UMBC-Related Twitter Accounts
by Craig Berger and David Hoffman
If you use Twitter, check out these UMBC-related accounts for news, opinions, ideas and opportunities, and to connect with the people behind them. We know that there are far more useful UMBC-related accounts than what we've included below, so please add a comment to mention good ones we've missed. Note that not all of these are official accounts, but they are all UMBC-focused and active.
@ActiveMindsUMBC (UMBC Active Minds)
@ArtsAtUMBC
@cadvc_UMBC (UMBC Center for Art, Design & Visual Culture)
@Cleftomaniacs (UMBC Cleftomaniacs a capella group)
@CoCreateUMBC (David Hoffman, UMBC Office of Student Life)
@commonvisionx (UMBC Commonvision print, copy, design & marketing center)
@CraigBerger (Craig Berger, UMBC Office of Student Life)
@cscumbc1 (UMBC Caribbean Student Council)
@HLSU_UMBC (UMBC Hispanic Latino Student Union)
@newmediastudio (UMBC New Media Studio)
@PPDanceMinistry (UMBC Perfected Praise Dance Ministry)
@RetrieverWeekly (The Retriever Weekly, UMBC’s student newspaper)
@ShazamGirlBlue (UMBC Women's Frisbee Team)
@SustainableUMBC (Sustainability at UMBC)
@UMBC
@UMBC_ACM (UMBC Association for Computing Machinery)
@UMBC_AMST (UMBC Department of American Studies)
@UMBCAlumni (UMBC Alumni Association)
@UMBC_ASU (UMBC Arab Student Union)
@UMBCAthletics (UMBC Athletics Department)
@UMBCBookstore
@UMBC_BSU (UMBC Black Student Union)
@UMBCcareers (UMBC Career Services)
@UMBCClubSports
@UMBCCricket (UMBC Cricket Club)
@UMBCDining (UMBC Dining Services)
@UMBCELI (UMBC English Language Institute)
@UMBCEvents (Jackie Aliotta, UMBC Events)
@UMBCfasa (UMBC Filipino-American Student Association)
@UMBCFA (UMBC Filmmakers Anonymous)
@UMBCGSA (UMBC Graduate Student Association)
@UMBCGreek
@UMBCHillel
@UMBCHonors (UMBC Honors College)
@UMBCHumanities
@UMBCIceHockey (UMBC Ice Hockey)
@UMBC_JSU (UMBC Jewish Student Union)
@UMBCLibrary
@UMBCLove
@UMBCMamasBoys (UMBC Mama’s Boys a capella group)
@UMBCMensRugby (UMBC Men's Rugby)
@UMBCMensSoccer (UMBC Men's Soccer Team)
@UMBCMSA (UMBC Muslim Student Association)
@UMBC_OFAS (UMBC Office of Financial Aid and Scholarships)
@UMBCPolice
@UMBCRecycles
@UMBCResLife (UMBC Residential Life)
@UMBC_RSA (UMBC Resident Student Association)
@UMBCSEA (UMBC Students for Environmental Awareness)
@UMBCseb (UMBC Student Events Board)
@UMBCServes (UMBCServes, sharing service opportunities at UMBC)
@UMBCSGA (UMBC Student Government Association)
@UMBCShriverCtr (The Shriver Center)
@UMBCSocSci (UMBC Social Sciences)
@UMBCStilettos (UMBC Stilettos a capella group)
@UMBCStudentLife (UMBC Office of Student Life)
@UMBCStudyAbroad (UMBC Study Abroad Office)
@UMBCtechsupport (UMBC Division of Information Technology Technical Support)
@UMBCtraining (UMBC Training Center)
@UMBCuhs (UMBC University Health Services)
@UMBC_Wsoccer (UMBC Women's Soccer Team)
@WeLeadUMBC (Virginia Byrne, UMBC Office of Student Life)
@WomenCenterUMBC (UMBC Women’s Center)
@YourOwnUMBC
@YumShoppe (UMBC snack shop in The Commons)
Beyond following these accounts, check out and use the #UMBC hashtag. Also, use #digUMBC to share your reflections, opinions and information about making a difference on campus and beyond.
