on campus, I'm the head and the president of Muslim Coalition. We represent multiple organizations on campus, and you're sitting here smiling and laughing. You say that you want to engage the students. The other day, I walked towards you when you were giving up flowers. You ran away from me. I was sleeping at night, and we have tried every single avenue, respectively, talking to multiple administrators, faculty, organizing in a kind way, in a kind way. But still, nothing has changed.
Still, the university is the biggest enactor of the Zambia movie on campus.
During the time of South Africa apartheid, the president of the university debated a student. They debated a student at growth points you go to archive president, ESP I challenge you to debate on whether or not it is equitable universities to divest from World opportunity companies. Thank you so much. There's a person
who is a student here. She signed up for a couple of comments. She didn't get approved for some reason. Is there a way I can just let her come
up here? Okay? No. Today, we did more research and
other stuff. Like, what do you guys do? What do you got? Oh, you're new. I can't wait for that scene over there, by the way, that everybody over there, by the way, at the end over there, you're On the way up. But yeah, not too long you
it so much. Why was excluded from the departments they were trying to make up. That's everything we went to them, and we're trying to fight for our own department, and he said, The talk is up. That native really had, me has excluded representation from the vice president. That was new to me. That's very odd. That's very odd. And then, you know, again, you were talking about, Oh, we're so excited to share very you guys. Over here. How do I do
this? Conduct cases? Oh, yeah, yeah, it's like a product who's paid to look at this stuff like, that's what people put you guys trying to do that.
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My name my
name is Nigel Ali attorney. I'm an MVP candidate for Michigan State Central Committee. I'm a representative also of mass spec, and our team has successfully voted in a statewide investment resolution during the divestment resolution the committee, we learned during investment
resolution committee meeting a few days ago as a Detroit as a Detroit resident and future representative, I am a fault by the behavior and representation of Wayne State student leaders have pursued every avenue for an investment and yet be disrespected and disregarded from every time even some of the students that came up here today, they spoke truly, but it seems as though you just look at home. I wear this because it seems as though you are too proud or too arrogant to actually speak about Palestine. You know, you this is really sad and embarrassing. I'm adjusting the elected officials presented in this room, and I emphasize the importance on standing and respecting students and their viewpoints, that upholding their rights. As a Detroit resident and college student myself, I would like to see Wayne State truly embody the values that they claim to have. And I've also recently attended a student held event at Wayne State who was brought to our attention that African American students on campus received a multi million dollar grant two years ago to build a department, and yet these students still do not have a department today, a department today. They've also tried to talk to somebody else. They tried to actually get student involvement. You cannot build something for the students without having their involvement. So it's very good. I will very much like to see where that money has gone. I would very much like to see what you're doing with that. Which are going with that. If Wednesday truly cares about the value that they claim to have, they must show that in their actions, and not only In their words. Thank you.
One more time. Abdul
Rahman, time. Abdul Rahman Al zawahi, the last speaker is general.
Applause.
Across all the nations
and across the whole nation. One of the ways that Islamophobia allows this, we can't say dehumanization of Muslims and Islam itself. So when we see this, we see the perpetuation of the dehumanization of Muslims. What allows this, and when we see this, and how it happens, is university spending University Police to grade the students at these games, and they have to say that while they raid them, they rip off the road to a job. And to some of you who don't know anything about Islam, that is a very significant thing in our religion when that happens. And this, again. Is caused by the university to the university sent those police towards that the university doesn't actually make a phone call to send the university police to raid and to Rebecca whether it was directly or by proxy, you sent the police and you prior you caused that we cannot issue a statement. Is embarrassing, the disappointment, and when we see that the university is causing these things, and what that is, is it perpetuates the dehumanization of Muslims to think that you guys are not even recognizing Muslim students as human enough to say, we call something, we mess up nothing, and then to charge the students through the prosecutor's office, and after she does the research, she investigates it, we're investing into this report, and wants His Body input. She said this evidence was not conclusive. There was not enough evidence based on the body cam footage to pursue the students and what happened. But okay, somebody who's done some research that didn't do enough now, when you guys could go and charge the students, there's non academic targets through the university. And again, what it shows is that you don't recognize Muslim students as you because anyone else, anything like that statement would have been there would have been steps to acknowledge, apologize, look for what happened. But do not do any of that show that you've been looking at anything of value, because they know we're not going to say nothing about that. Yeah, I respect the job I prepare the police officers in African University. So what you do is to continue to perpetuate the demonization. We're here today to establish a new working definition of xenophobia and so onwards. The Council of Islamic American Americans defined phobia as theater paper or prejudice or Muslims. That was a distorted understanding by transforming the global historical definition you
That concludes public comments, there being no further business, I ask for a motion to adjourn. May I have a
motion support All in favor. Why are you pursuing the final chords against your students? Can you just.
