Anil Kumar

Seconded a Wayne State board resolution supporting the right of university employees to form unions and bargain collectively. The resolution passed 6-2.

March 11, 2022Supports Labor Rights

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Moved a $25,000 performance bonus for outgoing Wayne State President M. Roy Wilson. The motion passed.

June 22, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Moved approval, which passed, of a $100 million state grant and up to $150 million in new university bonds. The money was for a new School of Medicine and Karmanos Cancer Institute building and other campus repairs.

March 8, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Voted yes to use Wayne State's rainy day fund to cover a $12.5 million general budget shortfall and a $1.3 million parking budget shortfall for 2021. The motion passed 5-3.

October 30, 2020Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Moved to raise the construction budget for Wayne State's Hilberry Gateway performing arts complex by $4.5 million, to $69.5 million. The board approved it 6-1 in a telephone vote held December 11-12, 2019.

December 12, 2019Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Voted yes to name law school dean Richard A. Bierschbach interim president of Wayne State, the day after President Espy stepped down. All seven governors present voted yes.

September 17, 2025

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Seconded a motion, which passed, raising Wayne State tuition and required fees by 4.5 percent for most students for the 2025-26 year.

June 26, 2025

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Voted yes to hire Kimberly Andrews Espy as Wayne State's 13th president, the first woman to lead the university. The vote was 8-0.

June 30, 2023

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Seconded a motion, which passed, moving Wayne State to block tuition for 2023-24. Block tuition charges one flat price for a range of credit hours, to encourage students to take more classes and graduate sooner.

December 2, 2022

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Seconded a resolution, which passed, forgiving $39.4 million that the medical school's Fund for Medical Research and Education owed Wayne State in unpaid salary costs. The debt relief was made conditional on an in-depth audit of the fund.

September 30, 2022

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Voted yes on a 4.5 percent tuition increase for Wayne State medical students for the 2020-21 year. It passed 5-3 during the COVID-19 pandemic, over objections that medical students were working on the front lines.

May 1, 2020

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Proposed a change to the Wayne State board's code of conduct. It kept members' right to public opinion but asked them to avoid derogatory public criticism of the board or staff. His change passed 5-3, and he then voted for the amended code, which was adopted 5-3.

March 20, 2020

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Voted no on a proposed code of conduct for Wayne State University board members. The proposal failed on a 4-4 tie. He said he could not support it as written.

September 20, 2019

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A judge threw out much of the open-meetings lawsuit that Kumar and three other Wayne State governors had filed. The ruling let the tuition increase and building deal approved at the June 2019 meeting stand.

August 6, 2019

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On June 27, 2019, joined three other Wayne State University board members in suing four fellow governors and President M. Roy Wilson in Ingham County court. The suit said a June 21, 2019 board meeting, held while he was away and the other three stayed out, broke the Open Meetings Act. It asked the court to void the tuition increase and building sublease approved there.

June 27, 2019

Source: thesouthend.wayne.edu