All Sessions

Contact Email: EastQuadLeadershipTeam@umich.edu

APPOINTMENTS ARE POSTED ON FRIDAY AT NOON FOR THE COMING WEEK!



You've got questions. We've got answers. Ask us. We can help.
Resource Navigators are your peer-to-peer wayfinding team, helping you track down a multitude of campus resources, websites, places, and--most importantly--people on U-M's large, decentralized campus. We create campus partnerships so that we can give you "warm" referrals to the teams you need to get things done!


You'll leave your appointment with referrals or contacts for questions, like...

• What student orgs are available to me?

• How do I get involved on campus?

• How do I find internship and research opportunities?

• Where is my advising office and how do I get academic help?

• How do I manage my time?

• What can I do to maintain wellness?


Appointments: Appointments currently for undergraduate students only. Please be sure to complete the Intake Form.
Available in half-hour increments, you can select a day and time that’s convenient for you; they are either in-person or virtual, so choose whatever works best! In-person appointments are located at the Michigan League (RM 119C) or the Michigan Union (1201); both spaces are behind the buildings' Information Desks on the main floor. New appointments are posted on Friday for the upcoming week.
Did you run out of time in your appointment? Do you have other questions? You can make more than one appointment, depending on your requirements.

We'll see you soon!


IMPORTANT: INTAKE FORM!

The required registration intake form will allow your Resource Navigator to create a personalized plan tailored to your questions.

Please allow at least TWO HOURS between when you make an appointment and the actual appointment time. This allows time for personalized research.

We are conducting listening tours to gain insight into your experiences engaging with mental health and well-being at LSA, and to consider opportunities to collaborate with our team on future initiatives to support students holistically within your respective workspaces.

OGPS F/K Grand and manuscript writing workshops

Sign up for virtual orientation with the Meet and Greet Team

This is a series of events and workshops geared towards SEAS students. Some will be Master Classes with SEAS faculty members on a salient environmental studies topic. Others will be workshops specifically geared towards building a skill or developing knowledge that will help incoming SEAS graduate students be successful as they start their degree programs.

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.

The American Red Cross CPR/AED for Professional Rescuers and First Aid blended learning course will help prepare you to recognize and care for a variety of breathing and cardiac emergencies in adults, children and infants as well as prepare you to recognize and care for a variety of first aid emergencies. Allow approximately 4 hours to complete the eLearning portions, including the final exam. The eLearning portions of the course must be completed prior to attending the in-person skill session.

Participants who successfully complete this course will receive a certificate for CPR/AED for Professional Rescuers and First Aid valid for two years.
**There is no fee for current Department of Recreational Sports employees. The fee for community members, faculty, staff, or students who are not employed by the Department of Recreational Sports is $85. You can use the link here to complete payment.**

This intensive Michigan program combines classes with U-M faculty Professor Lorenzo García-Amaya and local Spanish professors at the IES Abroad Center and University of Granada. Pre-requisites include successful completion of Spanish 277, 278, or RCLANG 324 by the program start date.


📅 Learn more: Join Professor Lorenzo García-Amaya and CGIS Advisor Juliana Mesa at one of several upcoming virtual information sessions this spring/summer:

Thursday, May 11 at 11am
Thursday, June 15 at 11am
Thursday, July 13 at 11am
Deadline to apply: August 13, 2023

Join this virtual session to learn more about off campus housing options in the Ann Arbor area! This event will be facilitated by the International Center and is designed for new international students. We will be joined by a representative from Beyond the Diag, U-M’s Off Campus Housing program within the Dean of Students Office, and a Housing Attorney from Student Legal Services. Please bring any questions you may have!

Happy Birthday to international students and scholars celebrating birthdays this Summer!

Join the International Center for a sweet treat during your birth month!

