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Silence and Rationalization = Complicity in Oppression
Jasir Qiydaar, ’18, Media & Communication Studies, was a member of UMBC's delegation at the inaugural National Campus Leaders Summit, held at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. ...
March 1, 2017
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12:06 PM
"Why do you do it?" I'm so glad you asked.
Sarah Lilly, '17, Information Systems, is Speaker of the UMBC Student Government Association Senate. The most common question I hear from other students when talking about UMBC's Student...
December 13, 2016
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10:42 AM
by Jasir Qiydaar
Jasir Qiydaar, ’18, Media & Communication Studies, was a member of UMBC's 19-member delegation to Imagining America's 2016 national conference. Too often when marginalized communities resist...
November 28, 2016
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11:00 AM
by Andrew Thompson What [can] I do to change the things in this world that I truly believe are hurting us? I will proudly say that I’m a feminist, I support Black Lives Matter, that I’m “here...
November 2, 2016
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4:23 PM
IMPORTANT
UMBC faculty, staff & students can apply
by Beverly Bickel and Eloise Grose UMBC faculty, staff and students can apply for BreakingGround grants to support courses and projects that develop civic agency: the capacity to initiate and...
September 28, 2016
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9:25 AM
by Vanessa Barksdale Can I be candid? Sometimes being adamantly and publicly pro-black is hard. Particularly when you’re supposed to be the one that has a snappy comeback for every single high...
September 22, 2016
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by Morgan Zepp What do “civic learning” and “democratic engagement” really mean? That question was on my mind a lot last week in Indianapolis, where I served as part of UMBC’s 14-member...
June 15, 2016
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9:32 AM
by Romy Hübler When I flew to Atlanta on June 1st, I expected to be there for just an hour before boarding a plane to my final destination: Indianapolis, site, of the 2016Civic Learning and...
June 15, 2016
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9:30 AM
by Laura Nieman It always shocks and troubles me when I hear of people I grew up with, not even necessarily as close friends, but still grew and matured alongside nonetheless, getting...
February 1, 2016
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7:49 AM
by Andy Clark The bus to downtown Baltimore was due to leave the UMBC campus at 8:00 a.m., but I was not at the stop when it arrived. To make a long story short: I missed the bus twice and had...
November 5, 2015
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1:03 PM