Survey for VP/Dean of Undergraduate Academic Affairs Search
Dear Members of the Campus Community,

As we move forward with the national search for the permanent Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Academic Affairs (UAA), the search committee would like to hear from you.

Please share with us your thoughts about the priorities, traits, and experiences you believe the next Vice Provost and Dean should possess by participating in this survey.

Take the Survey


The survey is an important part of the search, and the results will be critical in guiding the committee in selecting qualified candidates that embody the background, experience, and skills necessary to be successful in the position. The survey should take approximately 10 minutes to complete, and all responses will remain anonymous and confidential. The deadline to complete the survey is Friday, March 17.

Results from the survey will be analyzed and presented to the UMBC search committee later this spring.

Thank you for your support during this important process.

Scott Casper, Search Committee Chair and Dean, College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
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Dear Members of the Campus Community,

Earlier this week, the U.S. Departments of Education and Justice rescinded existing guidance on Title IX regulations that protected transgender students' access to school bathrooms and locker rooms matching their gender identities. As a university that values inclusion, diversity, and the dignity of all people, we believe it is essential to affirm UMBC’s ongoing support of LGBTQ+ students, faculty, and staff following this decision.

UMBC will continue to fulfill its commitment to providing equal, gender-inclusive access to university facilities. UMBC is proud to offer dozens of gender-neutral restrooms across the university's public buildings, dorms, and offices—with a commitment to include all-gender restrooms in every newly constructed building—as well as gender-inclusive housing. As a member of the America East conference, we partner with the You Can Play Project and LGBT SportSafe Inclusion Program to create a safe, respectful, and inclusive environment for LGBTQ+ athletes in the locker room and on the playing field.

We also recognize that despite our commitment to fostering a welcoming gender-inclusive community at UMBC, LGBTQ+ people across the country will feel the impact of yesterday’s decision as it affects their access to facilities and feelings of safety and belonging. For additional support, our community members can reach out to the UMBC Counseling Center(which offers a support group for trans students), USG Center for Counseling and Consulting, Mosaic Center for Diversity and Inclusion, office of the vice president of Student Affairs, Women’s Center (which hosts bi-weekly Spectrum meetings), University Health Services(which provides inclusive health care), and LGBTQ Faculty and Staff Association. Additional resources are available through the UMBC Diversity and Inclusion site.

Over the coming weeks, we will continue to closely monitor developments regarding national protections for transgender students, including a Supreme Court case that will be heard in March on transgender student bathroom access.

Thank you for all you do every day to make UMBC a safe, caring, and inclusive learning community.

President Freeman Hrabowski and Provost Philip Rous
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Dear members of the campus community,

I am writing to inform you that we have begun a national search for the Associate Vice Provost for International Education. This position, formerly held by Dr. Arlene Wergin, Director of International Education Services, will build on the foundation established by Dr. Wergin during her decades of outstanding service to our community.

Dr. Kathleen Carroll, Associate Dean of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences and Associate Professor of Economics has kindly agreed to chair the search committee. Under Dr. Carroll's leadership, I have appointed a search committee, and the names of the members of the committee are listed below. I would like to express my sincere gratitude to each of the committee members for both their willingness to serve and their commitment in agreeing to undertake this important institutional responsibility.

The committee will share with our community the progress of the search over the coming months. I know that all of us will do everything we can to support the committee in their execution of this important task.

Search Committee Members:
  • K. Jill Barr, Senior Assistant Dean, Graduate School Enrollment Management
  • Amy Bhatt, Assistant Professor, Gender and Women’s Studies
  • Rick Bissell, Professor and Graduate Program Director, Emergency Health Services
  • Dale Bittinger, Assistant Vice Provost, Undergraduate Admissions, Orientation and School Partnerships
  • Arthur Brown, Program Management Specialist, International Education Services
  • Charles Eggleton, Chair, Mechanical Engineering
  • Sarah Gardenghi, Director, English Language Institute
  • L. Michael Hayden, Chair, Physics
  • Beth Snyder Jones, Associate Vice Provost, Office of Summer, Winter & Special Programs, Division of Professional Studies
  • Omar Ka, Chair, Modern Languages, Linguistics and Intercultural Communication
  • Michelle Massey, Assistant Director, International Education Services
  • Caylie Zidwick, Assistant Director, International Education Services
Thank you for your support during this important process.

Antonio Moreira, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs
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UMBC is proud to announce the projects selected to receive grants in the fall 2016 round of the Hrabowski Fund for Innovation competition.

ADAPTATION AWARD

Intercultural Tales: Learning With Baltimore's Immigrant Communities – Modern Languages, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communication assistant professors Tania Lizarazo and Thania Munoz Diaz will promote one-on-one collaboration between UMBC students and members of immigrant communities in Baltimore using digital stories. The goal of the project is to enhance the communication and cultural competence of students, while elevating the visibility of immigrant populations in the region and highlighting the positive contributions they make as members in their communities.

