Dissertation House at 2012 SSI for “Alumni” – Friday, August 17
If you have participated in the Dissertation House in the past, and if you still have work to complete, then you are invited to join us for the Dissertation House at the 2012 PROMISE Summer Success Institute (SSI). “Alumni” of the DH know how to get down to business immediately. So if you need time and space to jump right into DH mode, use the regular application process, and use “DH @ 2012 SSI” in the subject line of your email. This invitation is open to any graduate student, from any school, who has participated in at least one FULL 3 or 4-day DH Session (e.g., any campus, at a PROMISE retreat, any year) or the 2011 SSI DH Marathon in Columbia. This event will take place on Friday, August 17, 2012, from 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM, in Room Commons 329, on UMBC’s campus.
Follow the traditional application procedures and apply by Monday, August 13, 2012: http://dissertationhouse.wordpress.com/apply/, use “DH @ 2012 SSI” in the subject line of your email.
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The results are in! The Dissertation House at College Park was a success. Dr. Carter-Veale and Dr. Alexis Williams recorded the full range of sentiments, reflections, and take-home messages on our Summer 2012 Challenge, and on the PhD Completion website. Here is a subset of those highlights:
Own the dissertation process
Don’t try to avoid it
Visualize yourself in your cap and gown
Change your perception of productivity
Trust yourself, own your process
Set a date and create a schedule. Start the countdown!
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The results are in! The Dissertation House at College Park was a success. Dr. Carter-Veale and Dr. Alexis Williams recorded the full range of sentiments, reflections, and take-home messages on our Summer 2012 Challenge, and on the PhD Completion website. Here is a subset of those highlights:
Own the dissertation process
Don’t try to avoid it
Visualize yourself in your cap and gown
Change your perception of productivity
Trust yourself, own your process
Set a date and create a schedule. Start the countdown!
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If you are interested in finding a good match with a position in the Executive Branch, complete this form (there's no deadline, but sooner is better).
If you are interested in applying for one of the vacant positions on SGA's Senate and Finance Board, complete this form by Monday, August 6th.
No experience is required for any of these positions. You'll receive all the training and information you'll need.
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In an article posted Monday at The Huffington Post, Harry Boyte, Director of the Minnesota-based Center for Democracy and Citizenship, and coauthor Jason Lowry point to UMBC's SGA as an example of students demonstrating how to "to work across differences to take hold of our collective destiny." According to Boyte and Lowry, "[t]he student government (SGA) at the University of Maryland Baltimore County has become a national model for successfully transforming itself to be a center of student organizing and empowerment. Indeed, UMBC's student government is one of the inspirations for the American Commonwealth Partnership." The American Commonwealth Partnership is a network of higher education leaders and institutions seeking to prepare students for lives of deep and effective engagement in their communities. Several people from UMBC, including President Freeman Hrabowski, are involved in the American Commonwealth Partnership's leadership.
The authors argue that Barak Obama's 2008 call for Americans to come together to address the nation's challenges--encompassed in the campaign theme of "Yes, we can"--largely failed to translate to civic action after the election was over, because both the government and most other Americans reverted to a view of government-as-provider and citizen-as-client: "It's not only Obama who lost the plot line after the election. The whole society forgot." Against this backdrop, UMBC's SGA and students at several other schools are showing how people can organize to make a difference in the face of social challenges.
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In an article posted Monday at The Huffington Post, Harry Boyte, Director of the Minnesota-based Center for Democracy and Citizenship, and coauthor Jason Lowry point to UMBC's SGA as an example of...http://cocreateumbc.blogspot.com/2012/07/sga-recognized-in-huffington-post.htmlhttps://beta.my.umbc.edu/api/v0/pixel/news/15752/guest@my.umbc.edu/d5f5c8c8b9b4d9a6f79ddb0fe6c07087/api/pixelCo-Create UMBChttps://beta.my.umbc.edu/groups/co-createhttps://assets4-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/002/5b8f025dafb56cb8d3088b7259aadcfb/xsmall.png?1499890363https://assets2-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/002/5b8f025dafb56cb8d3088b7259aadcfb/original.jpg?1499890363https://assets1-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/002/5b8f025dafb56cb8d3088b7259aadcfb/xxlarge.png?1499890363https://assets4-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/002/5b8f025dafb56cb8d3088b7259aadcfb/xlarge.png?1499890363https://assets1-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/002/5b8f025dafb56cb8d3088b7259aadcfb/large.png?1499890363https://assets1-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/002/5b8f025dafb56cb8d3088b7259aadcfb/medium.png?1499890363https://assets2-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/002/5b8f025dafb56cb8d3088b7259aadcfb/small.png?1499890363https://assets4-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/002/5b8f025dafb56cb8d3088b7259aadcfb/xsmall.png?1499890363https://assets1-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/002/5b8f025dafb56cb8d3088b7259aadcfb/xxsmall.png?1499890363Co-Create UMBC395trueTue, 24 Jul 2012 08:35:00 -0400A Power Outage DiaryAfter the derecho swept through the Baltimore area on Friday night, June 29th, the power was out at my house for more than five days. Here's how I spent them. (Do you have a story of your own to share?)
