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SUMMARY:Presentation:Educating for Civic Engagement: A Michigan OLLIs Collaboration
DESCRIPTION:Join us for part one of a two-part educational series about the different justice systems in Michigan. Our first session begins this fall. The Michigan OLLIs (Western Michigan University\, Aquinas College\, Saginaw Valley State University and the University of Michigan)\, State Bar of Michigan (SBM) Judicial Section and Michigan Center for Civic Education (MCCE) welcome you to learn more about our State and Federal judicial systems.\n\nThis will be a 60-minute presentation regarding the District\, Circuit\, Probate and Federal jurisdiction in the State of Michigan\, with a 30-minute Q & A. \n\n*Sponsored by SBM Judicial Section\, MCCE\, & the Michigan OLLIs*\n\n*The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at U-M provides educational opportunities for older adults\, designed by older adults. Membership is intended for all enthusiastic learners aged 50 and older\, regardless of previous education or affiliation with U-M.*
UID:152633-21914355@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152633
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Law,Lecture,Lifelong Learning,Retirement,Talk,Virtual,Geriatrics,Free,Education,aging
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20261006T131556
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261021T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261021T131500
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Elevate Your Canvas Courses with DesignPLUS\, Part 1: Getting Started
DESCRIPTION:Have you heard? U-M now has DesignPLUS available in our Canvas instances (including Canvas Catalog). DesignPLUS is a time-saving toolset for every educator and course designer working in the Canvas LMS. It helps you quickly build\, style\, and scale high-quality courses - making learning engaging and accessible.\n\nThis hands-on workshop introduces the core DesignPLUS workflow for creating and updating Canvas content. You'll learn how to navigate the DesignPLUS Sidebar\, build an engaging homepage\, edit existing content\, and use templates to create polished\, consistent Canvas course pages. By the end of the session\, you'll have the confidence to start using DesignPLUS in your own courses.\n\n-Introduction to DesignPLUS\n--Overview of DesignPLUS tools within Canvas\n--Introduction to the QuickStart Wizard\n--Using templates and Content Blocks\n--Introduction to the DesignPLUS Sidebar\n\n-Building a Canvas Homepage with the DesignPLUS Sidebar\n--Adding a theme\, banner title\, banner image\, and grid links\n--Using the Upload/Embed Image Tool for a banner image\n--Adjusting grid links and customizing grid link icons\n\n-Enhancing Existing Canvas Content\n--Applying consistent themes and styling\n--Organizing existing content with Content Blocks and headings\n--Improving the presentation of images\, videos\, links\, and important information\n\n-Accessibility and Course Design Best Practices\n--Using accessible heading structures and alternative text\n--Importing external assets\n--Creating clear\, consistent\, and easy-to-navigate course content\n\nWrap-up\, Resources\, and Q&A
UID:150185-21915711@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150185
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Academic Technology At Michigan,accessibility,Canvas,Designplus,Instructional Design
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20261001T152518
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261021T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261021T235900
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:SMART CENTER Symposium
DESCRIPTION:November 10 - 11\, 2026\n\nConnect with pioneers and shape the future of single-molecule biology together. The SMBio Single-molecule\nBiology Symposium brings together scientists interested in single-molecule approaches from all over the world to\nshare their research\, connect\, and exchange ideas and experiences.\n\nJoin us at Kahn Auditorium in the Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building (109 Zina Pitcher Place).\nPlease see https://www.lumicks.com/event/symposium/smbio-2026-midwest# for the agenda.
