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Rackham/Sweetland Workshop: What’s Reading Got to Do with It? Reading to Support Writing in Graduate School

Space 2435, North Quad 105 South State Street, Ann Arbor, United States

This workshop will address how you can read strategically to support your work as a writer in your academic field and discipline. What is the relationship between reading and writing for academic purposes? How can you read to support your work as a writer in your specific academic field and discipline? In this 50-minute Rackham/Sweetland […]

Thriving in Community: Sustainable Productivity for First-Gen BIPOC Students

Online

In a world of exploitation, overwork, and burnout—where many of us rely on providing some form of labor to survive— what does regenerative and sustainable productivity look like for first-generation BIPOC students? In this interactive workshop, you will explore concrete time-management, project-management, self-care, and community care strategies for achieving personal and professional success. You’ll learn […]

Rackham/Sweetland Workshop: Who Are You Talking To? Identifying and Responding To Your Interlocutors

Space 2435, North Quad 105 South State Street, Ann Arbor, United States

This workshop will address how reading skills and writing conventions allow you to ethically represent others’ knowledge and support your arguments. Interlocutors are those you engage with in your research and writing; they may appear (re: be valued) differently across disciplines. This workshop will address how reading skills and writing conventions allow you to ethically […]

DEI Certificate Program Kick-Off and Orientation

Pendleton Room, 2nd Floor, Michigan Union 530 S. State Street, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

The Rackham Professional Development Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Certificate Program (DEICP) Kick-Off and Orientation is for new and returning participants of the DEI certificate program. Please join us as we introduce new members to the program, eat together, and do some activities and reflection around our own social identities. For orientation, we will focus on […]

Virtual DEI Certificate Program Kick-Off and Orientation

Online

This Rackham Professional Development Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Certificate Program (DEICP) Orientation serves as a virtual opportunity to complete the orientation to the DEICP. The orientation will provide an opportunity to meet other students in the program, gain an introduction to the Intercultural Development Inventory that helps to assess the program, and learn more about […]

Rackham/Sweetland Workshop: How to Make Revision Count—Revising Practices for Graduate Students

Space 2435, North Quad 105 South State Street, Ann Arbor, United States

This workshop will introduce new graduate students to revising practices to advance their academic writing. The most critical phase in the writing process is also the most mysterious and least taught. Revision is especially challenging for first-year graduate writers learning to write extended academic arguments. What do academic writers do when they revise their work? […]

Rackham Public Scholarship Grants Workshop

Earl Lewis Room, 3rd Floor, Rackham Building 915 East Washington Street, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

This workshop will provide an overview of the application process and requirements for graduate students interested in applying for a Rackham Public Scholarship Grant. These competitive awards provide funding for collaborative, mutually beneficial projects between Rackham students and community partners outside the university that use research to serve the greater public good. During this session, Rackham […]

Research-Based Strategies for Combatting Impostor Phenomenon

East Conference Room, 4th Floor, Rackham Building 915 East Washington Street, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

Have you ever succeeded at an academic task even though you were convinced that you wouldn't do well? Do you dread others evaluating your work or avoid opportunities for critical feedback? Do you have trouble accepting praise or acknowledging your accomplishments? Do you worry about being exposed as an academic fraud? Have you ever questioned […]

Information Manipulation in Digital Spaces: Doing Public Interest Research Amidst Political Pressure with Renée DiResta

Amphitheatre, 4th Floor, Rackham Building 915 East Washington Street, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

Renée DiResta studies adversarial abuse online—ways that people attempt to manipulate, harass, or target others within the constantly evolving landscape of digital platforms. She will discuss her empirical research on the ways propagandists deliberately undermine belief in the legitimacy of institutions that make society work and share how she translates her work into policy suggestions […]

Community Engaged Course Design Workshop Information Session

Online

This information session is an opportunity for graduate students to ask questions and learn more about the Community Engaged Course Design Workshop facilitated by staff at Rackham and the Ginsberg Center for Community Service Learning. The Community Engaged Course Design Workshop is a semester-long professional development workshop for graduate students from any discipline interested in […]