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DISCOVER YOUR PATH!Resource Navigators offer peer-to-peer wayfinding that helps you pinpoint people, places, resources, and opportunities. Talk to us! On U-M's large, decentralized campus, we can give you "warm" referrals to the teams you need to get things done!

In-person appointments are available on Central Campus at the Michigan League or on North Campus at Pierpont Commons. There are also Zoom options. Please check the details on the appointment listings.


What do you do to get ready? First, please be sure to complete the Intake Form.
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?

Locations/OptionsCentral Campus. Central Campus appointments are in the Michigan League. Check in on the main floor at the Information Desk.North Campus. North Campus appointments are in Pierpont Commons. Check in on the main floor at the Information Desk.Virtual. Virtual appointments are on Zoom. You will receive a link with your registration confirmation.Postings. Appointments are posted on Friday by noon for the coming week, with a variety of locations/types and times available.
AccessibilityIf you use a wheelchair, please note that on your intake form. There are accessible spaces in each building.
Again, what do you do to get ready? Please be sure to complete the Intake Form. We prepare our responses based on your inquiry!Please allow at least TWO HOURS between when you make an appointment and the actual appointment time. This allows time for personalized research.



ResNav Bios
You can meet with any ResNav with an appointment that fits your schedule OR check out their studies/interests.Grad Students
Lorna. P2 College of Pharmacy. Undergrad Pharmaceutical Science. (U-M Grad & Undergrad student.) Hobbies: reading, running, traveling.

Maddie. School of Information (Bachelors, enrolled in Masters). What the F Magazine. CMYK Design. VOID Tech Consulting. (U-M Grad & Undergrad Student.) Hobbies: drawing, painting, traveling, hiking, trying new restaurants.
Undergrad Students
Nancy. LSA Organizational Studies & Philosophy, Politics & Economics. Hobbies: exploring NYC (her home), boba tea, and trying new foods/restaurants

Pearl. Taubman School of Architecture. Real Estate Development and Dance Minors. Thai Student Association. Asia Business Conference. Hobbies: boba, gym, R&B music.

Rocco. LSA Economics. Business Professionals of America. Hobbies: lifting, playing tennis, reading.

Ronen. LSA Economics. Michigan Hillel. Environmental Consulting Org U-M.

To promote safety and skills in the Shop, all users must receive hands-on Proficiency Training for each piece of equipment they wish to use.
If you are new to the A&A Shop, you're in the right place! Sign up for Woodshop Basics to get access to the six most commonly used machines (miter saw, radial arm saw, band saws, drill press, sanders, and scroll saw).
If you had access to the Shop previous to Fall 2023, you may be qualified for Refresher Proficiency Training instead. Learn more on the A&A Shop site here.
For Proficiency Training on less commonly used equipment, like the metal lathe or vacuum former, contact Shop staff at aashopinfo@umich.edu.

The IGR office will be open this weekend for finals! Come to study with us :)

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.

Responsible conduct of research (RCR) is defined as the practice of scientific investigation with integrity (NIH, NOT-OD-10-019). Learning about the responsible conduct of research is an essential component of research education and training. This course is designed to provide biomedical science graduate students and postdoctoral scholars an "awareness and application of established professional norms and ethical principles in the performance of all activities related to scientific research" (NIH, NOT-OD-10-019). Course materials include readings, videos, and case studies. Discussions will occur in small-group sessions offered at many times throughout the semester with a faculty member. This course will comply with the National Institutes of Health, requiring a minimum of eight hours of face-to-face instruction in the responsible conduct of research.

The International Center is excited to celebrate the academic achievement of our international graduates this December with an International Student Graduation Cord! These blue and green cords are only available to international students and symbolize their significant global contributions to our campus, both in and out of the classroom. There is no charge for the graduation cord.
Cords are available to any student graduating with their degree in December 2023. International graduates can pick up their cord at the International Center the week of December 11. Official pickup times are listed under the event.

