The University of Michigan’s Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs met Monday afternoon in the Alexander G. Ruthven Building to discuss plans for next week’s discussion on artificial intelligence with Jon Kinsey, University Vice President and Secretary, and the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education , a document sent to nine higher education institutions earlier this month, asking the universities to sign on to a list of demands upholding Donald Trump’s administration’s priorities in exchange for preferential access to federal funding . SACUA plans to draft a response to President Donald Trump’s compact, which was addressed to nine schools, not including the University.
The meeting began with an executive session with guests Ravi Pendse, vice president of the O