Faculty Senate Meeting
Faculty Senate meeting, scheduled for Tuesday, October 14, 2025 from 3:30 - 5:30 pm will be held in the University Center #312. This will be a hybrid meeting. Click here for the meeting link.
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Faculty Senate meeting, scheduled for Tuesday, October 14, 2025 from 3:30 - 5:30 pm will be held in the University Center #312. This will be a hybrid meeting. Click here for the meeting link.
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Tue, 07 Oct 2025 10:21:57 -0400
Intimate Partner Violence Awareness Month Activities
I am sharing the Women's, Gender, and Equity Center's calendar of events for IPV awareness month.
They have asked if you could share these fliers with any colleagues or students who may be interested!
In addition to events for students, we are hosting two events for faculty and staff this month.
The first, on Oct 14th, is a gathering for faculty and staff who identify as survivors of gender-based harms to build community, participate in creating a shirt for our clothesline project display, and learn about UMBC resources.
The second, on Oct 22nd, is a workshop on the importance of believing and supporting survivors when they disclose their experiences. Faculty and staff are often the first person students tell about their experiences, and this workshop will provide space to talk about challenges, practice skills, and increase confidence in supporting student survivors at UMBC.
The filers for these two events are attached as well.
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Fri, 03 Oct 2025 11:52:44 -0400
UMBC Interdisciplinary CoLab, Call for Projects
Proposals Due, Monday December 1st (by end of day)
UMBC Interdisciplinary CoLab, Call for Projects
Proposals Due, Monday December 1st (by end of day)
UMBC Interdisciplinary CoLab is a Summer Internship program in Interdisciplinary Narrative-Based Research, where students from different intellectual disciplines collaborate in teams of three to create outward facing products for faculty and community partners.
UMBC Interdisciplinary CoLab supports narrative-based research projects to provide undergraduate students with an innovative, team-based applied learning opportunity through a three-credit (4-week, 30-hours per week) paid internship.
Ideal projects:
Are designed for 3 students with a UMBC faculty or staff member as the Project Leader
Have a strong focus that can be explored effectively over a four week period
Utilize diverse research methods and humanities modes of analysis
Produce public-facing final projects created for a specific audience and purpose.
For example, projects could engage with archived texts and images to develop websites, build podcasts from oral history or ethnographic interviews, or work with communities on documentary videos and digital stories.
The goal is to give students an interdisciplinary research experience while developing collaborative skills, telling effective stories, and amplifying voices to the general public.
Projects can be proposed by faculty or staff members, alone or in collaboration with outside community partners.
CoLab will run from June 1st through June 26th.
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Thu, 02 Oct 2025 09:06:40 -0400
Register for the Provost's Teaching & Learning Symposium Friday, Sept. 19
The Ninth Annual Provost's Teaching & Learning Symposium will be held on Friday, September 19. The theme for this year’s event is Cultivating Critical Hope: Nurturing Transformative Teaching and Learning. The Symposium will feature breakfast with the Deans, a poster and teaching tool demonstration session, demonstrations of reflective, healing, and transformative practices, lunch, and a keynote presentation by Dr. Kari Grain.
The full agenda, program, and poster abstracts are now available on myUMBC.
15 Minutes is all it takes to make a Difference at UMBC
Academic Transition Programs, within the Division of Undergraduate Academic Affairs, is currently administering the Beginning College Survey of Student Engagement (BCSSE). This survey collects information about first-year students’ (both incoming freshmen and transfers) engagement in high school/their former institution as well as their anticipated participation in activities and programs that UMBC offers for their learning and personal development. The results provide an estimate of how undergraduates anticipate spending their time during their first year on campus and beyond. This is the partner survey of the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE), which students will be asked to complete in the spring. Completion of both surveys will give our campus a robust view of first-year students’ perceptions at the onset of their college careers through the end of their first year.
We need your help to spread the word about BCSSE! Please encourage all first-year students to take the survey. Those who complete the survey during the administration window, which runs until Wednesday, September 10, 2025, are eligible for a raffle to win $25 in Retriever Dollars!
To participate, students must access the individual link sent to their UMBC email accounts. The email subject should be “UMBC: Please Participate In Our New Student Survey! Win $25 Retriever Dollars.”
Contact Laila Shishineh with any questions at lailams@umbc.edu!
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Faculty Senate Meeting
Faculty Senate Meeting, scheduled for Tuesday, September 9, 2025 from 3:30 - 5:30 pm will be held in the University Center room #310. This will be a hybrid meeting. Click here for the meeting link.
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Faculty Senate Meeting, scheduled for Tuesday, September 9, 2025 from 3:30 - 5:30 pm will be held in the University Center room #310. This will be a hybrid meeting. Click here for the meeting link.
