racism
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July 28, 2020
New funding opportunity aids research to combat racism
Poverty Solutions and the Center for Social Solutions have announced a faculty grants competition to pursue action-based research aimed at ending systemic and institutional racism.
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June 16, 2020
Faculty, staff offered free Anti-Racism Primer
U-M faculty and staff on the Ann Arbor, Flint, Dearborn campuses and Michigan Medicine are being offered a free Anti-Racism Primer to help push through discomfort and fear.
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June 5, 2020
Town hall panelists explore ways to fight structural racism
U-M students, faculty and staff gathered for a virtual town hall during which panelists discussed how individuals and the university as a whole can combat structural racism.
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June 2, 2020
University to host virtual town hall on racism
Combating racism through daily activities, relationships and challenging conversations will be the focus of a virtual town hall meeting set for noon June 5.
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June 2, 2020
President Schlissel issues COVID-19 update; decries ‘pestilence of racism’
The coronavirus situation is gradually improving but the “persistent and appalling pestilence of racism” continues across the nation, President Mark Schlissel said in a pair of emails to the U-M community.
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February 26, 2019
Black youths believe inequality creates racial academic achievement gaps
African-American teens blame systemic racism for the academic achievement gap between blacks and whites, a belief that was shaped by their parents and other factors, a new U-M study found.
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January 21, 2019
MLK Symposium speakers explore resistance, unraveling injustice
Julia Putnam and Tim Wise discussed ways to resist oppressive systems, the misremembering of American history, and how education can help unravel injustice at the 2019 MLK Symposium keynote.
