Campus Actions Regarding Temporary Ban on Entry to U.S.
On Friday, January 27, President Trump issued an executive order imposing a 90-day ban on citizens of seven countries entering the U.S. These seven countries are Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, and Yemen.
Since then, the campus leadership team, UMBC’s Office of International Education Services, and other campus offices have been working proactively to determine the status and needs of students, faculty, and staff who may be affected by this development. We are responding as quickly as possible to provide resources in the midst of these rapidly evolving circumstances and will support, through all available means, members of our UMBC community whose studies and careers are threatened by this or other changes to existing immigration regulations.
We understand that UMBC faculty, staff, and students who are citizens of one of the seven designated countries (interpreted by some Customs and Border Protection officials to include U.S. permanent residents) may be concerned about their visa status and travel outside the U.S. In the near term, the University recommends that members of the UMBC community who are citizens of the seven listed countries and are currently in the United States refrain from international travel as we monitor these events. Community members seeking guidance regarding their travel plans are encouraged to contact the International Education Services Office (ies@umbc.edu).
The IES Office is currently developing a set of resources/FAQs to offer further guidance for UMBC community members. In the meantime, initial guidance can be found on the NAFSA-Association of International Educators website, as well as on the American Immigration Lawyers Association’s website.
In order to respond effectively to the needs of our community, we are reviewing available records to identify those community members who may be affected by the executive order. We also ask anyone with knowledge of community members currently traveling abroad who are citizens of the seven affected countries holding valid entry and residence visas to please share that information with the IES Office at ies@umbc.edu.
While this recent executive order particularly impacts community members from a select set of countries, we are deeply concerned that it will have a chilling effect on higher education and research broadly. It challenges UMBC’s culture of inclusive excellence, and we will work closely with campus shared governance groups to advocate for our central values in the weeks and months ahead.
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There's Been a Change in Schedule: A New Tool for Students
How collaboration brought the Schedule Planner to UMBC
It was several years ago that UMBC students decided that the best tool for them to utilize would be a 'schedule builder'. They created a custom program that would look at the list of classes being offered for the semester and block out certain times to help make the perfect schedule.
By word of mouth, the schedule builder spread around the campus but the group of students graduated and did not maintain support for the product.
“We sought a more holistic solution…”
Arnold Foelster, Director for Enterprise Applications, was just one of the several people who helped bring
the new Schedule Planner to life. “UMBC looked at the [previous] product and saw great value, however we also found some shortcomings.” Foelster said, “We sought a more holistic solution that had single sign-on, was mobile friendly, and real-time integration with our student system.”
DoIT had been listening to student feedback carefully, with common complaints that registration isn't the best experience it can be and that it doesn't match the needs of today's student.
Image shows a screenshot of an example schedule generated with the tool. In the top right, you can see a “Send to Shopping Cart” option that automates the process of registering for courses, while making a visually appealing layout.
“I couldn’t really stop and get lunch or a snack.”
In the last spring semester, Matthew Titzer, a sophomore in Information Systems, was enrolled in classes back to back, creating a very stressful schedule for him. “I couldn’t really stop and get lunch or a snack.” said Titzer.
After discovering one of his classes was cancelled, Titzer was able to use the Schedule Planner to easily find a new class. “The Scheduler Planner is extremely helpful,” said Titzer, “it has helped me fit a class into my packed schedule.”
Now, thanks to the planner tool, Titzer has more control over his time and highly recommends it for anyone to use. “Generate schedules for your classes to see if you can find a more stress-free schedule.” said Titzer, “I highly recommend it for anyone to use.”
Image shows Ken Baron, Assistant Vice Provost for Academic Advising and Student Success, next to a UMBC map. Baron was just one of several people that helped bring the Schedule Planner to UMBC.
“Collaborating with DoIT on the Schedule Planner has been, and will continue to be instrumental.”
Ken Baron, Assistant Vice Provost for Academic Advising and Student Success, worked closely with both DoIT and the Registrar’s Office on the tool. Baron said, “Collaborating with DoIT on the Schedule Planner has been, and will continue to be instrumental.”
The Office of Academic and Pre-Professional Advising worked with DoIT to review, test, and evaluate the Schedule Planner so that it suited the needs of students. They also have leveraged UMBC’s Academic Advising Community through demonstrations and feature reviews during Advising Community meetings, specific training sessions and through targeted communications posted on the Advising Community’s myUMBC group.
