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Campus Life’s Mosaic, Interfaith and Pride Centers Community Members,
This is our third post in our COVID-19 related updates. To check out the content of our first two posts, please click here. This post covers Campus Life resources and how to stay connected to us through our virtual platforms. We encourage you to read this and previous COVID-19 posts in their entirety to answer any frequently asked questions.
Resources
Campus Life Student Diversity and Inclusion Area updates:
Retriever Essentials: Due to our physical spaces being closed, the Mosaic is not currently serving as a Distribution Center for Retriever Essentials. We encourage you to visit the Retriever Essentials myUMBC group page for updates or contact the UMBC Police (410) 455-5555.
Social Media: Brand new!Our area now has an Instagram Account! Be sure to follow us at @umbc_clmosaicinterfaithpride (no posts have been made live yet) for our regular posts starting Wednesday, April 1st!
As our following base grows, we will provide opportunities for UMBC community members to promote their diversity, equity, and inclusion based events, initiatives, and/or resources. Please contact Heidy George, Program Associate for Student Diversity and Inclusion if you have any questions related to our social media accounts.
We also encourage you to use the #UMBCtogether to stay connected with the wider UMBC community!
Other Campus Life Resources and contact information
In the meantime, we also encourage you to “like,” “follow,” and/or “favorite” other Campus Life related pages below:
Campus Life
Commonvision
Events Conference Services and Operations
Student Government Association (SGA)
myUMBC | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | sga@umbc.edu
Students Events Board (seb)
myUMBC | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | seb@umbc.edu
For other questions related to Greek Life, Leadership, and Student Organizations, please contact Jen Dress, Associate Director for Engagement at dress@umbc.edu.
For other Campus resources, please stay tuned to updates in our COVID-19 resources and updates document.
Community Resources
For access to health and human services information, visit 2-1-1 Maryland or dial 2-1-1.
If you would like to include any further Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion-based resources for students from your department and/or office, please fill out our Campus Life’s Student Diversity and Inclusion Resource Submission Google Form.
If you would like to submit any UMBC resource to the wider UMBC community, please email the Community Resilience Workgroup at reachtogether@umbc.edu.
-Campus Life's Student Diversity and Inclusion staff
Hello Campus Life’s Mosaic, Interfaith and Pride Centers Community Members,
This is the second post in our COVID-19 related updates. To check out the content of our first post, please click here. As we continue our online transitions, we would like to provide you with information related to our Spring 2020 programs. We encourage you to read this and previous COVID-19 posts in their entirety to answer any frequently asked questions.
Due to the physical campus closure, the remaining programs for Spring 2020 will be postponed to Fall 2020.Event links will be posted in the upcoming weeks. The events impacted due to this closure and new calendar updates are listed below:
PAWTalks: Janel Martinez: Ain’t I Latina? Exploring Anti-Blackness in the Latinx Community
Original Date:Tuesday, March 24th
New Date: Wednesday, October 7, 2020 | Time: 5:30-7:00 p.m. | Location: The Skylight Room
Pawsitive Bodies and Minds: Living with HIV: Exploring HIV and HIV Stigma
Original Date: Monday, April 6th
New Date: Tuesday, December 1, 2020 | Time: 6:00-7:30 p.m. | Location: The Commons 331
PAWTalks: Andy DeVos: Understanding Racial Disparities in Baltimore City
Original Date: Wednesday, April 15th
New Date: TBD
What’s The (T)ea? “Okay Boomer”: Socioeconomic challenges facing Millennials and Gen Z
Original Date: Thursday, April 30th
New Date: Wednesday, November 18, 2020| Time: 4:00-5:30 p.m. | Location: The Commons 329
Original Date: Wednesday, May 6th
New Date: Wednesday, December 2, 2020 | Time: 4:00-5:30 p.m. | Location: The Commons 329
Mosaic’s 7th Annual Lavender Celebration*
Original Date: Tuesday, May 12th
Tentative New Date: Tuesday, December 8, 2020 | Time: 6:00-8:00p.m. | Location: The Skylight Room
Dear Campus Life’s Mosaic, Interfaith and Pride Centers Community Members,
We hope this message finds you well during this virtual transition. As our campus transitions online, we would like to provide you with information related to our operations, programs, resources and other important updates. We encourage you to read this post and other posts in this series in their entirety to answer any frequently asked questions. Please note that this Campus Life Student Diversity and Inclusion specific information is subject to change based on the rapidly changing federal, state, and/or local public health response to COVID-19. To stay up to date to updates related to our departmental spaces, please click herefor updates beyond today, March 27th 2020.For UMBC campus wide information related to COVID-19, please visit covid19.umbc.edu.