Co-Create UMBC is a blog for and about UMBC, written by David Hoffman and Craig Berger from the Office of Student Life. Join the Co-Create UMBC group on MyUMBC. Like Co-Create UMBC on Facebook. And follow David and Craig on Twitter.
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Imagining America: Calling Publicly Engaged Grad Students
2013 National Conference: A Call to Action, Oct. 4-6
Thanks to the support of Provost Rous, UMBC is joining Imagining America, a consortium that encourages and promotes
scholarship in the
arts and humanities and asks its members to translate this scholarship
into civic action. Contact rjones12@umbc.edu to join a UMBC delegation at the National Conference.
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Job Posting: New After-School Partnership
FOUR paid fellowships
UMBC STEM Initiative (USI) is an out-of-school time
program for 1st through 4th graders. It was created with two things in mind:
students’ academic and personal growth.
Academic: While USI is an academic program, it will be
different than the school day. We value
the natural curiosity of children and will use it to engage USI Scholars in
fun, hands-on reading, math, and STEM activities.
Enriching: USI wants Scholars to try new things, so they
will get to do things like create art and music, play sports, and build robots
from LEGOs.
Giving: USI cares about the community and believes that everyone,
including children can make a difference.
Scholars will work on a service-learning project of importance to them.
USI Fellows
We are seeking 4 Fellows to co-facilitate
After-School Program activities.
Specific responsibilities include: 1) Co-facilitating all aspects of the
program (homework help, academic and enrichment activities, community meeting,
transitions between activities); 2) Collaborating with Lakeland teachers in the
planning and delivery of academic activities; 3) Leading one enrichment
activity per week (i.e. sport; robotics; chess; performance arts); 4)
Supervising volunteers (UMBC students); 5) Serving as a “real” model to USI
Scholars.
These positions require a time commitment of 8
hours per week. Fellows must be
available Monday and Wednesday OR Tuesday and Thursday from 2:30-6:30pm. Preference is given to applicants who can
commit to the full 27-week program calendar: September 30-December 12,2013
and January 6-May 16, 2014. A
stipend of $2200 is offered for fulfillment of the total commitment of 8 hours
per week for 27 weeks. Fellows will also
be enrolled in the Shriver Center’s 096 Leadership Practicum, so they will have
a transcript notation of their work.
Please complete the following and return it to Ms.
Rehana Shafi.
Room 106C Academic Services Building (1-story
building behind the Commons)
Applications are due NO LATER THAN 5 p.m. on Wednesday,
September 18, 2013.
Interviews will be scheduled the week of September
23rd-26th.
Selected Fellows will start immediately the week of
September 30th.
If you have any questions, do not hesitate to
contact Ms. Shafi! You can stop by her
office (Room 106C Academic Services Building), email her at rshafi@umbc.edu, or call her at 410.455.1736.
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Job Posting: Asst. Prof. & Director for the Digital Studies
Rutgers University-Camden seeks to appoint a tenure-track assistant professor
or tenured associate professor as founding Director for the Digital
Studies Center in the College of Arts and Sciences. The center will
serve as the campus’s hub for scholarship and interdisciplinary research
in digital studies. Candidate’s field of expertise is open, but should
be knowledgeable about interdisciplinary work involving the humanities,
fine arts, computing and social sciences.
This is a ten-month, tenure-track faculty position with teaching and
administrative responsibilities. The founding Director will help shape
the vision for the Rutgers-Camden Digital Studies Center consistent with
the academic mission of the College of Arts and Sciences. The director
will coordinate an interdisciplinary academic program in digital
studies for undergraduate and graduate students. Additional
administrative responsibilities include assisting with fundraising, as
well as oversight for budgeting, planning, staffing and daily operations
for the center.
