Culture/DEI
Everyday Inclusivity: Creating Accessible Digital Communications & DIY Digital Ergonomics
Learn how to use elements of Digital Accessibility, Universal Design (UD) and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) concepts to make your life easier in this special interactive Lunch & Learn event. Professional Development and Education for Nursing Instructional Design Consultant (Instructional Learning Senior) Irene Knokh demonstrates how to get the most out of Windows and Microsoft accessibility tools to better engage and communicate with all your stakeholders. She shares her favorite tools and links for accessibility and answers your questions about how to communicate clearer in daily emails and through Slack/Teams. This session will be closed-captioned. Open to all, but…
OHEI Community Conversation: Gender Safety and Bias
Community Conversations is an opportunity for faculty, staff and student to come together bi-weekly to engage on meaningful ways to increase belonging at Michigan Medicine. We feel that it is important to carve out space for dialogue, provide support for one another, promote self-care, and share valuable resources. The sessions are designed for space to hear your voice and all are welcome! OHEI Events Michigan Medicine
OHEI Community Conversation: Empathy and Allyship with LGBTQ+ Community
Community Conversations is an opportunity for faculty, staff and student to come together weekly to engage on meaningful ways to increase belonging at Michigan Medicine. We feel that it is important to carve out space for dialogue, provide support for one another, promote self-care, and share valuable resources. The sessions are designed for space to hear your voice and all are welcome! How can we use empathy to be allies with the LGBTQ+ Community given unique identities and storiese Facilitator: Pedro Coracides – Office of Patient Experience
2nd annual Disability Research Symposium
The U-M Center for Disability Health and Wellness is hosting its second annual Disability Research Symposium. The virtual event will consist of research and TEDx style presentations highlighting the diverse disability research being conducted at the University of Michigan. The keynote speaker is Dr. Anjali Forber-Pratt, Director of National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR). Additional presentations will cover challenges faced by individuals with disabilities and health care solutions for patients, including wearable technology and artificial intelligence. For more information and to register:
Leading Equity and Inclusion in a Hybrid Workplace
This past year represented major changes to the way we do our work at U-M. As leaders, we have had to learn to be more agile and responsive in our leadership style. While we do the work to determine what our workplaces will look like moving forward, it is important that we keep our commitment to DEI central to our efforts. This session will help you to foster equity and inclusion while building a new hybrid workplace culture. You will learn to: Utilize four ways to actively manage the structurally inevitable differences in power that arise in a hybrid environment…
Leading Equity and Inclusion in a Hybrid Workplace
This past year represented major changes to the way we do our work at U-M. As leaders, we have had to learn to be more agile and responsive in our leadership style. While we do the work to determine what our workplaces will look like moving forward, it is important that we keep our commitment to DEI central to our efforts. This session will help you to foster equity and inclusion while building a new hybrid workplace culture. You will learn to: Utilize four ways to actively manage the structurally inevitable differences in power that arise in a hybrid environment…
Fostering Equity and Inclusion in a Hybrid Workplace
Over the past year, the workplace had to make major shifts in order to adjust to an ever-changing landscape during the public health crisis. This session will give you the opportunity to share with and learn from colleagues across the university about the challenges we are facing and how we can keep equity and inclusion in the forefront of our efforts. You will learn to: Apply emotional intelligence to workplace relationshipsCreate and engage with others in a listening culture Discover the role of psychological safety in a hybrid workplace You will benefit by: Contributing to a more equitable and inclusive workplace…
Fostering Equity and Inclusion in a Hybrid Workplace
Over the past year, the workplace had to make major shifts in order to adjust to an ever-changing landscape during the public health crisis. This session will give you the opportunity to share with and learn from colleagues across the university about the challenges we are facing and how we can keep equity and inclusion in the forefront of our efforts. You will learn to: Apply emotional intelligence to workplace relationshipsCreate and engage with others in a listening culture Discover the role of psychological safety in a hybrid workplace You will benefit by: Contributing to a more equitable and inclusive workplace…
DEI Book Discussion – Cathy Park Hong’s Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
Published just a month before the COVID pandemic hit, poet Cathy Park Hong’s provocative, brutally honest collection of autobiographical essays immediately hit the New York Times Best Sellers list -- and a cascade of awards followed (including the 2020 National Book Critics Circle award for autobiography and the finalist list for 2021 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction). Join Stacey Nguyen of Michigan Medicine’s Office for Health Equity & Inclusion (OHEI) for a deep dive into this unforgettable book. Open to all, but please register here to receive the Zoom link prior to this event.