Stamps Art & Design Minor Info Session

Make creative problem solving, hands-on making, and visual communication a part of your education. The Stamps Minor in Art & Design is for students interested in design thinking, visual composition, working collaboratively, critical thinking and analysis, and gaining skills with tools and techniques relevant to a wide range of material processes.

This one-hour virtual information session is the first step in declaring a Minor in Art & Design. You'll talk with the Stamps Minor Advisor and find out if the Minor in Art & Design is right for you. All Winter 2023 Minor info sessions will be held as Zoom meetings online: please register to receive your invitation. For more information, contact Kristy Watkins: watkinkr@umich.edu.

Stamps is committed to making events accessible to all attendees. This event will take place online using the Zoom platform, and automated captions will be available. If you anticipate needing any additional accommodations to participate, please email watkinkr@umich.edu at least one week in advance of the scheduled event so we can arrange for your accommodation or an effective alternative. After receiving your request, we will follow up with you directly.

Please note the following:

Before you sign-up, please make sure you have secured your supervisor's approval for attendance.
Register for only ONE session.
In this training, you will learn to:

Use the Shared Hiring Philosophy as a guide to creating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive search
Experience a process framework that supports equitable candidate selection from preparation to onboarding Conduct behavior-based interviewing Create a team-oriented approach to an effective and positive candidate experienceThrough demonstration and hands-on practice, this course will serve as a guide to help you through the experience of being part of a search committee team.

Rackham is hosting a series of learning workshops on how to support undocumented graduate students from recruitment to degree completion. This series will provide University of Michigan staff and faculty with an opportunity to gain insight into how to best support the undocumented graduate student community on our campus by learning from content experts and colleagues from organizations and institutions across the country.

The Rackham Graduate School invites U-M campus staff and faculty to participate in a one day convening to better understand and put into action policies and practices that best support Undocumented Graduate Students.


The day will feature four sessions on: Best Practices, Policy & Academic Research, Current Student Voices, and Taking Action within your department and across campus.

More detailed information will follow in the coming weeks.

This is a zoom training that covers the fundamentals of Business Objects and the steps to navigate in the new version to perform basic, intermediate and advanced tasks in BO.

The Lean in Daily Work (LIDW) in a Nutshell course is designed for new and existing members of any campus team utilizing LIDW. This 2 hour training will provide insight into the five pillars of LIDW and provide participants the chance to reflect with and learn from other users of LIDW. This training covers Lean in Daily Work for campus users, it is not intended for Michigan Medicine LIDW teams.

Participants should be a member of a campus team utilizing LIDW.


Learn more about Organizational Excellence by visiting https://organizationalexcellence.umich.edu

Using the Arts to Flip Understanding Facilitated by Margot Greenlee



When you’re on a mental “hamster wheel,” running faster doesn’t help. Slowing down, stepping to the side, and seeing from another perspective does.

In our time as graduate students and postdocs, we may find ourselves feeling burnt out on the very work that got us excited about this journey in the first place, or feeling stuck in our thinking about where it’s all going. To get out of this rut, we need to try new perspectives and approaches. In this workshop, we use arts-based activities to open up new neural pathways. We refresh our thinking and jumpstart inspiration with visual art, poetic language, and movement. This workshop re-ignites a range of intelligences and skills inherent in us all – no formal arts training required.

What to expect:

fun, immersive, artistic exploration

guided critical reflection

one-on-one discussion with peers

2 hours that fly by

What you’ll get:

dedicated time and structure for exploring an area or question that’s important to you

refreshed perspective on that area or question

Snacks and beverages will be provided!

This workshop is co-hosted by the OGPS Health and Wellness team in collaboration with the facilitator and a2ru.This project was made possible by a grant from the Arts Initiative at the University of Michigan.

The International Center is excited to virtually meet new international students who will begin their studies in Fall 2023!


This event is designed to help new international students gain valuable information about University of Michigan services, life in the USA/Ann Arbor, campus resources and valuable immigration information. Attendees may also submit questions in advance when they register.
Given attendance limitations, students may only enroll in one virtual session. Sessions will be recorded and will be shared with attendees afterwards.

