Edward Ginsberg Center Logo with Block M
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Ginsberg Center’s Community Engagement @ Michigan Series 2025-2026

Ginsberg’s Community Engagement @ Michigan Series for faculty and staff addresses critical topics in community-engaged teaching and learning, research, scholarship, and program/project development. Through seminars and events, this faculty and professional development series supports faculty, staff, administrators, post-docs, and graduate students at U-M who are interested in learning about or further developing community-driven practice. Participants engage with strategies and approaches to develop and sustain community partnerships for research & teaching, prepare students to work with communities, emphasize civic learning across disciplines, develop and refine course-based and program curriculum, and more. 

Offered in Fall and Winter terms. Open to Faculty, Admin/Staff, and Postdocs. Some sessions open to Graduate Students. See workshop descriptions for details.



Classroom Activities for Engaging with Politics, Policy, & Social Issues

Available Seats 30
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Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning

Across the disciplines, we can help our students to build skills for civic and democratic engagement that will serve them throughout their careers and lives. This role can be challenging, however, particularly in politically polarized times. Our goal for this in-person, interactive workshop is to strengthen instructors’ toolkits for incorporating civic skills-building in the classroom and discipline. We’ll explore specific classroom activities for class sessions discussing policy, politics, and social issues, such as deliberative dialogue discussions and conversation cafes. We’ll focus on how to select and design activities well-suited for the specific skills we are seeking to foster during a class period.  


Open to faculty, staff, admin, GSIs, and post-docs. 

This session is offered as part of the Promoting Democracy Teaching Series, co-sponsored by CRLT and Ginsberg Center.

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