This intensive is designed to provide doctoral students with a dedicated week to focus on developing the foundational chapters of their dissertation prospectus, proposal, and dissertation project. Through structured writing sessions, presentations, coaching from researchers and faculty, personalized feedback, and peer support, participants will make significant progress toward completing the first three (3) chapters of their dissertation projects.
Application Deadline:
Applications are due April 4, 2025. Acceptance notifications will be sent during the first week of April 2025. Emailed applications will not be accepted.
Program Fees:
Participants must pay their registration deposit by the appropriate deadlines to hold their spots.
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The early registration fee is $800 before April 11, 2025
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The late registration fee is $1100 after April 11, 2025
To hold your spot, all registration deposits must be received by April 11, 2025. Failure to pay the registration deposit will void your participation in the Sankofa Research Intensive.
RESEARCH INTENSIVE
Dr. Kenjus
Watson
Maroon Science: Implementing Epistemologies of Abolition, Fugitivity, and Sustainability
Description: Dr. Kenjus Watson introduces an applied form of Black/Indigenous Knowledge uniquely designed to address today’s intersecting crises of political turmoil, ecological disasters, escalating wars, and coordinated threats to Black educational autonomy and viability. Rooted in the lived experiences of African descendants who forged new ways of being and knowing on undesirable terrain, this framework emphasizes self-determination, mutuality, protection and community resilience as potent responses to past and present manifestations of anti-blackness and coloniality.
March 5, 2025 | 11 AM EST
2025 Conference
This is our 5th year anniversary! 2025 marks our 5th time offering a FREE, virtual conference for folks around the globe to come together and celebrate the power and potential of Black children. This is our 5th opportunity to identify the ways Black folks show up brilliant, buoyant, and bountiful, ready to teach and learn in schools not prepared to see, serve, and secure us. This is our 5th mix, calling out all the ways schooling spaces are not like us.
Sometimes you gotta
pop out & show 'em!
Class Details
A new module will open each week of the six-week session. There are 36 State of Michigan SCECH credits included in the price of this certificate. Please contact ppat@emich.edu with any questions.
Course Fee (USD): $299.00
Registration Closes On
Monday, March 3, 2025 @ 12:00 AM
The Michigan Department of Education's efforts to support African American students began in 2015 with the creation of the African American Young Men of Promise Initiative (AAYMPI). In 2017, the Initiative expanded to include the support for young Black men and women in Michigan schools through the African American Student Initiative (AASI). To date, the AASI is the only State-level Initiative to reach classrooms and has engaged with over 1,500 Michigan educators.
Each year the Initiative is designed to take educators on a journey that focuses on personal and professional transformation by providing the brave space to reflect and dialogue about topics that are central to our collective humanity. Together educators engage in learning that explores facets of their cultural selves and the intersection of their multiple identities. Additionally, the Initiative equips educators to examine and interrogate individual and collective values and beliefs to eliminate marginalization, disparities, and disproportionality within Michigan schools. Integrating knowledge, skills, and behaviors that systemically eradicate racism and advance diversity, justice, equity, and inclusion is the core of this Initiative.