SEED GRANT

From Service to Study: Creating a Better Environment for UMBC's Student Veterans – Meredith Oyen, Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies, will lead a team to address the unique needs of students transitioning from military service to college life. This work will involve developing interdisciplinary programs to educate faculty, staff, and students on how to assist veterans as they enroll in classes, seek out advising, and adjust to campus life. Specifically, the project will create a complementary new oral history course that captures student veteran experiences to be shared with the broader community. The project also includes "Green Zone Training," which will create a visible network of faculty and staff on campus who are aware of veteran issues and qualified to offer assistance, if needed.

Winners from the spring 2017 submission will be notified in early May. Proposals for the next round of Innovation Fund grants are due by October 20, 2017. For more information and to apply, visit UMBC's Faculty Development Center.

The Hrabowski Fund for Innovation exemplifies UMBC's commitment to investing in faculty initiatives that fuel creativity and enterprise and also create opportunities for student engagement.
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UMBC understands the importance of sharing research and scholarship to create a more educated, knowledgeable society in the state, the nation, and throughout the world. By supporting the open dissemination of the work of our colleagues, the institution embraces greater recognition of the expertise and advancement in the disciplines by our faculty, and it precipitates a more thorough review, consideration, and critique of their scholarly work.

After careful consideration, the university, with guidance from the Faculty Senate, has established an official Academic Open Access Resolution in an effort to support and encourage faculty and staff across the campus to openly share their work through repositories and venues that endorse open access and collaboration.

This announcement comes at a time when support for open access journal publication is growing. Most recently, the University System of Maryland Council of University System Faculty passed a similar resolution.

As always, faculty members are welcome to continue to publish their work wherever they are most comfortable, including national journals. However, when publishing work we recommend faculty members carefully review all contracts and endorsements associated with publishing agreements to ensure authors and co-authors retain their copyright.

If members of the campus have questions regarding publishing work, or would like more information or advising on how to retain their copyright, please contact Simmona Simmons in the university library, simmons@umbc.edu or 410-455-3587.
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Dear members of the campus community,

It is with tremendous sadness that we share with the campus community the passing of UMBC alumna and former assistant director in the Office for Academic and Pre-professional Advising Paula Ashby ‘76, psychology, an exceptional friend, family member, and colleague who dedicated her life to academic advising and student success.

Ms. Ashby began her journey in academic advising as a student assistant in the Learning Resources Center during her junior year at UMBC in 1974. After completing her undergraduate degree, she returned to UMBC several years later as a professional academic advisor in the former Allied Health Advisement Center. Ms. Ashby’s gift for advising enabled her to serve in an exemplary fashion as Graduate and Professional School Coordinator, where she supported the Meyerhoff Scholarship Program for nearly a decade, from its inception in 1989 until 1997. One year later she assumed the role of assistant director in the Office for Academic and Pre-professional Advising, where she remained until her retirement in 2016.

Over her 36-year career, Ms. Ashby has counseled and mentored thousands of students across UMBC's undergraduate advising system, and her impact on the foundation of professional academic advising at the university is significant and laudable. She steadfastly and nobly served as an academic advisor, student advocate, heath professions expert, and new student orientation guru. She will be remembered as an academic advising pioneer who has made enormous contributions to launching and fostering the careers of countless health care professionals throughout the region, state, country, and beyond.

Viewing services for Ms. Ashby will take place on Friday, February 17, 2017, 5-8 p.m. at Wylie Funeral Home, 9200 Liberty Road, Randallstown, MD, 21133. A wake will be held on Saturday, February 18, 10:30 a.m., at Epworth United Methodist Church, 3317 Saint Lukes Lane, Baltimore, MD, 21207. Members of the campus community are invited to join family and friends for a Celebration of Life Service at the Epworth United Methodist Church immediately following the wake.

Contributions to the Paula O. Ashby Scholarship can be made online at www.umbc.edu/giving. You may also make checks payable to the UMBC Foundation, noting the scholarship name in the memo line. Send to:

UMBC Foundation
Paula O. Ashby Scholarship
1000 Hilltop Circle
Baltimore, MD 21250

Yvette Mozie-Ross, Vice Provost, Enrollment Management and Planning
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Dear members of the campus community,

I am writing to inform you that we have begun a national search for the UMBC’s permanent Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Academic Affairs (UAA) in order to identify a worthy successor who can build upon Dean Lee’s legacy and decades of service to our community.
 
Dr. Scott Casper, Dean of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences and Professor of History, has kindly agreed to chair the search committee. Under Dean Casper’s leadership, I have appointed a search committee and the names of the members of the committee are listed below. I would like to express my sincere gratitude to each of the committee members for both their willingness to serve and their commitment in agreeing to take on this critical institutional responsibility.

