Blogs from students, faculty & staff
Grad Blog by H.K. Kopesky, Master of Art in Social Sciences student “Set your goals high, and don’t stop til you get there.” — Bo Jackson I didn’t know what the outcome would be if I were to return to study. I had been home for more than a decade, and was rather unsure
In an unexpected moment one evening, my mentor and former boss Leslie Donaldson turned to me and coached me professionally. She essentially asked, “What are you doing now, and what would you like to be doing?” I was taken aback. At the time I had been managing a series of professional development opportunities for artists
The Literacy Education (MA) program at UM-Flint was the best thing that I could have done for my career. No, really. When I applied to graduate school, it was for an entirely different program. I enrolled and did well in my first semester in that program, but it just didn’t feel right. I knew that
For Flint resident Gina Morris-Cicalo, getting her young son Rocco to develop a habit of reading was a struggle until he participated in the University of Michigan-Flint Reading Center program. She read to him every night, and his school teachers were helpful. He just didn’t like to read. “I could tell why he didn’t enjoy