Center for the Continuing Education of Women scholarship winners, 1971
Courtesy of the Alumni Association of the University of Michigan
University of Michigan Library Digital Collections
This photo appeared in the June 1971 issue of Michigan Alumnus with the following caption: “Nine women, selected from among 272 applicants, have received $1,500 merit scholarships from the University’s Center for the Continuing Education of Women. Seven of the nine are pictured here. Seated (left to right) are Marilyn Leese, Jane Wolfe, Carol Taylor, Susan Stokes and Kay Bauman. Standing (left to right) are Edith Withey and Carolyn Houser.”
A journey of institutional self-discovery committed to challenging our conception of the past and taking action to build a truly inclusive present and future.
In Fall 2024 and Winter 2025, a range of courses supported by the IHP Teaching Fund or associated with ongoing IHP Project Sites will be offered on the Flint, Dearborn, and Ann Arbor campuses. These courses play a critical role in contributing to the IHP’s research and engaging students and faculty in expanding knowledge of the university’s history.
The IHP is committed to building a project that covers the whole university and engages deeply and meaningfully across and beyond our campuses.
A Comprehensive History
The IHP is charged with studying and documenting a comprehensive history of the University of Michigan that is attentive to diversity, equity, and inclusion and stretches across the university’s three campuses and Michigan Medicine.
Engagement
Through the histories we tell and the partnerships we create, the IHP is committed to engaging with faculty, staff, students, alumni, patients, and neighbors. This broad and deep engagement is fundamental to a fuller understanding of the university’s past and its contemporary effects.
Reparative Efforts
The IHP must foreground the continuing impact of the university’s history on its present, and build out from a renewed knowledge and acknowledgment of our institution’s past to make concrete commitments to reshaping its future.
Intercultural Center staff participating in the UM-Flint Homecoming Parade, Sept. 2022
Courtesy of University of Michigan-Flint Intercultural Center
Rosa Parks receives honorary doctorate at UM-Dearborn Commencement, 1991
University of Michigan-Dearborn Campus Archive
Parks was awarded an honorary Doctor of Law degree.
Our Origin
The IHP was announced as a presidential initiative in June 2022. It emerged in response to contexts that include the rich histories of campus activism and institutional support for diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts here at the university, historical name reviews that have taken place on the Ann Arbor campus over the last several years, and the broad movement of other colleges and universities to reckon with their histories. It also builds on wide-ranging efforts to study and reckon with U-M’s history that are underway on our campuses.
In July 2023, the IHP’s Framing & Design Committee released a design for the IHP’s next five years that includes a research plan and priorities, recommendations for additional project activities, and an articulation of the values and commitments that must guide the IHP’s work.
The IHP is engaged in rigorous, scholarly work to study and document the university’s full history. Our research is organized by four Frames, which are essential themes that provide a structure for the project’s wide-ranging research.
President Ono’s February 2024 video message on the IHP
The IHP is charged with telling a more complex and more inclusive history of our university, one that necessarily includes all of our campuses, spans more than 200 years, and crucially – addresses our successes and our failures when it comes to matters of diversity, inclusion and equity.
Apply for Inclusive History Project-Dearborn Student Internships
The Inclusive History Project-Dearborn is looking for student interns for Summer and Fall 2024 to substantively contribute to important research initiatives for The 1959 Project. Apply by March 15 for fullest consideration!
Apply for the Inclusive History Project Student Advisory Committee
The Inclusive History Project (IHP) is forming a student advisory committee to engage students interested in the IHP’s wide-ranging efforts to study and reckon with the University of Michigan's (U-M) history and create a truly inclusive present and future.
The University of Michigan’s Inclusive History Project is continuing its efforts to engage members of the university community by developing a tri-campus student advisory committee and creating a research and engagement fund.