More information can be found here:
http://digitalhumanitiesnow.org/2013/08/job-assistant-or-associate-professor-and-director-digital-studies-center-rutgers/Teachers College, Columbia University Working Papers in TESOL & Applied
Linguistics is an online journal
(http://www.tc.columbia.edu/tesolalwebjournal) dedicated to publishing research in
progress in the fields of TESOL and Applied Linguistics.
Within a conceptual framework that values an integration of theory and
practice, the journal publishes full-length articles dealing, in
a principled
way, with language, language acquisition, language teaching, and
language
assessment. The journal also publishes interviews, short
commentaries, and book
reviews.
The Editorial Board is currently accepting manuscripts for
future issues.
Articles submitted to the journal should normally be no longer
than 8,000
words. Each paper must begin with an abstract not exceeding 200
words. No
information that identifies the author should be included in the
paper. A
separate title page should be provided, with the following
information: title,
the author's name, affiliation, address, e-mail address and both
a daytime and
an evening telephone number. Contributors may submit their
papers in either of
two ways. Three printed copies (double-spaced throughout) or an
electronic
version of the initial submission should be sent/e-mailed to:
TESOL/AL Web Journal
Teachers College, Columbia University
Box 66
525 West 120th Street
New York, NY 10027
E-mail: tcwebjournal@tc.columbia.edu
Manuscripts submitted should follow APA format. Works referred
to should be
separately listed at the end of the article. Submission
Preparation Checklist
is available at
http://journals.tc-library.org/index.php/tesol/about/submissions
Questions concerning submission can be directed to Catherine
Box, Editor
(tcwebjournal@tc.columbia.edu).
--
Catherine DiFelice Box
Editor
Teachers College, Columbia University Working Papers in TESOL
& Applied
Linguistics
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Tue, 03 Sep 2013 08:18:56 -0400
CFP: 35th Ethnography in Education Forum
Ethnographic Imagination AND Screening Scholarship Media
"The Ethnographic Imagination:
Arts, Multimodality, and Pedagogies of the Possible"
February 28 – March 1, 2014
Center for Urban Ethnography
University of Pennsylvania
Graduate School of Education
3700 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA
http://www.gse.upenn.edu/cue/forum
Call for Papers
ONLINE SUBMISSION OPEN: Monday, August 12, 2013
http://www.conftool.com/forum2014/
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: October 1, 2013
NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE: early November, 2013
REQUIRED PREREGISTRATION FOR PRESENTERS: Monday, December 2, 2013
With the multimodal affordances of today’s digital technologies, aesthetic
and symbolic practices are more and more a part of people’s everyday
lives the world over. Meanwhile, in schools, aesthetic approaches to
learning are too often – increasingly – perceived as "extras" that can
be relegated to the margins of the curriculum or eliminated entirely
without repercussion. Yet, the arts expand our ways of knowing as surely
as ethnography expands our ways of understanding our world. Indeed,
several ethnographic research traditions have explored the pedagogical
possibilities of artistic expression and performance, in and out of
schools. How do we as educators envision the place of artistic and
multimodal expression in our pedagogies? And what roles can we as
ethnographers play in exploring and imagining possibilities for creative
and aesthetic ways of
learning/knowing in classrooms, schools, and learning communities?
As the Ethnography in Education Research Forum reaches its 35th
year, we invite you to celebrate what is possible in teaching and
research when conducted through artistic, multimodal lenses. We welcome
the arts in ethnographic research (e.g. ethnographic films, ethnographic
poetry) alongside ethnographies of arts education and aesthetic
approaches to learning in formal or informal settings. We seek to
showcase teachers, researchers, practitioner-researchers, students and
artists who demonstrate what is possible in pedagogy through their
imagination and creativity, especially in contexts that are less
supportive of the arts. We foresee presentations of ethnography and
pedagogy in the arts, through the arts, and as art.
