Amplifying Access Accessibility
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Scholar Spotlight: A Conversation with Dr. Keenan Colquitt
August 28, 2026
Fall Happenings
There's a lot happening at the Bowman Center this fall!
Across our programs and initiatives, we’re creating opportunities for scholars, students, practitioners, and community members to connect with one another, explore timely questions, strengthen their work, and put scholarship into practice.
Explore some of what’s coming up this semester below, and stay connected throughout the fall: visit our Events page for upcoming programs and gatherings, and our News page for the latest opportunities, publications, and other updates from across the Bowman Center.
September
Welcome Luncheon: Setting the Agenda for Scholar Safety
September 17 | 12:30–2:00 p.m. | Michigan League
A meet, eat, and greet including a discussion of scholar safety concerns in our troubled times. Open to the University of Michigan community.
Amplifying Access: Funding Solutions for Scholarship that Matters
September 21–22 | Ann Arbor
Designed for scholars at every stage of grant experience, Amplifying Access offers practical strategies for navigating an increasingly complex funding landscape. Participants can choose from three experience tracks and take part in workshops, consultation zones, proposal work time, a resource fair, conversations with experts, and networking opportunities. Registration is required.
History in a Time of Forgetting
Beginning September 24
This fall, Spark Magazine launches "History in a Time of Forgetting," a new series bringing scholarly perspectives to questions about history, memory, and the ways we understand the present.
The conversation will continue in October with a panel discussion on the same themes, co-sponsored by the Inclusive History Project.
Follow Spark throughout the fall for new articles and opportunities to engage with the series.
October
Save these dates! Additional details are coming soon.
Reimagining STEM Student Success: Redefining the STEM Ecosystem & Shifting the Paradigm
October 6 | 1:00–3:00 p.m. | Weiser Hall
Reimagining STEM Student Success is a new series designed to advance the recommendations of the STEM Success Working Group by positioning organizational change as the primary lever for student success. Across five sessions, expert insights will connect research to concrete U-M practices to transform our campus systems, cultures, and structures.
Shaking the Table: Survival and Healing Amongst Identity Center Practitioners
October 7 & 21 | 12:00 p.m. ET | Virtual
Join the Bowman Scholars Network for a two-part webinar series examining the experiences of identity center practitioners and questions of survival, healing, and professional life within higher education.
Beginning Again: Reckoning, Reorganizing, and Reimagining
October 14 | 12:00–2:00 p.m.
Join the Bowman Center for a Community Conversation centered around the film How Do We Begin. A collaboration between the CRLT Players and the Duderstadt Center, this innovative, Emmy Award-winning film is based on a series of short plays written by U-M alumx Jordan Harris. The film explores Black student experiences past and present, and the ways institutions perpetuate anti-Blackness while simultaneously aiming to advance stated commitments to inclusion and equity. Following the film screening, participants will engage in discussion designed and facilitated by the CRLT Players and Trotter Multicultural Center staff that offers the opportunity to:
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Reflect on historical tensions within U-M’s values and their present-day impact
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Examine institutional patterns that may hinder progress
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Explore role-based ways to take action and advance meaningful change
This session will be the first of three planned Community Conversations in dialogue with the Bowman Center’s 2026-27 theme: Community in Action. Centering campus activism, this year’s Community Conversations will ask participants to reckon with complex histories and legacies of campus exclusion, activism, and resistance, reorganize through togetherness and intergenerational, cross-role coalition building, and reimagine campus activism.
The Stories That Shape Us: A Blue Carpet Affair
October 16 | 6:00–9:00 p.m. ET
The Inclusive History Project invites members of the University of Michigan and broader community to The Stories That Shape Us: A Blue Carpet Affair, an evening of storytelling, reflection, gathering, and connection. Open to all U-M Flint alumni.
Feminist Voices Across Generations
October 27 | 5:00–7:00 p.m.
Launching the Women’s and Gender Studies Oral History Archive at the University of Michigan-Dearborn.
Bowman Center Open House
October 22 | Afternoon
Come see our new home!
Join us for an open house at the Phillip J. Bowman Center for Scholarship to Practice. Meet members of our team, learn about the programs and initiatives that make up the Center, and explore a new space that brings pieces of our history together with the work we're building for the future.
November
Not All In: Race, Immigration, and Healthcare Exclusion in the Age of Obamacare
November 19 | 12:00 p.m. ET | Virtual
Join the Bowman Scholars Network for a webinar exploring race, immigration, and healthcare exclusion in the age of the Affordable Care Act.
More to Come
Additional programming is planned throughout the semester from the Bowman Center and its programs and initiatives, including CASCaDE, the Inclusive History Project, Spark Magazine, Anti-Racism Research, and the Bowman Scholars Network.
Check back for upcoming events and gatherings, and visit our News page for the latest opportunities, publications, and other updates from across the Bowman Center.