In the coming weeks the committee will reach out to the University to receive input on the desired personal and professional characteristics of our new Vice Provost and Dean in order to develop the criteria that will guide the search and selection process. The committee will also share with our community the progress of the search over the coming months. I know that all of us will do what we can to support the committee in their execution of this important task.
 
SEARCH COMMITTEE MEMBERS
  • Tamara Bhalla, Associate Professor, American Studies
  • Stephen Bradley, Associate Professor, Visual Arts
  • Mariajose Castellanos, Senior Lecturer, Chemical, Biochemical & Environmental Engineering
  • David Eisenmann, Associate Professor, Biological Sciences
  • Keith Harmon, Director, Meyerhoff Scholars Program
  • Linda Hodges, Director, Faculty Development Center
  • Antonio Moreira, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs
  • Jess Myers, Director, Women’s Center
  • Jill Randles, Assistant Vice Provost and Assistant Dean, Undergraduate Academic Affairs
  • Rouben Rostamian, Professor and Chair, Mathematics and Statistics
  • Mavis Sanders, Professor, Education
  • Nancy Young, Vice President for Student Affairs
Thank you for your support during this important process.

Provost Philip Rous and Dean Scott Casper
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Dear members of the campus community,

We want to provide a brief update on the university’s response to the recent White House executive order banning travel to the United States from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, and Yemen.

UMBC’s Office of International and Education Services (IES) and other campus offices are working proactively to determine the immediate effect of the executive order on our campus. To our knowledge, no UMBC students from the seven countries have been prevented from entering the U.S. IES has contacted the approximately 40 students potentially from the designated countries and offered individual guidance and support. Currently, we know of no faculty or staff whose ability to travel has been adversely affected by the executive order.

We are aware that the impact of this executive order is felt broadly in our inclusive campus community and on campuses across the nation. One of American higher education’s great strengths—and one of its significant contributions to our nation—is its ability to bring together the best minds from around the world to create scholarly communities that benefit from diversity of experience, background, and thought. We take great pride in the fact that UMBC is home to students, faculty, and staff from more than 100 countries. We know firsthand the educational, societal, and economic benefits of bringing together people from across the globe to solve our nation’s, and our world’s, most pressing challenges.

For that reason, we have joined the American Council on Education and hundreds of individual institutions in sending a letter to the Secretary of Homeland Security, expressing deep concerns about the impact of the recent White House executive order.

As we are all aware from news reports about legal challenges to the executive order, this is a very fluid situation, subject to change on an almost daily basis. As previously advised, those who are citizens of the countries affected by the executive order or dual citizens of one of the countries and a country not on the list should seek legal advice before making a decision about traveling outside the United States. IES continues to post updated information regarding implementation of the executive order on its website.

In addition to responding to immediate questions regarding the executive order, campus leaders are addressing the broader effects this development may have across our diverse campus community in such areas as campus climate, advocacy, enrollment, and student success. We will continue to keep the campus updated about this work on the UMBC Diversity and Inclusion website.

President Freeman Hrabowski and Provost Philip Rous
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Dear members of the UMBC community,

Please join us as we celebrate the career of Dr. Diane Lee, Vice Provost and founding Dean of Undergraduate Education, and wish her the best in her retirement. The celebration event will take place on Monday, February 20 from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. on the 7th floor of the Albin O. Kuhn Library. Refreshments will be provided.

If you are interested in attending, please RSVP using our online registration form, or contact Diana Smith, dlsmith@umbc.edu.

For the past 30 years, Dr. Lee has served the UMBC community with enthusiasm, integrity, compassion, and vision. She has made a profound difference to the lives of past and current students, staff, and faculty, and her extraordinary legacy will mark the lives of members of our community for years to come. She has been a mentor, advisor, supporter, friend, colleague, thinker, advocate, administrator, teacher, and builder—playing all of these roles with unique grace, kindness, and wisdom.

During her time at UMBC she was honored as a Presidential Teaching Professor; served as a Vice Provost and then as the founding Dean of Undergraduate Education; and oversaw or established signature UMBC initiatives such as the First Year and Transfer Seminars, Supplemental Instruction, and Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day (URCAD). These accomplishments, and many others, are grounded on Dr. Lee’s passion for supporting all students in reaching their academic and professional goals, and on her remarkable ability to inspire all around her through her work, generosity, and collaborative spirit.

We hope you will join us in expressing our deep gratitude for all Dr. Lee has done for the UMBC community, and in wishing her well in her future endeavors.

Provost Philip Rous and Interim Dean Simon Stacey
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Thank you for making UMBC's 50th Anniversary special!

As we enter into the second semester of our milestone anniversary year, we invite you to share in a unique anniversary memento created by the Imaging Research Center's Dan Bailey, professor of visual arts. Click on the image to dive into a wonderful day shared by so many Retrievers.

Freeman Hrabowski and Philip Rous
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