Happy Last Day of Finals!!
1. We
also wish those of you graduating many congratulations and for those
continuing on into Spring, have a very happy and restful break.
Note: SDS closes at 4:30 PM on Wednesday 12/22/21 for the University break and will reopen at 8:30 AM on Monday, 1/3/22.
2.
If you are taking a Winter session class and would like to have your
accommodation letters sent to faculty, please submit your semester
request in Accommodate now. You will need to do one for Winter and one
for Spring semester if you are taking classes in both sessions.
3.
New opportunity available for students with disabilities; are you
interested in pursuing leadership opportunities, networking, and
thinking about what is next after college? Apply to be a
NextGen Leader.
Students with disabilities are invited to participate in Disability:IN’s NextGen Leader program.
Disability:IN
NextGen Leaders are college students and recent graduates with
disabilities. Students are matched one-on-one with mentors from
Disability:IN Corporate Partners across all industries like Google,
JPMorgan Chase, Microsoft, Boeing, and Pfizer.
Disability:IN is
a non-profit organization that works towards accessibility and
opportunities for individuals with disabilities within the private and
corporate sectors.
Best wishes,
SDS
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COVID-19 Information for End of Semester and Winter Break
Key Points
The increase of COVID-19 cases on campus is challenging but manageable.
During Winter Break, many COVID-19 response processes will be paused.
Community members who receive positive test results should reach out to their healthcare provider for guidance.
Certain compliance measures remain in effect, especially for faculty, staff, and students who will be on campus in January.
Dear UMBC Community,
As we near the end of the semester, we continue to manage a number of COVID-19 cases on campus. We appreciate the actions taken by all of our faculty, staff, and students to increase safety measures and offer flexibility for symptomatic students and colleagues. This increase on campus is challenging, but manageable, and we are fortunate that the cases have not been severe. We have no evidence of transmission within classrooms. In addition, we have reason to believe that most of our transmission is happening in unofficial gatherings where masking and distancing are not occurring.
At this time, we are planning to hold in-person graduation ceremonies as planned. Please be aware that we are carefully monitoring a broad range of factors and will keep the campus community informed if there are any changes.
Given the very reduced number of community members on campus during Winter Break, we will pause most contact tracing and case response processes from December 23-January 2 in order to provide frontline staff a much needed respite. Community members in need of support will still be able to access immediate help by calling University Police or emailing covid19@umbc.edu for non-urgent concerns. Students on campus in need of medical support may also call the Retriever After Hours Support Line at 410-455-3230.
On-Campus COVID-19 Testing
UMBC’s on-campus PCR testing will pause during Winter Break. The last opportunity to test on campus is Tuesday, December 21 before 11am. However, self-administered rapid antigen tests will be available at the Police Station and the desks of open residence halls for any individual who is required to be on campus and test during the break.
If you receive a positive test result between December 21 and January 2, please work with your healthcare provider and/or local health department to seek care and guidance on quarantine and isolation. Students who test positive next week should complete their isolation period off-campus. If this is not possible, we will work with you to find alternative housing arrangements.
Compliance
Students who have health and safety requirements may stop regular testing when they leave campus for the semester. However, if they will be on campus for winter courses, they must continue to symptom track during Winter Break and through the end of Winter Session. Testing requirements will resume the first day of any in-person or hybrid winter courses.
Faculty and staff with testing requirements will not need to test during the break but must continue to symptom track. Faculty and staff with testing requirements are expected to test when they return to campus on January 3.
Booster Clinics
We are very pleased that our on-campus COVID-19 booster and flu shots clinics have each filled to capacity. We are currently planning additional clinics in January. Clinics will be by appointment only. Dates and appointment links will be posted here.
Thank you for all of your efforts to keep our campus safe and healthy. We wish all of our students, faculty, and staff a productive conclusion of the semester and a restful break.
Provost Philip Rous
Vice President for Administration and Finance Lynne Schaefer
COVID-19 Planning Coordinating Committee Co-Chairs
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Students, receive your 1098-T tax form electronically!
Sign up now!
Students, instead of having to wait to receive your 1098-T tax form in the mail, sign up to receive yours electronically through your MyUMBC account.