TO: UMSI Students, Staff and Faculty

FROM: Beth Yakel, Interim Dean

In response to the concerns raised in our community related to the Islamophobic remarks made by one of UMSI’s advisory board members directed at a student protestor in mid-October, and the related aftermath, we have organized a series of Listening Circles for members of the UMSI community. The purpose of the Listening Circles is to better understand the ways that members of our community have been directly and/or indirectly impacted, individually and collectively. We intend for the Listening Circles to create meaningful space for members of our community to be heard in order to uncover the range of feelings and needs that remain in our community. We believe that understanding and recognizing underlying needs will provide a starting point for community repair.

The circles are scheduled for 90 minutes each and will take place early-mid December. We will offer circles for UMSI PhD students, Masters and BSI students, and for staff and faculty members. The Circles will be led by experienced facilitators from the UM Adaptable Resolution Program out of the Equity, Civil Rights, and Title IX office (ECRT) as well as the UM Office of Student Conflict Resolution (OSCR).

Registration Information
Registration for Circles is limited to support a small group discussion format. Please sign up only if you know you can attend and are highly motivated to participate in this facilitated conversation.

If you have questions, the FAQ below may be helpful. You may also reach out to Devon Keen, Director of Inclusion, Equity and Outreach (devaca@umich.edu), or Judy Schabel, Assistant Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (jmlawson@umich.edu).
FAQ
What is a circle? Circles are voluntary, highly structured processes rooted in indigenous practices, including those of the Anishinaabek, and restorative practices that explore harm and its repair by centering the needs of those who were harmed. Circles provide an opportunity for community members to come together to address harmful behavior in a process that explores harms, needs, and a path toward accountability and repair.

How will we use a circle? The circle processes designed for UMSI provide a starting point for community repair. These circles will allow UMSI community members space to express the impact of events, actions, and inactions, as well as to express what support is needed. We’ll spend most of our time listening to experiences and impacts and will use the Circle as the first step for identifying needs and proposing opportunities for repair.

How is a Circle different from a Town Hall?
This is very different from a town hall, which is typically led in an auditorium with a leader in front of the room taking questions from a very large audience. In a Listening Circle, participants are seated in a circle facing one another, and there is no “head” of the room. The emphasis is on providing space for everyone present to be able to share and be heard. The number of people who can participate in a Listening Circle is smaller than the number of people who might participate (typically silently) in a Town Hall, in order to ensure that all who are present have time to speak and be heard. Rather than an emphasis on a leader answering questions as in a Town Hall, the emphasis in a Listening Circle is to carefully and thoughtfully listen to everyone in the circle who would like to share. Thus, we will have a limit on the number of people who can register for the Circles given the number of available facilitators for small discussion groups.

Who will be there from UMSI Leadership?
The Dean and/or other members of the UMSI Leadership Team (which includes the Associate Deans, Assistant Dean and Chief of Staff) will be present in each circle in order to hear the concerns expressed by the community. We felt it important to include members of the Leadership Team given that Dean Yakel’s term as dean of UMSI ends in December, and a new Dean will be joining the School in January.

What good is "listening" when action is needed?
A summary of concerns expressed by circle participants will be shared with UMSI’s Leadership Team after each circle’s conclusion, with the consent and consensus of each circle’s participants. UMSI Leadership will then undertake reparative steps and/or actions in order to address the concerns raised in the circles. There may be some steps that are decided before the winter break, but more likely, the new UMSI Dean will be briefed and included in decisions about further follow-up and reparative efforts by UMSI.

This customized training will address Bystander Intervention, drawing from the U-M Change It Up model, as well as providing support for individuals following an encounter.
This workshop is split into two 90-minute sessions, for a total of three hours. Please register for both Part I and Part II to complete the full workshop. Both will be in person.
Part I of this training will review university policies related to harassment and discrimination, highlight best practices for bystander intervention, and identify ways in which to support individuals following an incident.
Part II of this training will provide participants with opportunities to apply the information learned in Part I using case studies.
These sessions will be led by staff from Prevention Education, Assistance & Resources (PEAR), but please contact the LSA DEI Office with questions or accomodations requests (lsa-dei-office@umich.edu).