Convenor
Nancy H. Hornberger, University of Pennsylvania
Coordinators
Holly Link and Hoa Nguyen
Plenary Speakers
Christine Hélot, University of Strasbourg
Stanton Wortham, University of Pennsylvania
Vivian Vasquez, American University
Shirley Brice Heath, Stanford University and Brown University, Emerita
Communities of Inquiry Symposium
Rob Simon and the Teaching to Learn Project, University of Toronto – OISE
About the Ethnography in Education Research Forum
The Ethnography in Education Research Forum, convened by the Center for
Urban Ethnography at the University of Pennsylvania every year since
1980, is the largest annual meeting of qualitative researchers in
education. The Forum has from the beginning excelled in nurturing
ethnographic research and researchers in schools. The Forum is known for
its friendly and supportive atmosphere for fledgling researchers and
for the spirit of relaxed and open dialogue embracing newcomers and
experienced researchers alike. Areas of emphasis include: multicultural
issues in education, practitioner/teacher/action research, critical and
feminist ethnography, ethnographic evaluation in education, language
issues in education, uses of ethnography in math and science, and
indigenous language revitalization.
For more information about the Ethnography in Education Forum, visit
http://www.gse.upenn.edu/cue/forum or email cue@gse.upenn.edu
For videos of the 34th Ethnography in Education Research Forum Plenaries, visit
http://www.gse.upenn.edu/cue/forum/video_library
For proposal submission beginning August 12, 2013, visit
http://www.conftool.com/forum2014/
camra at Penn and GSE Films
in collaboration with
the 35th Annual Ethnography in Education Research Forum
present
The Second Annual Screening Scholarship Media Festival
March 2, 2014
With the proliferation of new
media technologies as well as the recent growth of digital humanities
centers, we have witnessed a number of debates that challenge
traditional modes of research and scholarship. For camra, participating
in these debates is imperative because they illuminate the heart of what
we do as scholars, media makers, and public intellectuals. We seek to
push the boundaries of research and media, developing new ways of
knowing through audiovisual forms of expression. We aim to create an
aesthetic sensibility that destabilizes previously held notions of what
differentiates art from scholarship. Thus, we ask the following
questions:
What are the
possibilities that advances in media offer for knowledge production?
What are the methods and strategies that media makers and academics
share in their work? What are the ways in which academics can and should
integrate rigorous media production in their research?
camra at Penn invites
scholars, media-makers, students and educators to explore these
questions at the Second Annual Screening Scholarship Media Festival on
the campus of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA. We
welcome submissions that explore the relation between social theory,
pedagogy, and aesthetics using images and sound in the form of film,
soundscapes and recordings, blogs, websites, eBooks, animation,
photographs, and other media forms.
Online submissions open August 12, 2013.
The Deadline for Submission is October 1, 2013.
For submission guidelines and more information about camra and the festival, visit
www.camrapenn.org or http://www.gse.upenn.edu/cue/forum/screening_scholarship.
Please contact us through email at ssmf@camrapenn.org.
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Undercover Trombone Player
by Craig Berger
I began playing the trombone when I was 10. I remember gazing at the shiny new instrument my parents had purchased and feeling surprised. I couldn't stay up past 9:00, but they were entrusting me with this?
After a couple of weeks, the novelty faded. There was the unpleasant task of lugging a large awkwardly-shaped case to school one day a week, and my peers quickly let me know what they thought of my new habit. Most important to me, I just wasn't good. Why would I spend time doing something that wasn't fun and that I couldn't master? (I still am thankful to my parents--not only for their financial investment in my invisible talent, but also for their refusal to allow their bleeding ears to mute their encouragement.)
As I moved into junior high and high school, the feelings of insecurity, the monotonous exercises and scales, and the stinging lips slowly morphed into a recognition that this was something worth doing. For the first time I was committing to a long-term endeavor that was simultaneously challenging and fun. I took private lessons and played in community bands over the summer. I connected with people four times my age--including my saxophone-playing great-grandmother, whose musical inclinations I inherited--and developed additional layers of appreciation for what I was doing. I learned I could take the very tool my parents provided me years before and use it to let the world know how hard I had worked (and ultimately play myself into a new, better trombone, also purchased by my parents). I also began to feel a connection with the music I was playing. In addition to mastering the mechanics of operating a trombone, I learned terms like legato, adante, and fortissimo, and began to see music as art. I also used music to connect with people my own age; nearly all of my friends during that time were in band.
