In this episode of The Daily Weekly, we delve into the challenges at the University of Michigan, where rising enrollment is clashing with limited space. We'll explore the university's controversial solution of

In this episode of The Daily Weekly, we delve into the University of Michigan's chaotic first week where an internet outage left freshmen and faculty adrift. With university sites down, essential course and classroom information became inaccessible. We gather firsthand accounts from campus and discuss the outage’s repercussions with Grace Johnson from LSA Academic Technology Services, professors, and student advisors. Tune in as we explore the challenges and dialogues ignited by this unexpected digital disconnect.

This final episode of The Daily Weekly season 14. The team is capturing the ongoing Graduate Student instructor strike and the widespread impact on student’s academic experience during the winter semester.

In this episode the Daily we will examine the school’s widespread attention gap among women’s and men’s basketball. And how major athletic associations are examining this data and attempting to find solutions to fix it during the National Collegiate Athletic Association March Madness competition.

On this episode of the daily weekly we will examine the University's approach to how Professors are hired at The University of Michigan. On Mar 22, 2023 Michigan Daily News Writers  Sneha Dhandapani and Irena Li reported that former university President Mark Schissel would teach an immunology course in the fall of 2023. With this news The Daily Weekly decided to investigate the hiring process regarding how Professors get hired to teach at the Ann Arbor campus and if the process was highly uniformed or varied among departments and colleges within the university. 

This week on The Daily Weekly, we want to talk about sustainability. As our world grows warmer, sustainability has become a buzz-word in nearly every industry including on campus with the University of Michigan trying to clean up its carbon footprint. You may have heard that the University has recently reached two of its twenty-twenty-five sustainability goals and in honor of that achievement we would like to define sustainability and its role both in relation to climate change, but also as an entirely separate entity. Our team has spoken with four experts working with sustainability and especially with sustainability on campus. You will hear from Adam Fisher the sustainability communications manager, Professor Sara Soderstrom, as well as Rachel Mintz and Chen Liu two of our reporters tuned into sustainability on campus.

Many students here at the University of Michigan major in a variety of subjects, some majors through LSA include Biology, Health and Society, Economics, Computer Science, other students may be within the Ross School of  Business or possibly in the College of Engineering and obtaining potentially a Biomedical major. The common denominator with these majors just recently stated is the shared requirement of having a math requirement being a part of that major's specific curriculum. Calculus being the most common. One of the most in demand courses taught here in Ann Arbor in the department of mathematics. However, calculus and other courses taken within the math department have historically had a reputation of being difficult to do well in and significantly more time consuming than students have expected. In this episode the The Daily Weekly Podcast team is breaking down and clarifying the concerns and structural make-up of the Michigan Math Department.

In this episode, the Daily Weekly Podcast team is breaking down the recent efforts by  many art museums around the world to recontextualize the history of art on display. Here in Ann Arbor the University of Michigan Museum of Art, commonly referred to as UMMA, is making efforts to tell a more unconcealed and bare history of the art and the problematic origins of some collections. The Daily Weekly Team gets in to the historical implications and present attempts to reverse past damage with both administrators, professors, and students.

TRIGGER WARNING: This episode uses descriptive language on the topic of substance abuse. According to the National Institutes of Health, over 100,000 people overdosed on illicit drugs in the U.S. in 2021. This staggering figure is prompting drug safety innovation that has manifested in our hometown, Ann Arbor, as a Naloxone vending machine. In the episode we get into the details surrounding Naloxone, its uses, procedures, and it's place on campus. Press play to listen to interviews with Clinical Associate Professor Gina Dahlem at Umich Nursing, Derek Frasure from Students for Sensible Drug Policy, and Anna Schafer the president of the Public Health Association. If you would like more information, this link https://linktr.ee/ssdpumich was created by Students for Sensible Drug Policy and was mentioned in the episode.

Dorm life is a major part of any college student’s experience, and at the University of Michigan, this is no different. 9,500 students already live across 18 residence halls, and President Ono recently announced plans for a new dorm and dining hall with the capacity for another 2,000+ students. In this episode, we break down the differences between all 18 dorms, get student perspectives on which dorms they think are best, and interview a director of a living learning community.