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“We believe that one of the most dynamic qualities of College Scheduler is its ability to strategically reveal exciting and relevant general education courses.” said Baron. “The College Scheduler has the ability to present a rich array of potential course options that meet the specific needs of students while also highlighting for consideration – a whole host of courses that students may not have considered otherwise.”
Working with DoIT however, was key in delivering a great product. “In particular, DoIT colleagues have taken the time to understand our desire to reduce and eliminate (where possible) the “clerical nature” of certain academic advising tasks.” said Baron.
“Moving away from pen and paper process….is what students and the campus as a whole would like to see.”
The collaborations didn't just stop with Baron though, another key figure was Iman Riddick, Assistant Registrar. Riddick understood the need to enhance the enrollment & registration process for students. She was instrumental in working with a team comprised of Academic Advising and DoIT for the initial setup and soft roll out of the tool during the Summer 2016 orientation.
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Riddick sees students using this during enrollment periods to find the best possible schedule of classes for each term. “Moving away from the pen and paper process and being able to instantly and easily generate all conflict free schedules possible is what students and the campus as a whole would like to see.” said Riddick.
Riddick also emphasized the role DoIT played with the tool. “DoIT has been very instrumental in the technological set up of our PeopleSoft system and the College Scheduler product.” said Riddick. “The team made sure that all security requirements are met in order to protect the students and UMBC’s systems.
“A step of many in improving the registration process and system…”
Thanks to a strong collaboration from DoIT, Advising, and the Registrar's Office a very useful tool was able to come forth and help enrich student lives. Before, student schedules could be a mess. Now, the new planner tool amends all that, in what Foelster calls a step in the right direction.
“A step of many in improving the registration process and system so that it better meets the needs of not just today’s students, but tomorrow’s students as well.” said Foelster.
Read more about how to use the Schedule Planner here
Like this story? Read more DoIT success stories:
The Schedule Planner offered by UMBC is a dynamic tool that can generate multiple possible schedules, and then send them to checkout in PeopleSoft. You can access it by navigating to myUMBC, selecting topics, and then selecting classes & grades.
It’s important to note that the scheduler does not replace Peoplesoft when adding classes, but it does make scheduling classes easier.
Before beginning, you may need to disable the pop-up blocker on your browser to launch the Scheduler Planner. The Scheduler Planner helps you plan your classes you want to take while factoring in your free time needs. It’s a mobile friendly, cloud based tool that will remember all your values you select while using it. The planner can be broken down into three key sections: search terms, courses & breaks, and schedules.
Search Terms
Once you’re set, using the planner is easy and intuitive. You can select which campus you want to plan your schedule on (Shady Grove, Off Campus, UMBC), or even incorporate all three.
Image shows what the search fields look like when using the desktop client. From here, you have complete customization of how you want to search for classes and generate your schedule.
The Schedule Planner takes into account many different terms you can set yourself. You can search for open classes only, open & full, or even open & full with an open waitlist. You can also choose between online classes and hybrid classes. Want to set the search to only Engineering & Information Technology? You can change that under the Academic Groups field.
Courses & Breaks
You can search for any class through the Schedule Planner by subject or by course attribute. To get started, select “Add Course” and then proceed to search for what course you want. After adding the course, you can select “Options” to choose what sections you want to include or exclude before you generate your schedules.
Image shows an example course selection list when using the desktop client. Under “Options” you can select which section you want to include before generating your schedule. The “i” in the blue circle gives the course info. Note that until you view a possible schedule, the lock icon will be greyed out. After you do view a schedule and lock it from there, you can unlock it
Breaks are times during the day that you do not wish to take classes. You can add multiple breaks that can be customized individually and applied to whichever day you want.
Schedules
After you have added your desired courses and breaks, simply select “Generate Schedules”. If you have any course conflicts, you won't be able to see the schedule until you address the conflicts. If you select the magnifying glass you can get a quick glance at what each schedule looks like.
