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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Redefining the STEM Ecosystem & Shifting the Paradigm
DESCRIPTION:The higher education STEM ecosystem is shaped by decentralized infrastructures leading to questions of what STEM is\, and institutional practices that predetermine who belongs. These misaligned structures lead to issues that small-scale\, isolated interventions cannot fix. This opening session of the series urges a paradigm shift away from piecemeal interventions toward institutional transformation at scale\, and will set the framework for future sessions addressing various factors impacting STEM student success.\n\n\nFeaturing:\n\nEdmund Graham\, Associate Director\, Bowman Center for Scholarship to Practice\n\nHeather McCambly\, Associate Professor of Critical Higher Education Policy\, University of Pittsburgh\n\nAireale J. Rodgers\, Assistant Professor of Higher Education\, University of Wisconsin-Madison\n\n\nAbout the series:\n\nReimagining STEM Student Success is a new series designed to advance the recommendations of the STEM Success Working Group by positioning organizational change as the primary lever for student success. Across five sessions\, expert insights will connect research to concrete U-M practices to transform our campus systems\, cultures\, and structures.\n\n\nSponsors:\n\nAccess & Opportunity\; Center for Educational Outreach (CEO)\; Comprehensive Studies Program\; Michigan Program for Advancing Cultural Transformation (M-PACT)\; Office of Faculty Development at the U-M Medical School\; Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education\; Student Success Initiative\; Phillip J. Bowman Center for Scholarship to Practice\; UROP: A Center for Research\, Scholarship and Creative Inquiry
UID:152454-21913757@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152454
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:AEM Featured
LOCATION:Weiser Hall
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DTSTAMP:20260924T151443
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261007T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261007T143000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Shaking the Table: Centering the Voices of Identity Center Practitioners
DESCRIPTION:Identity-center practitioners play a critical role in fostering belonging\, advocacy\, and support for students with marginalized identities. Yet these professionals often navigate complex and challenging environments\, particularly amid increased scrutiny of diversity\, equity\, and inclusion efforts across higher education.\n\nDrawing from Shaking the Table: Survival and Healing Amongst Identity Center Practitioners\, this webinar will uplift the voices of current and former identity-center practitioners as they share personal stories of leadership\, resilience\, survival\, and healing. Panelists will reflect on their experiences leading and working within identity-based centers while offering practical insights\, lessons learned\, and strategies for sustaining themselves and their work.\n\nRather than a series of formal presentations\, the program will feature a facilitated conversation among the book’s co-editors and contributing authors. Together\, they will examine the visible and invisible labor of identity-center work\, the tension involved in creating belonging within institutions that do not always care for practitioners\, and the people\, practices\, communities\, and boundaries that make healing possible.\n\nJoin us for a conversation about the challenges and possibilities of identity-center work—and the roles that community\, mentorship\, and healing-centered practices can play in sustaining professionals committed to creating more inclusive campus communities.\n\n\nModerators & Co-Editors\n\nJonathan A. McElderry\, PhD — Dean of Student Inclusive Excellence\, Assistant Professor of Education\, and Acting Director of the Master of Higher Education Program at Elon University\n\nStephanie Hernandez Rivera\, PhD — Assistant Professor of Education and Dr. Jo Watts Williams School of Education Emerging Professor at Elon University\n\n\nContributing Authors & Panelists\n\nNikita Haynie\, MEd — Director of Family Engagement for Student Affairs at the University of Kansas\n\nJulian Ignacio — Associate Director for Student Development and Evaluation at the Asian American Resource and Cultural Center at the University of Illinois Chicago\n\nA. Pierre Sherrill II\, EdD — EduLib Consulting
UID:152850-21914596@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152850
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:AEM Featured
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260925T161053
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261014T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261014T140000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Beginning Again: Reckoning\, Reorganizing\, Reimagining
DESCRIPTION:Join the Bowman Center for a Community Conversation centered around the film How Do We Begin.\n\nA collaboration between the CRLT Players and the Duderstadt Center\, this innovative\, Emmy Award-winning film is based on a series of short plays written by U-M alumx Jordan Harris. The film explores Black student experiences past and present\, and the ways institutions perpetuate anti-Blackness while simultaneously aiming to advance stated commitments to inclusion and equity.\n\nFollowing the film screening\, participants will engage in discussion designed and facilitated by the CRLT Players and Trotter Multicultural Center staff that offers the opportunity to:\n\n-Reflect on historical tensions within U-M’s values and their present-day impact\n-Examine institutional patterns that may hinder progress\n-Explore role-based ways to take action and advance meaningful change\n\nThis session will be the first of three planned Community Conversations in dialogue with the Bowman Center’s 2026-27 theme: Community in Action.\n\nCentering campus activism\, this year’s Community Conversations will ask participants to reckon with complex histories and legacies of campus exclusion\, activism\, and resistance\; reorganize through togetherness and intergenerational\, cross-role coalition building\; and reimagine campus activism.
