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GSA Executive Council Elections

Next Thursday, May 21 at 1 pm

GSA Executive Council Elections will occur remotely next Thursday May 21 at 1 pm on Google Meet.  More instructions to follow, including login instruction, as we get closer to the event....

Posted: May 11, 2020, 4:02 PM

Announcing three 2020 Summer Faculty Fellows

Congratulations!

Congratulations to the 2020 Center for Social Science Scholarship Summer Fellows!   Keisha McIntosh Allen Assistant Professor, Department of Education “The Souls of Black Teachers: Theorizing...

Posted: May 8, 2020, 12:01 PM

Find out about Teaching English in the US or Abroad

May 12th from 3 to 4 pm On-line Session

On May 12th, the UMBC Department of Education will have an online information session for anyone interested in the ESOL post-baccalaureate certificate (and English teaching abroad and in the US...

Posted: May 8, 2020, 11:40 AM

Virtual Graduate Student Town Hall on Friday May 8th!

Dear Graduate Students,  We are approaching the end of the spring 2020 semester and find ourselves in a very different place from where we were at the start of the semester in January. The...

Posted: May 7, 2020, 3:19 PM

National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity

NCFDD Membership for grad students and postdocs

Graduate Students and Postdocs,         Just a friendly reminder that all faculty, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows that UMBC has an institutional membership to the National Center...

Posted: May 6, 2020, 10:32 AM

Tym Wowk Successfully Defends his Dissertation

On April 30, 2020 Tymofey Wowk of LLC Cohort 15 successfully defended his dissertation and earned the title of Doctor of Philosophy. His virtual defense went very smoothly and he gave an...

Posted: May 4, 2020, 9:05 AM

Ali to Lebron: The Long Walk Towards Freedom

Scoop Jackson and David Zirin, May 7, 5pm

Join Scoop Jackson and Dave Zirin for an unfiltered conversation about the intersection of sports and politics in a time of crisis.

Posted: April 29, 2020, 7:15 PM

Intersectionality Matters

A Conversation with Kimberle Crenshaw May 5, 5pm

Tuesday, May 5, 5:00 PM EDT Coronavirus did not create the stark social, financial, and political inequalities that define life for so many of us, but it has made them more strikingly visible...

Posted: April 29, 2020, 7:11 PM

Mediapolis seeking student responses to COVID-19

Send video or audio essays, photographs, mixed media, prose!

The editors of Mediapolis are soliciting student responses to the COVID-19 pandemic for a special installment of the Student Voices section of the journal. Students are welcome to respond in a...

Posted: April 29, 2020, 7:07 PM