Join us for the monthly International Coffee Hour!

This is a social event at which you can meet students and scholars from around the world in a casual enviroment. The date, time, location, and co-sponsor varies by month, so be sure to check the details for each event as your register! We look forward to seeing you soon!

Come Join the Munger Community by attending events hosted by our RA's! Feel free to select and attend as many events as you would like!

The Office of Health Equity and Inclusion at University of Michigan School of Nursing strives to provide health equity education and academic support to work towards improving student outcomes, cultivating collective cultural consciousness, and encouraging inclusive teaching practices.

Any questions regarding workshop offerings please email EPIC Pathways Program Coordinators Lindsay Sexton (lindsbs@med.umich.edu) and Emily Herzog (epawlik@med.umich.edu)

Please sign up here to attend Center for Campus Involvement's New Organization Orientation. This session is required for any student who wishes to start a new organization.

Each month, an orientation session is offered for all new postdoctoral research fellows, and those with a new postdoctoral research fellow appointment in the U-M HR system within the past two months at the University of Michigan. The orientation session includes information about the role of postdocs, working with your P.I./supervisor, campus resources, benefits and vacation, and membership in the U-M Postdoc Association.


Please note: if you have attended an orientation in the past, there is no need to attend an additional one.

This is an in-person training that covers the fundamentals of Business Objects and the steps to navigate in the new version to perform basic, intermediate and advanced tasks in BO. Please bring your own laptop and power adapter.

(Previously HEC 116)
This training will provide a high-level overview of the J-1 Exchange Visitor Program and an introduction to key responsibilities for UM units hosting a J-1 Exchange Visitor, both before and after the Exchange Visitor’s arrival.
About the J-1 program:
A J-1 Scholar is a visiting researcher, professor, or specialist from a country outside of the United States who has been approved to enter the United States for a specific purpose and for a limited amount of time. The J-1 Exchange Visitor Program is administered by the U.S. Department of State (DOS) for the express purpose of promoting international educational exchange of expertise and stimulating collaborative teaching and research efforts.  Exchange is truly at the core of the program and based on this philosophy and directive.
Topics Discussed:

Visa and Immigration OverviewRequesting a DS-2019Scholar Request FormsMandatory Immigration Check InInternational Center Services
More information and FAQ’s on the J-1 scholar program at UM:

https://internationalcenter.umich.edu/departments/overview-j1-exchange-visitor-program

Learn what types of financial aid and scholarships are available from Rackham and how they may impact your financial aid during graduate school.

Zoom-Business Objects 4.3 Fundamentals and Intermediate Level - July

Grad School 101 invites you to attend our inaugural “Ask a Grad Student!”—Affinity Advice Week+!


We know that starting graduate school can be filled with many unknowns. We’re here to support you as you begin your new journey!

Our “Ask a Grad Student!”—Affinity Advice Week+ offers over a week’s worth of advice panels for different affinity groups in Rackham. These panels are devoted to providing you with guidance on how to navigate your transition to graduate life here at Michigan. Each day, we will focus on the experiences of a different affinity group within the Rackham community. The featured panelists will be graduate students of the particular affinity group who have all been in your shoes.

During the first half of our event, the panelists will provide advice to general questions about the first year journey, asked by our moderator. The second half of the event will be dedicated to a Q&A where you will have the opportunity to ask the panelists specific questions you may have.

You aren’t going to want to miss this opportunity! Make sure to sign up today!

AC100


Learn about the various funds that make up the university's general ledger. This is an introductory course on Fund Accounting and Chartfields at the University of Michigan.

Agenda:

Chartfield Structure Overview

Income Statement and Balance Sheet Overview

Expenses/Revenues Overview

PLEASE NOTE: There will be no classes scheduled for June and July, due to peak year-end processing for the Accounting Customer Service team.

