Need a midweek pick me up? Does life have you feeling stressed and overwhelmed? Come join us on Wednesday, November 16 for a break and refresh from the daily grind. Rackham and Wolverine Wellness are partnering to help provide a space for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to intentionally focus on their mental health and well-being. From 10 […]
This interactive workshop introduces principles and practices for thoughtfully engaging with communities, including motivations, impact of social identities, and strategies for engaging in reciprocal, ethical, and respectful ways. Learning Objectives: Understand and articulate best practices for preparing to enter communities, engaging with communities, and exiting communities in positive, humanizing, and sustainable ways. Reflect on how […]
Conflict in the Classroom: Reflections on Practice invites instructors to seriously consider their roles as facilitators of challenging content in the classroom. Participants will watch a theatrical case study depicting many different options for ways an instructor might set up teaching challenging material, meet conflict when it arises, and follow up with students after conflicts […]
Structural racism in the United States is the normalization and legitimization of an array of dynamics—historical, cultural, institutional, and interpersonal—that routinely advantage whites while producing cumulative and chronic adverse outcomes for people of color. It is a system of hierarchy and inequity, primarily characterized by white supremacy—the preferential treatment, privilege, and power for white people […]