by James Dau | Jan 26, 2024
This workshop is aimed at validating and supporting students who make up roughly 20 percent of the population, but often fly under the radar or are left out of diversity conversations: students with disabilities. Through an overview of the highlights of...
by James Dau | Jan 26, 2024
Every year, the Rackham Graduate School accepts applications for the King-Chávez-Parks (KCP) Future Faculty Fellowship (FFF). Offered through a grant from the State of Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity, the KCP FFF Program provides funding to...
by James Dau | Jan 23, 2024
Structural racism in the United States is the normalization and legitimization of an array of dynamics—historical, cultural, institutional, and interpersonal—that routinely advantages white people while producing cumulative and chronic adverse outcomes for people of...
by James Dau | Jan 18, 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...
by James Dau | Jan 9, 2024
Having diverse individuals on a team or in an organization, does not make that space automatically inclusive. Inclusive leaders create environments where a diverse group of individuals can thrive. In this interactive workshop, we will discuss traits and practices of...
by James Dau | Dec 14, 2023
In this interactive session, Rackham experts in conflict resolution will discuss the ways in which conflict can manifest in our academic and personal spheres and will explore strategies to navigate and address difficult conversations. You will leave with concrete...
by James Dau | Dec 14, 2023
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...
by James Dau | Dec 14, 2023
Many of us are committed to DEI 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, how do we not only become...
by James Dau | Dec 14, 2023
Racial microaggressions can be uniquely harmful to their targets, and yet we often find ourselves skirting around this subset of microaggressions due to discomfort in openly discussing race, racism, and white supremacy. In this workshop we hope to foster an...
by James Dau | Dec 14, 2023
Increasingly, hiring committees are interested in how prospective faculty job candidates will contribute to diversity, equity, and inclusion. As a result, many academic employers have begun to request a diversity statement as part of the faculty job application...
