May 2022
MORE Faculty In-Person Workshop: Getting Your Mentoring Relationship Off to a Good Start
This 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 consider strategies for dealing with possible challenges. Then, student-faculty pairs work together to develop a written mentoring plan as a means of codifying some of the most important elements (needs, goals, mutual expectations) of a two-way mentoring relationship. Over 85 percent of Rackham doctoral…
Find out more »MORE Student In-Person Workshop: Getting Your Mentoring Relationship Off to a Good Start
This in-person 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 consider strategies for dealing with possible challenges. Then, student-faculty pairs work together to develop a written mentoring plan as a means of codifying some of the most important elements (needs, goals, mutual expectations) of a two-way mentoring relationship. Over 85 percent of Rackham…
Find out more »MORE Faculty Virtual Workshop: Getting Your Mentoring Relationship Off to a Good Start
This 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 consider strategies for dealing with possible challenges. Then, student-faculty pairs work together to develop a written mentoring plan as a means of codifying some of the most important elements (needs, goals, mutual expectations) of a two-way mentoring relationship. Over 85 percent of Rackham doctoral…
Find out more »MORE Student Virtual Workshop: Getting Your Mentoring Relationship Off to a Good Start
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 consider strategies for dealing with possible challenges. Then, student-faculty pairs work together to develop a written mentoring plan as a means of codifying some of the most important elements (needs, goals, mutual expectations) of a two-way mentoring relationship. Over 85 percent of Rackham…
Find out more »Step into a Student Staff Position: Rackham Jobs for Summer and Fall
Rackham has many Graduate Student Staff Assistant (GSSA) job opportunities available in the summer and fall of 2022. Positions are available related to a range of areas, from diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) to alumni relations and fundraising. If you are interested in a range of work areas in higher education and would like to develop your skills in the design and implementation of programs for students, faculty, and alumni, these Rackham job opportunities may be of interest to you!…
Find out more »Leading Inclusive Teams
In this interactive session, students will work through a team decision-making exercise. We will then debrief the exercise in light of the cutting edge science and best practices for leading inclusive teams. We will explore the value of diversity in teams, the need to create equitable and inclusive participation in team meetings, how to facilitate effective team task-debates to leverage team diversity, and how to manage team influence dynamics to make data-driven, anti-bias high-quality team decisions. This workshop is designed…
Find out more »Rackham Public Scholarship: Where to Start? Outreach for Community Engaged Scholarly Projects
The process of starting a publicly engaged scholarly project can often be overwhelming, particularly when trying to find entry points and build connections to community partners. This workshop will introduce graduate students to the essentials for building a project-based relationship with a community partner organization, from first idea to community research to modes and strategies of communication. A panel of graduate students and faculty will break down the process of establishing contact, and maintaining a mutually beneficial relationship for the…
Find out more »The Intersectionality of Well-Being, Identity, and Equity
This workshop will examine how well-being and identity are interdependent. Participants will discuss how their identities shape their perceptions of wellness, for themselves and others. On an individual level, how can students attend to their own well-being in a culture that doesn’t always promote it? From a leadership lens, we will look at graduate student culture and consider ways in which students have a role in influencing changes that impact student well-being. Presenter: Joy Pehlke (she/her), Lead, Student Engagement and…
Find out more »Empowering Teams and Building Trust Through Experiential Learning
“Make your fun have meaning.” Through a variety of interactive problem-solving activities and outdoor experiences, Adventure Leadership facilitators regularly help teams develop a deeper understanding of themselves and their relationships to others within their organization’s environment. A significant part of this process relies heavily on creating a secure space for exploration—both physically and emotionally. In this workshop, you will learn how to leverage Kolb’s Experiential Learning Cycle, Tuckman’s Stages of Group Development, and Project Adventure’s Challenge By Choice philosophy to…
Find out more »Integrating Critical Perspectives into Leadership: Moving Theory and Practice Towards Inclusion and Justice
This session will provide a foundational exploration of critical social theory and the utility of cultivating critical perspectives to interrogate leadership theory and practice. Participants will learn the art of deconstruction and reconstruction of leadership theory and practice, to challenge dominant norms and discover how to engage in leadership grounded in social justice and inclusion. Presenter: Natasha Turman (she/her/hers), Director, Women in Science and Engineering Residence Program This workshop is designed for master's students, doctoral students, and postdoctoral fellows. For…
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