Despite all that I took away from the experience of playing the trombone, I haven't opened my trombone case in several years. I didn't exactly make one grand decision to quit, but it was more a development that took place over time. After my undergraduate experience, other activities--job-hunting, moving, graduate school--filled the void in time. Every now and then, I will nostalgically listen to music I've played and think about the personal memories and lessons ensconced in those harmonies. As I begin a new movement in my own life (I am getting married next month), I am hopeful that I might soon find ways to re-engage this lapsed piece of my identity.
What about you? What talents or aspects of your identity have fallen by the wayside that you may wish to recapture?
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by Craig Berger I began playing the trombone when I was 10. I remember gazing at the shiny new instrument my parents had purchased and feeling surprised. I couldn't stay up past 9:00, but...
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Real People Profiles: Steven McAlpine
We're asking some of the people you might encounter on the UMBC campus, including students, faculty, staff and alumni, to answer a few questions about themselves and their experiences. These are their responses.
Name: Steven McAlpine
Hometown: Baltimore MD
Q: How long have you been at UMBC?
Q: What is your current title (job or student organization position)?
A: Assistant Director of Interdisciplinary Studies (INDS).
Q: In 12 words or less, what role(s) do you play on campus?
A: Teacher, mentor to students designing individualized majors, advisor to student organizations, drummer.
Q: What aspect of your UMBC role(s) do you enjoy most?
A: I love teaching in the classroom. In our writing intensive INDS 330 Ways of Knowing seminar, we examine the interdisciplinary work of artists, social scientists and scientists, and I am often amazed at the fresh insights that students bring to discussions. Last semester's honors section did a brilliant analysis of the connections between art and science in the documentary film "Between the Folds."
Q: What is the most important or memorable thing you learned in college/have learned at UMBC?
A: How important it is for students to "own" their choice of major and career. I meet with quite a few students who say, "I cannot continue with my 'parental expectation major'! Now I want to follow my interests and passion for___." When we let others choose for us, we can miss our calling or run into dead ends in our lives. I am grateful that UMBC has programs like INDS that allow students to align their intellectual interests, research and creative ideas, with a variety of courses that result in a meaningful (and valuable) learning experience.
Q: Complete this sentence: "I am a big fan of __________"
A: URCAD (Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day). One of the most inspiring days of the year at UMBC.
Q: Do you have any UMBC stories, little-known facts about UMBC, favorite spots on campus, or anything else you’d like to share?
A: Since my first summer at UMBC in 2006, I have enjoyed hanging out on the terrace by the University Center (outside of Starbucks). In 2008 I started a drum circle with a few UMBC students that still performs and records together. We call ourselves "Straight Up Tribal" and we have recorded an EP available in the bookstore. We also host a monthly show in downtown Baltimore at Teavolve Cafe on second Saturdays.
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Register to Vote
by David Hoffman
Maryland will elect a new statewide officers, state legislators and members of Congress in 2014. Take a few minutes to register to vote in the 2014 national election, here or in your home state, using these tools.
Maryland Voter Registration Application (download a paper form, or use the Maryland Online Voter Registration system). If you're already registered but have moved since the last election, you can use the Maryland Voter Registration Application to change your address. The deadline to register before the 2014 primary election is: June 3, 2014.
National Voter Registration Form (if your state of residence is not Maryland, use this form. Special rules apply for residents of New Hampshire, North Dakota, Wyoming and U.S. territories; be sure to check your state election web sites, using the link below).
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Congratulations to Dr. Eunju Chung Chen!
Congratulations to Dr. Eunju Chung Chen!
Pictured here with her mentor, Dr. Jennifer Maher.
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Congratulations to Dr. Eunju Chung Chen! Pictured here with her mentor, Dr. Jennifer Maher.
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