Full details can be found HERE

Is there someone:

• In your department who is doing a superior job?
• On campus who is exceptionally talented and dedicated?
• Who is truly outstanding and always there to help solve a problem or take on new or challenging tasks?
• Who goes above and beyond to support student success?
• Who has made a significant contribution to enhance effectiveness and efficiency in learning or administration?
• Who has done stellar work to advance inclusion, multiculturalism, or social justice?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, then you may have a nominee for the UMBC Presidential Staff Awards, the Board of Regents USM Staff Awards, the Jakubik Family Endowment Staff Award or the Karen L. Wensch Endowment Award for Outstanding Non-Exempt Staff.

We invite all departments and offices to submit nominations to the Office of the Provost to the attention of the Staff Awards Committee. Take a minute to recognize our most deserving staff colleagues (exempt and non-exempt) by nominating them for one or more of these prestigious awards. The BOR awards require at least 5 consecutive years of USM service and provide a $2,000 stipend. The Presidential Staff Awards require at least 7 years of UMBC service for exempt staff and 5 years for non-exempt staff. They provide a $2,500 stipend. The Jakubik Family Endowment Award requires 5 years at UMBC and provides a $1,000 stipend. The Karen L. Wensch Endowment Award requires 5 years at UMBC and provides a $1,000 stipend.

Hill-Robinson McNair Lecture

Wednesday, September 18th, 5:30 pm

Albin O. Kuhn Library, 7th Floor

Keynote Speaker: Durell M. Callier, Ph.D.

Durell M. Callier, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Leadership at Miami University. Situated at the intersection of queer, cultural, and educational studies, his current research analyzes how Black expressive culture created by Black, queer youth, girls, and women through informal educational institutions and practices are used toward Black survival and knowledge creation.  His research and teaching focuses on the ways Black and queer performances of culture and memory through literary texts, embodied performances and visual art act as educative sites for staging critical resistance, practicing and actualizing freedom.  An artist-scholar, Callier is the co-visionary of an arts-based collective, Hill L. Waters (www.hilllwaters.com), which enacts Black, queer world-making as an embodied pedagogy, research site, and publicly engaged practice. In his research and creative projects, he employs feminist and queer methodologies to explore issues of race, gender, sexuality, love, violence and belonging. Callier has also written, performed, and produced plays (Tell It!: A Contemporary Chorale for Black Youth Voices), performance texts (Bodies on Display; Love, Funk, and Other Thangs; Connected, OUT) and created a mixed media art installation (disclosure, Staging Blackqueer Possibilities).

Dr. Callier is a part of the TRIO family, first a participant in the Maryland Educational Opportunity Centers, then a staff member with the UMBC Classic Upward Bound Program and finally an alumnus of the UMBC McNair Scholar’s Program.

Per President Hrabowski’s April 14, 2018, Budget Update, this year’s budget includes a two percent (2%) faculty and staff cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) beginning January 1, 2019.  We received further notification that eligible employees will receive an additional 0.5% increase and a $500 bonus on April 1, 2019.  The following outlines how these increases will be applied:

• Regular faculty and staff, Contingent II and Graduate Assistants will receive the 2% COLA effective January 1, 2019.  An additional 0.5% COLA will be awarded effective April 1, 2019.
• A one-time $500 bonus will be awarded to all regular faculty and staff, as well as Contingent II employees effective April 1, 2019.  The bonus will be pro-rated for part-time employees (e.g., .50%= $250, .75%=$375, etc.).  Graduate Assistants are not eligible for the one-time bonus.  
• Contingent I employees will not be eligible for the COLA or one-time bonus.

The January 1, 2019 COLA will be reflected in the paycheck issued January 25, 2019.  The April 1, 2019 COLA and bonus (for those eligible employees) will be reflected in the paycheck issued April 19, 2019.  The Human Resources Department will send a separate communication to campus departments regarding the processing of these actions.

 Questions regarding the COLA may be submitted to the HR Help link.

Department of Africana Studies Presents

The Third Annual Taste of Africa

With Africana Studies Alumni Roundtable

4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

March 25, 2019

Commons Skylight

Taste authentic African foods,

meet AFST alumni and network

FREE TO UMBC CAMPUS COMMUNITY

We are excited to announce that we have a slate of officers that were nominated to lead the UMBC Black Faculty and Staff Association (BFSA) this year! They will be responsible for re-establishing the BFSA bylaws and committees, as well as initiating the planning of BFSA events. Although there was only one person nominated in each category, it is appropriate for a vote to take place and your voices to be heard. The ballot also has a place for you to acknowledge your interest in serving on a committee once they are developed by the new officers.  So please, cast your vote! The ballot will be open starting today until Wednesday, Jan 30th, 5 pm.

Note: Since Wanda Soares Nottingham is listed as a candidate, I, Michael Hunt, will be fully in charge of this inaugural election process. If you have any questions or concerns, please reach out to me directly, huntmi1@umbc.edu. Thank you. 

View Description of Positions: 

https://umbc.box.com/v/BFSAOfficers

View Information about those running for positions:

https://umbc.box.com/v/BFSASlate2019

Cast your Vote:

http://bit.ly/UMBCBFSAElections2019

Dear Members of the UMBC Community,

UMBC is fortunate to have so many talented and dedicated Exempt and Non-Exempt staff working in support of our mission. We encourage administrators, faculty, and staff who are familiar with the outstanding contributions of our outstanding staff to nominate them for one of these prestigious awards:

UMBC Presidential Distinguished Staff Awards

Board of Regents USM Staff Awards

Jakubik Family Endowment Staff Award

Karen L. Wensch Endowment Award for Outstanding Non-Exempt Staff

Descriptions of the four different kinds of awards and the eligibility requirements for each (including a new Board of Regents Award for Excellence in Advancing Inclusion, Multiculturalism, and Social Justice), along with a nomination form, can be found at provost.umbc.edu/staffawards/.

The Staff Awards Committee requires submission of only one nomination letter and completion of a brief nomination form, along with the nominee's resume or job history form.

Nominations should be forwarded to the attention of the Staff Awards Committee, in the Office of the Provost, by November 1, 2018.

We look forward to the engagement of the entire UMBC community in recognizing, through award nominations, essential contributions toward UMBC's mission of our outstanding exempt and non-exempt staff.

If you have questions about the staff awards, please address them to Beth Wells, Assistant Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, at bwells@umbc.edu or 410-455-8907.

President Freeman Hrabowski and Provost Philip Rous