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DTSTAMP:20260803T161356
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260914T114500
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260914T133000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Teach for Democracy: Facilitating Constructive Dialogue in an Age of Polarization
DESCRIPTION:Edward Ginsberg Center and Center for Research on Learning & Teaching present a special Democracy Week event with Nicholas V. Longo\, PhD with generous support from UM’s Democracy & Civic Empowerment Initiative.\n\nIn an age of division and polarization\, it is essential to develop skills for facilitating constructive dialogue. Join us for an interactive workshop with Dr. Nicholas Longo\, who works closely with students building civic skills and confidence as the inaugural director of the Rutgers Democracy Lab. Participants will develop skills such as learning to listen\, ask questions\, invite stories\, and find common ground. We will also introduce facilitation practices and then engage with relevant scenarios that will help us learn to work with others to address conflict in healthy ways. Ultimately\, this workshop is about helping faculty become bridge builders and change agents for a more vibrant democracy. The session is part of the Promoting Democracy Teaching Series\, co-sponsored by CRLT and Ginsberg Center.\n\nLunch is Provided and available at 11:45am. Program begins at 12pm. Space is limited and registration is required. \n\nREGISTER NOW : https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/111893
UID:149789-21907186@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149789
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Civic Learning,Faculty,Free,Postdoctoral Research Fellows,Workshop
LOCATION:Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260811T163939
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260915T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260915T193000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Reaching the People: Visual Storytelling for Access & Action
DESCRIPTION:Edward Ginsberg Center and The Stamps School of Art + Design's Roman J. Witt Short Term Visiting artist program present a special event with Ariel Aberg-Riger\, Director of Creative Strategy & Design for the City of Buffalo\, NY and author of the award-winning book America Redux: Visual Stories from our Dynamic History. \n\nWe live in a visual world where people increasingly access information through images and video. How do we turn narratives and data into clear\, compelling visuals that move people to participate in civic life and work for social change? Join us for a special Democracy Week event with designer and author Ariel Aberg-Riger\, exploring how visual storytelling can make information more accessible and actionable. At this hands-on event\, participants will learn how images\, design choices\, data\, narrative and context all work together to communicate ideas to broad public audiences. We’ll look at examples of visual storytelling and data visualization that deepen public understanding of complex issues while opening pathways for action. We’ll also practice creating our own visual stories as a way to bring information to life for the public! All materials provided\, no specific expertise necessary. This event is designed for students\, faculty\, researchers\, artists\, designers\, communicators\, and anyone interested in civic engagement and public scholarship.\n\nDinner is provided and available at 5:30pm. Program begins at 6pm. Space is limited and registration is required. \n\nThis event is made possible through generous support from our sponsors: U-M’s Initiative for Democracy & Civic Empowerment.\n\nREGISTER: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/112037
UID:149974-21907461@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149974
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Civic Engagement,Community Engagement,Community-based Learning,Design,Faculty,Free,Storytelling,Students,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260727T154304
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260917T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260917T190000
SUMMARY:Fair / Festival:Party for Democracy
DESCRIPTION:Join a wide variety of campus and community partners for a resource and engagement fair to help college students\, as well as faculty\, staff\, high school students\, and community members\, to reflect on our role in building local democracy\, to learn about local voting and civic engagement resources\, and to participate in a variety of activities designed to strengthen their civic muscles and create community.\n\nFood! Swag! Joy!
UID:148592-21904491@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148592
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Democracy And Civic Engagement,Voting
LOCATION:Regents Plaza
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260812T115813
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260922T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260922T180000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Foundations of Community Engagement
DESCRIPTION:Foundations of Community Engagement is an interactive workshop that introduces principles and practices of equitable\, ethical community engagement. Participants will develop a deeper understanding of what the term “community engagement” means\, as well as the many forms it might take - from research and course-based projects to philanthropy\, activism\, policy\, and direct service. Across all these forms of engagement\, participants will learn concepts and actions that promote equitable partnerships\, center community-defined priorities\, and disrupt entrenched power dynamics between universities and community members. Participants will also discuss real-world community engagement scenarios that ask them to apply what they’ve learned in the workshop to various situations.