Audience: This workshop is limited to LSA employees only, which includes staff, faculty, and graduate and undergraduate student employees. External to LSA University employees may be considered if space is allowed. If you are outside LSA, your registration may be removed without warning to accommodate LSA employees. Thank you for understanding.
For questions or requests for accommodations, please contact our office (lsa-dei-office@umich.edu) as soon as possible. Accommodation requests are generally easy to provide, but may require some time to accomplish, so advance notice is appreciated.

We're excited to host another ADVANCE/RISE/STRIDE Holiday Party this year! Join us for a holiday brunch followed by the highly anticipated White Elephant Gift Exchange.*

Please join us for any portion of the celebration you'd like to.

11:00 am | Brunch and brief remarks

11:45 am | White Elephant begins

*A white elephant gift exchange is a popular holiday tradition. Everyone brings one wrapped gift to contribute to the common pool. Re-gifting is encouraged! Got something you don't want anymore? Or never wanted in the first place? That makes it a perfect white elephant gift!

PaWWs and Relax brings you Hawkeye the Wellness Dog!

New name, same great fur! The PaWWs and Relax program is happy to bring you Hawkeye, the Alaskan Malamute for a weekly opportunity to take a step back, take a deep breath and … relax. Hawkeye is a registered therapy dog through Therapaws and he is also a working sled dog who does agility, obedience, and a few adorable tricks.

Locations may vary from week to week so check out our Wolverine Wellness Instagram page (@wolverinewellness) for exact details or click on a date and come see us across campus.

Thanks and don't forget to PaWWs today!

Microaggressions are verbal, behavioral, or environmental slights. They can be overt, subtle or unintentional, and lead to significant consequences.
In this session, participants will:
Learn about "microaggressions" and other concepts relevant to this topicObtain an understanding of the social and psychological impacts of microaggressionsEngage in activities and dialogue to unveil microaggressions within the workplaceValidate experiences with microaggressionsIt is recommended that participants complete a course on Implicit Bias before taking this session.

Audience: This workshop is limited to LSA employees only, which includes staff, faculty, and graduate and undergraduate student employees. External to LSA University employees may be considered if space is allowed. If you are outside LSA, your registration may be removed without warning to accommodate LSA employees. Thank you for understanding.
For questions or requests for accommodations, please contact our office (lsa-dei-office@umich.edu) as soon as possible. Accommodation requests are generally easy to provide, but may require some time to accomplish, so advance notice is appreciated.

This instructor-led, hands-on training session covers the process of preparing and submitting proposals using the eResearch Proposal Management (eRPM) system, including Grants.gov to create and edit a Proposal Approval Form (PAF).

A discussion following the Center for Academic Innovation Event, "Transforming Student-Focused Program Operations With Artificial Intelligence". Attendees will engage in good conversation about the event, and build ideas based on the UM tools on how we can use these for student success in advising, student services, etc.

Take a study break (aka "paws") to pet the dogs from Therapaws of Michigan! There will be food, arts & crafts, and some free goodies for grabs. This event is open to LSA undergraduate students.

The Graduate Society of Women Engineers hosts events to help female graduate engineers thrive socially, academically, and professionally. For more information, visit our website and enter your email address to start receiving GradSWE's weekly event announcements.

Join us for the UMPDA Coffee Hour. There will be free coffee and bagels available and the chance to network with fellow postdocs before the holiday break. Limited swag will be available so if you missed on the swag during NPAW , this your time to get some. Feel free to contact Timi (adediran@umich.edu) if you have any questions or concerns.

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.

Business meeting with the 19 affiliated fraternities at the University of Michigan.

