IHP Updates

The Inclusive History Project Teaching Fund, which was created to bring undergraduate and graduate students into the work of researching, interpreting, and sharing U-M’s history, is open for applications for Course Development Grants of up to $5,000 and Course Redesign Grants of up to $3,000.

The Communities in Conversation Symposium, set for May 21, will allow participants to work together to re-envision and re-connect archival collections to communities in engaging and ethical ways.

The fifth installment in our series of IHP Dispatches is written by the Indigenous Advisory Board for Restoring Native Voice at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, a project funded by an IHP Research & Engagement Fund grant. The board shares the story behind the project and the guidance, presence, and stewardship that made project activities possible.

The Inclusive History Project is seeking co-directors of research for the Dearborn and Flint campuses for the 2026-27 academic year. The co-directors will help lead the historical research activities of the IHP and contribute to efforts to engage these campuses and their neighboring communities in the IHP's work. These are one-year administrative appointments at 0.50 FTE open to tenured and tenure-track faculty members on the Dearborn and Flint campuses. Applications are due by May 5, 2026.

Whether it’s been decades, years or months since they last set foot on campus, Wolverines of all generations are invited home this fall to celebrate 70 years of the University of Michigan-Flint and the community that has helped shape it. UM-Flint’s Homecoming, themed “Wolverine Rewind,” will run Oct. 15-17. The event will look back on the university’s history, celebrate the people on campus today, and build toward what comes next.

The new UM-Dearborn Student Publication Database is online. The digitized collection, which includes 1,335 issues of The Michigan Journal, spans from 1962 to 2024.

The University of Michigan-Flint has spent recent years working to deepen its roots in the city it calls home. A new exhibition in the university's campus pavilion asks visitors to hold that present-day commitment alongside a more complicated chapter of the institution's past, while also showing the impact that confronting that history had on the students who built it.

A free University of Michigan symposium in May will bring together archivists and community members to examine how historical collections can better serve the people they document.