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Marketing Your Experience
Ideas from Aaron Traxler-Ballew
Carefully Choosing Metaphors
Some people say job searching or applying to grad school is all about selling yourself. And if you're willing to think about yourself and your experience as something to be sold, this approach may work for you. I prefer a different metaphor: the generic novel.
IGR Alumni Spend Summer in Washington D. C. as White House Interns
Nora Stephens and Brittany Smith both spent a summer working in our nation's capital through the White House Internship Program. Below, Nora writes about her experience.
Alumni Spotlight: Kartik Sidhar
Kartik Sidhar graduated with a degree in Sociology and General Biology in 2012. He is currently a student in the U-M School of Medicine. As an undergraduate student, Kartik was involved in several IGR classes, including being a dialogue participant and facilitating two dialogue classes (one on religion and the other on able-ism).
Warm Welcome: D. Alvarez
D. recently joined IGR's staff as an Interim Student Life Program Manager. His focus is on managing the CommonGround program, teaching IGR's training course and furthering CommonGround's research agenda. D. is excited to dive into his work with the CommonGround team and he hopes to see CommonGround spread into new areas of the U-M community.
IGR Student Writes Op-Ed Piece for the Michigan Daily
We are excited for IGR student Zeinab Khalil for having an Op-Ed piece published in the Michigan Daily this week!
Zeinab participated in Summer Youth Dialogues On Race and Ethnicity this past summer as a facilitator. She said about her piece:
IGR Symposium Facilitates Conversations on Engaged Pedagogies
On Monday, October 28, 200 faculty, staff, and students packed the Michigan League Ballroom to discuss engaged pedagogies as part of IGR's 25th Anniversary Symposium "The Theory and Practice of Engaged Pedagogies: Pursuing Social Justice."
School of Public Health uses IGR model to form dialogue program
Summer 2014
In collaboration with IGR, the University of Michigan School of Public Health (SPH) is actively engaged in a five-year initiative to provide every student, staff, and faculty member at SPH with a substantive dialogue experience, including opportunities for students to be trained as intergroup dialogue facilitators.
Staff Spotlight: Charles Behling
Charles Behling is an Emeritus Faculty Member of the University of Michigan. He recently retired from the psychology faculty at U-M. A clinical psychologist, he served for 15 years as Co-Director of IGR.
IGR participates in U-M Frankel Center for Judaic Studies panel
Fall 2013
IGR's own Dr. Adrienne Dessel recently participated in a U-M Frankel Center for Judaic Studies event called Conversations on Community, Identity, and Israel: Making Sense of the Pew Portrait of Jewish Americans.