EILEEN LAPPIN WEISER CENTER FOR THE LEARNING SCIENCES PROJECT MANAGER

We are seeking a colleague to manage & organize activities, events, and projects for the newly created Eileen Lappin Weiser Center for the Learning Sciences in collaboration with the Director and Steering Committee. Housed at the Marsal Family School of Education at the University of Michigan, the mission of the Eileen Lappin Weiser Center for the Learning Sciences is to propel the innate capacity for human learning and to foster relationships that lead to wondering, understanding, becoming, and thriving.  The center designs tools and practices that support human development across the lifespan to advance equitable and just learning systems across time and place. Center affiliates are learners and interdisciplinary scholars committed to equitable learning that reflects the knowledge, goals, and priorities of communities where they collaborate. The Lappin Weiser Center brings a relational and humanistic approach to work on learning in addition to technical expertise.

Center affiliates continuously learn about learning, balancing expertise with a receptivity to seeing things differently in ways that can fundamentally transform themselves, their projects, and their impacts.

We seek an energetic and enthusiastic colleague who is fascinated by human learning and committed to equitable collaboration with communities to join us to coordinate and manage this exciting new endeavor.

This position will report to Leslie Rupert Herrenkohl, Ph.D., Director, Eileen Lappin Weiser Center for the Learning. 

Link to position: https://careers.umich.edu/job_detail/251069/eileen-lappin-weiser-center-learning-sciences-project-manager