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SDS wishes you good luck on your exams this week!
Go in there and do your best, you've got this!!
Believe in yourself and your abilities, because you are amazing.
If
you have forgotten to schedule a test in SDS, do so now. We require 2
business days' notice and walk-ins cannot be accommodated during finals
week given our high volume of test administration, seating capacity
requirements, and the need to obtain tests from instructors in advance.
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CHECK IN is on the first floor of M/P Room 102
- All students will be required to show an ID (CampusID) on entry to the test rooms.
- Students must wear a face mask.
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Please
limit personal belongings as they cannot be brought to your
seat and will need to be put into storage during testing; this includes
devices unless a computer or calculation device has been approved by an
instructor and SDS has received notification of such.
- Remember the testing policies found on our web page at https://sds.umbc.edu/accommodated-testing/
Important Dates to know:
Final exams are 12/15/21 through 12/21/21.
UMBC is closed for holiday break from 12/23/21 - 1/2/22. Staff and faculty will not be available during that time.
Winter session starts and SDS office reopens on 1/3/22.
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Working with the Special Collections reference chat service
A graduate student internship project
Zee Hinz '14, gender and women's studies, is a Fall 2021 graduate of the Masters of Library and Information Science program at the University of Maryland, College Park. Zee completed an internship with UMBC Special Collections in 2021 and shares their experience here. Thanks, Zee!
During the height of the pandemic in January 2021, I joined the Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery’s Special Collections department as a graduate student intern. I joined as a required field study project for my Masters in Library and Information Science degree from the University of Maryland, College Park. As a UMBC alum I relished the opportunity to assist the UMBC community. I spent most of my time at UMBC at the library but had no experience using the Special Collections. This internship afforded me the opportunity to learn about this facet of the library and how its use could be continued throughout the pandemic.
Libraries, archives, and museum collections have historically been based on the physical. We used to have a very physical interaction with our users, lending a book or getting an image or box of archives ready for viewing. That shifted abruptly during the COVID-19 pandemic. The need for distanced connection led to an increase in trying to provide digital programming and access to resources.
One way that this manifested was through online chat services. Though these services have been in use for many years across organizations, they became even more essential during the pandemic. The AOK Special Collections was no different. Many of the resources that the collection has were suddenly unreachable. The chat service allowed connection once again. But with this proliferation of chat services comes an increasing need to understand how and how well they are being used.
That’s where I came in. My task was to analyze chats to understand how users are utilizing the service, and how it can be improved. My first task was to learn all I could about the Special Collections and about providing virtual chat service. I have been a chat operator at Enoch Pratt Free Library since May 2020 so I brought a lot of previous experience to the table. My coursework in Library Science also gave me a baseline of knowledge about special collections that I was able to build on. My supervisor Lindsey Loeper, Reference and Instruction Archivist at AOK, made sure I read about the specifics of special collections including ethics, processes, and more.
After going through training to staff the chat myself I moved on to creating a training document. I captured everything one would need to know from day one of operating the chat service. Operating the chat and synthesizing my training into a document gave me an intimate understanding of what users bring to and expect from live chat.
Sample page from the training document
My next step was to analyze chat data to identify patterns of use and provide an easily reviewable source for the staff of the library. First the chat data was exported. I streamlined the information exported into its important component parts. I had two phases of coding the chat. First was to pick out the evident parts. This is discrete information like time of chat, chat operator, and chat duration. Next I moved on to the less black and white parts of the chat data. I had to decide how it would be best to capture the complicated and cloudy nature of online chats into a structured framework. This ended up being eight categories when taken as a whole give a complete picture of each chat. These categories are location of user, type of user, affiliation, topic, year of inquiry, resolution, material referenced, and material used. I viewed each of these categories as a question to be answered.
I used my education and information services and my experience in public libraries to bring the perspective of both customer service and efficiency in providing information. Throughout my time as an intern, and in my work before, one issue that constantly arises is the loss of institutional knowledge and memory when employees move on. Creating process documents is an essential way of capturing the information in someone’s mind before they leave. That way, the hard work put in along the way will not have to be replicated by anyone else down the line. With this in mind my final project was to create a step-by-step process document for how to codify the chats. Now anyone with a need to understand or change the chat service will have an easy outline for gathering and coding the mass of information present.
