Congratulations to Kaitlin Smith! #UMBCproud of MCS student Kaitlin Smith, featured as one of the top grads of the year. Check out the Class of 2017 feature. 

Portrait by Marlayna Demond '11 for UMBC.
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"The Baltimore Sun's latest special section on education highlights several UMBC programs designed to prepare students to start or advance careers in new areas that combine the most recent innovations of different fields...

Read the full articles in The Baltimore Sun's special section on education."
]]> Our own Dr. Snyder and Giselle Nakpil are quoted in the latest special section on education in The Baltimore Sun. See the UMBC news story here. 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A selection of these images will be displayed alongside interview excerpts of the subjects, as well as photos and documents from Baltimore's often neglected Asian American past. ]]> Existence//Resistance is a photo exhibition in which we invited Asian and Pacific Islander community members in the city to take photos of their daily lives on disposable cameras. 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AFST 100 - Introduction to The Black Experience
Section: 01-LEC (2486)
Session: Twelve Wk
Days/Times: We 6:00pm - 9:10pm
Instructor: Karen Sutton
Status: Open
AFST 213 - Africa: Culture and Development
Section: 01-LEC (2013)
Session: Four Wk 1
Days/Times: MoWeFr 9:00am - 12:10pm
Instructor: Gloria Chuku
Status: Open
This is a combined section class
AFST 245 - Introduction to Black Music
Section: 01-LEC (1567)
Session: Six Wk 2
Days/Times: TuTh 1:00pm - 4:10pm
Instructor: Kwame Ansah-Brew
Status: Open
This is a combined section class
AFST 347 - Gender, Race, and Media
Section: 01-LEC (2646)
Session: Six Wk 1
Days/Times: Tu 1:00pm - 4:10pm
Instructor: Kathryn Kein
Status: Open
This is a combined section class
AFST 370 - Black Women: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Section: 01-LEC (2336)
Session: Four Wk 2
Days/Times: TuThFr 9:00am - 12:10pm
Instructor: Tammy Henderson
Status: Open
This is a combined section class
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Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
12-13 October 2017
 
General goals
This conference aims at exploring the relationship between individual language skills and people’s integration in the economy and in society in general with a special focus on the labour market. Language skills can be viewed as human capital having a positive influence on people’s income, employability and social inclusion. This holds for immigrants, refugees and mobile people who can benefit from the knowledge of the official language(s) of the host country, but also for citizens learning foreign languages and using them in the workplace.

Research questions
The number of potential research questions that are relevant for the conference is large. Here we present a non-exhaustive list that can help orienting prospective participants:
Do language skills significantly contribute to the participation of individuals in the labour market?
Which languages are more rewarded in the labour market and at which level of fluency? What differences among countries or regions can be observed in this respect?
Do language skills improve international economic integration and trade?
How does language competence affect the social inclusion of migrants and refugees? Which sociolinguistic barriers can hinder inclusion?
Are language skills an important variable in employers’ recruiting decisions?
Do some economic sectors make a more intensive use of language skills than other?
What is the role of language policy in facilitating social inclusion and social cohesion?
How do language education policies affect individuals’ migration decisions? Do foreign language skills significantly facilitate international labour mobility and therefore the economic integration of the European and the global labour market as a whole?
What is the relationship between language skills in a lingua franca (e.g. English) and social integration in the host country where the lingua franca is not the locally dominant language? What differences can be found among low-skilled migrants and high-skilled (or “expats”) in this respect?
Does a lingua franca increase social inclusion, or does it promote the emergence of separate networks of communication? What are the sociological implications of this?
 

Submission and deadlines
The length of abstracts should not exceed 350 words. Abstracts must be submitted to the address “templito@hu-berlin.de” by 15 May 2017. The successful applicants will be notified by 30 June 2017.
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The Summer School will consist of the description and analysis of the fundamental concepts of Linguistic Policy, Linguistic Planning and Linguistic Policy Evaluation, as well as its objectives and methods. During the four sessions of the Summer School, the exponents will refer to specific cases that they have investigated. Of the four sessions, three of them will be held in English and one in Spanish. At the same time, there will be a series of lectures related to the Summer School topics.

The Summer School will last a week, with 20 hours, in a total of 4 days (except on August the 2nd, which is a holiday). Each invited speaker will give a four-hour workshop. We are considering the possibility that postgraduate students of the University of Costa Rica receive a credit for their attendance*.

[...]

INFORMATION ABOUT THIS SUMMER SCHOOL
Dates: From July the 31st to August the 4th, 2017.

Duration: 4 days, for a 20 hour total.

Type of certificate given: Participation or attendance, depending on each case*.

Deadline for registration: Tuesday, June 6th, 2017, with limited capacity.
Registration fee: General public: $100,00 USD.
Students and functionaries of the University of Costa Rica do not pay the registration fee.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The registration process for foreign participants will begin on May 12th, 2017 on this website. Before this date, the participants can send an email expressing their interest in the activity and their possibilities on attending to it. The direct contact will be Yislén Barboza at yislen.barboza@ucr.ac.cr, for this purpose or for any other questions regarding the Seminar.

For more information please visit: http://inil.ucr.ac.cr/actividades/lplpe17-en/
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A message for our LLC alums: 

Fulbright is holding a webinar on Wednesday May, 10 from 2pm to 3pm, on Fulbright Grants for Postdoctoral and Early Career Candidates. Webinar registration is necessary.

These webinars tend to have useful information and program staff are very helpful. Fulbright applications are due on August 1st.

For the purposes of the Fulbright Scholar Program, an applicant is eligible for postdoctoral awards if they will finish all of the requirements for their Ph.D. program by February 1, 2018, or have received their Ph.D. in the last five years (unless otherwise stipulated by an award description). Below is a list of awards open only to early career/postdoctoral candidates, meaning that applicants will be evaluated alongside fellow recent graduates. This list is by no means complete. A list of additional opportunities is available in our Catalog of Awards.


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"This stress can weigh heavily on students during their studies and impact their career choices afterward — and it can even dissuade people from graduate school in the first place. While financial concerns may not be completely avoidable, there are steps grad students can take to reduce their money worries."

Erin Berry, LLC cohort 15, star of the article, tells about her experience as a full time PhD candidate AND full time lecturer in the area. Read on to hear about her life after graduation and about how she eased her financial anxiety. 

Dont delay: Click the 'website' button below!


This news was originally posted on Financial Smarts @ UMBC
http://my.umbc.edu/groups/financialsmarts/posts/67706
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