Phillip J. Bowman Center for Scholarship to Practice

📣 Registration is now open!

If you're a graduate student, faculty member, or staff member at a college or university in Michigan or the surrounding region, join us for Amplifying Access: Funding Solutions for Scholarship that Matters on September 21–22 in Ann Arbor.

This two-day conference is designed to help scholars and research professionals:
✨ Discover new funding opportunities
📝 Strengthen grant-writing skills
🤝 Receive personalized feedback in consultation zones
💬 Connect with peers and experts from across the region
📚 Explore campus and external funding resources

Whether you're writing your first grant proposal or refining your next one, you'll gain practical strategies and valuable connections to support your work.

📍 Ann Arbor
📅 September 21–22
🎟 Registration is required, and attendance is available at no cost.

Learn more & register here: https://myumi.ch/yk22P

We hope to see you there!

📣 Call for Pitches: Rest, Repair, and Radical Healing — Responding to Structural Harm in the Workplace

Spark Magazine is seeking pitches for a new series examining the systems and structures that produce and perpetuate workplace harm. We invite writers to explore what rest, repair, and collective healing & wellness can look like in a culture that prioritizes productivity—and how we might reimagine workplaces to rejuvenate rather than extract.

Topics might explore:
-Resisting harmful structures and building collective, healing spaces in the workplace
-Frameworks and strategies for avoiding burnout
-The roles of culture, healing, extraction, rejuvenation, and redress in professional environments
-Mindful, reparative practices that center shared humanity in leadership and management
-Building and maintaining meaning, joy, connection, and pleasure in relation to labor
-Alternatives to the extractive workplace, e.g. envisioning or sharing examples of alternative workplace structures

Spark welcomes submissions from authors from a wide range of backgrounds, geographic locations, and cultural perspectives (Indigenous writers, writers from the Global South, community activists, academics, practitioners) who can help illuminate these questions for a broad public audience.

Pitches are due Monday, August 24.

Learn more and submit a pitch: https://myumi.ch/gk1mP

This series is curated by Dr. Tia Sherèe Gaynor, Associate Professor of Leadership and Management at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities and an IMTA certified mindfulness instructor.

📣 Registration is now open!

If you're a graduate student, faculty member, or staff member at a college or university in Michigan or the surrounding region, join us for Amplifying Access: Funding Solutions for Scholarship that Matters on September 21–22 in Ann Arbor.

This two-day conference is designed to help scholars and researchers:
✨ Discover new funding opportunities
📝 Strengthen grant-writing skills
🤝 Receive personalized feedback in consultation zones
💬 Connect with peers and experts from across the region
📚 Explore campus and external funding resources

Whether you're writing your first grant proposal or refining your next one, you'll gain practical strategies and valuable connections to support your work.

📍 Michigan Union, Ann Arbor
📅 September 21–22
🎟 Registration is required, no cost to attend

Learn more & register here: https://myumi.ch/yk22P

We hope to see you there!

POV: Your friend group is the next . Read/listen here myumi.ch/8J18g to see how -Pop dance groups at colleges around the U.S. shape .

The Inclusive History Project (IHP) is excited to share its Year 3 Annual Report, which highlights the incredible growth, achievements, and impact of the IHP this year.

Learn more about the IHP’s large-scale project sites with teams of faculty, staff, students, and community members; granting programs that support compelling projects across U-M’s campuses; a significant increase in the IHP's visibility and engagement through events and outreach; and the involvement of students throughout the IHP’s work as advisors, interns, researchers, and learners—especially through the tri-campus Student Advisory Committee. In the Year 3 Annual Report, you will also hear from a range of people involved with the IHP as they share, in their own words, their perspectives on the IHP’s collective work.

To request a print copy of the Year 3 Annual Report, please contact inclusivehistory[at]umich.edu

Spark Magazine presents: The K-Culture Effect. In their newest series, these authors explore how Korean culture impacts journalism, language, and higher education. Read/listen now: myumi.ch/nVkp5

They say art imitates life. Read/listen here: myumi.ch/DWk36 to see whether your favorite K-Dramas accurately capture

Some college K-Pop dance groups outshine your idols. Read/listen here: myumi.ch/Pbnqk to see how Korean culture is becoming a part of daily campus activities across America.

K-Pop groups like have inspired to learn Korean, dance, and be a part of stan culture. Read/listen here: myumi.ch/G7zy7 to read Kyung-Eun Yoon's research on how people have found community in Korean culture.