Category: UFM-Ann Arbor

UMS Presents Arab World and its Diaspora
https://ums.org/series/the-arab-world-and-its-diaspora/ Includes Four Events in Ann Arbor and Detroit. Season Tickets available starting Monday, May 4 at 10 am. Southeast Michigan is home to a historic, celebrated, and diverse Arab community. This season, an expert advisory group composed of artists, scholars, and community leaders from our region has helped UMS co-curate a portfolio of performances ...

Dearborn Open Mic – Michael Fawaz – Dreams of Water
Dearborn Open Mic - Michael Fawaz - Dreams of Water P1/2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veMTmVgSGUg Dearborn Open Mic - Michael Fawaz - Dreams of Water P2/2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b90BmCqgtaE&feature=youtu.be Dearborn Blog Podcast for Apple devices: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/dearborn-open-mic Podcast for Android device:https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/dearborn-blog/dearborn-open-mic Open Mic Archive: Dearbornblog.com/openmic Follow us on Facebook: Facebook.com/dearbornblog Follow us on Twitter: Twitter.com/dearbornblog Follow us on Instagram: ...

State Board Appoints Michael Rice As Next State Superintendent
May 7, 2019 LANSING – The State Board of Education today selected Dr. Michael Rice to be Michigan’s next State Superintendent. Following a full day interviewing three finalists, the State Board voted 5-3 to appoint the 56-year-old Rice, over the other candidates: Wayne RESA Superintendent Randy Liepa, and Ann Arbor Public Schools Superintendent Jeanice Swift. ...

GenEd: All Testing Left Behind
Testing, not kids, is what's failing across America.

المنتدى الثقافي في ديربورن – واقع النظام التعليمي في الولايات المتحدة للأستاذ حيدر مازن [Video | Arabic]
جزء 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1nBWbX_7Z0&feature=youtu.be جزء 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjgUZI6TPUY&feature=youtu.be جزء 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmnCLAEMF4c&feature=youtu.be جزء 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPpRVrDWqy8

Dr. Kristine Ajrouch: Effective Strategies to Help Youth Cope with Prejudice and Discrimination
Dr. Kristine Ajrouch, is Professor of Sociology at Eastern Michigan University. She is also Adjunct Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. Her research has focused, for over twenty years, on Arab Americans in the U.S. beginning with ethnic identity formation among adolescent children of immigrants followed by a ...

GenEd: “After Porn Wins”: How Delusions of Censorship Are Destroying Our Kids
Your children already KNOW.

Nadine Jawad, VP of UFM’s Central Student Government, meets with Arab American High School Student Government Members
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA7h5gPZBOs

GenEd: The Roads Not Taken
Doctor. Lawyer. Pharmacist. Engineer. If all else fails, be a teacher. "It is concerning—if not blatantly outrageous—that an entire community’s sense of accomplishment boils down to these narrow, shallow, and utterly invalid standards of success."