In this program you will learn about the resources available to you through Rackham such as conflict resolution services and the Rackham Emergency Fund.

AC200

Learn about Revenue and Expense types and Journal entries at the University of Michigan.

Agenda:
Revenue Types
Expense Types
Journal Entries


PLEASE NOTE: There will be no classes scheduled for June and July, due to peak year-end processing for the Accounting Customer Service team.

Grad School 101 invites you to attend our inaugural “Ask a Grad Student!”—Affinity Advice Week+!


We know that starting graduate school can be filled with many unknowns. We’re here to support you as you begin your new journey!

Our “Ask a Grad Student!”—Affinity Advice Week+ offers over a week’s worth of advice panels for different affinity groups in Rackham. These panels are devoted to providing you with guidance on how to navigate your transition to graduate life here at Michigan. Each day, we will focus on the experiences of a different affinity group within the Rackham community. The featured panelists will be graduate students of the particular affinity who have all been in your shoes.

During the first half of our event, the panelists will provide advice to general questions about the first year journey, asked by our moderator. The second half of the event will be dedicated to a Q&A where you will have the opportunity to ask the panelists specific questions you may have.

You aren’t going to want to miss this opportunity! Make sure to sign up today!

Grad School 101 invites you to attend our inaugural “Ask a Grad Student!”—Affinity Advice Week+!


We know that starting graduate school can be filled with many unknowns. We’re here to support you as you begin your new journey!

Our “Ask a Grad Student!”—Affinity Advice Week+ offers over a week’s worth of advice panels for different affinity groups in Rackham. These panels are devoted to providing you with guidance on how to navigate your transition to graduate life here at Michigan. Each day, we will focus on the experiences of a different affinity group within the Rackham community. The featured panelists will be graduate students of the particular affinity who have all been in your shoes.

During the first half of our event, the panelists will provide advice to general questions about the first year journey, asked by our moderator. The second half of the event will be dedicated to a Q&A where you will have the opportunity to ask the panelists specific questions you may have.

You aren’t going to want to miss this opportunity! Make sure to sign up today!

Grad School 101 invites you to attend our inaugural “Ask a Grad Student!”—Affinity Advice Week+!


We know that starting graduate school can be filled with many unknowns. We’re here to support you as you begin your new journey!

Our “Ask a Grad Student!”—Affinity Advice Week+ offers over a week’s worth of advice panels for different affinity groups in Rackham. These panels are devoted to providing you with guidance on how to navigate your transition to graduate life here at Michigan. Each day, we will focus on the experiences of a different affinity group within the Rackham community. The featured panelists will be graduate students of the particular affinity who have all been in your shoes.

During the first half of our event, the panelists will provide advice to general questions about the first year journey, asked by our moderator. The second half of the event will be dedicated to a Q&A where you will have the opportunity to ask the panelists specific questions you may have.

You aren’t going to want to miss this opportunity! Make sure to sign up today!

Grad School 101 invites you to attend our inaugural “Ask a Grad Student!”—Affinity Advice Week+!


We know that starting graduate school can be filled with many unknowns. We’re here to support you as you begin your new journey!

Our “Ask a Grad Student!”—Affinity Advice Week+ offers over a week’s worth of advice panels for different affinity groups in Rackham. These panels are devoted to providing you with guidance on how to navigate your transition to graduate life here at Michigan. Each day, we will focus on the experiences of a different affinity group within the Rackham community. The featured panelists will be graduate students of the particular affinity who have all been in your shoes.

During the first half of our event, the panelists will provide advice to general questions about the first year journey, asked by our moderator. The second half of the event will be dedicated to a Q&A where you will have the opportunity to ask the panelists specific questions you may have.

You aren’t going to want to miss this opportunity! Make sure to sign up today!

Grad School 101 invites you to attend our inaugural “Ask a Grad Student!”—Affinity Advice Week+!