The International Center is excited to virtually meet new international students who will begin their studies in Winter 2024!


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 OGPS Health & Wellness for a weekly meditation sit from 12:30-1:00pm every Thursday. This informal, lightly-guided practice can offer you the space to develop your mindfulness skills and increase your ability to manage stress and improve coping.
Whether you're new to meditation or a regular practitioner, all are welcome. Open to all OGPS trainees, staff, and faculty. You are welcome to attend weekly or drop-in as your schedule allows. Registration is not required to attend.

Want to learn more about the generative AI services that U-M Information & Technology Services offers? Want to learn how you can leverage it to help with your coursework, emails, presentations, daily life, or hear how others may be using these tools? Come to our open support hours or "office hours" through October! Our service team will walk you through how and when to use U-M GPT and U-M Maizey.



U-M GPT is a tool that provides access to popular hosted AI models such as Azure OpenAI and U-M hosted open-source large language models.

U-M Maizey is a tool that allows U-M faculty, staff, and students to enrich their GenAI experience based on a custom dataset they provide.

Learn more: https://its.umich.edu/computing/ai/support

This event is open to active faculty, students, and staff or sponsored affiliates.

Register to attend on Zoom: https://myumi.ch/VMjrb

Panel Description:

The DISCO Network is a collaborative, intergenerational research group of scholars dedicated to analyzing digital technology, race, disability, sexuality, and gender. The network comprises of six laboratories across five universities (University of Michigan, Northwestern University, The University of Maryland-College Park, Stony Brook University, Georgia Institute of Technology), each of which stands alone and a network node to write, talk, and think about the past, present, and future of technology, Blackness, Asianness, disability, and liberation. The DISCO Network is supported by the Mellon Foundation.

Our relationship with technology is often transactional, extractive, and exploitative, and this is especially true for people of color and disabled people. In Techno-skepticism: Between Possibility and Refusal, the DISCO Network traces the lineages of contemporary A.I.-generated Black bodies that sing, speak, and speak back to (and of) us, algorithmically generated medical diagnoses that decide who or what is disabled and how we ought to be treated, and the uses of digital nostalgia to belatedly and selective re-member a platform history without people of color. While it might seem contrary, naive, or at worst straight up self-destructive for Black, disabled, Asian, and other people who’ve been on the wrong side of technology for so long to refuse to participate in what’s been called the Golden Age of A.I., in this book we argue for a critical position between possibility and refusal. Though refusal is an especially precious space of possibility, particularly for those who have historically not been given the option to say no, to evade, or to log off, people of color and disabled people have long navigated this space between saying yes and saying no to the newest technologies in ways that can empower and energize our awareness of the possibilities skepticism can create.

Technoskepticism is a topical, and timely multi-authored monograph written by an intergenerational group of 14 DISCO Network researchers and artists (David Adelman, André Brock, Aaron Dial, Stephanie Dinkins, Rayvon Fouché, Huan He, Jeff Nagy, Lisa Nakamura, Catherine Knight Steele, Rianna Walcott, Kevin Winstead, Josie Williams, Remi Yergeau, and Lida Zeitlin-Wu) This book offers a critical road map of the contemporary digital landscape from the point of view of disabled and POC technology scholars, arguing for the concept of ‘technoskepticism’ as a response to our current inflection point in regards to race relations, disability history and care activism in relation to technology use.

Nine co-authors of Technoskepticism, Lisa Nakamura, Rayvon Fouché, Remi Yergeau, André Brock, Catherine Knight Steele, Stephanie Dinkins, Kevin Winstead, Rianna Walcott, and Jeff Nagy, will be in conversation about this exciting new manuscript.

