Summer 2008 SPH Faculty and Staff Workshops

To RSVP for these workshops, please check the box next to each workshop you will attend, fill in your name, title, and e-mail address below, and click the RSVP button. For more information, contact Sha' Duncan-Smith at tesdun@umich.edu

Recent Workshops

What's It Like to Live on Welfare?

Friday, June 27, 2008, 1:00-4:00 p.m., 1680 Crossroads, SPH
Experience the stressors and discover the skills necessary to live within the welfare system in a 3-hour experiental workshop called the "Welfare Simulation." Sponsored by the Interfaith Council for Peace & Justice, the SPH Summer Enrichment Program, and the SPH Office of Academic Affairs Diversity Initiatives.

Please enter the following information before clicking the RSVP button

Your Name:
Your E-mail Address:
Your Job Title:
Your SPH Department:

The workshop series is sponsored by the UM SPH Office of Academic Affairs Diversity Initiatives and Academic Support and the UM SPH Diversity Task Force.

New: A Native View on Health

Spero M. Manson, Ph.D. (Pembina Chippewa), spoke in Ann Arbor on January 21 as part of the 2008 University of Michigan Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Symposium. He is widely recognized as the foremost authority on American Indian and Alaska Native health, with special emphasis on alcohol, substance abuse, and mental health. Hear his professional and personal views (75-minute Windows Media file with 6-minute intro, or click play arrow above) on major health issues facing American Indian and Alaska Native people, including:

post-traumatic stress disorder
diabetes and community interventions
building capacity.

More information on Dr. Manson and this Health Sciences program.

Be a Part of the Diversity Discussion

“We know that diversity makes us a better university – better for learning, for teaching, and for conducting research.”

--Mary Sue Coleman
President, University of Michigan

If you are a student looking into a career in public health, please consider the University of Michigan. Learn more about our programs.

If you would like to comment on this website or issues it covers, please send an e-mail to sph.communications@umich.edu. Let us know if you want your comment posted for the public on this page, or if you'd prefer a personal response.

More from Mary Sue Coleman:

Welcome to the University of Michigan, one of our country’s great public universities. One of the many reasons I am thrilled to be part of this university community is because of its long-standing commitment to diversity. I firmly believe that we can learn some of life’s most important lessons from each other. The more varied the perspectives represented, the richer our education. Our differences—whether they be the academic questions that engage us, age, economic background, gender, or race, to name just a few—bring a buoyancy to our campus community and help create the intellectual vitality that makes Michigan internationally renowned.

Since its founding more than one hundred and eighty years ago, the University has aspired to provide an outstanding education to a diverse student population. Former President James B. Angell, in his 1879 commencement address, said, “Good learning is always catholic and generous … It frowns on caste and bigotry. It spurns the artificial distinctions of conventional society. It greets all comers whose intellectual gifts entitle them to admission to the goodly fellowship of cultivated minds. It is essentially democratic in the best sense of that term.”

Several years ago, Michigan’s faculty, through the University Senate, reaffirmed its commitment “to recruiting and maintaining a culturally and racially diverse student body and faculty that are representative of contemporary society, and to assuring that these diverse influences are respected and incorporated into the structure of the University.”

I am proud to belong to an academic community that historically has embraced diversity and is as committed today to this ideal as it was during the days of President Angell. I invite you to join me in supporting Michigan’s ongoing efforts to promote an appreciation of and openness to the viewpoints and contributions of others.

Sincerely,

Mary Sue Coleman
President

Coming in Fall 2008

Every other year, the University of Michigan School of Public Health Symposium brings together the school community to focus on a
cross-cutting public health issue. The 2008 all-school symposium
will be held on Monday, October 6 on “The Global Crisis of Aging: Population, Biology, and Social Implications.”

The symposium is a required component of the school's curriculum, and thus regular classes are suspended for the day to enable all students and faculty to attend the symposium. Further information about the symposium will be forthcoming in the coming months.