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Borders and Crossings: First-Year Experience Classes Prompt Big Questions

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In January 2020, the Mellon Foundation made a $600,000 award to University of Michigan – Flint professors Daniel Birchok and Jacob Lederman, just before the emergence of the COVID pandemic. The project, entitled ‘Borders and Crossings:  Exploring Global Questions at the University of Michigan-Flint,’ began with the premise that community-engaged humanities courses needed to be

Donk Racing and STEM Equity – CIT Professor researches Informal Learning pathways

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Shirl Donaldson sits behind a UM-Flint College of Innovation & Technology table loaded with T-shirts with a red Dodge Challenger GT behind her.

Shirl Donaldson is an assistant professor of project management, STEM education and entrepreneurship in the University of Michigan-Flint’s College of Innovation and Technology. She is researching Donk car racing and whether it can help change the way minoritized kids think about STEM subjects in relation to themselves.  “When it comes to racing, tons of money