Register to attend on Zoom: https://myumi.ch/VMjrb

Panelists:

Lisa Nakamura (she/her) is the Gwendolyn Calvert Baker Collegiate Professor in the Department of American Culture, and the founding Director of the Digital Studies Institute, at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Since 1994, Nakamura has written books and articles on digital bodies, race, and gender in online environments, on toxicity in video game culture, and the many reasons that Internet research needs ethnic and gender studies. These books include, Race After the Internet (co-edited with Peter Chow-White, Routledge, 2011); Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet (Minnesota, 2007); Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet (Routledge, 2002); and Race in Cyberspace (co-edited with Beth Kolko and Gil Rodman, Routledge, 2000). In November 2019, Nakamura gave a TED NYC talk about her research called “The Internet is a Trash Fire. Here’s How to Fix It.”

Rayvon Fouché (he/him) is a Professor of Communication Studies at the Medill School of Journalism, Media, and Integrative Marketing Communications at Northwestern University. His scholarship on invention and innovation explores the multiple intersections and relationships between cultural representation, racial identification, and technoscientific design. He has authored or edited Black Inventors in the Age of Segregation (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003), Appropriating Technology: Vernacular Science and Social Power (Minnesota, 2004), Technology Studies (Sage Publications, 2008), the 4th Edition of the Handbook of Science & Technology Studies (MIT Press, 2016), and Game Changer: The Technoscientific Revolution in Sports (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017).

Stephanie Dinkins (she/they) is a transmedia artist who creates platforms for dialog about race, gender, aging, and our future histories. Dinkins’ art practice employs emerging technologies, documentary practices, and social collaboration toward equity and community sovereignty. She is particularly driven to work with communities of color to co-create more equitable, values grounded social and technological ecosystems. Dinkins exhibits and publicly advocates for equitable AI internationally. Her work has been generously supported by fellowships, grants, and residencies from United States Artist, The Knight Foundation, Berggruen Institute, Onassis Foundation, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, Creative Capital, Sundance New Frontiers Story Lab, Eyebeam, Data & Society, Pioneer Works, NEW INC, and The Laundromat Project. Dinkins is a professor at Stony Brook University where she holds the Kusama Endowed Professorship in Art.

André Brock (he/him) is an Associate Professor of Media Studies at Georgia Tech. He writes on Western technoculture, Black technoculture, and digital media. His scholarship examines Black and white representations in social media, video games, weblogs, and other digital media. He has also published influential research on digital research methods. His first book, titled Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures, was published with NYU Press in 2020 and theorizes Black everyday lives mediated by networked technologies.

Remi Yergeau (they/them) is Associate Professor of Digital Studies and English, and Associate Director of the Digital Studies Institute, at the University of Michigan. Their book, Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness, was awarded the 2017 MLA First Book Prize, the 2019 CCCC Lavender Rhetorics Book Award for Excellence in Queer Scholarship, and the 2019 Rhetoric Society of America Book Award. They are currently at work on a second book project about disability, digital rhetoric, surveillance, and (a)sociality, tentatively titled Crip Data. Active in the neurodiversity movement, they have previously served on the boards of the Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) and the Autism National Committee (AutCom).

Catherine Knight Steele (she/her) is an Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Maryland - College Park where she serves as the Director of the Black Communication and Technology Lab. Her research focus is race, gender and media with specific focus on Black culture and discourse and digital communication. She examines representations of marginalized communities in the media and how groups resist oppression and utilize online technology to create spaces of community. Her book Digital Black Feminism (NYU, 2021), examines the relationship between Black women and technology as a centuries-long gendered and raced project in the U.S. Using the virtual beauty shop as a metaphor, Digital Black Feminism walks readers through the technical skill, communicative expertise, and entrepreneurial acumen of Black women’s labor—born of survival strategies and economic necessity—both on and offline.

Kevin Winstead (he/him) is an Assistant Professor of Critical Media, Critical Race, and AI Studies within the African American Studies and Sociology Department at the University of Florida. His research draws on intersectionality, social activism, and digital media, with specific attention to transglobal disinformation. He has previously served as a DISCO Network Fellow at the PREACH Lab at Georgia Institute of Technology and CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow with the Center for Black Digital Research at Pennsylvania State University.