UID:152898-21914719@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152898
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:AEM Featured
LOCATION:Trotter Multicultural Center - Sankofa
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DTSTAMP:20260925T170255
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261015T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261015T160000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Understanding the K-12 STEM Ecosystem in Michigan: Strengthening U-M’s Contribution
DESCRIPTION:Organizational change for student success begins well before college. Join campus leaders and experts for an in-depth look at the K-12 and pre-college STEM ecosystem in Michigan that shapes students' pathways long before they enter higher education. This session connects research to practice by examining the current status of STEM education in the state\, lessons learned from U-M's Wolverine Pathways program\, and identifying concrete opportunities to deepen U-M’s contribution toward sustained institutional and statewide impact.\n\n\nFeaturing:\n\nDeborah Loewenberg Ball\, Jessie Jean Storey-Fry Distinguished University Professor of Education\, University of Michigan\n\nCarla O’Connor\, Director\, Wolverine Pathways and University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor\, University of Michigan\n\nMegan Schrauben\, MiSTEM Network Executive Director\n\n\nAbout the series:\n\nReimagining STEM Student Success is a new series designed to advance the recommendations of the STEM Success Working Group by positioning organizational change as the primary lever for student success. Across five sessions\, expert insights will connect research to concrete U-M practices to transform our campus systems\, cultures\, and structures.\n\n\nSponsors:\n\nAccess & Opportunity\; Center for Educational Outreach (CEO)\; Comprehensive Studies Program\; Michigan Program for Advancing Cultural Transformation (M-PACT)\; Office of Faculty Development at the U-M Medical School\; Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education\; Student Success Initiative\; Phillip J. Bowman Center for Scholarship to Practice\; UROP: A Center for Research\, Scholarship and Creative Inquiry
UID:152899-21914734@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152899
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:AEM Featured
LOCATION:Michigan Union - Pendleton
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DTSTAMP:20260922T101958
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261020T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261020T170000
SUMMARY:Livestream / Virtual:History in a Time of Forgetting
DESCRIPTION:What do we — as individuals\, communities\, and members of a nation — choose to remember? What\, or who\, is erased from accounts of our shared past? And who benefits from the official and unofficial narratives constructed about the nation’s collective history? \n\nIn 2026\, as the country celebrates the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, the current presidential administration has taken concerted steps to shape and disseminate a very specific version of the nation’s history. Notably\, their efforts involve limiting the stories that are told about our past to conceal difficult truths\, ignoring real complexities from the historical record\, undermining the difficult work of historical research\, and seeking to avoid the processes of interpreting and discussing the meaning of our past. But we can also see the resistance to this rewriting and its erasures in the persistence of existing histories\, as well as the continued proliferation of alternate histories in a variety of spheres and locations that are not subject to governmental control.\n\nThis webinar accompanies the publication of Spark Magazine’s upcoming series\, “History in a Time of Forgetting\,” which grapples with what it means to engage in and uplift historical research amid the present national climate. The online webinar will feature series curators Jennifer Brady and Camron Michael Amin\, from the University of Michigan's Inclusive History Project\, in conversation with series contributors Elisa Alfonso\, David Porter\, S. Shani Saunders\, and Tenisha Tevis. These writers take a range of approaches to history and remembering\, exploring pop culture analysis\, community storykeeping\, personal history\, and public pedagogy.
UID:152624-21914195@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152624
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:AEM Featured
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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