Image shows what the view screen looks like using the desktop client. You can lock courses, see how many seats are open and get a basic overview of how long each course runs. Note the message up top that reads "You are viewing a potential schedule only and you must still register." These classes are not in your cart so be sure to use the "Send to Shopping Cart" option to proceed to PeopleSoft's interface
For more in-depth information, you can select 2 or more schedules to compare side by side. You can also select view to give you a complete look and overview of everything. One thing you can do is “lock” a course by selecting the lock icon. This tells the planner tool that you want to keep that particular section for a course which it will then only incorporate if you decide to generate alternative schedules.
Once you finalize which schedule you want, you can send all of the courses you have selected straight to PeopleSoft checkout. There are helpful videos at the top of the Schedule Planner tool in addition to
DoIT’s FAQs on the tool.
Image shows an example of a 'finalized' schedule.
Interested in learning about how the Schedule Planner came to be? Check out that story here.
Want to know what other software is available to UMBC students? Check out the Student Resources Page over on the DoIT website.
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Carpooling Options for UMBC students
New Year, New Rides!
Start the New Year
with a New Commute on Zimride!
With the new year upon us, now is a good time to post a
new commute or update your existing commute on Zimride. UMBC’s private
ride-sharing software provides employees an easy way to share rides.
Carpooling saves money, decreases stress and helps reduce your carbon
footprint. Zimride connects you with others headed the same way for enjoyable,
sustainable travel.
In seconds you can set up a profile, search for open
seats, post a commute of your own, and get to know more of the friendly faces
around you.For more information go to zimride.com/umbc
and help us build the Zimride community at UMBC.
For questions contact:
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Introducing the Commuter Recreation Card!
Get active with OCSS and UMBC Recreation!
What is the Commuter Recreation Card?The Commuter Recreation Card is an incentive program offered by OCSS and UMBC Recreation to encourage commuter students to get active.
How does it work?
Any commuter can participate in this program! Simply show your card at the end of every fitness class that you attend in the RAC and your instructor will stamp your card. After you collect ten stamps, drop your card off at OCSS and you will be entered into a raffle to win cool prizes! Start a second card to have even more chances to win!
Where can I get my card?
You can pick your card up at the OCSS front desk.
The first 50 commuters to complete a Commuter Recreation Card will receive a free Commuter Recreation t-shirt!!
Questions?
Contact Katie Weir, Coordinator for Commuter Engagement, at
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Two book sales have been scheduled for the Spring! Come join us on:
Library
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Kudos to Jeremy Gude for Receiving Employee of the Quarter
A master in database performance tuning & web services
DoIT would like to recognize our own Jeremy Gude for receiving the Employee of the Quarter (EOQ) award. The EOQ program recognizes the outstanding qualities and contributions of employees towards departmental and institutional goals and mission. Gude is a Specialist/Database Administrator for DoIT, who has been with DoIT for 15 years.
Gude was presented his award on January 12th at a department all-staff meeting. Gude will receive a check for $500, a special parking space, and one day of administration leave.
“Jeremy is the model employee and a pleasure to have on our team.”
Todd Haddaway, Director for Database & Identity Management, nominated Gude for the award. “Jeremy is the model employee and a pleasure to have on our team.” said Haddaway.
Gude’s most recent accomplishment was completing a project to real-time replicate production student, finance, and HR Peoplesoft databases. Gude was able to reduce the risk of lost data in the event of a computer room disaster, from up to one day to less than 5 minutes.
Stacy Long, Director for DoIT, said, “Jeremy has been instrumental in tuning PeopleSoft Processes so that they complete in a timely fashion.”
“...a major asset to our division and his work ethic is second to none.”
Other accomplishments include working to process more transactions within PeopleSoft. In the Finance department, one job was taking up to 12 hours to finish but thanks to Gude working diligently on finding database changes to make, the job now runs in under an hour.
“Gude is a major asset to our division and his work ethic is second to none.” said Haddaway, While having a broad knowledge of each technology in our group, his knowledge is also deep.”
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is another key area where Gude works, where he was instrumental in architecting a robust deployment model, increasing reliability and speed to changing system needs.
When not working at DoIT, Jeremy has coached his daughter’s lacrosse teams and currently participates with his son’s swim team, while also being a member of his community pool board.
Congratulations to Jeremy Gude on his EOQ award!