Jeff Nagy (he/him) is a historian of computing whose research focuses on exchanges between computing and the behavioral sciences from World War II to the present. He holds a PhD in Communication from Stanford University, where his dissertation, “Watching Feeling: Emotional Data from Cybernetics to Social Media,” told the story of how emotion was made computable. Other interests include disability in the history of science and technology, the social integration of emerging technologies, and the history and future of computer-mediated labor. His research has appeared in Technology & Culture, New Media & Society, and elsewhere.

Rianna Walcott (she/her) is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Black Communication and Technology Lab in the Department of Communication at the University of Maryland. Her PhD research focuses on Black British identity presentation in social media spaces. By taking a mixed-methods approach to investigating Black British social media usage, Rianna incorporates interviews and discourse analysis across various sites in order to examine digital communities, the circumstances under which they are created, and the constraints they face. This research investigates if and how discourse varies in different contexts with different demographics, and how social network services — and their attendant harms — impact how Black users express themselves.

Accessibility Statement:
We want to make our events accessible to all participants. CART services will be provided. If you anticipate needing accommodations to participate, please email Maddie Agne, DISCO Network Administrative Assistant, at maagne@umich.edu. Please note that some accommodations must be arranged in advance and we encourage you to contact us as soon as possible.

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!

Building off the workshops on Implicit Bias and Microaggressions, participants will turn their attention to strategies to address bias in the workplace.
Using case studies and through facilitated discussions, participants in this session will:
Discuss and apply techniques to combat microaggressions, as a bystander or as a recipientConsider examples of institutional bias and strategies to disrupt themIdentify methods to receive feedbackLanguage on audience and length are the same as other workshopsLength: 2 hours
Audience: This workshop is limited to LSA employees only, which includes staff, faculty, and graduate and undergraduate student employees. External to LSA University employees may be considered if space is allowed. If you are outside LSA, your registration may be removed without warning to accommodate LSA employees. Thank you for understanding.
For questions or requests for accommodations, please contact our office (lsa-dei-office@umich.edu) as soon as possible. Accommodation requests are generally easy to provide, but may require some time to accomplish, so advance notice is appreciated.

Your dedication and hard work are the backbone of our community, and your voice is vital as we embark on the DEI 2.0 Strategic Plan. Your experiences and insights are invaluable in shaping a more inclusive and equitable Michigan Engineering community. By participating, you can help influence our immediate priorities and long-term commitment to growth. We appreciate your essential role in our community and look forward to hearing your valuable input. Let's work together to build a brighter future.
In order to facilitate a robust and inclusive dialogue, we’re limiting each session to a maximum of 20 participants. This setting will allow for meaningful exchanges, fostering a collaborative environment. Given the limited slots, we encourage timely registration, and for those who may not be able to register, a waitlist will be available to accommodate as many participants as possible.
Prior to attending a virtual listening session, please review the DEI 2.0 Strategic Plan as it relates to your role on campus. Your insights and perspectives are essential, and we look forward to the impactful discussion ahead!
CART services will be available for all community listening sessions. For other accommodations, please contact the Office of Culture, Community and Equity (OCCE) at occe-admin@umich.edu.

This program is offered twice a year for U-M Student Life staff free of charge. Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a terrific tool for helping people change behavior. It's especially helpful for medical staff (lifestyle changes and medication adherence) and therapists/counselors for behavior change to support mental health. Its use is being expanded to Student Life advisers, supervisors and more. Learn basic, foundational skills for MI, including spirit (Compassion, Acceptance, Partnership, Evocation), OARS (open questions, affirmations, reflections, summaries), identifying and responding to change talk and a little on discord (if there is time). Lots of practice in "real plays" (you get to work on your own behavior changes that you are ambivalent about--so bring a couple behavior changes you'd like to change! While you won't be an expert at MI when you are done, you will be able to start the practice, move forward in your skills, know how to improve and maybe even want to learn more! Please only register if you can attend all of the training dates, as each day builds on prior sessions. All Fridays:

