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Regents hold meeting in Dearborn

BY GIACOMO BOLOGNA

Yesterday, the University’s Board of Regents held their monthly meeting at the University of Michigan-Dearborn as part of a yearly tradition.

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Regents slated to discuss Wall Street structure

BY PETER SHAHIN

At its last meeting of the school year, the University’s Board of Regents will take another look at the possible construction of a parking garage on Wall Street, near the Kellogg Eye Center, north of the University Hospital.

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Hanlon to talk about tuition plan with regents

BY TUI RADEMAKER

While officials around the nation have continued to debate the benefits and challenges of establishing tuition equality policies, University administrators have begun considering the logistics of implementing a plan that would increase college accessibility to undocumented students.

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Coleman talks amnesty policy and diversity at fireside chat

BY PETER SHAHIN

At a cozy affair yesterday, University President Mary Sue Coleman and E. Royster Harper, the University’s vice president for student affairs, answered questions from a few dozen students during a fireside chat in the Michigan Union.

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GSRA ban will not be immediate

BY GIACOMO BOLOGNA

The University's Board of Regents public quarrel over whether graduate student research assistants should be able to legally unionize continued yesterday in a hastily scheduled special meeting.

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Scarnecchia announces resignation

BY PAIGE PEARCY

In an e-mail sent to members of the University community on Friday, University President Mary Sue Coleman announced that Suellyn Scarnecchia, the University’s vice president and general counsel since 2008, will step down to take a faculty position in the Law School.
Coleman wrote in the e-mail that Scarnecchia has played an integral role as a member of the University’s executive board.

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‘U’ to target West Coast in upcoming capital campaign

BY AARON GUGGENHEIM

While the Michigan football team strives to be “the champions of the West” each Saturday, the University is also making an effort to move west to fundraise for its next capital campaign.

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New School of Nursing building gets go ahead

BY PETER SHAHIN

The University’s Board of Regents approved a new home for the School of Nursing at their monthly meeting yesterday in the Pendleton Room of the Michigan Union — a deviation from their typical meeting space in the Fleming Administration Building as the board seeks a new permanent location to accommodate more attendees.

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Bill classifying GSRAs as students clears House

BY GIACOMO BOLOGNA

A controversial bill that would legally codify graduate student research assistants as students, not public employees with the right to organize, could be headed to Republican Gov. Rick Snyder’s desk as early as next week after the state House of Representatives passed the bill Thursday in a party-line vote.

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Bill classifying GSRAs as students heads to Snyder's desk

BY GIACOMO BOLOGNA

A controversial bill that would legally codify graduate student research assistants as students, not public employees with the right to organize, could be headed to Republican Gov. Rick Snyder’s desk as early as next week after the state House of Representatives passed the bill Thursday in a party-line vote.

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