I believe that through this work we have created a better and stronger live chat service. I hope that you will be able to access the Special Collections to see our work, online or in person.
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Thank you! UMBC will be closed December 23, 2021
Dear UMBC Community,
To recognize, in some small part, all of your hard work and your remarkable commitment to our community, we are pleased to announce that UMBC will be closed on Thursday, December 23, 2021. This will extend our winter break, with the campus reopening on Monday, January 3, 2022.
The day will be designated as an administrative leave day on time sheets. If Governor Hogan makes changes to the state employees' holiday leave, as he has done in previous years, the state holiday will replace the administrative leave day, without changing the dates the university is closed.
We would like to take this opportunity to sincerely thank you for everything you do, and have done, to strengthen and advance our community. Thank you for your hard work to keep the operations of the university stable despite the many professional and personal challenges created by the pandemic, for your continued creativity in and out of the classroom, and for your unwavering support of our values, our mission, and our students. We are so grateful for each of you. We hope you find time for rest and restoration during the break, and we look forward to seeing you in 2022.
Thank you.
President Freeman Hrabowski
Provost Philip Rous
Vice President for Administration and Finance Lynne Schaefer
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Event going on right now! Relax with some fun activities
Commons 329| 12-3pm
A Peaceful Escape (A Wellness Event)
Come as you are, for a peaceful escape from your studies
ALL STUDENT POPULATIONS ARE WELCOME!
Looking for a break or escape from the stress of finals? Come join us, the room will be open from 12 - 3pm. Please come and go or stay as long as you please. PJs are encouraged!
There will be multiple stations for relaxing activities in the room including coloring, fidget toys, play dough, puzzles, make your own stress ball, give-aways and more.
Joshua Slaughter ‘22, M30, has received the Marshall Scholarship, becoming the second student in UMBC history and the first in 29 years to be selected for the prestigious award. Slaughter is one 41 American students selected this year from institutions across the country for the Marshall Scholarship, which supports graduate study at institutions in the United Kingdom. He was also a finalist for the Rhodes Scholarship.
Slaughter, who is earning his degree in computer engineering, will pursue his Ph.D. in informatics at the University of Edinburgh. His goal is to advance equity in the developing field of personalized medicine.
Read the rest of his story
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Women's Center Winter 2021-2022 Hours of Operation:
Through the winter, the Women's Center staff will be working remotely and in-person. We encourage campus community members to contact us through email at
womenscenter@umbc.edu or via phone at 410-455-2714. Staff will generally be most available between the hours of 10am - 4pm. We appreciate your patience in our response to your email or returning your phone call.
December 14th to December 17th: Reduced Hours
On Study Day (Tuesday, 12/14), 12/15, and 12/16, the Women's Center lounge will be open from 10 am to 5 pm. On 12/17, the Women's Center will be open from 10 am to 4 pm.
January 3rd to January 28th: Remote Services Only
During the January term, Women's Center staff will be working remotely and our lounge will be closed. Staff are still available to support the UMBC community - please reach out to a staff member directly or through our shared email or phone.
This is an update to our hours based on the recent guidance provided by University leadership.
Spring semester hours will resume 1/31.
The Women's Center lactation room continues to be available by reservation. For details, contact us at
womenscenter@umbc.edu.
Individualized Support Meetings:
Women's Center professional staff are available for individual meetings and support which we can provide via phone or video chat and in some cases in-person; to schedule an appointment, email
womenscenter@umbc.edu or call 410-455-2714. If you are already working with a specific staff member and need to set up additional meetings, feel free to reach out to the staff member you have been working with directly (via email or even g-chat!).
Visit our website for all the ways we can provide support.
If you haven't already, follow us on social media where we're sharing resources and communicating with our community!
Blog | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram
Please also feel free to communicate with us through any of these channels.
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Other Helpful Resources:
To report and seek services for incidents related to sexual violence, relationship violence, and all other sexual misconduct, complete the online form located on the Office of Equity and Inclusion's website. TurnAround's 24/7 helpline is 443-279-0379. For a full list of off-campus resources, visit Retriever Courage.
