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.
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IGR participates in U-M Frankel Center for Judaic Studies panel
CommonGround Monthly Meetings Encourage Continuous Learning
by Jessica Sumney, Graduate Intern
Although our new CommonGround facilitators participate in an intensive weekend-long training retreat at the beginning of each semester, there is always more to learn about facilitating social justice education. That's why CommonGround has dedicated this semester's monthly meetings to exposing facilitators and student coordinators to the activities and exercises available in the IGR catalog.
IGR Student Voices: Equity Over Equality
IGR strongly supports students joining campus conversations on identity and social justice. Today we share a piece from IGR student Elena Ross, published in the Michigan Daily.
Elena also shared how her experiences in IGR have helped her to explore her views on social issues.
IGR co-director Kelly Maxwell and colleagues win U-M diversity award
Fall 2013
Congratulations to IGR co-director Kelly Maxwell! Kelly, along with Amy Harris (Museum of Natural History), Martha S. Jones (Afroamerican and African Studies, History, and Law), and Shari Robinson-Lynk (Ginsberg Center), served as the co-chairs for LSA's Understanding Race Theme Semester in Winter of 2013. This month, they were awarded a 2013 U-M Distinguished Diversity Leaders Award for their tireless work and commitment.
Student Voices: Erika Shaid
Today we feature fourth-year student Erika Shaid. Erika joined Greek Life on U-M's campus and played an active role in her sorority (including holding leadership positions). Erika is also very involved as an IGR student.
Erika recently gave a "witness report" at a hearing for the Fall 2013 Theta Xi Party Hearing. We asked Erika about what motivated her to give the report. She said:
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.
D Alvarez Wins Spectrum Center Award
IGR's own D Alvarez will be receiving the MyVoice Award for the 2013-2014 school year from U-M's Spectrum Center this year. This award is given to a member of the MyVoice team whom The Spectrum Center staff feels has done an exceptional job as a volunteer panelist on multiple panels offered through the center. D has received overwhelmingly positive feedback about their participation from past participants, and audiences often reported feeling a strong connection to D and their story.
D, we are so proud of you and feel so lucky that you have joined IGR as a staff member!
A letter from the directors—winter 2014
April 17, 2014
Welcome to the Winter 2014 tri-annual newsletter of The Program on Intergroup Relations (IGR) at the University of Michigan! We in IGR always look forward to this time of year because it gives us the opportunity to reflect and celebrate student achievements, both in and out of the classroom.
Conservative Christian Beliefs and Sexual Orientation in Social Work By Adrienne Dessel
IGR is proud to announce an upcoming major book publication, co-edited by IGR's Dr. Adrienne Dessel. Dr. Dessel's book, titled Conservative Christian Beliefs and Sexual Orientation in Social Work: Privilege, Oppression and the Pursuit of Human Rights, is slated for publication in Spring 2014 and includes four chapters on intergroup dialogue. It is co-edited by Rebecca M. Bolen at the University of Tennessee.
From the book description: