The University of Michigan will invest $85 million over the next five years to increase diversity among its students and staff, the school's president announced two days after hundreds of its staff attended a rally against a series of racially-charged fliers discovered on the campus in Ann Arbor. The programs are part of a five-year strategic plan President Mark Schlissel unveiled at a summit Thursday. They include a program for incoming freshmen with diverse cultural backgrounds and other differences, a training program on inclusiveness for all new faculty, and more outreach programs to increase and maintain diversity among students and staff, according to the Detroit Free Press. The university has already started two enrichment and scholarship programs within the past year for high-achieving African-American students and students from low-income families, said Dr. Schlissel.

October 6, 2016 ・ From Christian Science Monitor