Job Announcement: Open position at Western Oregon University
Assistant Professor of Teacher Education
The College of Education at Western Oregon University is recruiting for an Assistant Professor of Teacher Education Specializing in ESOL/Bilingual, Biliteracy Education. Please see the attachment for a full description of this position and how to apply.
For more information, contact Carmen Cáceda, PhD. search committee chair,
cacedac@wou.eduDear Student Affairs Colleagues and Student Life Mosaic Center Faculty/Staff Partners,
As you know, our 21st Century global society has become increasingly diverse. Many of our students, despite being open to that diversity, still need to increase their cultural competencies - the skills and awareness related to communication and interaction across all social identities.
Student Life's Mosaic Center staff are creating a new Mosaic Center Diversity Presenters group to help develop this important life and interaction skill set within our students. This group, an outgrowth of our former Diversity Education Intern program, is the next evolution in our diversity and social justice education efforts. To prepare to launch this new initiative, this fall we are offering diversity "train the trainer" sessions to students, faculty and staff interested in serving as diversity and social justice education presenters. Our first 3 hour training for UMBC staff and faculty (and selected students) will be:
Friday, October 24, 2014
2-5 pm
The Mosaic Center, Commons Rm. 2B23
If you have prior diversity presentation and facilitation experience and can attend the training, visit our myUMBC group event and complete the brief interest form:
http://my.umbc.edu/groups/themosaic/events/26236. If you have questions or can't attend this training but want to be a presenter, email
mosaic@umbc.edu or call Lisa Gray directly at 410-455-8478.
We are pursuing a co-presenter/co-facilitators structure in which we hope to pair UMBC faculty and staff with students to present workshops to classes, student organizations and departments across campus by request. So, staff and faculty will most likely be paired with students to serve as lead "mentor" presenters to support the awareness, knowledge and skill development of the student presenters. We envision offering workshops to the campus in the same fashion as our Safe Zone program sessions.
We've received several student interest forms for the training already. We really could use more faculty/staff participants! So, thank you for considering this opportunity.
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Dear Student Affairs Colleagues and Student Life Mosaic Center Faculty/Staff Partners, As you know, our 21st Century global society has become increasingly diverse. Many of our students,...
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New Faculty Micro-Talks on October 29th, 4:00-6:00 P.M.
Short Talks and Reception with New CAHSS Faculty
The Dresher Center and the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences will present an afternoon of short talks with eight tenure-stream faculty hired in the last two years. Meet these faculty members and learn about their research. A reception will follow. The event will take place on Wednesday, October 29th, from 4:00-6:00 P.M. in the Kuhn Library, 7th floor.
Schedule of Speakers:
- Dena Aufseeser, Assistant Professor, Geography and Environmental Systems
- Scott Casper, Professor, History, and Dean, CAHSS
- Lauren Hamilton Edwards, Assistant Professor, Public Policy
- Felipe Filomeno, Assistant Professor, Political Science and Global Studies
- Cedric Herring, Professor, Language, Literacy, and Culture
- Viviana MacManus, Assistant Professor, Gender and Women's Studies
- Corrie Parks, Assistant Professor, Visual Arts
- Whitney Schwab, Assistant Professor, Philosophy
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Special Topics Course in Spring '15
Putting the Sociological Imagination Into Practice Locally
SOCY 698: Applied Sociology: Putting the Sociological Imagination Into Practice Locally
Dr. Marina Adler
Wednesday 4:30 - 7:00 pm
The Sociology Department will offer an exciting special topics course in Spring 2015. The course is part of the
Breaking Ground project on campus and will offer the opportunity to interact with local communities regarding access to healthy food.
This course focuses on the “practical side” of sociology and applies sociological insights and methods to understanding local social issues and to assess programs intended to alleviate them. Students in this course will examine social issues affecting local residents through a community-based participatory research (CBPR) project. This semester students will research local urban agriculture projects addressing food deserts, access to healthy food, food security, and environmental problems. This research targets the intersection of local social inequalities, public health issues, and social change. Students will collect data through various methods in research teams, volunteer, document community needs, develop action plans, and make recommendations for change. The ultimate products will be a research report and community presentation.
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Interested in Astrobiology?
Register for INDS 430!
Do you think we are alone in the universe?
This image, produced in 1995 by the Hubble Space Telescope, suggests that the visible universe comprises at least ~130 thousand million galaxies. Each of these galaxies contains something in the order of 100 thousand million stars. Recent estimates suggest that there may exist an average of more than one planet per star.
At least once, this chemistry and physics has given rise to sentient life. What are the chances that it happened more than once? What about other types of life? How could we possibly know?
INDS430 Astrobiology combines physics, astronomy, biology, chemistry, and geology to ask what science can contribute to such questions. If you want to learn about the discovery of planets orbiting other stars (“exoplanets”), the chemistry of space, the originand evolution of life on Earth, or habitable environments within our solar system this course is for you!
