Semester in Detroit

02/02/2026

The latest edition of Detroiters Speak - Minding the Gaps: Transit Justice Edition kicks off on Thursday, February 12th at 6:30pm. This year's series is being organized by our Detroit community partners - Support Detroit Transit, Detroit People's Platform, and Detroit Disability Power

Our UM partners are University of Michigan Detroit Center and the UM Dearborn Office of Community Engaged Learning. Click the QR code to register - we look forward to seeing you!

More info here - https://lsa.umich.edu/sid/detroiters-speak/winter2026-minding-the-gaps-Detroiters-Speak-on-Transit-Justice.html

04/21/2025

From our buddies at Clark Park Coalition: Celebrate Earth Day with us! 🌏💚 Join the community on April 22 (TOMORROW!) @ 12-4P for a day of meaningful action and fun. We are providing tools and light refreshments for volunteers! Please scan the QR code to sign up.

03/27/2025

From our buddies at Detroit Justice Center: Did you or a family member lose your home due to foreclosure between the years of 2015 to 2020? You may be due proceeds on the sale of your home.

Please reach out for help in filing the claims to your proceeds.
Text REPAY to 67485

DEADLINE: March 31st, 2025

Take a look at the city website where you can find the claims process that we will be helping you with at the link in our bio or scan the QR code.

03/25/2025

We're 1 week away from the next installment of Detroiters Speak: Rethinking Education Justice. Let's dig into organizing on April 1 & 8 with 482Forward!

This series is FREE and open to the public. Info + registration: https://rb.gy/w4lkge

In partnership with The James and Grace Lee Boggs School, Racquet Up Detroit & University of Michigan Marsal Family School of Education LEAPS.

03/19/2025

History. Motown. The urban farm. It's all up for grabs in SiD's community classroom. Help us go further in Detroit this Giving Blueday. Support paid internships in Detroit: https://myumi.ch/9p56E

03/19/2025

It's ! Support paid internships in Detroit by helping SiD establish a sliding-scale support program to aid interns and community orgs in 2026. Learn more + contribute here: https://myumi.ch/9p56E

02/05/2025

Detroiters Speak returns February 11th at the James and Grace Lee Boggs School.

Opening panel: "Says Who? Deciding What Schools Teach"

Speakers will include: Julia Putnam (Principal, Boggs School), Baba Malik Yakini, (Detroit activist, founder, Nsoroma Institute)
Kija Gray (Detroit Educator and Home-Schooler), and Michelle Fecteau (Director, Center for Labor and Community Studies, UM-Dearborn)

Facilitated by Rose Gorman, Semester in Detroit Program Manager.

Register below!

Please use the form below to register for Detroiters Speak: Rethinking Education Justice. This program is free and open to the public. Each session takes place Tuesdays @ 6:30-8:30p and includes dinner and dynamic conversations, activities, and take-home readings. Dinner is served each week at 6:30p...

12/30/2024

🤓 A few things to remember as you wrap up your application for SiD's summer program. *Applications due 1/1/25*
https://shorturl.at/xUdu8

12/04/2024

Don't miss this dynamic dialogue tonight with four amazing Detroit organizers (and close friends of the Semester in Detroit program). Moderated by Stephen Ward, SiD Faculty Director. See you at 6:30pm tonight in South Quad.

11/19/2024

Don’t sleep on SiD in Winter 2025! For the first time ever, we’re excited to offer Baba Jamon Jordan’s Detroit History class in the winter term. This course is open to all U-M students across campuses. Round trip transportation between Ann Arbor and the UM Detroit Center is provided for registered students.
🎬 Bryanda Washington

11/07/2024

Want a peek at Detroit history with the Official Historian for the City of Detroit? Join SiD faculty member Jamon Jordan and Michigan Community Scholars Program (MCSP) for a Day in Detroit next Sat. 11/16.

Registration includes roundtrip transportation from Ann Arbor campus, history tour, lunch, and museum admission.
RSVP --> https://shorturl.at/cROiX

11/04/2024

Don’t miss us this summer. Apply by January 1 for Summer 2025 internships. Link in our bio. 👍🏽

🎬 Bryanda Washington