The week's events
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Creating Cultures of Wellbeing in Your Class Creating Cultures of Wellbeing in Your Class
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February 7, 2023Date:
Tuesday, February 7, 2023 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location:
Zoom
MSU's Center for Teaching and Learning Innovation (CTLI) is thrilled to be hosting Dr. Megumi Moore (Director of Graduate Student Life and Wellness & CTLI Affiliate) for an interactive discussion on wellbeing and your classroom culture.
Join us to learn more about evidence behind wellness as a foundation for student success, reflect on your supports and barriers to building humanizing spaces, and identify simple actions you can take in your everyday practice.
*We make every effort to employ Universal Design for Learning in CTLI programming. If you have specific accommodation needs to participate in this program, please contact Makena Neal (mneal@msu.edu).
Register Here
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Life and Well-Being
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COGS Coffee & Connection: Broad Art Museum COGS Coffee & Connection: Broad Art Museum
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February 8, 2023Visit: https://cogs.msu.edu/upcoming-events/
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Engaging in the State Legislative Session Engaging in the State Legislative Session
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February 9, 2023Date:
Thursday, February 9, 2023 - 1:00am to 2:30pm
Location:
Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center
The Michigan chapter of the Scholars Strategy Network is sponsoring a training workshop on state legislative sessions. The workshop provides critical knowledge that can be used to foster evidence-based legislation. It provides scholars with practical steps for getting engaged with elected officials. Participants learn about state legislatures, the cycle of state legislation, and how and when they can engage. Researchers will be given concrete tips on how to track legislation and determine who in government is the proper target for outreach.
For more information and registration, please visit https://engage.msu.edu/learn/learning/engaging-in-the-state-legislative-...
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Professional Development
Preparing a Dissertation Prospectus Preparing a Dissertation Prospectus
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February 9, 2023Date:
Thursday, February 9, 2023 - 11:30am to 12:30pm
Location:
Zoom
WOCI is excited to inform you about our workshop series on Surviving Comprehensive Exams. We have two upcoming sessions on Preparing for Oral Exams and Preparing a Dissertation Prospectus and Defense geared toward womxn of color scholars. Our workshops feature both graduate students who recently passed comps and faculty who have both taken comps and given them. Our panelists also come from colleges around campus.
This workshop is designed to help graduate students who are preparing for comps. We strongly encourage 1st and 2nd year PhD students to attend this in hopes that we can help them demystify the comps process well before they are scheduled to take these exams. We also encourage early career faculty who have never given a comps exam to join us as well. They can hear from experienced faculty members about how they facilitate oral exams and prospectus defenses. If you have any questions, please email msu.woci@msu.edu.
Zoom information: https://msu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJckde-gpjgjHdNR4QJpR1cnJhDeg4H2E_ER
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Important Dates
Dr. William G. Anderson Lecture Series, Slavery to Freedom: An American Odyssey Series: Dr. Angela Davis Dr. William G. Anderson Lecture Series, Slavery to Freedom: An American Odyssey Series: Dr. Angela Davis
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February 9, 2023Date:
Thursday, February 9, 2023 - 5:00pm
Location:
Wharton Center for Performaing Arts Pasant Theatre/Online
The Dr. William G. Anderson Lecture Series: Slavery to Freedom gives members of the mid-Michigan community opportunities to interact with multicultural leaders from education, business, industry, entertainment and government. For 23 years, this series has featured living icons of the American Civil Rights Movement. All Activities are free of charge.
Dr. Angela Davis, a university educator who is well-known for her movements for social justice through her activism and scholarship, emphasizing the “importance of building communities of struggle for economic, racial and gender justice.” The author of 11 books, including Abolition.Feminism.Now, which she co-authored with Gina Dent, Erica Meiners and Beth Richie, Dr. Davis is known for helping to popularize the notion of a “prison industrial complex,” urging others to think about a world without prison systems.
The Graduate School is a sponsor of this event.
This event will be hybrid. Register to attend here.
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Diversity and Inclusion
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Navigating the Master's Navigating the Master's
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February 10, 2023Date:
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
Location:
Zoom
This interactive, hybrid writing workshop is designed to help students develop an individualized plan for understanding graduate school more generally and graduate writing more specifically. This workshop is designed for students in both the early and latter years of their master’s degree.
This 3-hour workshop will concentrate on understanding the transition to graduate school, navigating master’s degree coursework and graduation options (thesis, exams, portfolios, etc.), locating and using professional and personal support resources, and writing for both the degree and future job. Participants will create academic timelines for their master’s work (coursework, conference presentations, internships, etc.) at MSU and discuss technologies and habits that can help them stay on task. Participants will also discuss how to manage the stress that often pervades the life of master’s students and how to select and work with a committee.
The workshop will end with participants exploring and sharing their current writing practices, writing and revision strategies, and strategies for overcoming writer's block and procrastination. Facilitators will help guide discussions on adopting and maintaining productive practices to help maintain focus on academic and professional goals in times when we are collectively working through the COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing racial and systematic injustice and police violence against the Black community.
Zoom link will be shared with registrants prior to the date of the workshop.
* Please note that your registration is a commitment to attend.
Registration to open closer to event.
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Professional Development
