The Dissertation Fellowship is designed to provide doctoral candidates at UMBC an opportunity to devote the necessary concentration and attention towards finishing the writing of their dissertations.  The Fellowship is specifically designed for students with full-time jobs off-campus, for those without any financial support who are making steady progress with their writing, and for whom having additional time and resources would permit them to complete the process more expeditiously.  This Fellowship is not available as an option for students with available graduate assistantship support.

 

The Dissertation Fellowship could provide promising doctoral candidates with financial support so that they may reduce their current obligations and partially offset any reductions in salary or increases in expenses.  No additional work assignments other than work on the dissertation are to be associated with this support. 

 

Priority will be given to students who demonstrate that the Fellowship will allow them the needed time to complete their writing and to make revisions in time to defend the work within a realistic but expeditious time frame.  Awards will be made to students who have demonstrated a commitment to provide at least 20 hours per week for an entire academic semester to writing the dissertation. 

 

Dissertation Fellowship awards are available for Fall 2015. The duration of an award is for one semester.  The maximum level of support for Fall is a total stipend of $8,239.88 per Fellowship plus tuition remission for two credits of 899. 

 

To be considered for a Dissertation Fellowship, the Ph.D. candidate must:

1)  describes the state of the dissertation and the probable impact of receipt of the Fellowship on the progress toward completion; and,

2) verifies that no UMBC-administered financial support is available for the student;

Applications for Fall 2015 Dissertation Fellowships will be accepted by the Office of the Associate Dean of the Graduate School until 4:30 p.m., Friday, July 17, 2015.  A committee consisting of three members of the Graduate School Leadership Team will review applications and announce recipients of the Fellowship by July 24, 2015.  Selection will be based on the extent of convincing evidence that the award will provide the critical element need to complete the dissertation

DownloadFall 2015 Dissertation Fellowship Application

For more information or to submit to the UMBC Review, click here. 

Residential Life is opening a search for a Graduate Assistant Coordinator for Facilities, and a Graduate Conferences Coordinator. Both postings are 20 hours a week, 12-month positions that include tuition remission, on-campus housing, 10 meals a week while the university is in session, and a financial stipend as compensation. If you know of a new graduate student or a potential candidate for one or either position, please encourage them to apply! 

Apply by email to Frank Caldwell at caldwell@umbc.edu. The best consideration deadline to apply is Friday, June 19th by COB.

Apply by email to Roger Becks at rbecks@umbc.edu. The best consideration deadline to apply is Friday, June 19th by COB.

The following events may be of interest for most students in the LLC program:

1) Registration is open for the 4th International Conference on Intangible Heritage - September 21-23. Please visit the conference's website for more information

2) Proposals for the 3rd Biannual Conference of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies is still open. If you are interested in participating in the series of sessions on CHS in North America, please contact Dr. Michelle Stefano ms@umbc.edu.  Dr Stefano has proposed a session that includes include a diverse range of perspectives, and to provide an opportunity for articulating the connections, overlaps, and differences between current work in N. America and the critical heritage studies discourse.

You can find information about the conference here 

3) If you would like to receive the ACHS ICH Researchers Group newsletters and updates, which is a global listing of conferences, funding opportunities, inquiries, etc., please email Dr. Harriet Deacon: harriet@conjunction.co.za

 

Also, see:  http://criticalheritagestudies.org/

A new, interdisciplinary research project offers a total of 5 positions to graduate students from multiple disciplines who exhibit the right combination of initiative, skills and reliability. The project investigates undergraduate teaching at UMBC, and is led by the combined expertise of the Shriver Center, Interdisciplinary Studies Program and the Honors College. The graduate students will work as an integrated, interdisciplinary team, and may expect to expand their own knowledge, skills and experience as a result.

 

A group of Academic and Student Affairs Division faculty and staff are working to better track, assess, strengthen and increase, and recognize and reward applied learning experiences across the UMBC Campus. In FY15, this group’s work has focused on creating a plan for assessing the impact of applied learning experiences (broadly defined) on students’ affective development.

 

Each position offers partial summer support funded by a Hrabowski Fund for Innovation: Implementation & Research grant.

 

The 5 graduate students we seek will have a background in the following skills/disciplines: Information Systems; Computer Science; Human Centered Computing; Instructional Systems Design; Applied Mathematics; Statistics; Human Services Psychology; Applied Sociology; Education; Language, Literacy & Culture; and Public Policy.

 

The project aims to continue for a minimum of 3 years, expanding subject to further successful funding. Students who perform well may be invited to extend their role.

All interested candidates should send a letter of interest, resume with references, and a statement with general summer weekly availability (e.g., Monday, Wednesdays & Fridays from 9am – 2pm) to Michele Wolff at wolff@umbc.edu by Wednesday, June 24.

The conference website can be found at: http://www.colorado.edu/clasp/conference.html

At the Community College of Baltimore County our highest concern is for the empowerment, engagement, validation and success of our students. From our vantage point as educators one way that we help stimulate such agency is by setting goals for cultural responsiveness in every component and every level of our educational process. At our first conference on Culturally Responsive Teaching we brought together over 200 educators from various levels of education and shared information and best practices in culturally responsive teaching methods. At our second conference, we hope to continue and broaden that conversation with educators and students.