News & Events

August 31, 2023

OVPR anti-racism grants awarded to seven research teams

Announcing the third cohort of researchers to receive the OVPR Anti-Racism Grants, which launched in Spring 2021 in partnership with the NCID Anti-Racism Collaborative.
August 15, 2023

Now Hiring: Inclusive History Project Program Coordinator

Apply by August 31* The National Center for Institutional Diversity (NCID) is looking for an Inclusive History Project Program Coordinator to join our team.
August 1, 2023

Apply for the LSA Collegiate Fellowship

The general application is due September 8
July 20, 2023

Four 2023 University Diversity and Social Transformation Professors named

Four U-M faculty members have been named University Diversity and Social Transformation Professors for their exceptional contributions to diversity, equity and inclusion through research, teaching and service.
July 12, 2023

Next steps for U-M’s Inclusive History Project

Six foundational values and commitments — independence, collaboration, broad engagement, community relationships, inclusion of all three University of Michigan campuses and Michigan Medicine and material change — will guide the future work of the Inclusive History Project.
June 29, 2023

Six faculty named 2023 Anti-Racism Research & Community Impact Faculty Fellows

The 2023 Anti-Racism Research & Community Impact Faculty Fellowship provides instrumental support to early career faculty to advance their anti-racism scholarship.
June 27, 2023

Anti-Racism Collaborative awards over $100,000 in Graduate Research Grants

The Anti-Racism Collaborative, administered by the National Center for Institutional Diversity (NCID), has awarded 21 summer research grants, totaling more than $100,000, to individuals and teams comprised of University of Michigan (U-M) graduate students.
June 21, 2023

“Reproductive Justice as a Human Right”

Introduction by series curator Dr. Seanna Leath, Assistant Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis.
May 9, 2023

Pop-Up Writing Opportunity: “Campus Abolition and Educational Safety Beyond Policing”

Following months of state and local stay-at-home orders to safeguard against the spread of COVID-19, a series of precipitating events of anti-Black state and state-sanctioned violence re-catalyzed a wave of protests, demonstrations, and other direct actions against the persistent strain of policing on Black people in the United States.
May 9, 2023

Thinking Beyond Stereotypes in Asian American Media

Public discussions of Asian American media representation are often overdetermined by narratives of the racial injury of Hollywood stereotypes, or what Black feminist Patricia Hill Collins called “controlling images.”
May 4, 2023

Whitewashing Anime Adaptations: Ghost in the Shell and Dragonball Evolution

In David Oh’s presentation “Whitewashing Anime Remakes: Ghost in the Shell and Dragonball Evolution,” he makes a theoretical argument for “whitewashing” as an erasure of difference that centers and makes visible White subjectivity.
April 10, 2023

In the Face of Resistance: Advancing Equity in Higher Education

The landscape of affirmative action in higher education has evolved, with an imminent Supreme Court decision drawing renewed attention. Regardless of legal outcomes, institutions must proactively promote diversity, equity, and inclusion. This panel discussion provides socio-historical context and insights from leaders navigating state-level affirmative action bans.
March 23, 2023

We Are Not Powerless: LGBTQIA2+ Flourishing Today

We find ourselves living in another year of ever-intensifying anti-LGBTQIA2+ violence. But, as Audre Lorde said to the 1989 graduates of Oberlin College, “... I do have hope.
March 21, 2023

Diversity Scholars in Social Media

Scholars are navigating changing spaces embedded in a system that can be slow and resistant to an evolving digital world. They are receiving competing messages about how and when to develop a digital brand and engage on social media.