Apply to Fill SGA Senate and Finance Board Vacancies by Craig Berger

Five elected positions in SGA have become available: three positions in the Senate and two positions on the Finance Board. In addition, the Finance Board is looking for a Secretary to take minutes at its meetings.  All of these positions, with terms running through May 15, 2012, will be filled through an application and interview process. To apply for the Senate vacancies, apply here. To apply for any of the Finance Board positions, apply here.  Applications for both the Senate vacancies and Finance Board vacancies are due this Friday, February 1 at 5:00 p.m.  The students selected will have a chance to gain valuable experience before applications to run for positions in the 2013-2014 SGA are due in March.

The Senate is SGA’s engine for collecting ideas from students and turning them into campus change initiatives.  Members meet weekly (Mondays at 5:30 p.m.) to discuss and develop initiatives, talk with campus administrators and take positions on issues.  But most of the Senate’s work takes place between the weekly meetings.  Members spend time talking with students, representing all undergraduates on university committees, meeting in project working groups and doing the follow-up needed to get initiatives off the ground.  

The Finance Board is the branch of SGA that provides funds to support student organization activities: $200,000 this year.  Most of the Finance Board’s work is done at weekly meetings, where student organization leaders present requests and Finance Board members ask questions and make decisions.  These meetings, which take place Tuesdays starting at 5:30 p.m., can be both long and intense.  Finance Board members have to wrestle with complex issues: applying university policies, striking a balance between supporting amazing events and stretching funds across the entire year, thinking about the precedent-setting impact of their decisions.  But they have a lot of fun too, partly because it’s so interactive and engaging. 

If you have any questions about the Senate vacancies, contact Valerie Parks at parksva1@umbc.edu. If you have questions about the Finance Board vacancies, contact Samantha Spehr at sspehr1@umbc.edu.

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 If NBA Hall of Famer Reggie Miller had decided to live on campus for his senior year of college, every detail of my life today would be different.
I kid you not.

Miller had a spot reserved in one of UCLA’s residential suites that year, but he got an off-campus apartment just before school started. If he hadn’t, his departure would not have freed up a spot in that suite for me. (When I arrived with my belongings after the first week of school, my suite-mates were disappointed to discover they would not be living with a basketball star after all).

If I had not moved into that suite, I would not have become friends with my roommate Lloyd. And he would not have managed my campaign for Student Body President the following spring, almost single-handedly swinging the election my way. And if I had not won the election, I would not have felt inspired and empowered to apply to Harvard’s graduate program in Public Policy that fall.

If I had not entered the Public Policy program, I would not have met my friend Richard. So I would not have joined him six years later at a small Boston-based nonprofit running community organizing projects in cities around the United States. And I would not have been in Pittsburgh on organization business one December to meet the woman I would eventually marry. And we would never have moved to Maryland together. And I would not now be working at UMBC.

I suppose you could conclude that life is a crapshoot, full of circumstances beyond our control. But I prefer to see it a little differently: that in the push and tug of events, there are openings through which you can pass to new worlds. And in those worlds you can discover and fulfill the promise of your self; and find the path with your real name on it. 

Maybe there’s just such an opening for you, in the circumstances of your life, right at this moment.

Do you have a similar story of your own—of a circumstance beyond your control that made all the difference?

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 A Facebook friend of mine from UMBC posted this thought the other day as their status:

Amazing, how some songs freeze you in time, flashing you back to an earlier point in your life, regardless of what is happening around you.

I have absolutely experienced this and continue to do it all the time.

Most of my "music memory" consists of positive (though shallow) feelings--bright, summer days, no school, and time spent with friends. Yet, there are also songs--many of them upbeat and bright--that my mind links with anxiety. Nearly every time my mom drove me the hour and a half to college from home during my first year--a year in which I navigated quite a bit of homesickness--I remember a Time-Life collection of 1960s hits playing in the car. And even today, when I hear "A Beautiful Morning," by The Rascals, or other songs included in that collection, I still feel nervous and on edge. 