UID:153165-21915231@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153165
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Molecular,Biology,Research,Symposium
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DTSTAMP:20260729T130108
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261021T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261021T124500
SUMMARY:Well-being:CEW+ Midweek Mindfulness
DESCRIPTION:RSVP here: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/htrYM6lXQH28gjySTQaKIw\n\nJoin us on Wednesdays from 12:15 – 12:45 pm. Register once to receive a Zoom link to access the sits each week or as your schedule allows.\n\nMindful meditation is a contemplative practice that\, over time\, can build resilience and coping skills to support you to gain perspective\, navigate the demands of daily life\, and build compassion. Weekly guided sits offer a virtual community of practice that explores present-moment awareness\, open and directed attention\, non-judgment\, and self-compassion. CEW+ Midweek Mindfulness welcomes practitioners of all skill levels. Each session offers instruction\, support\, and the opportunity to practice guided and self-directed mindful meditation. Participate weekly\, or drop in as your schedule allows. All are welcome!
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/109796
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Caregivers,Zoom,Work-life Balance,women's health,women,Health & Wellness,Students With Children,Student Parents,Self-care,Nontraditional Students,Mindfulness,Wellness,Graduate and Professional Students,Free,first-generation,Well-being,Welcome to Michigan,Virtual,Undergraduate Students,Undergraduate,transfer students,Support
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20261013T072110
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261021T124500
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SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Maize & Blue Cupboard Volunteering
DESCRIPTION:Come help us during normal operating hours\; as well as\, unload our weekly Food Gatherers deliveries and stock our shelves! If you are outside the U-M community\, please reach out to maize.blue.cupboard@umich.edu to sign up.
UID:102102-21914747@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/102102
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:Maize and Blue Cupboard inside Betsy Barbour
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DTSTAMP:20261013T072132
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261021T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261021T150000
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:2026 Ethics & Compliance Week
DESCRIPTION:The Ethics\, Integrity\, and Compliance Office is hosting the inaugural Ethics & Compliance Week at the University of Michigan. Please join us in supporting the university through ethics and compliance educational sessions. 
UID:148923-21906050@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148923
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:2nd Floor | Pendleton Room
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DTSTAMP:20261013T072135
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261021T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261021T150000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Beginner AI Workshop featuring U-M GPT and Gemini
DESCRIPTION:A two-hour workshop covering prompt writing\, use cases\, and hands-on activities using U-M GPT and Google Gemini.
UID:151855-21912277@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151855
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:LSA 1168
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DTSTAMP:20261007T123524
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Still Shaking the Table
DESCRIPTION:Identity-center professionals work at the intersection of student support\, advocacy\, education\, and institutional change. As higher education becomes increasingly politicized and constrained\, these practitioners must navigate evolving student needs\, institutional pressures\, and challenges to diversity\, equity\, and inclusion while sustaining their own well-being.\n\nDrawing from Still Shaking the Table: Activism\, Unity\, and Supporting Students\, this webinar explores the changing role of identity-center practitioners as advocates\, coalition-builders\, educators\, and institutional leaders. Co-editors Jonathan A. McElderry and Stephanie Hernandez Rivera will join contributing authors Susan Harper\, Heather D. Shea\, and Brandi Wells-Stone to consider how practitioners build cross-campus partnerships\, respond to political and organizational challenges\, and support students with diverse and intersecting identities.\n\nThe conversation will examine strategies for sustaining justice-oriented leadership through critical hope\, collective care\, and intentional reflection. Panelists will also discuss what colleges and universities must do to move beyond performative or symbolic commitments toward meaningful institutional support for identity centers\, their staff\, and the students they serve.\n\nJoin us for a timely conversation about activism\, coalition-building\, institutional responsibility\, and the future of identity-center work in higher education.