Showing events starting from January 1, 2016 up to January 31, 2016

January 22, 2016 - 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM ET

Generally speaking, "management" is getting work done through others." Leadership is creating and sustaining change without crisis. This minicourse explores these concepts in the context of community benefit organizations[CBOs](aka, nonprofits). While CBOs are organizations, and thus share a lot of features with other kinds of organisations (corporate, governmental) they have many elements of unique structure and stricture.They tend to work with "wicked problems"; they have a different governance structure from corporate and governmental organizations; they have a strong sense of mission and purpose, which is highly motivating but also can lead to under-investment in infrastructure both hardware (physical plant, etc) and software (employee training and development)...

Registration for this course is closed. Visit the CE Course Catalog for more offerings.

January 23, 2016 - 9:00 AM to January 24, 2016 2:00 PM ET

An idea that originated from now CASC alumni, DECLARE is a two day retreat that will allow you to dive deeply into thinking about your identities, your social justice work, and how you can work to implement change. You can take DECLARE for one credit toward the diversity cluster, or just participate for fun. All students interested in learning more about the retreat can email [email protected]. 

January 25, 2016 - 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM ET

This course is open to the public and will feature student conversations with faculty.

This speaker for this session will be LEO Lecturer Tony Alvarez.

January 25, 2016 - 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM ET

The event will have guest speakers speaking on the role of social workers during the election season.  Some of the topics they will be presenting on will be:

Money in politics

Barriers to voting

Civic participation

Importance of voting

Election reform

Racial discrimination in voting

Theresa Q. Tran LLMSW, Director of Asian & Pacific Islander American Vote - Michigan

Allan Wachendorfer LLMSW, Director of Public Policy - National Association of Social Workers: Michigan Chapter. 

Food and Refreshments will be provided

January 26, 2016 - 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM ET

The candidates for Dean will be giving public presentations when they are on campus for the second round of interviews. Each of the presentations will take place in the ECC from 4 to 5:30 PM and will be followed by an informal reception.  

The dates of these public presentations are:

Candidate A:  Thursday, 1/21

Candidate B:   Tuesday, 1/26

Candidate C:  Thursday, 1/28

Arrangements are also underway for a fourth candidate to visit the campus in early February.

Information about each candidate will be sent out approximately 2 days before their visit. The public presentations will not be live-streamed, but videos of each will be available after the presentation for faculty members, staff, and students who are unable to attend the sessions.

January 26, 2016 - 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM ET

In this event, we will be having a guest speaker present on the history of the IDs .

Some of the topics and themes discussed will be in realtion to the ID, which include:

Gender variance

Overview of the local IDs

Racialization of the ID Cards

Politics of the photo ID

Geneology of the ID card

Access and exclusion

Snacks and Refreshments will be provided

January 27, 2016 - 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM ET

Students have shared their experiences with racial microaggressions that occur in the classroom, field, and broader society. Many microaggressions continue to go unaddressed. Participants in this workshop will learn what constitutes racial microaggressions, how to recognize them, power differentials in their interpretation, their effect on the academic success and well-being of Black students, and methods of intervention. Attention will be given to the interest faculty members have in creating safe and inclusive classroom environments. The workshop will be knowledge- and skills-based, including case studies, handouts, role-playing, group discussion/breakouts, and videos.

Objectives:

Participants will recognize racial microaggressions and their potential effects on Black Students.

Participants will explain how to intervene when racial microaggressions occur, either by themselves or by another in the classroom.

Agenda:

12:00-12:15pm: Introduction of the history of the topic
12:15-12:45pm: Understanding racial microaggressions
12:45-1:45pm: Intervening when in the presence of racial microaggressions
1:45-2:00pm: Wrap-up and next steps

Presenters:

Leslie Hollingsworth, PhD, LMSW & Phylicia Allen, MSW

Open to all SSW faculty. This session is designated as a professional development opportunity for SSW faculty only. 

(2) free clinical CEUs offered to participants.

Lunch will be served.

RSVP required »

We look forward to your participation! 

Sponsored by the Office of the Associate Dean for Educational Programs.

January 27, 2016 - 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM ET

OSS will be hosting its Student Organization Leadership Training session, which will be a review of the registration process, a discussion of new guidelines/policies, and an opportunity for student orgs. to share best practices with each other. All student organizations should plan to send a representative to this meeting. Please RSVP by Monday, January 25.

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