* Jan 5, 8:30-5, location University Health Service (UHS), Meeting Rooms 1&2

* Jan 12, 8:30-12:30, UHS, Meeting Rooms 1&2

* Jan 19, 8:30-12:30,UHS, Meeting Rooms 1&2

* Jan 26, 8:30-12:30,UHS, Meeting Rooms 1&2

#SoYF is Resource Navigator's new monthly event to put a smile on your face. As part of the U-M Well-being Collective, ResNavs are dedicated to student wellness, which includes being able to find what you need, when you need it! Looking for spaces, places, and people on campus? Talk to us. We can help. (Appts at link/in Bio.)

Winter Semester Peer Mentor Facilitation Meetings

The LSA International Internship program, coordinated through the CGIS office, involves an 8+ week placement and a 3-credit (in-residence) internship seminar that is taken concurrently.
CGIS has partnered with four internship provider organizations that maintain portfolios of placements around the world. These partners will guide you through the process of identifying and applying to appropriate internships, will provide logistical support while you are on site, will arrange for cultural and educational opportunities to complement your internship, will teach the 3-credit seminar you will take, and will provide support in case of any medical issues or other situations that might arise.
Please join CGIS Advisor, Rachel Reuter for an info session to learn more about each of these partner organizations, the type of internships they specialize in, and the application process!

Thursday, January 11, 4:30 - 5pm (Info Session)
Tuesday, January 30, 3 - 4pm (Group Advising)
Application Deadline: February 1, 2024

CEA CAPA’s internship program is designed to further your personal career development and refine the career competencies that employers seek most in new hires. The certified career coaches at CEA CAPA will work with you one-on-one to help you define your career goals and place you in an internship in the field of your choice!
Join representatives from CEA CAPA and your CGIS advisor to learn more about this internship opportunity, the application process, and the next steps.

Thursday, January 11, 5 - 6pm (Info Session)
Application Deadline: February 1, 2024

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.

Join us for an in-person interactive session on race and racism in America. Learn about the 5 ineffective strategies commonplace when race becomes the topic of conversation. This session aims to bring awareness, so you can avoid using these ineffective strategies.

The "Engaged Mentoring" series is for faculty mentors of research trainees at any stage of training. This program is an evidence-based, interactive approach designed to elevate mentoring skills for engaging in productive, culturally responsive research mentoring relationships. The program aims to accelerate the process of becoming an effective research mentor by providing mentors with an intellectual framework, an opportunity to experiment with various methods, and a forum in which to solve mentoring dilemmas with the help of their peers. By the end of the program, mentors will have articulated their style and philosophy of mentoring and have a toolbox of strategies for approaching difficult mentoring situations. These skills will support the success of both mentors and mentees, and it is responsive to the NIGMS guidelines regarding the preparation of mentors involved in training grants.


The OGPS Engaged Mentoring Series, focuses on the five themes below (all within the context of fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion). To learn more about the five themes, visit our Canvas Site:

1. Establishing Effective Mentoring/Mentee Relationships

2. Aligning Expectations Using Mentoring Plans

3. Managing Mental Health in the Mentoring Relationship

4. Approaching Difficult Conversations

5. Managing Tension and Conflict

The 5 themes are presented in two different formats:
Option A: Two half-day Workshop series. Each session is 4hrs, and you must attend both sessions in order to receive a certificate of completion from OGPS.
Option B: 1-day Retreat. The session is 8hrs, and you must attend the entire session to receive a certificate of completion from OGPS.

We will continue to populate this site with more program offering dates throughout the year.

