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Making Relationships Work: A Summit on Black Male Academic Success and Inclusion

Erickson Hall 620 Farm Lane, East Lansing

Hear directly from young Black men and boys, research experts, and practitioners about the factors that facilitate and/or frustrate relationship building with Black male students in P-12 and postsecondary education contexts. Parents, community stakeholders, educators, faculty, student affairs professionals, college students and youth ages 12 ā€“ 17 are invited to attend. Breakout session topics include:ā€¦ Read More »

The Study & Implementation of Student Success Strategies

252, Erickson Hall 620 Farm Ln, East Lansing, MI

Presented by: Kristen A. Renn, professor of Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education and associate dean of undergraduate studies for student success research, Michigan State University Like other large public institutions, Michigan State University is attempting to increase student success, defined most often as persistence to degree, and close opportunity gaps for low-income and racially minoritizedā€¦ Read More »

MSU Dialogues: Crossing Racial & Other Social Divides

Auditorium, Kellogg Hotel & Conference Center 219 S Harrison Road, East Lansing

The Office for Inclusion and Intercultural Initiatives invites you to the kickoff event for "MSU Dialogues," featuring Dr. Patricia Gurin. About the Speaker: Patricia Gurin is the Nancy Cantor Distinguished University Professor and the Arthur Thurnau Professor Emerita at the University of Michigan. Her research interests include the role of social identities in individual andā€¦ Read More »

Sean Reardon: Using Big Data to Measure Educational Opportunity and Inequality

252, Erickson Hall 620 Farm Ln, East Lansing, MI

Join us in welcoming an Educational Policy Innovation Collaborative (EPIC) Distinguished Speaker, Sean Reardon. We test students a great deal in the United States. In grades three through eight alone, U.S. students take roughly 50 million standardized state accountability tests each year. Their scores on these tests, aggregated within geographic school districts and student subgroups,ā€¦ Read More »

Community-Engaged Scholarship Write-In

Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center 219 S Harrison Rd, East Lansing, MI

Are you working on an outreach or engagement journal article, grant proposal, book chapter, thesis, dissertation, curriculum, or portfolio? Would some quiet space and time away from your office help? Join us for first Friday of the month for three hours of dedicated writing time to advance your community-engaged scholarship. Participants should plan to writeā€¦ Read More »

2018 Teacher & Administrator Recruitment Fair

Breslin Student Events Center 1 Birch Rd, East Lansing, MI

Audiences:Ā General Public, College of Education Students/Interns, Faculty, and Staff. This event attracts more than 150 school districts from across the country and hundreds of candidates that are current MSU student teachers completing their internships, alumni, or local experienced teachers looking for new opportunities. Pre-registration for students/attendees is not required. Entrance fees can be paid atā€¦ Read More »

#MeToo Founder Tarana Burke at MSU

Wharton Center, Cobb Hall 750 E. Shaw Lane, East Lansing, MI

#MeToo founder Tarana Burke will speak at Michigan State University as part of the Transformative Justice Speaker Series.Ā Tickets are free and will be distributed on a first-come, first-serve basis starting March 22, at 10 a.m. at theĀ Wharton Center Box Office. Each person is limited to two tickets. Burke is an activist and community organizer mostā€¦ Read More »

Literacy Colloquy Speaker Series: Sheila Valencia

252, Erickson Hall 620 Farm Ln, East Lansing, MI

Please join us for a Department of Teacher Education, Literacy Colloquy Speaker Series Zoom presentation given by: Dr. Sheila W. Valencia titled: "Shifting Understandings of Complexity" Abstract: Since Common Core came into view, the issue of text complexity has taken center stage. But this issue of complexity has been the subject of much debate andā€¦ Read More »

Affirmative Action 40 Years After Bakke: Addressing Equity through Policy & Practice

MSU University Club 3435 Forest Rd, Lansing , MI

A presentation of the 2018 Ewigleben Lecture Symposium. In 1978, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its landmark ruling in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke. At that time, Justice Thurgood Marshall concluded, ā€œI doubt that there is a computer capable of determining the number of persons affected by the decision in this case.ā€ā€¦ Read More »

2018 Summer Reading Lab Series for K-12 Teachers

Michigan State University, Snyder Phillips Hall 361 Physics Rd., East Lansing, MI

LINGUISTICALLY RESPONSIVE INSTRUCTION FOR IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE YOUTH: CRITICAL PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT This free workshop for K-12 teachers, from July 9-12 and July 16-19, will focus on how to facilitate emergent bilingualsā€™ reading comprehension and meaning-making through discussions of informational texts in content area classrooms. Teachers will spend each morning observing Carrie Symonsā€™s class as sheā€¦ Read More »