 I find music's ability to absorb these feelings to be fascinating.  Even a song that so happily and explicitly tells me "it's a beautiful morning" transports me to the gray skies that decorated so many of those car rides back to Meadville, Pennsylvania and Allegheny College. I remember my stomach churning more as each mile of snow-spotted landscape whirred by. As I gradually left my place of comfort, "home," to a campus where I was still finding my way, where I still felt alone, the music played on.  I suppose that's the power of music: what starts as a complex array of sound waves makes its way to our ears, into our brains, and then becomes inseparably intertwined with those experiences and elements that form the crux of who we are. 

 While one might think I'd avoid those songs like the plague now, I find myself drawn to that music. Listening to it gives me the opportunity to time-travel, returning to the days when I had far less of an idea of who I was and what I wanted in life, a stage in which many of the young adults with whom I work find themselves. That musical memory also helps me notice that even though I have come a long way in battling homesickness and being able to independently find and enter supportive and loving communities, elements of those early struggles continue to shape my current challenges. I treasure music, especially those iconic songs, because it allows me to continuously explore who I am.

 What about you? What songs "freeze you in time?" When you hear them today and "flash back," what comes to mind?

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by David Hoffman

(Cross-posted on the BreakingGround website).

 STRiVE 2013, UMBC’s fifth annual homegrown student leadership retreat, sponsored by the Office of Student Life and Student Government Association, took place last week at the Skycroft Conference Center. I served as one of 12 coaches (6 staff members, 6 students). Each STRiVE is different (I’ve participated in all five), but they are always life-altering. [My reflections on previous STRiVE retreats: 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009].


The phrase “leadership retreat” really doesn’t do STRiVE justice. It obscures the poetry and magic of the lived experience. What happened in the hills west of Frederick last week was mostly spontaneous, profoundly real and deeply poignant. 62 UMBC students and staff members, most of us strangers to each other when the week began, helped each other to discover that despite our fears and vulnerabilities, and partly because of them, we are strong, wise and perfectly capable of transforming our lives and world together. We know this now without a doubt, because by week’s end the transformations already had begun.

STRiVE’s intellectual foundations include the “social change model” of leadership developed by higher education scholars, student development theory, social cognitive theory, and Harry Boyte’s pioneering ideas about preparing people for active roles in democracy. Based on our synthesis of these ideas, one of the core principles of STRiVE’s design is that we coaches empower the participants as co-creators of all their experiences, including the retreat itself while it is happening. To do otherwise would risk stunting their growth by equipping them to thrive only in leadership simulations, when authority figures are available to give instructions and assign roles.


One form this script-busting takes is the “here and now moment,” which means spontaneously and appropriately interrupting an activity or discussion to address issues with the group’s process. Toward the beginning of the week, a coach might call a “here and now moment” to point out that participants’ energy seems to be waning, or that a few people are dominating the discussion, and ask the group to consider solutions. By the end of the week, if all goes well, the participants are calling “here and now moments” of their own. As I told the group last week, the capacity to call a “here and now moment” may not be the most important skill developed at STRiVE, but it’s one on which the value of many of the others depends. Only if you are critically aware of your circumstances, and feel empowered to interrupt the flow of events, can you become an effective agent of positive social change in the real world.

With our democratic institutions under strain, in a culture that tends to cast citizens as consumers rather than co-creators, we need many more people capable of interrupting and transforming the here and now.

Another core STRiVE principle is absolute respect for the capacity of UMBC students to apply their wisdom and insight to make a difference right now, not just on some distant day when their education is supposedly complete and they are ready to take action. The diverse participants in STRiVE 2013 are incomplete but aware and alive, flawed but perfect, and more than strong enough to change the world. With their help and example, more of us may yet discover this same truth about ourselves.


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(Dissertation, Thesis, Publications!)

