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…UNDERGRADUATE, GRADUATE AND FACULTY COALITION FOR ETHNIC STUDIES | MICHIGAN IN COLOR On Monday, April 11, more than 100 students and faculty members gathered in the Michigan League for The…

… Future of Ethnic Studies, a teach-in organized by a broad coalition of graduate and undergraduate students at the University of Michigan. The goals of the event were to develop interest and…

… this campus diverse remain a central feature of the curriculum. The event on Monday was the product of several years of faculty and student activism. This vision for this event is shaped by the…

… graduate students in the Asian/ Pacific Islander American Studies Program in the department of American Culture. In the past few years, seven faculty members have left the A/PIA Studies Program, and…

… asks for our units to do the labor of educating a largely white and affluent student body of issues on race and ethnicity. The lack of support for ethnic studies is apparent both inside and outside…

… the classroom — faculty of color are departing this institution in droves; graduate students are continuously invalidated by their departments if their work addresses issues of race, gender…

…. The macro and the micro cannot be separated. The lack of institutional support for classes that address issues of difference and identity is reflected in the interactions between students and…

… faculty that leave people of color fearful and tired of every-day acts of racism. This is not the first time students have gathered out of concern for ethnic studies. In 2008, graduate and…

… undergraduate students organized the Campus Lockdown teach-in, an event protesting the lack of institutional support for recruiting and retaining a critical number of faculty in ethnic studies, women…

… were, then 1.6 billion Muslims could be involved in terrorism, instead of a small fraction.” In the past year, Muslim- and Arab-American students at the University have gathered to participate…

… terrorist attacks in Germany, France, Britain, Turkey, Belgium, Russia and Spain, reports warning foreign students to avoid places like shopping malls, schools, airports and other forms of public…

… for Global and Intercultural Study, the office that coordinates most study abroad programs for LSA students, sent about 650 to 700 University of Michigan students abroad this summer. LSA…

… junior Margaret O’Connor was among 13 University students studying abroad in Germany through the Center of Intercultural and Global Studies at the time. She wrote in an email interview that…

… health and safety adviser for CGIS, said despite mounting terrorist reports from the country, the number of students applying to study abroad has steadily increased over the past several years…

…. CGIS reported the numbers of their Winter application cycle showed 23 applications in 2014, 33 in 2015, and so far this year more than 62 students have applied to study in France. LSA senior…

…, speaks to the strength of the programs and the mindsets of the students seeking those opportunities. “If you look at something like what happened in Brussels, three students backed out but one…

… was unrelated to the attacks, so two students out of 21 withdrew,” Jordan said. In Jamett’s 22-person program, participants were University students from a variety of majors. “I…

… place to reach out to students and reassure families. The department has 10 emergency responders available to attend to the 24/7 emergency phone line. It also requires students, staff and…

… contacting them via email, cell phone, Facebook, WhatsApp, however we can get a response,” Reuter said. Due to the large numbers of students within LSA, Reuter said it is the only college with a…