About
Culture, Equity & Community
A Message from Director Ketra Armstrong
At the U-M School of Kinesiology, we work every day to create an environment where all faculty, staff, and students feel like they belong. We believe that our diverse backgrounds enrich our ability to learn and enhance the innovative ideas of our community.
Our approach to culture, equity, and community (CEC) includes:
Organically infusing a consciousness of and sensitivity to culture, equity, and community into our ways of doing (our policies and practices) as well as our ways of being (teaching, learning, scholarship, service)
Working to increase the demographic, psychographic, and disciplinary diversity of our community
Promoting inclusive excellence in our teaching, learning, scholarship, and service
Creating a fair, positive, and supportive atmosphere for all members of our community
Living by the CEC motto of “KIN ALL-IN!”
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I think you can’t have a community if you don’t have diversity within it and on the flip side, you can’t really have diversity without having a community. That’s something that is a major strong point here. You have somebody in Dr. Armstrong who realizes you need each one to fuel the other.”
—David Woelkers Jr. (MS SM ‘24), Kinesiology Merit Fellow and LINKS participant
CEC Resources
CEC Events
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KIN ALL-IN! Mini-Grants for Faculty, Staff & Students
The School of Kinesiology Culture, Equity & Community (CEC) Collective invites faculty, staff, students, and student organizations to apply for funding to support projects, research, educational initiatives, travel, and other efforts that advance our strategic objectives. Priority will be given to requests that directly impact the school, university, city, county, or state.
Please submit a 1-2 page proposal of your project addressing the following:
- Project's Description: Describe the purpose and rationale for the project.
- Project's Alignment with CEC Objectives: Explain how the project aligns with our CEC objectives.
- Project's Impact: Explain the potential impact and scope of the project relative to its contribution to achieving our our CEC objectives.
- Project's Distinctiveness and Innovation: Describe the unique aspects of the project.
- Project's Budget and Financials: Explain how the requested funds will support the project.
If you have questions, please reach out to [email protected].
Our Team
Ryleigh Angstman
CEC Graduate Student Assistant
LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The University of Michigan is located on the territory of the Anishinaabe people. In 1817, the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Bodewadami Nations made the largest single land transfer to the University of Michigan, ceded in the Treaty of Fort Meigs, so that their children could be educated. We acknowledge the history of native displacement that allowed the University of Michigan to be founded. Today we reaffirm contemporary and ancestral Anishinaabek ties to the land and their profound contributions to this institution.