\n\n\nModerators:\n\n\nJonathan A. McElderry\, PhD\n\nJonathan A. McElderry\, PhD (he/him)\, is a nationally recognized scholar\, speaker\, and higher education leader whose work centers on advancing student success\, inclusive excellence\, and organizational transformation. He serves as dean of student inclusive excellence\, assistant professor of education\, and acting director of the master of higher education program at Elon University. Most recently\, he completed his term as the 86th president of ACPA–College Student Educators International.\n\nA first-generation college graduate\, McElderry’s scholarship and professional practice focus on the experiences of historically marginalized students\, leadership in higher education\, mentoring\, and belonging. He has authored more than 20 scholarly publications and co-edited two books examining antiracism and the experiences of identity-center practitioners. Through his scholarship\, national leadership\, and commitment to mentoring the next generation of higher education professionals\, McElderry continues to influence policy\, practice\, and the future of the profession.\n\n\nStephanie Hernandez Rivera\, PhD\n\nStephanie Hernandez Rivera\, PhD (she/ella)\, is a Puerto Rican woman and race-gender higher education scholar and educator. She is an assistant professor in Elon University’s Master of Arts in Higher Education Program and the endowed Dr. Jo Watts Williams School of Education Emerging Professor. Hernandez Rivera has experience as a higher education practitioner and administrator working to advance equity and inclusion in various capacities.\n\nUsing critical cultural methodologies\, her research examines how equity and inclusion work is operationalized in higher education\, the resistance strategies of students\, faculty\, and staff\, and how oppressive systems of power emerge at the micro and meso levels to affect the psychological well-being of communities of Color. Her scholarship has appeared in the Journal of Higher Education\, Journal of Diversity in Higher Education\, Journal of Women and Gender in Higher Education\, and The Journal of Negro Education\, among other publications.\n\n\nContributing Authors:\n\n\nSusan Harper\, PhD\n\nSusan Harper\, PhD\, serves as co-curricular student development director in Multicultural Student Affairs at Iowa State University\, where she designs curricula and developmental experiences for students in the George Washington Carver Scholastic Leadership Scholarship and First Cyclone Scholarship learning communities.\n\nHarper previously served as director of the Center for LGBTQIA+ Student Success at Iowa State until the center’s closure in 2024. As a scholar-practitioner\, her work focuses on support for historically excluded student populations\, leadership\, controversy with civility\, spiritual wellness\, and dialogue across religious difference.\n\nShe holds a PhD in cultural anthropology and an MA in anthropology from Southern Methodist University\, as well as an MA in multicultural women’s and gender studies from Texas Woman’s University. Her recent publications include Feminist Witchcraft and Doing Ethnography\, co-authored with Jessica Smartt Gullion.\n\n\nHeather D. Shea\, PhD\n\nHeather D. Shea\, PhD (she/her)\, is the director of Pathways Persistence Programs in Undergraduate Education at Michigan State University\, where she leads a unit of five academic cohort programs focused on student persistence\, high-impact practices\, and first-generation student success.\n\nWith more than 25 years of experience as a practitioner-scholar\, Shea advances student success\, equity\, and belonging through cohort-based programs and holistic support. She previously served for more than a decade as director of two campus-based women’s and gender equity centers\, where she led initiatives designed to foster inclusive campus climates and intersectional coalitions.\n\nHer scholarship and practice focus on cultivating critical hope for the future of higher education through communities of mattering. She is a host and co-founder of the Student Affairs NOW podcast and a past president of ACPA–College Student Educators International.\n\n\nBrandi Wells-Stone\, PhD\n\nBrandi Wells-Stone\, PhD (she/her)\, is director of African American Student Services and special advisor to the president on African American Affairs at the University of New Mexico\, where she also serves as an adjunct faculty member in Africana Studies.\n\nA scholar-practitioner with more than a decade of experience in Black Cultural Center work\, Wells-Stone’s research and practice examine Black Cultural Center leadership and space through decolonial and Black feminist lenses. Her work considers how institutional structures\, care practices\, and spatial politics shape both cultural-center staff and students’ experiences of belonging in higher education.\n\n***\n\nThis is the second of two conversations exploring the experiences and evolving roles of identity-center practitioners in higher education.\n\nThe series begins on October 7 with Shaking the Table: Centering the Voices of Identity Center Practitioners.
UID:153406-21915827@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153406
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:AEM Featured
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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