General Updates and Contact information
Campus Life’s Mosaic, Interfaith, and Pride Centers have migrated online and our physical spaces will be closed until further notice. Our Student Diversity and Inclusion staff will be available from 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday either online or by phone. Please refer to our contact list below for further details:
If you are a student or student org leader who would like to reach out to our Summer 2020 Student Diversity and Inclusion Peer, please email Sofía Encarnacíon at sencarn1@umbc.edu.
If you have questions regarding Mosaic related resources or upcoming programs, please contact Carlos Turcios, Coordinator for Student Diversity and Inclusion at carlos6@umbc.edu, (410) 455-1825, or at mosaic@umbc.edu.
If you have questions regarding the Interfaith Center or Religious and Spiritual resources, please contact Erin Waddles, Coordinator for Student Diversity and Inclusion at waddles@umbc.edu, (410) 455-3242, or at interfaith@umbc.edu.
If you have questions regarding the Pride Center or LGBTQ+ resources, email Heidy George, Program Associate for Student Diversity and Inclusion at hmg@umbc.edu, (410) 455-3014, or at lgbtq@umbc.edu.
If you have other questions related to our diversity, equity, inclusion and social justice work, resources, partnerships and collaborations, please contact Lisa Gray, Associate Director for Student Diversity and Inclusion at lisamgray@umbc.edu or at 410-455-8478.
Campus Life’s Student Diversity and Inclusion staff also will be available virtually by appointment starting Wednesday, April 1st. Below are links to each of our appointment times. If possible, please schedule your meeting 48 hours in advance.
Diversity Peer, Sofía: Please email her directly to schedule an appointment time.
Carlos: Available appointment slots
Heidy: Available appointment slots
Please note that we will be sending out additional posts related to our Summer 2020 programs, virtual resources, social media, and student employment opportunities for the 2020-2021 academic year! In the meantime, please feel free to email us with any questions.
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Given the current campus closing and transition to virtual campus operations and classes in reference to COVID-19 safety, the in-person Leadershops series are cancelled for the semester. Following the cancellation, Campus Life is currently working towards an alternative Leadershop series to better cater to our now virtual operations. Please stay tuned via myUMBC and UMBC email for updates and new details pertaining to the alternative Leadershop series.
If you are interested in being added to our Leadership Development emailing list to receive the most up-to-date information on the Leadershops series, other leadership programs and opportunities being offered through Campus Life contact Alexis Barber at abarber1@umbc.edu
If you have any questions contact Beatriz Gutierrez-Malagon at bgutierrez@umbc.edu
Romy Hübler and David Hoffman coauthored an article in the 2020 NASPA Annual Conference Knowledge Community Publication entitled “Reimagining Student Affairs Practice by Enacting the CLDE Theory of Change.” In this article, they connect the Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement (CLDE) Theory of Change with ACPA and NASPA Professional Competency Areas for Student Affairs Educators, and identify specific steps student affairs can take to support students’ engagement. They write: “Taken together, these steps for renewed emphasis on creating civic-minded campus environments can provide opportunities to imagine and cocreate the thriving democracy we have yet to actualize. As stewards of the CLDE Theory of Change, we invite you to join us in thinking about how to do this important work within our institutions.”
Read the entire article here on pages 28-31.
David Hoffman and Romy Hübler published the following article in the March newsletter of the American Democracy Project:
Building Civic Proximity: Reflections and a Call to Action
When the two of us launched UMBC’s Center for Democracy and Civic Life in July 2018, we were clear about the road ahead. We had come a long way already: with support from colleagues in UMBC’s Division of Student Affairs and across the institution, we had begun to integrate new thinking about civic learning and democratic engagement into many aspects of our campus culture and practices. Now we would be even better positioned to help people develop the knowledge, skills, and dispositions to create healthy communities and tackle challenges together. Then came COVID-19. The road ahead became much more difficult to see.