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How Student Disability Services Ditched Their Paper System
With help from DoIT, a new cloud solution was implemented
Student Disability Services (SDS) had a major problem. Their paper system they relied on for years was not keeping up with the increased demand they saw at their office. Rather than look for help outside, they came to DoIT with a solution in mind: implement a cloud-based system that would not only keep their department organized, but infuse it with new data analytics to gain better insights into their operations.
Tawny McManus, Director for SDS and Cassie Kilroy Thompson, Advising & Accessibility Specialist for SDS, needed accurate information not just for themselves, but for faculty as well. There would be some cases where faculty would get a letter from SDS informing them there was a student in their class who needed special accommodations, but there wouldn't be enough information about that student.
The problem with doing everything on a paper system comes from the inherent flaws of such a system. A paper system assumes everyone can come in and fill out the necessary forms. For SDS, printing out paper copies and creating files would just lead to more steps for something to get misfiled or misplaced entirely.
“You’re making people write on a card when their schedule is in a computer…”
“Students did not know their campus ID when coming in,” said McManus, “They would give us a hotmail or Gmail address, there would be no connection to other offices, and some of the handwriting was tough to read.”
“All of those bits and pieces inspired us to have something better.” said Thompson. “You’re making people write on a card when their schedule is in a computer. This is insane.”
The other problem they faced was the lack of integration with existing campus systems. Without PeopleSoft, they could not view a student's current status, or even when a student dropped or added a class.
“A lot of the information we were collecting was already in PeopleSoft.” said Thompson.
Screenshot of the Advising Appointment screen in the new Accommodate tool. Individuals gain more flexibility in choosing when they want to meet and for long they are able to.
One of the many services SDS employs is student note takers. Before, their process required note takers to come into the office just to wait in line to get to a form they had to fill out. SDS would then received an overwhelming amount of requests that required a face to face interaction.
This is where Bryan Lee, a Cloud Business Analyst for DoIT, came in. Working together with McManus and Thompson in addition to the vendor Symplicity, they were able to create a cloud-based solution, called Accommodate, that met the business needs of SDS.
SDS now had access to PeopleSoft data in Accommodate so they could see when students dropped or added classes and even their schedule. They could also pull relevant and up to date contact information straight from PeopleSoft as well.
“The data is literally there in a minute....”
In addition, SDS was able to track all their tickets and have them update for everyone at the same time. They could view notes written on each ticket and see who was signed up for note taking and for which classes, at a glance. “No more lines to sign up for being a note taker” said McManus. Also, thanks to integration of Single Sign On (SSO), both the department and students could log in just by using their myUMBC credentials, increasing security for the student and allowing for overall better data analytics reporting.
SDS was also technically no longer restricted to the office for business information. McManus said, “The data is literally there in a minute, I can log in from my phone [or] at home and quickly see what tickets were made, if they are active, classes, status, or major.” Thompson shared a similar experience, where she was able to open up everything on her ipad to find out a student’s schedule.
“Part of our mission is to empower students to be more independent.”
An added benefit to migrating to the new Symplicity tool was just how much independence it gave to students. Students could now schedule appointments themselves, which feeds into part of SDS’s mission. “[This] allowed students more freedom to do everything themselves.” said Thompson, “Part of our mission is to empower students to be more independent.”
“Having other modules from Symplicity, it’s nice to know who's going to walk into your office before they get there.” said Thompson.
Working with DoIT was a key highlight for McManus and Thompson. “Bryan would ask what we do, and tried to understand what we were doing and helped shape the needs of our department. We didn't expect ongoing communication, we thought IT would stop after it is implemented.” said McManus.
By collaborating with DoIT, SDS was able to find a solution that met the business needs of their department. “When people ask me for data, I feel 100% confident to give it to them now.” said McManus.
You can follow the myUMBC Group for SDS here
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Blog your progress! Winter 2017 Dissertation House Blog. All invited.
The Winter 2017 Dissertation House starts today at UMBC. All participants will be blogging daily, but anyone can join, from any location in the world. Are you working on your dissertation? Join in!
Click here:
Aren’t you ready to finish and cross over to the other side?
More about The Dissertation House:
UMBC NEWS: New research highlights Dissertation House as an effective support model for minority STEM Ph.D. candidates
The book: Sisters in the Dissertation House
The journal article: The Dissertation House Model: Doctoral Student Experiences Coping and Writing in a Shared Knowledge Community
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Winter Welcome Week 2017
View the FULL schedule here!
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