Showing events starting from February 1, 2016 up to February 29, 2016

February 13, 2016 - 9:00am to 5:00pm

Interested in learning more about Detroit? Curious about the role of innovation, entrepreneurship and industry in social change work in Detroit? Join students from across the University as we engage with the city through dialogue with community members and activists, explore city businesses and organizations, eat delicious, locally catered food, and learn more about Detroit. *Note, this trip includes some walking. Please contact amishkin@umich.edu with questions about accessibility. 
Email cascminor@umich.edu to learn more about the trip.

February 15, 2016 - 12:00pm to 2:00pm

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

This speaker for this session will be Professor and Associate Dean of Social Work Jorge Delva.

February 15, 2016 - 7:00pm

The Office of Greek Life, Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs, and the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies will be hosting Mr. Lawrence Ross as a guest lecturer. 

Ross is the author of several books about African American culture – namely The Divine Nine: History of African American Fraternities and Sororities – and he will be coming to the University of Michigan to discuss the research found in his new book Blackballed: The Black and White Politics of Race on Americas Campuses. This interactive and multimedia lecture will bring light to commentary about campus race relations across America, as told by the experiences of students of color at several predominant institutions.

The event will take place on Monday, February 15, 2016 at 7pm in the Michigan League Ballroom. It is FREE and open to the public! Copies of his book will be sold and autographed after the lecture. It is also an official part of the University of Michigan MLK Symposium.

February 16, 2016 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm

Organizations, institutions, and individuals are at their best when gratitude, mindfulness, positivity, and strengths are valued. A special interest group (SIG) is interested in meeting to explore ways to create a more positive, transformative, hopeful, and empowered environment for all SSW community members - students, faculty, and staff. We are interested in meeting with like-minded individuals to work toward this goal!

Are you interested in getting involved in the SSW?

Do you enjoy talking about the culture, climate, and narratives of the spaces you find yourself in?

Do you appreciate strengths-based projects, initiatives, and environments?

Do you wish to create intentional learning spaces?

Are you interested in strengthening community within the SSW?

Join this new special interest group at the U-M SSW! This SIG was formed in response to students, faculty, and staff voicing vibrant ideas for making the SSW a more strengths-based, resilient, compassionate, and connected space. A place where we focus on deficits AND strengths; challenging realities AND hope; ideas AND action.

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Lunch will be provided! Please RSVP so that we may have an accurate count for lunch.

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This SIG is co-sponsored by the Office of Student Services, the Office of the Associate Dean for Educational Programs, and the Leadership in Community Benefit Organizations program. 

February 16, 2016 - 1:30pm to 4:30pm

FAMILIES, RELIGION, AND AGING:  RESULTS FROM A 35-YEAR STUDY

How different are millennials from their grandparents in religion?  How are religious values passed down across generations in America today—if at all?  In this lecture, Professor Vern L. Bengtson will address these questions from his 35-year study of 400 multi-generation families.  His book based on this project, “Families and Faith:  How Religion Is (and Isn’t) Passed Down Across Generations” will also be discussed.

Event is complimentary. Registration is required.

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February 17, 2016 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Come learn the best ways about applying for federal jobs and how to increase your changes of getting your application noticed.

Janice Williams Miller, Program on Leadership in Community Benefit Organizations, and Michelle Woods, Director of Career Services, are presenters.

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February 17, 2016 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm

The School of Social Work Dean's Initiative on TBLG Matters is proud to announce the first of two lunch events this semester exploring and discussing the intersection of TBLG Identity and Christianity! 

The Dean's Initiative will be hosting the TBLG+Christianity Ministry Panel Luncheon on Wednesday, February 17th from Noon-1:30PM in Room B780 of the School of Social Work Building. 

*Lunch will be provided*

With Ministry panelists Jonathan Vanderbeck (MSW '16 and M.Div '16) and Reid Hamilton (Chaplain of Canterbury House), we will deconstruct the relationship and history between conservative Christianity and heterosexism, as well as explore alternative narratives on the relationship between Christianity and queerness.

Panelists

More on Jonathan: Seminarian Jonathan Vanderbeck (he/him/his) is currently pursuing degrees from Western Theological Seminary in Holland, MI (M.Div) and the University of Michigan School of Social Work (M.S.W.), and seeking ordination in the Reformed Church in America (RCA) as the first openly gay candidate for ministry, anticipating ordination in May 2016. Jonathan identifies as a Korean-adopted person-of-color, and is passionate about studying intersectionality between Korean and LGBTQ identities, developing a theology of queer liberation in the realm of Reformed Calvinism, and how to make the best cocktail of vodka, gin, and white tears.

More on Reid: Reid Hamilton is the Chaplain of Canterbury House because he loves everything the University environment has to offer, from bright and interesting people to ivy-covered libraries to smoky dives. Poet, musician and scholar, he is most interested in things he has not seen before. Before becoming a priest in 1998, Reid jumped out of airplanes, practiced law, got married, got divorced, and got married again – permanently this time! Reid has two children and has spent nearly half of his life in one school or another. He is passionately committed to justice and civil rights. His wife, Deb (originally from Detroit), also loves music and social activism. Reid and Deb enjoy cooking together and conducting bold culinary experiments on their friends. Born in Joplin, Missouri, Reid has lived in Nashville, in North Carolina, in Atlanta and Kansas City before at last making his way north. In his life as a priest he has served as Assistant Rector of St. Paul’s Church, Kansas City, Missouri, and as Rector of Christ Church in Kent, Ohio – home of Kent State University – where he encouraged a parish-based campus ministry.

February 17, 2016 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm

Join us to discuss upcoming events and initiatives.