UID:150176-21908321@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150176
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Civic Engagement,Community Engagement,Free,Graduate Students,Leadership,Undergraduate Students
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260812T115813
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261002T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261002T133000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Foundations of Community Engagement
DESCRIPTION:Foundations of Community Engagement is an interactive workshop that introduces principles and practices of equitable\, ethical community engagement. Participants will develop a deeper understanding of what the term “community engagement” means\, as well as the many forms it might take - from research and course-based projects to philanthropy\, activism\, policy\, and direct service. Across all these forms of engagement\, participants will learn concepts and actions that promote equitable partnerships\, center community-defined priorities\, and disrupt entrenched power dynamics between universities and community members. Participants will also discuss real-world community engagement scenarios that ask them to apply what they’ve learned in the workshop to various situations.
UID:150176-21908322@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150176
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Civic Engagement,Community Engagement,Free,Graduate Students,Leadership,Undergraduate Students
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260811T164848
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261007T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261007T120000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Making the Most of 'Hot Moments': Election Edition
DESCRIPTION:Teaching and learning centers use the term 'hot moments' to describe a sudden eruption of tension\, conflict\, or big emotion during class\, often connected to a heightened awareness of the social differences in the room. Election seasons can generate 'hot moments' in every discipline\, whether your courses frequently raise potentially sensitive subjects or never do so deliberately. How can you navigate those interactions in ways that are responsive to students and also advance course learning goals? In this interactive workshop for instructors in all academic disciplines\, participants will reflect on their own experiences of 'hot moments'\, consider a range of pedagogical choices\, and practice language for responding to hot moments in the classroom. \n\nThis session is offered as a part of the Promoting Democracy Teaching Series by CRLT & Ginsberg Center.\n\nOpen to UM faculty\, graduate students/GSIs\, and post-docs. If you are UM staff with instructional responsibilities who would like to register\, please reach out to teachdemocracy@umich.edu \n\nREGISTER: https://events.blackthorn.io/en/Hn1RKit7/g/2kTsKXAV0p/making-the-most-of-hot-moments-election-edition-5a1oUrFb3O5/overview
UID:150149-21908293@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150149
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Civic Engagement,Civic Learning,Faculty,Free,Graduate Students,Postdoctoral Research Fellows
LOCATION:Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning
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DTSTAMP:20260812T115813
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261008T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261008T193000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Foundations of Community Engagement
DESCRIPTION:Foundations of Community Engagement is an interactive workshop that introduces principles and practices of equitable\, ethical community engagement. Participants will develop a deeper understanding of what the term “community engagement” means\, as well as the many forms it might take - from research and course-based projects to philanthropy\, activism\, policy\, and direct service. Across all these forms of engagement\, participants will learn concepts and actions that promote equitable partnerships\, center community-defined priorities\, and disrupt entrenched power dynamics between universities and community members. Participants will also discuss real-world community engagement scenarios that ask them to apply what they’ve learned in the workshop to various situations.
