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Coffee Chats for Graduate Students: Are You LinkedIn?

Online

Building your network is something you can be doing proactively throughout graduate school.  Additionally, learning from what others have done in their career is a great way to explore areas of interest. Join us to learn how to navigate and develop the basics of your own LinkedIn profile. We will introduce ways to build connections […]

Financial Education: Credit and Debt

Online

This workshop will be a refresher on existing knowledge or allow for reconsidering foundational topics through a graduate student lens. Topics such as establishing and building credit, setting up and revising a budget, and monitoring debt, including student loan payments and prioritizing balances, will be discussed. Please bring a laptop if you can, in case […]

Change It Up!©: Bystander Intervention

Online

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 when intervening in situations that negatively impact campus climate. This workshop explores how students’ identities and experiences impact […]

Doctoral Internships and Working with a Ph.D. at the Petey Greene Program

Online

During this informational session, staff from the Petey Greene Program will talk about the kind of projects a Rackham Doctoral Intern Fellow would be involved with at the organization, as well as their roles and career paths to the program with a Ph.D. There will be opportunities to ask questions and learn about the organization's […]

Designing Blackness

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

Join us for Designing Blackness, a unique Black History Month workshop that bridges the worlds of gaming and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Led by Kishonna Gray, professor in the U-M School of Information and expert in digital culture and DEI representation in gaming, this session will dive into how Blackness is in gaming spaces. […]

Coffee Chats for Graduate Students: Informational Interviewing

Online

The topic for this session is informational interviewing, which can be a powerful tool to aid in your career exploration as well as networking and job search efforts. We’ll talk about the purpose of an informational interview, how to identify people to interview, how to request an informational interview, and how to prepare for a […]

Assessing Organizational Culture Through a DEI Lens

Online

How do you assess whether organizations are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)? Join us to learn about how to assess various aspects of an organization’s culture during the job and internship search process through a DEI lens. During this session, you’ll have the opportunity to discuss the challenges of navigating this process and […]

We’re Biased, So Now What? Personalizing and Mitigating Unconscious Bias

Online

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? […]

Coffee Chats for Graduate Students: Interviewing for Jobs Beyond the Professoriate

Online

This workshop is open to all graduate students seeking guidance around interviewing for positions beyond tenure track roles, which can differ greatly from the academic job search process. It also meets the needs of those applying to internships, including those applying to the Rackham Doctoral Intern Fellowship Program. The workshop will focus on preparing graduate […]

Career Exploration Resources and Strategies for Graduate Students

Online

This workshop will focus on resources you can leverage to explore career options, as well as strategies to best position yourself for a variety of career trajectories. We will cover approaches to networking, transferable skills, and key resources designed to support your exploration. This workshop is open to students at all points in their graduate […]