Friday, 11:30 p.m., high temperature 107°F: I’m standing at a window watching the wind whip through the neighborhood when the lights go out, along with the TV and the window air conditioners. We wait in the quiet and dark in the hope of a quick reprieve. An hour later we resign ourselves to a hot, humid night. I think thoughts the faulty logic of which will only become apparent later: that we won’t have milk for morning coffee, for example, not recognizing that the coffee maker, not just the refrigerator, is inoperative. In the eerie absence of the everyday hum of appliances, our two Chihuahuas bark out nervous warnings whenever they hear a sound. I toss, turn and perspire.
Saturday, high temperature 100°F: The sweltering crowd at Dunkin’ Donuts is irritable, but I take some comfort in the numbers: We’re not the only ones powerless. BGE forecasts restoration for my neighborhood by 2:30 p.m. I make a hotel reservation just in case. There’s not much to do but sit indoors, read, sweat, and resist the temptation to open the refrigerator for food. We snack on donuts and crackers. Heading to an air-conditioned mall or theater isn’t an option because of the dogs. 2:30 comes and goes. We’re groggy. We’re holding out hope. At 4:00 we load the car, figuring that doing so will magically cause the power to come back on. It doesn’t. We’ve packed an ice chest full of fridge and freezer food for cold storage at the hotel. We head to the Residence Inn, try not to think about the cost (the pet fee alone is $100), and eat take-out while watching the news. BGE is offering no further prediction about the time of restoration.
Sunday, high temperature 103°F: I make the 26-mile roundtrip home in the morning to confirm that the power is still off. Regardless, we can’t afford a second night’s hotel stay. At noon we’re at a grocery store, Sharon heading in for non-perishables while the dogs and I sit panting in the car. Our freshly charged smartphones allow us to monitor the restoration effort and access BGE’s Twitter feed, the content of which strikes my weary and overheated eyes as defensive and self-serving. We sit, we read novels, we sweat. As the sun sets I grill sausages (from the ice chest)—the grill being our only appliance that doesn’t work on electricity. After dark we continue to read by candlelight, accepting the additional heat in the room as the price of sight. The muggy warmth is affecting our appetites and our digestion. I’ll lose 5 pounds before the power comes back.
Monday, high temperature 95°F: I’m up at 6:00; who can sleep? I stumble out early to buy ice. The local grocery stores are cleared out, but at my third stop I find a few bags left in the freezer case. Sharon takes me to work at UMBC, partly so she can have the car for the day (a source of air conditioning and battery charging, if need be), partly so we can have a cup of coffee together in the cool comfort of The Commons. We both feel like zombies, like our sweaty sleeplessness must be highly visible to passers-by. I spend the day trying to focus (and charging up my laptop, so we can use its battery to charge the phones at night) while Sharon swelters at home. We’re both following the BGE numbers, waiting. After work we head to my morning ice store, but the case is empty now, so we drive on. When we find a store with ice we dawdle there, wandering the aisles, enjoying the air conditioning, imagining a future shopping run when we can buy perishable food. Dinner is leftovers from the night at the hotel, preserved in the ice chest and heated in aluminum foil on the grill. Later, reading by candlelight, I remember that I have a doctor’s appointment in the morning; too late to cancel, wish I could sleep. I keep seeing news via Facebook (on my phone) of locals getting their power back. I’m glad for them. I hate them. I’m glad for them. I hate them.
Tuesday, high temperature 99°F: Big news of the morning is that BGE finally has a new restoration time for our neighborhood: 5:30 p.m. that very day. I return from the doctor’s office with coffee from Starbucks and hope that this purgatory will end. It’s quiet on campus, the day before a holiday, and I savor the cooled air and dearth of meetings. I’m waiting for Sharon’s call to tell me the power is back at last. And waiting. At 5:30 p.m. the BGE message switches to a generic “we will restore your power as soon as possible.” We start to think about where we can do laundry. On a run for ice, I see a BGE truck parked in the neighborhood with two workers sitting inside, looking bored. Back home, we read and perspire by candlelight.
