Student Life Spotlight 2025 View Other Sessions

Since its inception in 1989, the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity (NCORE) has become a leading forum for higher education professional development to advance access and opportunity. Join Nicole Banks and Liliana Bravo for an overview of the NCORE 2025 experience and gain insights into the conference’s unwavering commitment and resilience despite the challenges posed by the current anti-DEI climate.

Paul 'The Ripples Guy' Wesselmann provided both the opening key note as well as two other conference sessions, focused on resilience that felt both very timely and very applicable to the work done in Student Life. This will be a summary of the high points included in those three sessions, including slides that he has shared with us.

In September 2021, the University of Michigan joined seven other U.S. universities in adopting the Okanagan Charter, pledging a commitment to take a holistic and sustainable approach to becoming a health-promoting university.  The Well-being Collective at the University of Michigan is a collaborative effort focused on making U-M a better place to live, work and learn for our students, faculty and staff by implementing a system-wide approach to supporting well-being across our campus.  Participants will learn more about the Okanagan Charter and the Two Calls to Action in order to become a Health-Promoting University.  Additionally, participants will have the opportunity to identify University-specific priorities to share with the Well-being Collective for consideration.