The Center for Democracy and Civic Life's work builds from the premise that civic life encompasses everyday settings and relationships through which people can generate the power to shape their world. Modeling the kind of generative relationship we sought to foster, we took special pride in doing almost all of our work side by side, literally. We declined the option to build private offices within our shared space. When one of us got an opportunity to make a contribution or develop a project, we invited the other in. We know that we are more creative, productive, and humane when we are breaking down walls and joining together as thought partners and co-creators.
That spirit is a hallmark of our Alternative Spring Break program, which positions students to forge strong relationships with each other and with community partners in Baltimore. We lost that program to COVID-19 the week before it would have taken place, after five months of planning with student leaders. Other announcements followed, each both necessary and painful: classes will be moved online for two weeks after the break. All programs and gatherings will be postponed until early April. And then: classes will remain online for the rest of the semester. All programs and gatherings will be cancelled until we can safely reconvene. Faculty and staff will work remotely. Our shared space has become a virtual one, at least when the wifi is working.
This is agonizing. Our work is entirely about fostering civic proximity. We need each other, all of us. We must be able to work together, co-creating our lives and communities and shaping our shared destiny. We cannot allow the social distance needed to sustain life and health to exacerbate the civic distance from which we were, collectively, already suffering.
And so we are thinking about what we can do to sustain and even deepen civic proximity within our institution during these challenging weeks (months?). The Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement (CLDE) Theory of Change envisions a future in which “[r]ather than conceptualizing civics as confined in particular activities such as voting or providing voluntary service, Americans will build empowering democratic relationships and understand themselves to be potential civic co-creators in their workplaces, on their campuses, and in the everyday interactions that give meaning to their lives.” We can help to enact that future through the choices we make in the coming weeks. We are inspired by stories we are hearing (and living) about people in neighborhoods across the U.S. pulling together (albeit at a safe distance) for company, comfort, and mutual aid. The people within our institutions can do the same, and we can help.
We were hosting monthly gatherings for students, faculty, and staff who want to share personal stories about their connections with civic issues in order to support each other in acting with courage. We will take those gatherings virtual. We had planned to host a “Dinner with Friends” program for people interested in topics relating to Election 2020 to encourage civil dialogue across difference. We will break that program into smaller pieces and take it virtual as well. We will experiment with inviting people from our institution into virtual spaces where they can share their stories of navigating these unprecedented circumstances. We will both support groups with prior affiliations and forge new connections across differences in roles and previous experiences.
We know that a great deal will change because of what will happen in the coming weeks and months. It is hard to see what is ahead of us, other than more dislocation and social distance. But we can be certain that more than ever before, individually and collectively, we will need civic proximity, and all the skills and dispositions necessary to support it. Civic learning and democratic engagement is, and will be, more important than ever before. We have work to do, starting with identifying the civic bridges we can build and support close to home. Let’s be well, safe, and together.
What are you doing to support civic proximity within your institution and with community partners? Please share your stories with us by emailing Cathy Copeland, Program Coordinator, American Democracy Project at copelandc@aascu.org.
ANIMATOR & MOTION DESIGNER
commonvision is looking for students who are comfortable working in:
After Effects CC+
Illustrator CC+
Photoshop CC+
Bonus Points If:
You have experience with Premiere CC+
You have experience with Maxon Cinema 4D
You have an interest in or have basic graphic design principles
You have an interest in or have experience in video/film
You have an interest or experience with sound editing
You have an interest or experience in photography
Your personality is along the lines of:
Self-motivated
Team-oriented
Attentive to details
Manages time and deadlines well
You really freaking love animation/motion design
Non-negotiables:
Must have a GPA of 2.5 or higher
Must pass a judicial check
Must have at least 2 on-campus semesters left
Must be able to work at least 15 hours a week
Be an undergraduate student
There is no required level of animation class you must have taken to be considered--just show us your work! This is an on-campus job that works with your class schedule.
Please submit a:
Cover letter
Resume
Two references (name and contact information is fine)
Screenshot of your summer AND fall schedule
Your unofficial transcript
Your portfolio and/or a demo reel (if not indicated on resume)
via UMBCworks. Anything you are not able to submit there please e-mail commonvision@umbc.edu with the subject line “iNet Animator Application Summer 2020”.
Preferred start date is Summer 2020.
For best consideration apply by April 30, 2020 by 11:59 p.m.
**Please note that the interview process will be done online and not in-person this semester.*