We know that starting graduate school can be filled with many unknowns. We’re here to support you as you begin your new journey!

Our “Ask a Grad Student!”—Affinity Advice Week+ offers over a week’s worth of advice panels for different affinity groups in Rackham. These panels are devoted to providing you with guidance on how to navigate your transition to graduate life here at Michigan. Each day, we will focus on the experiences of a different affinity group within the Rackham community. The featured panelists will be graduate students of the particular affinity who have all been in your shoes.

During the first half of our event, the panelists will provide advice to general questions about the first year journey, asked by our moderator. The second half of the event will be dedicated to a Q&A where you will have the opportunity to ask the panelists specific questions you may have.

You aren’t going to want to miss this opportunity! Make sure to sign up today!

Our Foundations course will introduce to you the concepts that support successful improvement efforts. We demonstrate the importance of understanding the cause of a problem, the danger of assumptions and how to focus your efforts identifying the factors that will help you drive real change.

We use a mix of real life examples, small group work and discussion to illustrate how these concepts translate into our day to day lives.
*Please come with a problem or process you'd like to improve. You will have the opportunity to apply your learning to your own problem throughout the course.
You will leave with:

Ability to define value and describe it from your customer's perspective.Understanding of the 8 kinds of waste and practice spotting them in action.
Insight into the importance of investigating issues at the source and using open-ended questions to elicit better information.
Awareness of the Plan-Do-Check-Adjust cycle, a proven problem-solving methodology.
Understanding of how Organizational Excellence can provide support to you and your team.Session length: 3 hours

Grad School 101 invites you to attend our inaugural “Ask a Grad Student!”—Affinity Advice Week+!
We know that starting graduate school can be filled with many unknowns. We’re here to support you as you begin your new journey!
Our “Ask a Grad Student!”—Affinity Advice Week+ offers over a week’s worth of advice panels for different affinity groups in Rackham. These panels are devoted to providing you with guidance on how to navigate your transition to graduate life here at Michigan. Each day, we will focus on the experiences of a different affinity group within the Rackham community. The featured panelists will be graduate students of the particular affinity who have all been in your shoes.
During the first half of our event, the panelists will provide advice to general questions about the first year journey, asked by our moderator. The second half of the event will be dedicated to a Q&A where you will have the opportunity to ask the panelists specific questions you may have.
You aren’t going to want to miss this opportunity! Make sure to sign up today!

Learn what types of financial aid and scholarships are available from Rackham and how they may impact your financial aid during graduate school.

In this program you will learn about the resources available to you through Rackham such as conflict resolution services and the Rackham Emergency Fund.

This is an in-person training that covers the fundamentals of Business Objects and the steps to navigate in the new version to perform basic, intermediate and advanced tasks in BO. Please bring your own laptop and power adapter.

This session will is geared towards domestic graduate students, will help prepare for tax season, and answer their questions.

Testing time begins on the hour. Please arrive 5 minutes before the test is scheduled to begin. You will be required to present your MCard or other official photo ID at check-in. You will also need to know your U-M uniqname and password and bring your phone so that you can use Duo to log in to the computer.


The online test is 50 minutes long, and a proctor will be present.

Accommodation Information:

Students who require a limited distraction environment should not sign up for a test session on this page. Instead, please email rll.placement@umich.edu for information on limited distraction testing sessions.
New and incoming students requiring extra time: Please email rll.placement@umich.edu to indicate that you require accommodations at least two (2) business days in advance of when you will take the test. You will receive the same accommodations you received on the Spanish Placement Test.
Continuing students requiring extra time: If you require accommodations and have already registered with Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD), please email rll.placement@umich.edu at least two (2) business days in advance of when you will take the test with your accommodations letter from the Accommodate system.

The International Center is excited to welcome new international undergraduate students and their family members to campus on August 23! This program is open to any undergraduate international student starting their studies at U-M in Fall 2023. There will also be a special session for parents who are on-campus with their student.

