Workshops and Trainings

To make a workshop request, please check the box next to each workshop you would like to have offered this year, fill in your name, title, and e-mail address below, and click the request button. For more information, contact Chanel DeGuzman at cdeguzma@umich.edu or visit the OAA Diversity Initiatives page.

Request Workshops/Trainings

Global Intercultural Awareness:
Do you have the skills it takes to communicate with people from around the world? This workshop will introduce you to concepts that will help you work and communicate effectively across cultures.
Pamela Heatlie, Assistant Director, Office of Institutional Equity

Supporting Intersex/Transgender/Bisexual/Lesbian/Gay/Genderqueer Concerns:
Our lives are governed by gender-role expectations, the "Rules of Gender". We will engage in self- and group-reflection on supporting intersex, transgender, bisexual, lesbian, gay, and genderqueer individuals and groups. In addition we will address the intersections of diversity.

Persons with Disabilities: In the Workplace and the Community:
Have you interacted with individuals with disabilities in school, yourcommunity or at work? Are you familiar with hidden disabilities and the impact they might have on a person's work and community life? This workshop is designed to heighten your awareness about disabilities, and to provide information that will help you to become a better co-worker, supervisor, researcher, and policy-maker.

Diversity @Work:
Have you ever worked with an individual(s) whose background was different from yours? Have you been in a situation where you have had to have difficult or sensitive conversations with a co-worker or colleague? Have you ever had a challenging time working on a team or group project? Do you wonder what diversity has to do with the future work you plan to do? This workshop will bring together SPH Alumni from different fields and current SPH students (you) to discuss the importance of having the skill-set to thrive in a diverse public health workforce.

Exploring Communication Styles and Self Awareness:
Are you able to effectively navigate your encounters with Americans of different races, cultures, or backgrounds from your own? Do you have interactions that result in a different impact from what you intended? This workshop will focus on the importance of self-awareness, empathy and other skills that help individuals engage a process of intercultural development in order to more effectively navigate the complexity of human differences and similarities. In addition, you may find out some new things about yourself!

Social Justice Workshops

We can work with our university partners outside of SPH to coordinate these workshops for students, faculty, and staff. The following list is not a complete list of our partners or workshops/trainings that are offered at the university. If you have a specific subject matter that you need addressed that these workshops don’t cover, please let us know and we can tailor a workshop to address your needs.

Common Ground (in the Program on Intergroup Relations)
The Common Ground workshop program is one way that student organizations, residence halls, Greek life, classes, and other campus communities can request workshops on topics such as (but not limited to) racism, sexism, classism, or heterosexism. More info.

Growing Allies Training
This is a new initiative whose goal is to engage students in their identities as social justice allies and empower them to act as allies everyday. More info.

Office of Student Conflict Resolution
OSCR builds trust, promotes justice, teaches peace and supports the values of civility, dignity, diversity, education, equality, freedom, honesty, and safety among all U-M students. More info.

Spectrum Center
Ally Program participants attend an eight-hour training (spread over two days) designed to strengthen their ability to serve as allies to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer students, staff, and faculty at the University of Michigan.
More info.

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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.

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

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More from President 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

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