• Graduate students – to gain professional and interpersonal experience. Depending on your field, your time as a student may not open you up to many client-facing interactions, and this is a pathway to gaining that experience. If you are considering a career in academia, meanwhile, advising experience is highly sought-after in faculty openings.
• Part-time faculty – to gain advising experience, highly sought-after in faculty openings, as well as to interact with students outside of the classroom. As an adjunct faculty member myself, I can absolutely say that my teaching effectiveness has been augmented by my advising experience.
• Full-time faculty and staff – to begin to engage with your department’s incoming students at the earliest possible juncture: to give them the best possible head start in their studies (and to make your own future advising appointments easier!).
• Staff – to engage in professional development in ways that may not be otherwise available, and then bring those skills back to your home department. Orientation advising requires and trains diverse skillsets, such as one-on-one academic advising and counseling, university-wide policies and protocols, inter-office collaboration, and much more!

The Education Abroad Office is delighted to announce the continuation of the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Science (CAHSS) Dean's Scholarship for Education Abroad!

Dean Kimberly Moffitt has pledged to provide a study abroad scholarship to students from every CAHSS department/program to ease the financial burden of this experiential activity, while also demonstrating our responsibility for educating our students to be active in the world they will soon lead.

Award amounts will typically be between $2,500 and $5,000. Applicants must apply to study abroad through UMBC at goabroad.umbc.edu and be degree-seeking UMBC undergraduate or graduate students with at least one major in CAHSS. Applicants must also meet eligibility requirements for UMBC study abroad programs. Preference will be given to students with demonstrated financial need as well as to students applying for UMBC faculty-led or exchange programs.

The current Deadline for students looking to study abroad in upcoming Summer, Fall, Academic Year, Winter, and Spring programs is February 10th. Winter and Spring applicants who are not selected may reapply in September.

Students can start their applications through UMBC's Scholarship Retriever. 

Contact the Education Abroad Office at <educationabroad@umbc.edu> with any questions.