The Rackham Minority Serving Institution (MSI) Connect program would like to invite you to take a break from your studies to join BSA for a small trip to the Creature Conservancy. We have booked an educational and interactive presentation with live animals!
You Don't Belong Here: The Stories Our Systems Tell (and Why We Have to Disrupt Them) There is a widespread story that institutions of higher education value diversity and will actively foster belonging for all in the community. In actuality, though, many members of the higher education community continue to face marginalization and othering within […]
If you have a quick question or have a time sensitive matter, attend the Rackham Consultation Services open office hours weekly on Monday and Wednesday from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. via Zoom. In the interest of providing students as much privacy as possible, you may spend a brief time in a waiting room if the resolution officer […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, how do we not only become aware of our biases, but also work to overcome them? […]
This workshop will explore the many transferable skills you have gained during graduate school and how to translate these skills to the non-academic job market. We’ll review transferable skills employers value (e.g., collaboration, critical thinking, project management) and discuss the types of graduate school experiences where you may have honed these skills. You will have […]
Join us for lunch and discussion-based session to gather feedback from you about the Faculty Allies Program. Your input is absolutely crucial to the success of this review, as our primary goal is to help you create healthy communities and climates, which promote diversity and ensure equity and inclusion in all our graduate programs. We […]
If you have a quick question or have a time sensitive matter, attend the Rackham Consultation Services open office hours weekly on Monday and Wednesday from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. via Zoom. In the interest of providing students as much privacy as possible, you may spend a brief time in a waiting room if the resolution officer […]
Appreciative Interviewing is an advanced workshop that focuses on some of the values and skills needed for community-engaged projects that involve relationship-building, communication, interviews, and/or qualitative data. Participants will learn how to listen, what makes a good question, and how to ask good questions; participants will also have the opportunity to practice and apply these […]