by James Dau | Feb 18, 2025
On behalf of the Rackham Graduate School and Rackham’s Professional Development Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Certificate Program (DEICP), it gives us great pleasure to recognize and celebrate our participants earning their DEI certificates this term. The in-person...
by James Dau | Feb 6, 2025
This interactive workshop, led by U-M School of Music, Theatre, and Dance lecturer Kara Roseborough, blends creative writing and choreography to foster self-expression, celebrate individual and collective identities, and explore the intersections of movement and text....
by James Dau | Feb 6, 2025
How do you assess whether organizations are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)? Join us to learn about how to assess various aspects of an organization’s culture during the job and internship search process through a DEI lens. During this session,...
by James Dau | Feb 3, 2025
Institutions of higher learning are more diverse than ever before, and many educators are eager to understand how to best support the wide variety of backgrounds, needs, and preferences that will be present in their future classrooms. This training will focus on...
by James Dau | Jan 21, 2025
Join us for Designing Blackness, a unique Black History Month workshop that bridges the worlds of gaming and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Led by Kishonna Gray, professor in the U-M School of Information and expert in digital culture and DEI representation...
by James Dau | Jan 17, 2025
The University of Michigan chapter of the Edward Alexander Bouchet Graduate Honor Society, in partnership with the national Bouchet leadership at Yale University, is hosting an in-person panel discussion that will also be livestreamed for the entire Bouchet Graduate...
by James Dau | Dec 20, 2024
Rackham Graduate students will communicate the relevance of their work to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy in a TED-talk style. The 2025 MLK Symposium theme is “Restless Dissatisfaction: An Urgent Call for the Pursuit of Justice and Equality.” This theme is...
by James Dau | Dec 19, 2024
During this workshop participants will have the opportunity to learn terms associated with racism/anti-racism as well as power and oppression and their impact in the global and U.S. context. Additionally, participants will be able to recognize microaggressions and...
by James Dau | Dec 19, 2024
Many of us are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion and accept the extensive evidence from scholarly studies in psychology and neuroscience demonstrating that we all have unconscious biases that affect our interactions with others. The question then becomes,...
by James Dau | Dec 19, 2024
Change It Up!© brings bystander intervention skills to students for the purpose of building supportive and respectful communities. Change It Up!© is based on a nationally recognized five-step bystander intervention model that develops students’ skills and confidence...