If interested in the course then please contact Dr. Stephen Freeland at
freeland@umbc.edu
Dr. Laura (Violeta) Colombo ’11, was named assistant researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), the main organization in charge of the promotion of Science and Technology in Argentina. The CONCEIT ranks among the world’s 80 most important institutions in terms of scientific production.
This is an important achievement since only 30% of the applicants for the position made it in the Humanities and Social Sciences area.
Dr. Colombo’s research is centered on the use of writing groups as a pedagogical tool to improve the teaching and learning of academic writing at the graduate level.
Congratulations dear Violeta!
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Baltimore City Students Engage with Literature
Author Reyna Grande comes to UMBC
Baltimore City Students Engage with Literature Author Reyna Grande comes to UMBC for a One Maryland One Book Event
On Tuesday, September 30, UMBC and the Dresher Center for the Humanities hosted 250 middle and high school students from Baltimore City Public Schools for an open conversation and book-signing with author Reyna Grande. Dean Scott Casper welcomed the students, along with Phoebe Stein, Executive Director of the Maryland Humanities Council. The event was followed by a campus tour.
The event was part of the One Maryland One Book program, coordinated by the Maryland Humanities Council. This year's book selection, Grande’s memoir, The Distance Between Us, was guided by the theme of “the American Dream.” In her book, Grande poignantly shares her life before and after entering the United States as an undocumented immigrant. The students, who read the work in English and Spanish, asked Grande about her relationship with her family after arriving in the United States and her experiences as a child growing up in an unfamiliar culture. The author described the dangerous journey from her home in Mexico to reunite with her long-absent father in the U.S. She told of her difficulties in obtaining an education and how she eventually became a writer.
One Maryland One Book Program Officer Andrea Lewis explains: “This event is held on a college campus each year to give the students the opportunity to meet the author of a book they’ve read and to learn about and experience stepping onto a campus. It’s an experience that exposes them to new things and offers a glimpse into what’s possible. The Maryland Humanities Council appreciates the partnership with UMBC and the Dresher Center that made this event possible.”
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Dr. Claudia Galindo will be part of PROMISE's event
"When Faculty Say 'X' ..." seminar
Each year, PROMISE and the Graduate School at UMBC host a dinner seminar that allows graduate students to ask questions of faculty. This year, the “When Faculty Say ‘X’ … ” seminar will be held on Friday, October 10, 2014 in BIO 120.
The following UMBC faculty members will serve as discussants and will answer questions that are posted anonymously, or asked in-person:
Dr. Susan McDonough – Department of History
Dr. Kimberly R. Moffitt – Department of American Studies
Dr. Claudia Galindo – LLC
Dr. Marie-Christine Daniel-Onuta, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Dr. Brian Cullum, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Dr. Tim Oates, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
For more information about the event, please visit the website. And if you are planning on attending, you can register in PROMISE's group page.
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Winter Session 2015 with MCS!
See the attached flyer for more information on the two very exciting courses MCS is offering over the winter of 2015!
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Thu, 09 Oct 2014 16:37:44 -0400
Tue, 14 Oct 2014 10:54:29 -0400
Tom Scott, Retrospective OPEN NOW! 10/9/14-12/19/14
Thursday, October 9 – Saturday, December 13
A free opening reception will be held for this exhibition in the CADVC on Thursday October 9 from 5 until 7 p.m.
Tom Scott’s career as an artist spanned more than 60 years, from the early 1950s through the first decade of this century. His output is remarkable not only for its temporal span but for its quantity and qualities, amounting to over 3,000 by his death at age 85 in March 2013. It is also remarkable for the particular span of time it covers: a unique time that saw the ascendancy of American art on the world stage for the first time and an extraordinarily fertile period of general artistic invention worldwide that included the creation and maturing of important sub-movements of modernism, and simultaneously the beginning of post modern tendencies in art.
But the welter of trends and movements largely left Scott unaffected after his work in abstract expressionism in the 1950s, as he resolutely marched to his own drummer, even while well aware of the flux around him. We sense in his work something apart from the mainstream and major movements, yet not at all reactionary or retrogressive. As an inveterate experimenter, his work has a complexity that defies easy categorization.
Over the span of his career he established a variegated practice incorporating the use of oil and acrylic painting, collage, assemblage, recycled materials, three dimensional works, and much more, including ground-breaking work with painted photographs and the use of aerosol spray paints. Finally all of Scott’s experimentation comes together in the work of the last 20 years of his career in a sustained burst of creative activity amounting to hundreds of works. These are a capstone for a long career, a distilled group of assured work the making process and organizing principles of which operate not only formally but psychologically.
This exhibition is therefore designed to fully demonstrate all these features in as comprehensive a way as possible, a dense and maximal presentation, and for the first time to allow the full range of works to be shown in one place at one time. Scott’s attitude towards his works was to be in an active dialogue with them. The exhibition is guest curated by Tex Andrews.
Admission to the exhibition is free. The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm and is located in the Fine Arts Building. For more information call 410-455-3188.