I’m confused. Where can I use the prize money again?
Anywhere that you can use your red card. For example:

Click here for a more detailed list of locations where you can use your Red ID.

Rules for Entry:
To enter the contest you have to share your best financial literacy advice. This can be done in any way that is visible to other people. You could:

Once you've shared your advice, send it to financialsmartsawards@gmail.com for official consideration. Just send a screenshot of the post, or send us the file if your entry is a video. 

Submitted content must not contain illicit material, including but not limited to foul language, drug use, and violence. Keep it PG.

When are entries due?
March 1st, 2018. 

How are winners determined?
A handful of finalists will be hand-selected by a panel of judges. Those entries will then be posted to myUMBC, where the campus community will vote on the best entries. The winners will be the entries that make it past the judges and receive the most community votes from students, staff, and faculty.

Who are the judges?
Members of the UMBC Financial Literacy and Education Committee.

What are the judges looking for?
Entries that are creative, offer practical personal finance tips, and promote financial literacy.

What is financial literacy?

Check out financialsmarts.umbc.edu and find out!

To read the full article, visit this link. 

Dear Students and Faculty Affiliates,

Welcome back to campus for the Spring 2018 semester!

The Asian Studies Program would like to remind you to please attend our Chinese New Year Celebration lunch on Wednesday, February 14 at noon in Fine Arts 558 South (please use elevator closest to the Engineering Building).  This will be not only a celebration of the Chinese New Year, but also a chance to catch up with faculty and your friends after winter break.

Please let us know in advance if you have food allergies.

No need to RSVP, just show up.  This event is open to all Asian Studies majors/minors/certificate students as well as those who are interested in the program.

Application Deadline: Friday, 2/16 at 8:00am

Recommendations Deadline: Wednesday, 2/21 at 12:00pm

The group interviews will be held Saturday, 2/17 from 10am-1pm in Fine Arts 15. All applicants are invited to attend these interviews. 

Apply at mcnair.umbc.edu/apply 

The Race and Inclusion Scholars (RIS) are having their first Wednesday Conversation on February 14th in PUP 204 from 12-1.   Refreshments will be provided.

Topic is: What's your preference?  The nature of interracial relationships in today's society.

This panel explores L2 education discourses that support or hinder pedagogies promoting language learning as situated communication practices. We understand situated practices as learning how to become an effective member of a community by gaining familiarity and some degree of control over its relevant social processes and practices--including oral and written textual production and interpretation--with recognition of the social, cultural, and historical embeddedness of texts. Calls for teaching language and culture as integrated and situated practices have recurred for over two decades, however, while curricular responses to such appeals for change have been successful in specific, localized instructional contexts, large-scale paradigm change has not yet occurred, and traditional ideologies and practices continue to pervade the field of L2 education. Furthermore, methods course materials and practices continue to foreground historical perspectives and eclecticism, rather than guide future teachers in systematic, in-depth exploration of a single, principled approach that aligns with notions of language learning and use as situated communication practices. Proposals are invited that examine the current discursive landscape around L2 teaching and learning. Of particular interest are papers that propose ways of moving the dominant discursive needle forward toward effective paradigm change in L2 education. 

Please send abstracts (maximum 200 words) to Beatrice Dupuy (bdupuy@email.arizona.edu) and Kristen Michelson (Kristen.Michelson@ttu.edu) by March 15, 2018.

&NOW is renowned for being one of the few festivals devoted to innovative writing--writing as an art form--thinking about writing, and interdisciplinary explorations such as new poetics, performances, narrative, critical, electronic and multimedia projects. In addition to presenting new work, its book fair, panels and readings foster conversation about past, present, and future literary concerns and movements.

Come be a part of the conversation!

Proposals for readings of fiction, poetry, critical, e-lit, hybrid or other works will be accepted on a rolling basis until June 30, 2018.

Proposals and more information at: https://www.andnow2018.com/

In this panel, we welcome discussions on the history of police brutality in communities of color throughout the twentieth century. All regions and eras are welcome. 

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Also, you can read the full CFP for the AHA conference here. Abstracts are to be submitted on February 15th.