GLI Sophomores Host Discussion at Inaugural UM Democracy Summit

On March 27, 2024, in conjunction with a President's Lecture visit from noted democracy scholar Danielle Allen, UM’s Co-Lab for Civic Imagination and its director, Professor Michael Rohd, co-hosted a campus-wide summit on democracy and democracy education. The day featured engagement across multiple locations, student-led activities, faculty voices, creative approaches to participatory dialogues, performances and other art.

Three questions guided the summit:

• What does UM do, in the classroom and beyond, to prepare students to be active participants in a democratic society?
• What do UM students want from the University when it comes to democracy education?
• What can we imagine together - UM students, faculty and staff - that can build and sustain institutions and communities rooted in healthy democratic practices? 

A small team of GLI sophomores, in cooperation with Michael Rohd, led a workshop that invited UM students to design the ways they want college to prepare them for participation in a democratic society.

We are so proud of the leadership these students undertook to host such a meaningful, campus-wide discussion!