Please join us for i3b's 9th Annual Lavender Celebration. An evening to celebrate the wonderful achievements of UMBC’s LGBTQIA+ graduating seniors, graduate students, and their allies. LGBTQIA+ students overcome incredible odds to succeed and make a difference at UMBC. This ceremony is in recognition of LGBTQIA+ students and in recognition of all the allied staff, faculty, alumnx, and programs that work to support them. Graduating seniors and graduate students who RSVP will be recognized and receive lavender honor cords. To receive your Lavender honor cords and pin, please fill out our Lavender and Black & Latine/x Celebration Social Media Campaign + Graduation Package Form. DEADLINE to receive cords: May 6, 2022 at 9:00a.m. Award categories will encompass student, staff, faculty, and programmatic efforts, and will include recognition for LGBTQ+ individuals, as well as allies to the community.

 

Co-Sponsored By: LGBTQ Faculty and Staff Association and Women's Center  

 

RSVP Here and you can mark as “Going” on myUMBC! 

Award Selection Committee Interest & Award Nomination Form

 

To stay up to date with Pride Center happenings, you can sign up for our Listserv/Google Groups HERE.

 

Our i3b staff strives to create the most inclusive environment possible. All undergrads, grads, staff, faculty, and alumnx are encouraged to attend! If you need to request a disability-based accommodation or have any questions? Contact us at i3b@umbc.edu. For our uploaded event recordings, attendee lists, works cited, and other materials, please check out our Initiatives for Identity, Inclusion and Belonging (i3b) Events Drive on our Linktree. Materials will be available in this Google Drive within one business week after the event unless otherwise specified.

This evening event celebrates the wonderful achievements of UMBC’s  Black and Latina/e/o/x graduating seniors and graduate students. Black and Latine/x students have been historically underrepresented in post-secondary degree attainment and have overcome incredible odds to succeed and make an invaluable contribution to the wider UMBC community. 

 

This ceremony is in recognition of this milestone of our Black and Latine/x students as well as an evening to be in community with all the staff, faculty, alumni, and loved ones that have supported them. Seniors and graduate students graduating in Spring and Fall 2022 will be recognized and receive a Black and Brown honor cords, as well as a special CBLA Black and Brown pin! To receive your Black and Brown honor cords and pin, please fill out our Lavender and Black & Latine/x Celebration Social Media Campaign + Graduation Package Form. DEADLINE to receive cords: May 6, 2022 at 9:00a.m. Award categories will encompass student, staff, faculty, and programmatic efforts, and will include recognition for Black and Latine/x community members, as well as their allies.

 

Please RSVP HERE. [RSVP is highly encouraged]

Award Selection Committee Interest & Award Nomination Form

 

Family and friends of graduates are encouraged to attend. You won't want to miss this!

 

Our i3b staff strives to create the most inclusive environment possible. All undergrads, grads, staff, faculty, alumni, and community members are welcome to attend! If you need to request a disability-based accommodation or have any questions? Contact us at i3b@umbc.edu and slj@umbc.edu. For our uploaded event recordings, attendee lists, works cited, and other materials, please check out our Initiatives for Identity, Inclusion and Belonging (i3b) Events Drive. Materials will be available in this Google Drive within one business week after the event unless otherwise specified.

Dear Educator,

With optimism that Covid is behind us and with the opportunities presented by the Kirwan Commission’s early childhood recommendations, MECLP is delighted to announce that the Application to identify MECLP fellows for its 4th Cohort is now available. We are thrilled to announce that, pending sufficient registration from interested applicants, we may offer two cohorts in 2023: one at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), in Catonsville MD, and a second cohort at the University of Maryland Southern Maryland Regional Center, in California, MD. (If we do not receive sufficient applicants from Southern Maryland, southern Anne Arundel and Prince George’s County, the Cohort will meet at UMBC.) The Maryland Early Childhood Leadership Program (MECLP), an initiative of the Sherman

Center for Early Learning in Urban Communities at UMBC, is an early childhood workforce pipeline designed to accelerate leadership development in early childhood and mitigate the current leadership gap in Maryland. We are increasing the diversity of ECE leaders across the state, positioning Maryland as a leader in developing strong ECE systems and creating a Maryland Early Childhood Leadership Hub. MECLP has created a two-tiered early childhood pathway to leadership culminating in two 3-credit graduate courses leading to an Endorsement in Early Childhood Leadership from UMBC. Future plans include developing two additional 3 credit graduate courses to formalize Tier II – a 12 credit Certificate in Early Childhood Leadership from UMBC. To extend the course work, MECLP created a vibrant Community of Practice which encompasses a robust mentoring component; Leadership in Action forums, a series of webinars on ECE topics of interest, field experiences and an annual Leadership Institute. MECLP’s current course, Leading for Change in Early Childhood Education, a research based curriculum, was developed by the Institute for Early Education Leadership and

Innovation (IEELI) at the University of Massachusetts. The modified curriculum is tailored to the specific needs of Maryland’s early childhood community and focuses on seven core leadership competencies - leadership vision, leadership skills and values, personnel and resource management skills, organizational capacity, data analytical skills, creativity and innovation, and public policy knowledge. Fourteen early educators participated as Inaugural Fellows in 2020 and are now part of MECLP’s Community of Practice together with Cohort II Course completers. Fifteen (15) additional outstanding early childhood professionals are currently participants in Cohort III

Previous cohort members:

MECLP is now accepting applications from outstanding early childhood professionals and their colleagues in related fields representing the ethnic, geographic and early childhood affiliation diversity across Maryland. The 2022/23 MECLP Fellows will participate in the year-long Leading for Change in Early Childhood Education Course, starting with an Orientation in December 2022; classes will begin in January 2023.

Applicants need to submit the following:

Both of these forms are also available to be submitted directly through our website. They can be filled out and submitted online or submitted via email.

For more information on MECLP, please visit our website - meclp.umbc.edu. An Overview of MECLP, and Frequently Asked Questions are available.

Applications are due June 24th either submitted online or emailed to

meclp@umbc.edu. For further information, please email meclp@umbc.edu.

Please consider applying to participate in this exciting opportunity and help us circulate its availability to interested Maryland early childhood professionals in your programs, agencies, groups, organizations and networks. 2022-23 fellows will be joining their colleagues on their collective ECE leadership journey supporting the Maryland early childhood workforce pipeline – a commitment we all share.

Thank you.

Warm Regards,

Louise Corwin

Maryland Early Childhood Leadership Program

Sherman Center for Early Learning in Urban Communities UMBC

If the COVID guidance for October 2022 prohibits the in-person workshop, a modified virtual experience of speakers will be provided and all registration fees will be refunded.