The Enrichment Summer Program (ESP) provides three weeks of veterinary experience focused on leadership development, academic preparation, and career knowledge for undergraduate students who have selected veterinary medicine as their career choice. T...

Detroit Mastering Academics Demonstrating Excellence (M.A.D.E) Scholars Program focuses on college transition, graduation, and career development for students who have graduated from Detroit public and charter high schools who also reside in the City...

The program provides students the opportunity to build a foundation for work and a career in an app economy. Academy students can expect to work on real-world challenges and connect with community and industry partners. The academy is designed to emp...

Located in the MSU Detroit Center, the office does admissions, financial-aid, outreach, and recruitment within the City of Detroit.

The Alliance is a partnership that is being developed between the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities, Sylvia Moy Foundation, and Masterpiece Studio to bring educational programming to Detroit communities. Classes in audio recording and mu...

MSUCAC, in close partnership with the national College Advising Corps (CAC), and the Michigan College Access Network (MCAN), is seeking to help more Michigan students pursue post-secondary education. Recent MSU graduates will serve as AmeriCorps memb...

Work with Stellantis to help with diversity sourcing at multiple tier levels in the electronics innovation supply chain.

Activities were designed to make college and career information accessible to a broad group of students and parents. They provide exposure to career fields through pre-college programs and community organizations working to engage young people in a v...

This USDA Risk Management Agency Co-Operative Agreement Project is a one-year project that is educating adult small-scale farmers who identify as a person of color, BIPOC, socially-disadvantaged, underserved. )utreach, engagement and zoom-based educa...

Health education programming tailored to the needs of older, African American populations. A Community Advisory Board has been built to provide counsel and direction on future program needs.

A multi-university effort to leverage and coordinate university resources in support of neighborhood initiatives in the HOPE Village community. It is an innovative model of community–campus collaboration which builds on the assets of all groups in or...

The program addresses specific topics that affect the vibrancy of core city neighborhoods with reference to smart growth, livability, and community-based social and economic policies that build from within and cater, primarily, to current residents. ...

The following two projects facilitate a pipeline to forestry education for underrepresented students. 1) A Strategic Alliance for Building, Expanding, and Sustaining Pathways to Careers in Forestry, and 2) Seeding the Ground: Growing the Next Generat...

In this USDA-funded project, a team of seven NGOs serving beginning farmers, Extension educators, and members from the Center for Regional Food Systems, are developing curriculum that engages beginning farmers by providing technical information on pr...

The Michigan Good Food Fund is a $30 million loan fund that supports good food entrepreneurs, particularly women and BIPOC owners, working to increase access to healthy food and spark economic opportunity in places that need it most. Serving low inco...

The Michigan Good Food Charter is an action and advocacy framework that promotes collaboration to advance a “good food system” in Michigan, that is a thriving food economy distinguished by equity, health, and sustainability. The Charter was initially...

Wayne State University's Shiffman Medical Library serves as NLM National Outreach Library with the goal of disseminating trusted health care and scientific research to populations who have lacked access to and are underrepresented in medical research...

A goal of the program is to increase the number of early care and education providers utilizing farm to education within Michigan, thus increasing access to local, healthy, affordable food for ECE settings. Outputs of the program include Identifying ...

The goal of the network is to make Michigan a leader in developing shared language for providers and producers in Farm to ECE through effective collaboration, deliberate networking, and thoughtful and intentional communication, thinking about Farm to...

Robert Wilson annually presents to the Quiet Adventures Symposium held at Michigan State University to help promote conservation of natural resources and recreation including expanding diversity and accessibility of our natural resources. His present...

Robert Wilson worked with Dr. Chuck Nelson from the Department of Sustainability to produce a documentary video of the Great Lake to Lake trail, which is the states longest destinations trail and connects Lake Michigan with Lake Huron and all the com...

Redevelopment of a traveling exhibition, creation of an online version of the exhibition, and development of extensive educational curriculum materials and educational resources.

Suggested the novel and then facilitated a discussion among all of the employees of the nonprofit organization, CultureSource, based in Detroit. Toni Morrison's SULA led to a wonderful discussion of literature, the genre of the novel, and issues of g...

The scholarship involves developing and refining anti-racist approaches to the teaching of Black language in partnership with classroom teachers and Black students. This focus responds to an urgent need in the field of English education: how to build...

A collaboration between the Department of African American and African Studies (AAAS), African Studies Center (ASC), and the Africa America Institute (AAI) to diversify the curriculum of the University Preparatory Schools in Detroit. The goal of the ...