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
Anti-Racist Community Engagement is an advanced interactive workshop for participants who are already familiar with both community engagement and anti-racism. We recommend the Ginsberg Center’s Foundations of Community Engagement workshop as a prerequisite....
by James Dau | Dec 7, 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. In this interactive workshop, participants will: Gain...
by James Dau | Dec 7, 2023
Are you a graduate student intending to apply for industry jobs? While talking to potential employers, you’ll find yourself trying to describe your research to non-experts, struggling to avoid jargon, and feeling like your description is vague or unclear. In this...
by James Dau | Dec 6, 2023
“Networking” is a word that’s thrown around a lot, but what does it really mean? In this coffee chat for graduate students, we’ll unpack what networking is, why it’s useful, and some strategies to make it worthwhile. In particular, we’ll focus on informational...
by James Dau | Dec 5, 2023
This session, which is geared towards domestic graduate students, will help prepare for tax season and answer questions. Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/73xbb. We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would...
by James Dau | Nov 30, 2023
Join us in the Rackham Auditorium as Rackham students communicate the relevance of their work to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy in a TED-talk style. The 2024 MLK Symposium theme is “The 21st Century Struggle: Transforming the Jangling Discords of Our Nation into...
by James Dau | Nov 29, 2023
This virtual workshop helps enhance the mentoring relationship between the student and faculty mentor by facilitating the development of shared expectations. Mentors and mentees work independently in separate sessions to identify their own objectives and styles, and...
by James Dau | Nov 29, 2023
This virtual workshop helps enhance the mentoring relationship between the student and faculty mentor by facilitating the development of shared expectations. Mentors and mentees work independently in separate sessions to identify their own objectives and styles, and...
by James Dau | Nov 13, 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...