UID:150176-21908323@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150176
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Civic Engagement,Community Engagement,Free,Graduate Students,Leadership,Undergraduate Students
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260803T161242
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261016T113000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Teach for Democracy: Deliberative Pedagogy in Practice
DESCRIPTION:How can instructors across the disciplines support the public mission of higher education? Join us for a conversation exploring deliberative pedagogy\, a teaching approach designed to prepare and motivate students to collaborate across differences on the pressing issues facing our democracy. Drawing on cases from Deliberative Pedagogy: Teaching and Learning for Democratic Engagement (2017)—co-edited by recent Promoting Democracy Teaching Series speaker Dr. Nicholas Longo—we will consider practical strategies for designing learning experiences that help students navigate complex challenges through dialogue\, deliberation\, and equitable decision-making. \n\nThis session is part of the Promoting Democracy Teaching Series\, co-sponsored by CRLT and Ginsberg Center with support from UM’s Democracy & Civic Empowerment Initiative.\n\nOpen to UM faculty\, graduate students/GSIs\, and post-docs. If you are UM staff with instructional responsibilities who would like to register\, please reach out to teachdemocracy@umich.edu \n\nREGISTER: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/111891
UID:149790-21907187@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149790
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Civic Engagement,Civic Learning,Faculty,Free,Graduate Students,Postdoctoral Research Fellows,Teaching,Workshop
LOCATION:Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260812T115813
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261026T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261026T180000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Foundations of Community Engagement
DESCRIPTION:Foundations of Community Engagement is an interactive workshop that introduces principles and practices of equitable\, ethical community engagement. Participants will develop a deeper understanding of what the term “community engagement” means\, as well as the many forms it might take - from research and course-based projects to philanthropy\, activism\, policy\, and direct service. Across all these forms of engagement\, participants will learn concepts and actions that promote equitable partnerships\, center community-defined priorities\, and disrupt entrenched power dynamics between universities and community members. Participants will also discuss real-world community engagement scenarios that ask them to apply what they’ve learned in the workshop to various situations.
UID:150176-21908324@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150176
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Civic Engagement,Community Engagement,Free,Graduate Students,Leadership,Undergraduate Students
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260805T124628
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T130000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:How to Teach Appreciative Interviewing
DESCRIPTION:Activities that ask students to conduct interviews\, particularly of community members\, can be a powerful method for helping students research real-world issues and understand diverse perspectives. While interview assignments are common across academic disciplines\, less common is explicit instruction for students on effective techniques for interviewing. How might we prepare our students to effectively build rapport with\, interview\, and collect stories or information from communities?\n\nIn this session\, staff from U-M’s Ginsberg Center will share methods for teaching students skills in appreciative interviewing\, an approach to interviewing that emphasizes interviewee expertise and encourages interviewers to guard against deficit-based thinking. Throughout the session\, we’ll model discussions and activities from Ginsberg Center that you can use to prepare your students for interviewing. In the process\, you’ll have the opportunity to practice skills that will strengthen your own communication with students\, be it in office hours\, classroom instruction\, supervision\, or other contexts.\n\nREGISTER: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/111999
UID:149917-21907386@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149917
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Faculty,Free,Leadership,Staff
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260812T115813
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T193000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Foundations of Community Engagement
DESCRIPTION:Foundations of Community Engagement is an interactive workshop that introduces principles and practices of equitable\, ethical community engagement. Participants will develop a deeper understanding of what the term “community engagement” means\, as well as the many forms it might take - from research and course-based projects to philanthropy\, activism\, policy\, and direct service. Across all these forms of engagement\, participants will learn concepts and actions that promote equitable partnerships\, center community-defined priorities\, and disrupt entrenched power dynamics between universities and community members. Participants will also discuss real-world community engagement scenarios that ask them to apply what they’ve learned in the workshop to various situations.
UID:150176-21908325@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150176
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Civic Engagement,Community Engagement,Free,Graduate Students,Leadership,Undergraduate Students
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260814T152626
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270224T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270224T133000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Publishing Community Engaged Scholarship
DESCRIPTION:Join Neeraja Aravamudan\, Ginsberg Center Director & Publisher of Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning\,  for an interactive workshop on publishing your community-engaged scholarship. How is community-engaged scholarship different from other forms of scholarship? What are outlets for this scholarship? How can we maximize the impact of this scholarship for discipline(s)\, community partners/communities\, and the field? What can you do to prepare yourselves to publish community engaged scholarship? Participants will also have the opportunity to apply ideas to their own research\, whether you are at the early stages of a project or ready to publish.\n\nThis session is designed especially for faculty and graduate students who are interested in community-engaged scholarship.\n\nREGISTER: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/112335
UID:150280-21908576@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150280
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Faculty,Free,Graduate Students,Workshop
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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