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August 30, 2024
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August 29, 2024
Anti-Racism Research & Community Impact Faculty Fellows named![University of Michigan central campus aerial shot.](https://diversity.umich.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/CampusAerials18320-scaled-1-128x128.jpg)
August 13, 2024
Sexual misconduct policy review paused pending federal action![headshots of six people receiving the 2024 UMSI DEI Award](https://diversity.umich.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/2024-UMSI-DEI-Awards-recipients-128x128.png)
July 24, 2024
UMSI announces 2024 DEI Awards recipientsEvents
Science Learning Center (SLC) Fall Kick-Off
Complexion film screening
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DEI Strategic Plan
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Defining DEI
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History
The challenges and opportunities of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) are interwoven into the fabric of the University of Michigan (U-M) over its over 200-year history, one that has shown an uncommon leadership in its commitment to higher education access, equity, and positive cultural change.
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Land Acknowledgement
The University of Michigan is located on the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe people. In 1817, the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Bodewadami Nations made the largest single land transfer to the University of Michigan. This was ceded ceremonially through the Treaty at the Foot of the Rapids so that their children could be educated. Through these words of acknowledgment, the nations’ contemporary and ancestral ties to the land and their contributions to the University are renewed and reaffirmed.