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Financial Aid Toolkit

This website contains tools for future and current U-M students. Resources include UM-specific cost of attendance, budget information, and federal resources for student financial aid.

Nature Rx (App)

Nature Rx connects you with 100 nature spots around Ann Arbor to refresh and destress! Try these nature break tips anytime, anywhere, to slow down, de-stress, and notice nature. 

Heart Mapping Drawing Activity

This 12-page worksheet provides diagrams and prompts that show individuals how to map their growth, trace their surroundings, map their space, think about daily rituals, and list familiar habits. Facilitators can guide students through the prompts and worksheet pages individually or through all 12. They can also show this summary video to help explain how creating a heart map can help students process their emotions.

Three Gratitudes Activity

The Three Gratitudes Activity can be used as an individual journal activity or an icebreaker activity with a group.

YouTube Video of Rackham Financial Advice

Intro to financial aid and scholarships for U-M students. Covers common types of expenses & funding, characteristics of graduate school funding, finding information about funding, understanding the terms of an award, info about the Rackham Fellowships Office, and more.

Sweetland Writing Guides

These guides cover a wide range of writing techniques such as understanding an assignment, incorporating quotations, abstracts, checking citations, and presenting results from experiments in reports. The guides typically contain a brief overview of the concept in question, and a set of explanations and examples.

Thriving Scale

This tool is typically used in a reflection space to help someone process where they may fall on the Thriving scale. It can be used to structure a discussion about thriving, striving and surviving based on students’ current experiences.

University Career Alumni Network (UCAN)

The Career Center provides students with access to the University Career Alumni Network (UCAN). Current students can connect with U-M alumni and other professionals who have volunteered to have career-related conversations. Students can simply sign in, search for alumni who share their interests, and find a time to talk.

Values Cards

This document contains a set of cards, each of which contains a value such as trust, logic, or teamwork, and a short definition. You can use these cards to help structure various discussions with students about how values align to behaviors and actions.

Resume Resources

UCC offers a range of sample and template resumes, as well as information about the purpose of a resume, formatting a resume, improving a resume, and optimizing a resume for ATS.