For UMBC community members who need access to healthy food and other essential supplies visit Retriever Essentials or the myUMBC Retriever Essentials group for up-to-date information on how to access food and toiletry items.
For information about Academic Success Center's services and support (tutoring, Writing Center, SI Pass, academic advocates, etc.) visit their website.
For access to health and human services information ,visit 2-1-1 Maryland or dial 2-1-1.
For UMBC-related COVID-19 updates, visit covid19.umbc.edu or email
covid19@umbc.edu
Winter break is finally here!
You worked hard this semester and it doesn’t go unrecognized. Now is the time to get some well-deserved rest and re-charge before the spring semester begins.
It’s easy to binge-watch your favorite tv shows or go down the TikTok rabbit hole, but we’d like to challenge you to do some things that will truly restore you during your winter break.
1. Catch up on sleep!
Did you pull more all-nighters this past semester than you would like to admit? Now is the time to re-establish some good sleeping habits and get the rest you deserve.
2. Do some brainstorming for next semester’s plans.
Take some time to evaluate your fall semester and map out your plan for the spring. How did your course load feel this semester? How did you do in online vs. in-person classes? Did you connect with professors or advisors in your department? Did you seek
academic support when you needed it? This can be a great time to assess your academic plan and make sure you are getting all the support you need to move forward!
If you found yourself too overwhelmed and busy last semester, consider what activities you may need to let go. On the other end, if you feel you had too much time on your hands, consider some
clubs or activities you may be able to get involved in this spring. Many organizations continue to offer regular online and in-person programming for students.
3. Take time to reconnect with family and friends.
It’s the perfect time of year to tell your friends and family that you cherish them! Keep your support system strong and growing into the spring semester. FaceTime the elders in your family and learn more about your family history and heritage. This discovery about your family roots can be the inspiration you need to keep pushing forward when the going gets tough.
4. Eat a good meal! Or two. Or three...
Take a break from your typical college diet and use this time to enjoy some hearty, homecooked meals. Check out
these easy meals for college students!
5. Spend an afternoon exploring the great outdoors!
Yes, it’s a bit cold in the winter, but all you need is some winter gear to enjoy some fresh air and nature. If you call Maryland home, you could explore many of the
state parks that are still open. If you like
skiing, there's lots of great local spots to check out too! And if you aren’t feeling as adventurous, even a walk around your neighborhood can do a world of good!
6. Research a graduate or professional school.
Whether you are just starting to think about grad school or currently working on applications, many schools offer virtual fairs or meetings to prospective students. As you r
esearch graduate or professional programs, make sure you’re aware of all application deadlines and requirements such as personal statements, letters of recommendation, and graduate school admissions exams.
7. Set up an informational interview with a working professional.
Find out what a profession is like and connect with people in your future field by conducting an interview unrelated to a job search. Sample question: “What are the most important qualities for an aspiring pilot/engineer/dance therapist?” Keep a journal to record notes from these experiences. We also have a lot of UMBC alumni for you to connect with through our
Retrievers Connect network!
8. Update and upgrade your resume.
Opportunities sometimes come up quickly, and you want to be ready with that polished resume. Every college student needs a polished resume! Check out
these tips from the Career Center!
9. Research scholarship and internship opportunities.
Are you looking for funding? Check out
Scholarship Retriever, which offers a variety of scholarship opportunities to new and current UMBC students. The Scholarship Retriever lists institutional, merit, financial need, and department scholarships.
Look ahead to summer and get a jump on searching for summer internships, which can provide both $ and valuable experience. The more competitive internships have deadlines in the fall, but some are still open in January-March. If you have already missed a deadline, get all the information so you can apply early next year. Check out some tips for getting started
here!
10. Work on your graduation game plan.
Winter break is an excellent time to create, revise or update your academic plan.
Here are suggestions for a pathway you can take towards graduation, which also includes a helpful planning worksheet! Don’t forget to refer to your myUMBC profile for more academic information!
Wishing you all a restful and well-deserved winter break! We look forward to welcoming you back in the new year!
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