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"Why do you do it?" I'm so glad you asked.
Sarah Lilly, '17, Information Systems, is Speaker of the UMBC Student Government Association Senate. The most common question I hear from other students when talking about UMBC's Student...
December 13, 2016
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10:42 AM
by Jasir Qiydaar
Jasir Qiydaar, ’18, Media & Communication Studies, was a member of UMBC's 19-member delegation to Imagining America's 2016 national conference. Too often when marginalized communities resist...
November 28, 2016
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11:00 AM
by Andrew Thompson What [can] I do to change the things in this world that I truly believe are hurting us? I will proudly say that I’m a feminist, I support Black Lives Matter, that I’m “here...
November 2, 2016
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4:23 PM
IMPORTANT
UMBC faculty, staff & students can apply
by Beverly Bickel and Eloise Grose UMBC faculty, staff and students can apply for BreakingGround grants to support courses and projects that develop civic agency: the capacity to initiate and...
September 28, 2016
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9:25 AM
by Vanessa Barksdale Can I be candid? Sometimes being adamantly and publicly pro-black is hard. Particularly when you’re supposed to be the one that has a snappy comeback for every single high...
September 22, 2016
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5:27 PM
by Morgan Zepp What do “civic learning” and “democratic engagement” really mean? That question was on my mind a lot last week in Indianapolis, where I served as part of UMBC’s 14-member...
June 15, 2016
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9:32 AM
by Romy Hübler When I flew to Atlanta on June 1st, I expected to be there for just an hour before boarding a plane to my final destination: Indianapolis, site, of the 2016Civic Learning and...
June 15, 2016
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9:30 AM
by Laura Nieman It always shocks and troubles me when I hear of people I grew up with, not even necessarily as close friends, but still grew and matured alongside nonetheless, getting...
February 1, 2016
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7:49 AM
by Andy Clark The bus to downtown Baltimore was due to leave the UMBC campus at 8:00 a.m., but I was not at the stop when it arrived. To make a long story short: I missed the bus twice and had...
November 5, 2015
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1:03 PM
by Manisha Vepa For me, the recent Imagining America conference was the culmination of ten months of meetings, conversations, and logistics planning with other members of the UMBC community....
October 27, 2015
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10:46 AM