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Wed, 03 Sep 2025 11:47:06 -0400
Wed, 03 Sep 2025 11:50:28 -0400
Support the McNair Scholars Conference
Hello UMBC community,
We are still seeking volunteer support for our 2025 Annual UMBC McNair and Undergraduate Research Conference!! This is a national conference for undergraduate researchers to present their work, and our highlight is the variety of opportunities for students to connect with each other and our volunteer community.
Our conference will take place on campus on 9/18 (Thurs) and at Inner Harbor Sheraton on 9/19 and 9/20 (Fri and Sat). We would love to have faculty, staff, UMBC or McNair alumni, or current graduate students as part of our volunteers! Some roles you may sign up for include:
- Poster Evaluators (Thurs only): Join us during the respective poster presentation session and engage with poster presenters, then fill out a presentation evaluation form that will go directly to the student to improve their presentation skills!
- Oral Presentation Moderators (Fri and Sat): Assist us in keeping the flow of oral presentations by introducing presenters, keeping time, and then facilitating the Q&A sessions within the breakout room
- Networking Facilitators (Sat only): Join us for Networking Breakfast or Lunch and have meaningful conversations with current undergraduate students aiming for graduate studies - share your knowledge and wisdoms to students with aspirations like your younger self!
If you are willing to volunteer, please complete the 2025 Conference Volunteer Form. We are asking volunteers to give at least 3 hours of their time. We will need approximately 60 volunteers throughout the three primary conference days to accomplish our goals. We have over 175 presenters and will host at least 350 attendees! If you are willing to do more, please let us know on the form. NEW THIS YEAR: In addition to our Volunteer Guide, which will be released digitally to our confirmed volunteers prior to the start of the conference, we will also be hosting a 1-hour "Conference Volunteer Training Session" on September 3rd (Wed) from 12-1pm EST via Zoom!
Please contact Ting Huang, McNair program coordinator, with any questions.
The Welcome, Retrievers! program still has a need for volunteers for various programs! If you have capacity and you are willing to help support this amazing program, please sign up!
We’re currently seeking volunteers to help with multiple aspects of this program. Whether you’re staffing information tables, prepping materials, or just offering a friendly smile, your participation will make a real difference in helping our students feel at home from day one.
Volunteer shifts are available from 8/11 through 8/29, and you can sign up for one or more time slots based on your availability.
Sign up here: https://signup.com/go/XTUfjXO
Thank you in advance for considering this opportunity. Please feel free to send any questions to welcomeretrievers@umbc.edu
Additionally, if you're looking for more opportunities to Welcome Retrievers! Residential Life is seeking UMBC faculty, staff and alumni to help welcome new and returning students on both Saturday, August 23 and Monday, August 25. For more information or to sign-up please complete their sign-up form before August 8, 2025. For questions related to Residential Life volunteer opportunities, please contact Amanda Scally (scallya@umbc.edu). Thank you for your consideration and support of new and returning residential students/families!
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Mon, 04 Aug 2025 09:26:36 -0400
Welcome Week
Summer has started, but we are already gearing up for the arrival of new students in the Fall! There are lots of opportunities for academic departments to participate in Welcome, Retrievers! and we hope that everyone that would like to participate has the opportunity to do so. Welcoming new students to UMBC is our collective work and the partnerships and programs that have been offered by academic departments have been central to the success of the overall program.
Welcome, Retrievers! is excited to invite sign ups and submissions for the following :
Retriever Fest (Saturday, August 23, 2025)
Academic Resource Fair (Monday, August 25, 2025)
Academic Open Houses ((Monday, August 25 - Tuesday, September 9)
Departmental Open Days (Monday, August 25 - Tuesday, September 9)
Welcome, Retrievers! Pre-Existing Event (Monday, August 25 - Tuesday, September 9)
If you are unfamiliar with any of the listed programs, we have a
cheat sheet you can reference to help give context for each of these opportunities.
Submissions due by Friday, June 27, 2025 at 4pm for inclusion in printed booklet
Submissions due by Monday, July 14th, 2025 at 4pm or when capacity is reached
On Monday of this week, UMBC’s faculty senate passed a resolution encouraging UMBC’s leaders to work with other institutions of higher learning to establish Mutual Academic Defense Compacts in Defense of Academic Freedom, Free Expression, Institutional Integrity, and the Research Enterprise in light of recent governmental actions that threaten these foundational principles of US higher education. The first Mutual Academic Defense Compact was passed by the senate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst on April 10.
UMBC’s language, attached, is in alignment with the language passed by other public and land grant universities, the list of which can be found
here. Andrea Kalfoglou, faculty senator from Sociology, Anthropology, and Public Health, who introduced the measure, says “Academic freedom is the cornerstone of higher education, research integrity, and democratic societies. It empowers educators and students alike to pursue truth wherever it leads — without fear. UMBC has joined other public and land grant universities to collectively defend academic freedom.”