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Building a Stronger Community Through Leadership
Matt Trevithick has been awarded the University of Michigan-Flint's Greater Flint Community Leadership Scholarship, which was created in 2018 to recognize and support up-and-coming leaders within the community. This graduate-level scholarship requires nomination by the applicant's employer (supervisor or higher administration only) and covers up to two full academic years of tuition and mandatory fees.[…]
El Ballet Folklórico— Community Mariachi Band to Travel Abroad in order to Gain Experience and Knowledge for UM-Flint
Although the music program has gone through a few changes recently, nothing stops the passion of its ensembles. Alphonse Buclay, a recent graduate with a major in music education and a minor in psychology, is a member of the community-based mariachi band El Ballet Folklórico Estudiantil. Buclay and 10 other members of the group will[…]
Picturing the Performance: UM-Flint Students, Alumni and Faculty featured in Flint Mural Plays
Standing in front of the Flint Public Art Project mural in front of Hoffman's Deco Deli & Café, UM-Flint sophomore Olivia Maxwell-Cook watched as a group of audience members listened to her original micro audio play, "Resting Garden," using headphones. Not wearing headphones herself, all Maxwell-Cook could do was watch how the crowd was impacted.[…]
"Staying clean by helping others": UM-Flint student founds a nonprofit organization
At the age of 17, Alex Grimes was left homeless in Miami, Florida, with nothing but drug use to turn to. After a decade of growing up in Puerto Rico and travelling across the U.S., Grimes turned to UM-Flint, pursuing a BBA in Human Resources and Organizational Behavior, seeking sobriety, and founding a nonprofit organization.[…]
UM-Flint recognized as veteran-friendly school
The University of Michigan-Flint has been recognized for its excellence in serving student veterans.
Student Involvement & Leadership leads UM-Flint engagement
UM-Flint's Student Involvement and Leadership (SIL) supports and facilitates the mission of engagement on campus through supporting student organizations, offering leadership training, and organizing events.
New Dean Appointed to School of Education & Human Services
Beth Kubitskey, an associate dean at Eastern Michigan University and longtime advocate for the improvement of K-12 teaching and learning in Michigan, has been selected as dean of the School of Education and Human Services at UM-Flint. The Board of Regents approved her appointment July 15. Kubitskey, a University of Michigan alumna, will step into[…]
Occupational Therapy and Theatre Collaboration takes Center Stage at UM-Flint
What happens when the Theatre program and Occupational Therapy department join forces? The result is the use of standardized patients in a high-fidelity experiential learning experience at UM-Flint. Standardized patients are people trained to take on characteristics of a real patient, affording the student the opportunity to learn and to be evaluated in a simulated[…]
UM-Flint Thompson Library launches Archiving the Pandemic and Protest Project
The University of Michigan-Flint Thompson Library is launching the Archiving the Pandemic and Protest Project to collect personal experiences of the Flint community during the COVID-19 pandemic and the politics and protests of 2020-2021. The responses will be archived at the Genesee Historical Collections Center at UM-Flint and later digitized, translated, and made accessible to[…]
Recognizing Juneteenth: 5 Courses to Take This Fall
Today is Juneteenth, our newest national holiday and the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the abolishment of slavery in the United States. The day memorializes the events of June 19, 1865, in which Major General Gordan Granger of the Union Army announced the emancipation of slaves in Texas, freeing the final remaining enslaved African Americans in the Confederacy.[…]