We enjoy hosting in-person events in Maryland for the Dissertation House, the Postdoctoral Writing Suite, and the new pilot “Writing for Publication” workshop. If you missed the deadlines for the in-person events, if you go to a school outside of Maryland, or if you can’t join us on campus, please strongly consider joining us online! You can blog with us and be part of the online community by introducing yourself, posting your goals, and recording your progress along the way. Our Winter 2013 cohorts will be blogging in full swing starting January 22, but you can begin now. Here are the links:

1) For “Writing for Publication” – blog here: http://dissertationhouse.wordpress.com/2012/12/12/new-initiative-writing-for-publication-january-22-23-2013-umbc/

2) For the Dissertation House Winter 2013 Challenge, blog here: http://dissertationhouse.wordpress.com/blog-online-challenge/winter-2013-challenge/

These events are hosted by PROMISE: Maryland’s AGEP and The Graduate School at UMBC.

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We enjoy hosting in-person events in Maryland for the Dissertation House, the Postdoctoral Writing Suite, and the new pilot “Writing for Publication” workshop. If you missed the deadlines for the in-person events, if you go to a school outside of Maryland, or if you can’t join us on campus, please strongly consider joining us online! You can blog with us and be part of the online community by introducing yourself, posting your goals, and recording your progress along the way. Our Winter 2013 cohorts will be blogging in full swing starting January 22, but you can begin now. Here are the links:

1) For “Writing for Publication” – blog here: http://dissertationhouse.wordpress.com/2012/12/12/new-initiative-writing-for-publication-january-22-23-2013-umbc/

2) For the Dissertation House Winter 2013 Challenge, blog here: http://dissertationhouse.wordpress.com/blog-online-challenge/winter-2013-challenge/

These events are hosted by PROMISE: Maryland’s AGEP and The Graduate School at UMBC.

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During the 2013 Winter Break, we are launching writing events for master’s, doctoral, and postdoctoral scholars.

The Dissertation House: January 22-25, 2013

(Deadline: 12/14/12)

http://dissertationhouse.wordpress.com/2012/12/05/winter-dissertation-house-coming-january-22-25-2013/

Head Coach: Dr. Wendy Carter-Veale

________________________________________

Writing for Publication: January 22 – 23, 2013

(Deadline 12/19/12)

http://dissertationhouse.wordpress.com/2012/12/12/new-initiative-writing-for-publication-january-22-23-2013-umbc/

Mentor-Coach: Dr. Patricia Young

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Postdoctoral Writing Suite: January 25, 2013

http://my.umbc.edu/groups/postdocs/events/15297

(Postdocs from other campuses may RSVP by sending email to promisestaff@gmail.com, with the subject “Postdoctoral Writing Suite.”

Mentor-Coach: Dr. Judith Pollack

Graduate students and postdocs from UMBC will receive primary consideration for the slots.  Students from all PROMISE campuses may apply to participate, and will be considered if there are slots available.  UMBC graduate students and postdocs, and UMBC alumni (at any level, e.g, B.S., M.S., Ph.D.) will be chosen first. Every effort will be made to accommodate requests that faculty make on behalf of their students.

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During the 2013 Winter Break, we are launching writing events for master’s, doctoral, and postdoctoral scholars.

The Dissertation House: January 22-25, 2013

(Deadline: 12/14/12)

http://dissertationhouse.wordpress.com/2012/12/05/winter-dissertation-house-coming-january-22-25-2013/

Head Coach: Dr. Wendy Carter-Veale

________________________________________

Writing for Publication: January 22 – 23, 2013

(Deadline 12/19/12)

http://dissertationhouse.wordpress.com/2012/12/12/new-initiative-writing-for-publication-january-22-23-2013-umbc/

Mentor-Coach: Dr. Patricia Young

__________________________________________

Postdoctoral Writing Suite: January 25, 2013

http://my.umbc.edu/groups/postdocs/events/15297

(Postdocs from other campuses may RSVP by sending email to promisestaff@gmail.com, with the subject “Postdoctoral Writing Suite.”

Mentor-Coach: Dr. Judith Pollack

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