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<Title>Free Farmers Market TODAY!</Title>
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<Summary>Bring your own bag, like Sairam!! The one he is holding in the photo below is in very limited supply, so bring a reusable bag or backpack to the Free Farmers Market today (and The Essential Space...</Summary>
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<Title>Pride Center Finals Hours &amp; Closure</Title>
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<Summary>Hello Community Members of The Pride Center!     New semester means updated hours! We are so excited to welcome our returning and new guests in the center. Due to our foot traffic increasing 5...</Summary>
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<NewsItem contentIssues="true" id="138575" important="false" status="posted" url="https://beta.my.umbc.edu/groups/gspd/posts/138575">
<Title>New Program: Queerios Discussion Group</Title>
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<Title>Spring 2024 Group Fitness</Title>
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<Summary>On January 29, join us this semester for one of our weekly group fitness classes. Class descriptions can be found on the recreation website.   View on myUMBC </Summary>
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<Title>New Program: Paws &amp; Reflect</Title>
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<Summary>We are currently asking our community members to provide us feedback in regard to our collective programs, initiatives, and spaces. Although our work is primarily geared toward our students, we...</Summary>
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<Title>Spring 2024 Multicultural Leadership Experience (MLE)</Title>
<Tagline>Spring Registration deadline TODAY, January 29</Tagline>
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    <div class="html-content"><p><strong>Applications for the Spring '24 MLE Cohort can be found <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScRf1jYuZb-4r6pHuwFRl1uDsv70D7t7-UeaQGyQTBG_sZLLA/viewform?usp=sf_link" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">HERE</a>. </strong></p><p><strong>The Multicultural Leadership Experience (MLE) is a collaboration between Campus Life and Initiatives for Identity Inclusion &amp; Belonging (i3B), that seeks to: </strong></p><p><strong>Engage participants in a multicultural development and leadership learning program; <br>Enhance participants' understanding of their social identities, leader identity, as well as their capacity to lead; <br>And enable participants' development through authenticity, self-awareness, relationships, and capitalizing on difference. </strong></p><div><strong><br></strong></div><div><span><div>The sessions are as follows:<div> </div></div><div><div>- Meeting #1: Monday, February 12th, 3pm - 4:30pm</div><div>- Meeting #2: Monday, February 19th, 3pm - 4:30pm</div><div>- Meeting #3: Monday, March 4th, 3pm - 4:30pm</div><div>- Meeting #4: Monday, March 25th, 3pm - 4:30pm</div><div>- Meeting #5: Monday, April 8th, 3pm - 4:30pm</div><div>- Meeting #6: Monday, April 22nd, 3pm - 4:30pm </div><div>- Meeting #7: Monday, May 6th, 3pm - 5:30pm</div></div><div> </div><div><span>***All sessions will take place in The Commons (room location will be specified in a Google calendar invite)***</span></div><div><br></div><div><div>Participants will be exploring the concept of Authentic Leadership, Legacy Building, and Breaking Barriers of White Supremacy within Leadership. We will do this in a leadership learning cohort by: </div><ul><li>Enhancing participants' leader identity and leadership capacity using an identity-conscious lens and student development theories;</li><li>Increasing participants' awareness of their personal abilities, identity development, and intersections that shape their story through authenticity, self-reflection, and cultural humility;</li><li>Exploring the role they play in developing relationships while building intra/intercultural connections; </li><li>And capitalizing on their differences, specifically in relation to their racial, ethnic, national, and other salient identity social groups</li></ul><div> </div><div>The purpose of all MLE programs is to provide a space for students and student leaders who identify within diverse or marginalized backgrounds to discover their own capacity to lead, while also promoting a better understanding of their experiences, issues, strengths, and outcomes in navigating their own collegiate careers. However, ALL students are welcome to apply!   </div><div> </div><div><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScRf1jYuZb-4r6pHuwFRl1uDsv70D7t7-UeaQGyQTBG_sZLLA/viewform?usp=sf_link" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><strong><span>Registration is due Monday, January 29th, 2024 at 11:59pm</span>.</strong></a> Both undergraduate and graduate students are eligible to participate. In order to be accepted into the program you must commit to all sessions. Please answer all of the questions before submitting your registration. Any questions can be sent to <a href="mailto:campuslife@umbc.edu" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">campuslife@umbc.edu</a> and <a href="mailto:i3b@umbc.edu" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">i3b@umbc.edu</a>. Again you can find the link to <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScRf1jYuZb-4r6pHuwFRl1uDsv70D7t7-UeaQGyQTBG_sZLLA/viewform?usp=sf_link" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">apply here</a>. </div><div><br></div><div>--- Angelina R. Jenkins (Assistant Director, i3b) &amp; Beatriz Gutierrez-Malagon (Coordinator for Leadership, Campus Life) </div><div><br></div><div>Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/@hgullixson?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Hannah Gullixson</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com/photos/brown-and-white-coffee-store-0IEemURq3GM?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Unsplash</a></div></div></span></div></div>
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