We are embarking on an exciting journey with the launch of our Michigan Engineering DEI 2.0 Strategic Plan. As we set our course for the future, you are invited to participate in a virtual community listening session. Your unique experiences, innovative ideas and valuable perspectives are pivotal in cultivating an educational, research, service and work environment that provides opportunities for every member of our community to thrive.
In order to facilitate a robust and inclusive dialogue, we’re limiting each session to a maximum of 20 participants. This setting will allow for meaningful exchanges, fostering a collaborative environment. Given the limited slots, we encourage timely registration, and for those who may not be able to register, a waitlist will be available to accommodate as many participants as possible.
Prior to attending a virtual listening session, please review the DEI 2.0 Strategic Plan as it relates to your role on campus. Your insights and perspectives are essential, and we look forward to the impactful discussion ahead!

CART services will be available for all community listening sessions. For other accommodations, please contact the Office of Culture, Community and Equity (OCCE) at occe-admin@umich.edu.

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.

Rackham program staff and faculty are invited to attend the Rackham Merit Fellowship virtual information session where we will discuss award eligibility, review the award process, and answer any questions you have about the administration of the fellowship. Whether or not you attend the information session, we encourage you to look at the program website or contact the Rackham PACE team (rackham-pace@umich.edu; 734-615-5670) with any questions. Zoom meeting details will be provided after registration.

What is OrgBasics? OrgBasics is a series of workshops that gather information and resources and make them available to student organizations through guest presentations and/or activities. The goal is to consolidate these resources for student orgs to access more easily, as they’re the necessities! Come learn the “Basics” of running a successful organization!
We have the following OrgBasics workshops planned for Winter 2024:

January 16th - Smooth Sailing: Navigating Tricky Talks and Conflict in Organizations 🌊

January 23rd - Funding

February 20th - **TBD**
March 26th - Leadership Transition

April 9th - Recruiting and Retention?

Learn more about the Hydrogen Grand Challenge.

You have completed all of your required virtual training for University Unions. The last thing for you to do is to register for a New Student Employee Kick Off session which will be offered two times per semester.
These sessions are an opportunity for new student employees to:


Gain new connections with student staff in other departments;

Identify at least 2 NACE Career Readiness Competencies they will gain in their position;

Consider the role identity plays in delivering customer service and working with others.

Please select ONE session that best fits within your schedule.

This session is MANDATORY for all UU/CES Student employees.

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 human resources 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 Postdoctoral Association.


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

As we chart a path to a more inclusive and diverse Michigan Engineering community, your participation in our community listening sessions is pivotal. Your expertise and experiences are invaluable in shaping the academic and research landscape of our institution, affecting every aspect of our mission, including research, teaching and service. Your insights, as educators and leaders, will guide our future in these critical domains.
In order to facilitate a robust and inclusive dialogue, we’re limiting each session to a maximum of 20 participants. This setting will allow for meaningful exchanges, fostering a collaborative environment. Given the limited slots, we encourage timely registration, and for those who may not be able to register, a waitlist will be available to accommodate as many participants as possible.
Prior to attending a virtual listening session, please review the DEI 2.0 Strategic Plan as it relates to your role on campus. Your insights and perspectives are essential, and we look forward to the impactful discussion ahead!
CART services will be available for all community listening sessions. For other accommodations, please contact the Office of Culture, Community and Equity (OCCE) at occe-admin@umich.edu.

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)

Many of us are committed to DEI and accept the extensive evidence from scholarly studies in psychology and neuroscience demonstrating that we all have unconscious biases that affect our interactions with others. In this interactive workshop, participants will:
Gain knowledge of societal biases and self-awareness of their unconscious biasesDevelop strategies to advocate for inclusion in light of unconscious bias


In preparation for this workshop, please plan to take the Implicit Association Test (IAT) from Project Implicit. When you access the hyperlink, there will be multiple IAT’s to choose from. For the purpose of this workshop, please choose the IAT for both skin tone and weight. Additionally, you are welcome to take any other tests that you are interested in. Each IAT should take approximately 10 minutes to complete, so please give yourself approximately 20 minutes to complete this required pre-work for the workshop.