Wednesday, high temperature 100°F: It’s the 4th of July. I make a run to Dunkin’ for coffee, past a new utility truck where the BGE truck had been. Sharon tosses the spoiled food from our fridge and freezer, carefully draining and straining the contents so we can recycle the containers. The BGE automated response system informs us that that power should be restored in our neighborhood by 4:30 p.m. that day. The spoiled food stinks in the heat, and our trash can lost its lid in the derecho, so I head out to Home Depot to buy a new lid. But Home Depot doesn’t sell lids separately from cans, so I buy a new can, just another $16 down the drain after the cost of the hotel, the spoiled food, the ice, etc. When I get home, my neighbor is setting up a generator outside his garage. He gets it started an hour later. Through our open windows 20 feet away, it sounds like a jackhammer. Sharon and I sit in our living room, sweating, reading, and trying to ignore the overwhelming, pulsating, nerve-rattling, peace-shattering noise.
The laptop doesn’t have enough power to keep the phones charged for long, so when the power does not return by 4:30 p.m. as predicted, I take the phones out to my car to charge them and sit there, in the driveway, running the air conditioner and reading. The noise of the air conditioner partially muffles the pulsating din of the generator. BGE’s message now says the power should be back by 10:30 p.m. At 6:30, Sharon emerges from the house with the dogs in a carrier. She can’t take the noise any more. So we drive for a while as the sun sets, catching bursts of fireworks from time to time. We’re running on fumes, having a hard time hearing and understanding each other. We wind up in Ellicott City, and have a dinner of frozen yogurt in the car. Sharon asks me to drive on interstate highways so the dogs won’t keep jumping up at every stop. So I drive. We’re clinging to the hope that BGE’s fourth prediction will come true: 10:30 p.m., 10:30 p.m., 10:30 p.m. The power just has to come back tonight. Tomorrow is supposed to be hotter. We need a break. Back home, powerless and enduring the throb of the generator, we have to make decisions about which windows to open, and what balance to strike between stagnant, stifling air and obnoxious clatter. We can’t bear to add to the indoor heat by lighting candles to read by, so we sit in the dark and surf our smartphones as 10:30 passes and recedes. BGE changes its message again to the generic version, offering no further predictions. I’m convinced that the power will return overnight. It just has to. But it doesn’t.
Thursday, high temperature 102°F: Something has to give. We’re so tired. The noise from next door is oppressive. We’re slow-witted, and having a hard time identifying and evaluating our options. I make another bitter trip to Dunkin’ Donuts so we can throw coffee at our problems. I’m in the parking lot when I get the call from Sharon: The lights are on. The fridge and freezer are empty; the house is a mess; the laundry has been piling up for well over a week. The air conditioning units will have to work a while before the house gets anywhere close to comfortable. But the power is back.
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This year, the PROMISE AGEP would especially like to encourage Instructors, Postdocs, and Assistant Professors to participate in the concurrent “Jr. Faculty Professional Development Conference” for SREB. This will be the 3rd year for this kind of extension. Here is the link with information: http://promiseagep.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/junior-faculty-conference-2012-tampa.pdf. Instructors, Postdocs, and Assistant Professors should seek funding from their respective departments for this worthwhile conference.
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This year, the PROMISE AGEP would especially like to encourage Instructors, Postdocs, and Assistant Professors to participate in the concurrent “Jr. Faculty Professional Development Conference” for SREB. This will be the 3rd year for this kind of extension. Here is the link with information: http://promiseagep.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/junior-faculty-conference-2012-tampa.pdf. Instructors, Postdocs, and Assistant Professors should seek funding from their respective departments for this worthwhile conference.
Photo of PROMISE Participants (subset) at the SREB Conference, Tampa, October 2012.
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Postdoctoral Fellows Program for Faculty Diversity
2013-2015
Program Description
The University of Maryland Baltimore County invites nominations and applications for the UMBC Postdoctoral Fellows Program for Faculty Diversity. UMBC is dedicated to ensuring a diverse, scholarly environment and encouraging outstanding individuals to enter the academic profession. The purpose of the Program is to support promising scholars who are committed to diversity in the academy and to prepare those scholars for possible tenure track appointments at UMBC. We are particularly interested in receiving applications from individuals who are members of groups that historically have been underrepresented in the professoriate.
UMBC will appoint recent recipients of the Ph.D. as Postdoctoral Fellows for a two-year term beginning July 1, 2013. The fellow will receive a starting stipend of $40,000, health benefits, $3,000 for conference travel and preparation of scholarly work, office space with computer, library and other privileges at the university. During the two-year term of appointment, the fellow will teach one course a year in the host department. All fellows are expected to be in residence during the academic year and participate in departmental seminars and related activities. Each fellow will be provided teaching and research mentors and specialized professional development opportunities across the campus. The remainder of the fellow’s time will be devoted to pursuing research.
Successful candidates for the Program will be selected on the basis of scholarly promise and potential to add to the diversity of the UMBC community. Applicants must have completed their doctoral degree when the term of appointment commences and must be no more than three years beyond receiving the Ph.D. Individuals currently holding a postdoctoral or faculty position at UMBC are not eligible.
