1 SPORTS PAGE 6 LIFE&ARTS PAGE 8 COMICS PAGE 7 Serving the University of Texas at Austin community since 1900 @thedailytexan facebook.com/dailytexan Friday, November 11, 2016 dailytexanonline.com bit.ly/dtvid SYSTEM CAMPUS UT officials System project analyzes sexual assault discuss work By Will Clark The resulting project,UT-Austin. The project is @_willclark_ called the Cultivating Learn- unique because it includes on Speedway ing and Safe Environments 13 of the 14 UT System in- UT School of Social project, officially launched stitutions and takes place Mall project Work launched a new, when the researchers sent over four years, according multi-year research project an email last Monday to all to CLASE project director By Meraal Hakeem last week to better under- UT-Austin freshmen ask- Caitlin Sulley. @meraal_hakeem stand student experiences ing them to participate in “It’s critical for students with sexual assault and a survey. to learn their voices so that The ongoing transfor- interpersonal violence. Some aspects of the our institutions can respond mation of Speedway into UT System Chancellor CLASE project began last to them and support them a pedestrian mall has William McRaven requested year, however, when re- and prevent these forms contributed to students’ a project across the System searchers conducted focus of violence from happen- familiarity with construc- to assess campus sexual as- groups at other UT System ing,” Sulley said. “Their tion. However, many have sault “climate” after seeing a institutions such as UT- voices are so valuable Ravi Teja | Daily Texan file been left wondering when similar survey conducted on El Paso, UT-Dallas, UT UT School of Social Work recently launched the Cultivating the construction will end UT-Austin’s campus. Medical Branch and PROJECT page 2 Learning and Safe Environments project. and how the 36 million dollar project will cater to their needs. STATE An information session updating the status of the Speedway Mall project Thursday answered these questions and allowed at- State lawmakers urge reform for CPS tendees to interact with By Lisa Dreher UT officials, architects and others involved with @lisa_dreher97 the project. Members of the Texas Sen- The new Mall, which ate Finance Committee pro- is scheduled to be com- posed emergency funding pleted in January 2018, Monday for the state’s Child will provide an outdoor Protective Services to hire learning space with more more caseworkers and raise tables and electrical out- current caseworkers’ salaries lets, landscaping and to keep up with foster care lighting, said Jim Walker, children’s cases. director at the UT Office “Ultimately they’re going of Sustainability. There to need to sustain a higher will also be four food level of investment to have truck locations along more caseworkers and they’re the new Mall with two at going to need to raise the 21st Street and Speedway, pay so they can retain good and two at 24th Street and experienced casework- and Speedway. ers for this very important “Speedway will pro- work,” said Gina Hinojosa, vide a space for students District 49’s State House to gather informally, an Representative-elect. area where student activi- Members suggested $75.3 ties and student organiza- million in funding, with $67.6 tions can be promoted, a million from state general place for campus-wide funds and the remaining $7.7 festivals, performances million in federal funding, by student music and according to an article by the dance groups,” said Mark Brooks, project manager Texas Tribune. Chase Karacostas | Daily Texan Staff According to the Texas Sen- at the UT System Office UT Alumnus Will Francis works as the government relations director of the Texas Chapter of the National Association of Social of Facilities Planning and ate Finance Committee, the Workers and helps children in the foster care system. caseworkers’ raise would be Construction. “A campus $12,000 per person. Family and Protective Ser- gravitate towards those jobs.” Welfare League of America, with more cases is common. transformation with the “I think all of our case- vices. “When you have other Christine Johnson, director which advocates for fam- “We never really get Speedway Mall project workers do need a raise,” said higher paying jobs, espe- of the School of Social Work’s ily and child welfare, recom- the funding that we need,” will make a significant Shari Pulliam, media specialist cially in a metropolitan city, Child Welfare Education Col- mends 12 to 15 cases per social enhancement in the edu- for the Texas Department of of course they’re going to laboration, said the Child worker, but being