In order to fully participate, International students with contracts for on-campus residence halls will be allowed to move in on August 22. More information about the early move-in process will be emailed to students who have registered to attend.

It is strongly recommended that all new international undergraduate students attend this program.

Welcome to the Arabic Placement Test
About the test
The test is approximately two hours and a half in length, and it is composed of three portions:
a. The writing portion is completed on paper and it is worth a total of 100 points.
b. The reading portion is completed on Canvas site, and it is worth a total of 48 points.
c. Right after finishing with the reading portion, each student will have a follow-up interview with a proctor. The interviews last approximately 15 minutes and it is worth a total of 20 points.
Important:
a. The interview portion will be weighted most heavily as it will be used to validate performance on the other portions. The final result/score/rating will thus be based on the student’s performance on the interview above all. Rating of performance on the writing or reading portions is secondary.
b. Students who receive 60% or above will be placed in Arabic 401 and thus placed out of the language requirement.
c. Students who are not able to write in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) do not need to take the placement test and they will be advised to enroll in Arabic 101.
Where can I view my results?
Placement results are posted within 7 business days after the test.
You will not be notified of your score automatically. You may view your placements via: Wolverine Access > Student Business > Academic Records > View Placement Exam Results.
Important information about the test
* Placements are valid for only one year. If you fail to register in the course that you are placed in, you will be required to retake the test.
* Retaking the placement test is only permitted after the placement results expire.
* The test assesses students’ proficiency in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), NOT colloquial Arabic.
* If you speak an Arabic dialect but you do not know how to read or write or have little knowledge, feel free to register in Arabic 101.
* Students who know some Arabic because they came from an Arabic-speaking household or have studied Arabic before, must take the Arabic proficiency test in order to determine their placement.
* Students who have taken Arabic at other institutions and wish to continue their Arabic study at UM must take the placement test to determine their level. Credits for Arabic study undertaken at another institution prior to joining UM or in a summer program while attending UM, transfer in as generic departmental credits and students must take the placement test to determine credit equivalencies to UM courses.
* If you place in or beyond the 401 level, you will have satisfied the LSA language requirement.
* Students are encouraged to take a placement test as early as possible in their studies in order to determine the level they should enroll in, or if they test out of the language requirement. This is extremely important to avoid delays in graduation and complications with placement.
* Arabic 101, 201, 401, 501 are offered ONLY in the Fall semester, and Arabic 102, 202, 402, 504 are ONLY offered in the Winter semester.
* The Summer Language Institute (June & July) offers intensive Arabic 103 (the equivalent of Arabic 101 &102, combined), Arabic 203 (the equivalent of Arabic 201 & 202, combined), and Arabic 401 & 402.
About the UM Arabic program
UM’s Arabic curriculum is a dual register curriculum in which students learn to speak and understand either the Egyptian dialect or the Levantine dialect (the dialect of Jordan, Syria, Palestine and Lebanon) in addition to learning to read and write and understand formal Arabic (fuSHa). Students starting to learn Arabic, if they have no background in Arabic, can choose to take either dialect or can switch their dialect focus from one semester to the next. The dialect focus of each class section is indicated in the schedule of classes.
If you have questions regarding the placement test, please contact the program director at, mesarabicprogram@umich.edu.

The Ginsberg Center offers multiple workshops to support students and staff who are working with communities through courses, student organizations or independently. Learning in Community (LinC) is an educational workshop and training series focused on supporting those interested in community engagement, social justice, democratic engagement, advocacy, activism and philanthropy. Sessions address one or more of the following areas:
Principles and Practice of Ethical Community EngagementDemocratic EngagementLeadership for Social Change
In addition to our LinC Workshop Series, groups can also request individual workshops. For more information, or to submit a request for one of the below workshops, please visit our website: https://ginsberg.umich.edu/linc