First, thanks to everybody those participated in this, both from our three university campuses and
then our community partners to Barb, Tonya and others that gave up their time today to speak and offer some
windsom and advice based on their personal experiences
I really learned a lot of very interesting language and phrases from Tonya's talk I just want to reiterate.
I think she expressed it very well that she said that we are looking for the intersection of research, practice and policy.
I think that resonates with my colleagues at the university as a way to elevate the impact
of the research and teaching that they do of working at this I very mportant intersection
I really as a big fan of Congressman John Louis I love this expression "good trouble"
You know get out there get in the way and cause good trouble.
Also a generational play, now you know I hear now I hear all these great terms but thats a good one
What does generational play really mean? So if you're going to pick on academics for thier choice of language
I'm going to tease Tonya about making a generational player on doing legacy work.
I'm also going to work on my civic muscle because I found that attractive as well but there was a constincey
alot of what I heard today both here on these couple of talks as well as in the panel on education
I think the key word that kept coming up again and again today was partnership
and working alongside community leaders and community members.
Also, alongside our fellow faculty and students truly as partners and trying to recognize
as each of us has something unique and indispensable to contribute as we try to work on a common set of goals
In terms as of the university and what it's trying to do of course.
Our mission is to generate knowledge and then to apply our expertise to our research in these collaborations.
We also use our collaborations in Detroit as a educational vehicle as a way to
help our students really reienforce what they've learned that may have a more therotical nature
in the classrooms and help them really solidify that knowledge by putting it to good practical use.
This is the second of these UM3 Detroit meetings, the first one last year on Ann Arbor campus
we had Mayor Duggan come and speak to us. He spoke about the importance of working together.
And one of the great outcomes of this effort is poverty initiative that some of you are familiar with
I saw Luke Shaffer was here earlier today I'm not sure if he is still here but we've solidified a collaborative relationship
with the City of Detroit and the mayor so it was announced formally
were actually providing the resources to hire an Asst. Director in the mayor's Office of Economic Mobility
The University of Michigan poverty initiative is going to be a both a think tank and practice base
for working with the city and working with agencies like health., work force, housing, home assistance.
Trying to both do good research and to put into practice the work we do but involving the government and community works.
Im very excited to see how that's going to play out and there major philanthropist looking at
how we are doing this and may step in to help support us.
As we are expanding our focus on work on Detroit and other cities/regions around the state
A group of faculty has helped us come up with a set of principles that will help guide us
So that these partnership end up being maximally beneficial.
These principles are pretty simple and they have all came up today.
The first is the principle of recognition.
Recognizing the expertise and knowledge actually exist in the community that we work with.
That recognition is the very first step on this pathway to the second principle which is respect .
Barb mentioned respect. Respecting an individual communities, their resources, their talents, their energy, their openness, willingness and
enthuseasim around working together to improve everybody's future.
And then finally a principle equitable partnership based these recipocal
Relationship of transparency and accountability where the academicsions that our
students drive certain benefits that apart of our regular job.
We have to do be doing scholarship and we have to be doing teaching
otherwise the university as a entity really doesn't have a specific role to play absent of those things
but we also have to recognize that our community partners there are not in it to
publish a paper or teach a student there actually in it to improve their communities.
My challenge as the leader here is to help us together look for the sweet spot
between the university's mission and the communities desires and needs
And this win win of a sweet spot where our faculty members and our students are achieving their ambitions.
They're are also having impact with heir work
which all of us long to have impact to the world and have meaning to our work
and then the community partners that we are working with become true partners
that see benefits in there communities
that go beyond the excitement that a researcher may
develop by generating a good set of data or publisihing a paper
So finding that sweet spot is a challenge
The mission of the University of Michigan, we have a statement
The mission of the university is to serve the people of the Michigan and the world through
permanents in creating, communicating, preserving and applying
knowledge art and academic values, and in developing leaders and citizens
who will challenge the present and enrich the future
Now if, Barb was still on this stage she would say its all gobble gook
To put it really simply in language in language that me and Barb could agree on
It's to make the world a better place through research and education
That's really what we wake up in the morning and what we're trying to do at its simplest core
I'd like to add one thing
so we are making the world a better place
through research and education
I now like to live in a place through partnerships
that allow us to pursue our mission through collaboration with the public that we serve
and this UM3 Detroit meeting captures that.
Now I have a hidden agenda in this Um3 Detroit process
and that is University of Michigan is three campuses are quite different from one another
so those differences end up creating a more of a distance than those 45 minutes to an hour it takes to travel among them
but I think just as we work with our community partners and come to the table with our partners with a notion
that everybody has something critical to offer if a collaboration is going to work .
I think three campuses of our university has to look upon one another as resources to
elevate all of our work and to come together with the same sense of open-mindedness
and collaboration that everyone has to benefit and everyone has something to offer
This space around Detroit is a great example but there are many other ways
that our three campuses can work together so we can best achieve that shared mission
of making the world a better place
Thank you all for your participation today but more importantly
your participation through your lives work and trying to make us
a better stronger, cohesive and just society
through all of efforts of research, teaching, activism, advocacy but most importantly partnership.
So, thanks all very much we will do this again perhaps back in Ann Arbor of Flint next time. Thank you you'll very much.
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