overworked LAWMAKERS page 3 LAWMAKERS page 3 UNIVERSITY SYSTEM Student advising Regents hear recommendations for 2017 By Van Nguyen of the institutions is a top finds new approach @nguyen__van priority for the System and most public universities in By Van Nguyen different analytical tools to The final UT System Texas, McBee said. @nguyen__van support students of color, low- Board of Regents meeting “We will seek funding income students and first-gen- scheduled for the year was at the same rates as were Forty-one percent of univer- eration college students. held Wednesday, where provided to us in 2015, to sities, including UT–Austin, “Predictive analytics [are members of the board lis- account for additional stu- are using predictive analytics used] to recruit students, to tened to recommendations dents plus some inflation for targeted student advising, offer them financial aid, but on how to proceed into the factors,” McBee said. adaptive online coursework also for powering the early upcoming year. One of the ways Texas or forecasting class size and fi- alert system that helps identify The 85th Texas Legisla- universities provide finan- nancial aid need, according to students who may be at risk of tive Session begins in Janu- cial aid is through tuition a research paper released by either failing a course or drop- ary, and the System has be- set-asides. This practice think tank New America. ping out of school,” Ekowo gun to prioritize issues that takes a percentage of each Joshua Guerra| Daily Texan Staff Manuela Ekowo, one of the said. “Advisors intervene be- will affect students at its 14 student’s tuition and allo- Chancellor William McRaven speaks at the first day of paper’s researchers and policy fore those outcomes pan out.” institutions. Barry McBee, cates it to financial aid for meeting for The Board of Regents on November 4, 2015. analyst at New America, said Data used by universities UT System vice chancellor students in need. McBee when she started working to predict success includes and chief governmental re- said this is usually the only condemned this practice by “This has increasingly on the paper she was inter- current student transcripts, lations officer, presented a financial support middle- Texas universities and has been portrayed as a subsidy ested in learning more about preview of its priorities. class students receive. stated before he considers it how universities were using ANALYTICS page 1 Stable funding for all Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has a hidden tax on students. REGENTS page 2 UName: GREATT PROMISE;ex Width:a 60p0; Depth:s 2. in; RColor: Processe color,n GREATt PROMISE; Ad Number: - AUSTIN’S BEST HOUSING FOR STUDENTS. VISIT WWW.UTEXAS.RENT TODAY! 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(512) 471-5244 classifieds@ dailytexanonline.com a success in helping under- ANALYTICS privileged students who need continues from page 1 financial assistance. past student transcripts and “It’s not who gets to go to The Texan strives to present all information fairly, family income. college, it’s who gets to gradu- accurately and completely. Predictive analytics are ate once they’re in college and If we have made an error, also used in adaptive online that’s the problem we’re start- let us know about it. Call courseware, which is tailored ing to address,” Fenves said. (512) 232-2217 or e-mail Predictive analytics are also managingeditor@ to a student’s educational dailytexanonline.com. needs, Ekowo said. used at UT to forecast four- Approximately 500 enter- year graduation rates, accord- ing freshmen who are least ing to Fenves’ presentation. likely to graduate are identi- He also said the Class of 2017 COPYRIGHT fied using predictive analytics ULN students have a 33 per- and offered a spot in the Uni- cent chance of graduating in Copyright 2016 Texas four years, while the Class of Student Media. All articles, versity Leadership Network, photographs and graphics, which aims to help students 2017 non-ULN students have both in the print and online graduate in four years, said a 56 percent chance of gradu- editions, are the property UT-Austin President Gregory ating in four years. of Texas Student Media Fenves at the Board of Regents Other universities have also and may not be reproduced or republished in part or meeting Wednesday. used predictive analytics to in whole without written Through advising and lead- great success, Ekowo said. permission. ership training, the program At Austin Peay State Univer- Infographic by Megan McFarren | Daily Texan Staff is able to help students gradu- sity in Clarksville, Tennessee, and marketing at APSU.