Guidelines
Fields
Applications for study in any discipline represented on the campus are welcome. Please specify your discipline of interest.
Stipend
$40,000 a year.
Eligibility
Applicants who will have completed the doctoral degree no later than July 1, 2013 and no earlier than July 1, 2010 are eligible to apply. Preference will be given to U.S. citizens and permanent residents.
Application material:
Cover letter addressed to Ms. Autumn Reed, Program Coordinator for Faculty Diversity Initiatives
Names and contact information for three references
A statement of research agenda (2-3 pages)
A personal statement that includes why you should be selected for this program and which department/programs should review your application (1–3 pages)
A list of UMBC department(s)/program(s) of interest
Deadline
Full consideration will be given to those applicants that submit all materials to Ms. Autumn Reed (autumn2@umbc.edu) by November 16, 2012. A complete submission will consist of a cover letter, curriculum vitae, writing samples, names of three references, a statement of research plans, and a personal statement. Incomplete submissions will not be accepted.
Review and Selection
Applications will be reviewed by the appropriate department(s)/program(s), Dean(s) and the Provost’s Selection Committee. Semi-finalists will be announced in mid-January and finalists will be invited to campus for interviews in mid-February. Awardees will be notified by the first week of March.
Contact Information
Questions regarding the program may be addressed to:
Ms. Autumn Reed, Program Coordinator for Faculty Diversity
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Postdoctoral Fellows Program for Faculty Diversity
2013-2015
Program Description
The University of Maryland Baltimore County invites nominations and applications for the UMBC Postdoctoral Fellows Program for Faculty Diversity. UMBC is dedicated to ensuring a diverse, scholarly environment and encouraging outstanding individuals to enter the academic profession. The purpose of the Program is to support promising scholars who are committed to diversity in the academy and to prepare those scholars for possible tenure track appointments at UMBC. We are particularly interested in receiving applications from individuals who are members of groups that historically have been underrepresented in the professoriate.
UMBC will appoint recent recipients of the Ph.D. as Postdoctoral Fellows for a two-year term beginning July 1, 2013. The fellow will receive a starting stipend of $40,000, health benefits, $3,000 for conference travel and preparation of scholarly work, office space with computer, library and other privileges at the university. During the two-year term of appointment, the fellow will teach one course a year in the host department. All fellows are expected to be in residence during the academic year and participate in departmental seminars and related activities. Each fellow will be provided teaching and research mentors and specialized professional development opportunities across the campus. The remainder of the fellow’s time will be devoted to pursuing research.
Successful candidates for the Program will be selected on the basis of scholarly promise and potential to add to the diversity of the UMBC community. Applicants must have completed their doctoral degree when the term of appointment commences and must be no more than three years beyond receiving the Ph.D. Individuals currently holding a postdoctoral or faculty position at UMBC are not eligible.
Guidelines
Fields
Applications for study in any discipline represented on the campus are welcome. Please specify your discipline of interest.
Stipend
$40,000 a year.
Eligibility
Applicants who will have completed the doctoral degree no later than July 1, 2013 and no earlier than July 1, 2010 are eligible to apply. Preference will be given to U.S. citizens and permanent residents.
Application material:
Cover letter addressed to Ms. Autumn Reed, Program Coordinator for Faculty Diversity Initiatives
Names and contact information for three references
A statement of research agenda (2-3 pages)
A personal statement that includes why you should be selected for this program and which department/programs should review your application (1–3 pages)
A list of UMBC department(s)/program(s) of interest
Deadline
Full consideration will be given to those applicants that submit all materials to Ms. Autumn Reed (autumn2@umbc.edu) by November 16, 2012. A complete submission will consist of a cover letter, curriculum vitae, writing samples, names of three references, a statement of research plans, and a personal statement. Incomplete submissions will not be accepted.
Review and Selection
Applications will be reviewed by the appropriate department(s)/program(s), Dean(s) and the Provost’s Selection Committee. Semi-finalists will be announced in mid-January and finalists will be invited to campus for interviews in mid-February. Awardees will be notified by the first week of March.
Contact Information
Questions regarding the program may be addressed to:
Ms. Autumn Reed, Program Coordinator for Faculty Diversity
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If you have participated in the Dissertation House in the past, and if you still have work to complete, then you are invited to join us for the Dissertation House at the 2012 PROMISE Summer Success Institute (SSI). “Alumni” of the DH know how to get down to business immediately. So if you need time and space to jump right into DH mode, use the regular application process, and use “DH @ 2012 SSI” in the subject line of your email. This invitation is open to any graduate student, from any school, who has participated in at least one FULL 3 or 4-day DH Session (e.g., any campus, at a PROMISE retreat, any year) or the 2011 SSI DH Marathon in Columbia. This event will take place on Friday, August 17, 2012, from 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM, in Room Commons 329, on UMBC’s campus.
