Student and Staff Highlights

Savery Nandigama Senior Individual Award of the Year Roles in MESA: BHM Student Coordinator and PIE Team member

Nida Syed, Graduate Student of the Year Award Role in MESA: Graduate Student Intern

Zoi Crampton and John Solomon Cross-Cultural Programming Individual Award Role in MESA: Native American Heritage Month Student Coordinators

Peer Inclusive Education (PIE) Team Social Change Group Award Role in MESA: Anti-Racism & Coalition Building Teach-In student facilitators

Community and Sense of Belonging

This is the third and our last year MESA surveyed the sense of community and belonging through participants in MESA events and programs in addition to trying to have a better understanding if MESA events and programs have contributed to enhancing overall educational and cultural understanding, particularly from the lens of race and ethnicity. This year, we saw a drop in the number of responses to the survey as well as a lower percentage on all four key questions.

74.3% Agree that the MESA event/program they participated in fostered a sense of belonging regarding race and ethnicity at U-M.

83.3% Agree that the MESA event/program they participated in broadened their view on identities and cultural contribution on campus.

83.6% Agree that the MESA event/program they participated in increased their understanding of the community.

87.4% Agree that the MESA event/program reinforced the importance of DEI work to them and the roles MESA plays in our community respectively.