Showing events starting from February 28, 2019

September 13, 2024 - 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM ET

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September 13, 2024 - 11:30 AM ET

Join us for the 2024 Michigan Social Work Homecoming & Reunion Celebrations!

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Friday, September 13 Welcome Reception
11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Enjoy light refreshments while you meet and reconnect with fellow alumni, faculty, and students!

Reunion Luncheon
12:30 - 1:30 p.m.

Join Dean Beth Angell for a special Homecoming & Reunion Luncheon.

Networking Reception
1:30 - 2:30 p.m.

Join us for dessert! The traditional School of Social Work Art Tour will be available for those interested.

Saturday, September 14 Michigan vs. Arkansas State
Kickoff at 12 p.m. EST

If you are interested in purchasing tickets in our ticket block, please email Madison Mariles at [email protected]. Tickets are limited. The deadline to purchase tickets in August 16.

September 13, 2024 - 1:30 PM to 2:30 PM ET

Join us for an all-school networking dessert social at 1:30pm. All alumni, donors, faculty, staff and students are welcome to attend the dessert social at 1:30pm in the ECC.

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September 16, 2024 - 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM ET

Please join us for our first CommuniTea of the semester with CASC Advisor and Lecturer, Joe Galura! An graduate of the MSW program, Joe is also a lecturer in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and has developed, implemented and taught service-learning courses in Sociology, and American Culture. His classes, projects and publications draw on work in criminal justice, chemical dependency, community organization, urban schooling and the Filipino American community. Join us to enjoy lunch and learn more about Joe’s journey in social work and social change!

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September 17, 2024 (all day)

The student is encouraged to submit their PVF to allow sufficient time for your review and approval. PVF is due on 09/24/24.

September 18, 2024 - 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM ET

Join a virtual discussion with the editors of Haymarket Book's popular new title Abolition and Social Work: Possibilities, Paradoxes, and the Practice of Community Care, hosted by University of Michigan students, staff, and faculty. This book is "a critical anthology exploring the debates, conundrums, and promising practices around abolition and social work in academia and within impacted communities. Within social work—a profession that has often been complicit in the building and sustaining of the carceral state—abolitionist thinking, movement-building, and radical praxis are shifting the field."

The book's editors, Mimi E. Kim, Cameron W. Rasmussen, and Durrell M. Washington, Sr., share how they came to publish this important text and explore whether and how abolitionist principles and politics can be incorporated into social work. Throughout the chapters, the book invites readers to consider whether it is possible for social work to bolster the work of abolition, the tensions and paradoxes with abolition given the social work profession's legacies and trajectories, and examples of social work praxis rooted in abolitionist principles. 

As abolitionist organizer, educator, and curator Mariame Kaba writes in the foreword, "The promise of social work is often a carceral promise. The state and its representatives look to social workers when cops seem too violent or too expensive—when they need "someone else" to call or "somewhere else" to incarcerate people. Ida Wells-Barnett, though, and the contributors to this book, show that social work can do more than just tape some cushions to the bars. It can work to pull them down."

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September 18, 2024 - 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM ET

We are excited to announce the launch of our inaugural School of Social Work Grand Rounds series this fall. The Grand Rounds are designed to keep social work professionals informed about evolving areas within social justice.

Join Us for the First Grand Rounds Event!

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Exploring Racial Justice Through Immersive Virtual Reality: The 1,000 Cut Journey

Achieving racial justice requires more than intellectual understanding; it demands a profound, visceral grasp of racism that engages both the mind and the body. The 1,000 Cut Journey offers a groundbreaking approach through its Immersive Virtual Reality (IVR) experience, where participants step into the life of Michael Sterling, a Black male character, and navigate the pervasive challenges of racism across childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, within various settings such as the classroom, neighborhood, and workplace.

Designed with white, liberal audiences in mind, the 1,000 Cut Journey merges empirical and theoretical research on multidimensional racism with an immersive narrative. This innovative approach seeks to foster a deeper connection and in turn, enhanced competence and more genuine engagement with racial issues.

In this talk, Dr. Cogburn, co-creator of the 1,000 Cut Journey alongside Jeremy Bailenson from the Stanford University Virtual Human Interaction Lab, will delve into the transdisciplinary process behind creating this IVR experience. She will present initial findings from empirical research conducted with white, graduate-level social work students and discuss the broader implications of these findings. Additionally, Dr. Cogburn will explore future directions for integrating emerging technologies into social science research to further advance our understanding of race and racism.

Join us to discover how immersive technology can transform perspectives and contribute to the ongoing quest for racial justice.

About The Presenter

 Dr. Courtney D. Cogburn is a tenured Associate Professor at Columbia University School of Social Work and a faculty member at the Columbia Population Research Center. Her research employs a transdisciplinary approach to enhance the understanding and measurement of racism, with a particular focus on its impact on racial health inequities. Dr. Cogburn investigates how media and technology can be leveraged to combat racism and address health inequities.

September 18, 2024 - 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM ET

We invite you to become a Community Conversations facilitator! We extend this opportunity to all SSW staff, students, and faculty.

There will be a two-session Community Conversations facilitator training, held on Zoom on September 18 and September 25 from 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM EST. Both sessions are required, along with pre-work to be completed before the first session on Sept 18. The training will equip you with intergroup and restorative dialogue skills, which include a strong anti-racist history and deeply embed PODS into their structure and approach. These skills are applicable in micro-, mezzo-, and macro- social work practice and help to develop all of the nine social work competencies.

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