Volume 3: Do It Yourself

by Josh Olsen, (he/him), Head of User Services, Mardigian Library The first time I held a zine it was love at first sight. It was 2008, and I had a couple poems in a small zine from the UK called Gloom Cupboard, before it became a website. I had previously published poems in online and…

By Maya Barak Put simply, A Zine About Students As Partners could not exist without the students. In a way, we’re all students on the zBoard, regardless of our official position or role at the university. I have personally learned a great deal from other members of our team, including contributors to this and past…

By Antonios M. Koumpias and Stuart DiDonato Antonios M. Koumpias, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Economics One of the parts of my job I enjoy the most is engaging with students in research. As an Assistant Professor of Economics in the Department of Social Sciences at the College of Arts, Sciences, and Letters (CASL), I have…

By Faith Billinger, Autumn Tashman, and Ben Wielechowski INTRO Ben Wielechowski During the spring of 2021, I embarked on a collaborative process with a handful of former students to put together a textbook that catered better to the Narrative Journalism course I teach at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. The genesis for this project began with…

By Aamina Rehman, Alan Wiggins, Autumm Caines, and Raya Samet (author names are listed alphabetically by first name) Anyone associated with higher education should be concerned about textbook costs. Students, in particular, have a vested interest in understanding this issue, since they bear the direct costs of decisions regarding requirements for paid resources in a…

By Dr. Margaret Murray and Moejay Jaafar In 2021, Dr. Margaret Murray and UM-Dearborn alumni Mohamad “Moejay” Jaafar worked together on a podcast called PR-Maggedon exploring public relations. They pair co-designed in the hopes of engaging students in a flexible and familiar medium during the heights of the pandemic. Below Margaret and Moejay discuss their…