> Total salary, including benefits, for UM diversity employees amounts to $10.6 million, and that doesn’t take into account overhead, travel or outreach costs.

> Total salary, including benefits, for UM diversity employees amounts to $10.6 million, and that doesn’t take into account overhead, travel or outreach costs. This sum is the equivalent of full in-state tuition for about 700 students. Can you imagine how a full ride scholarship could have impacted not only the lives of 700 disadvantaged teens of all colors from the state, but inspired those around them, their friends and families? > After the passage of the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative in 2006, public institutions, including universities, can no longer discriminate based on race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin. That means universities are banned from using affirmative action in their admissions policies. Nor can they offer race or gender-based aid. So universities are turning to other options. Maybe the people of Michigan should make it more explicit in the law. "turning to other options" sounds a lot like trying to bypass the law...