Institute for Policy Studies
A powerful new movement is emerging and Maryland is an important incubator of this much needed change.

Our New Economy Maryland Fellowship started with a pilot project in 2015 and was a great success. We are now underway recruiting 2016 New Economy Maryland Fellows.

This Fellowship is a project of the Institute for Policy Studies, which has played a key role in building the growing international movement to create an economy that betters serves all our people and protects our planet.

Might you be interested in becoming a Fellow?

Applications are due no later than February 15 and can be found at this link:

http://www.ips-dc.org/new-economy-maryland-fellowship/

If you have questions, please contact David Hart, Director of our New Economy Maryland program, david@ips-dc.org
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A powerful new movement is emerging and Maryland is an important incubator of this much needed change. Our New Economy Maryland Fellowship started with a pilot project in 2015 and was a great...

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Attached you will find the Women's Center Spring 2016 events calendar and flyer for the Spring 2016 roundtable series. The roundtable series will focus on the intersections of mental health + gender.

You can stay up-to-date with all of the Women’s Center events and announcements by following their myUMBC and Facebook pages.



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For 35 years, the Lilly Conferences on College and University Teaching and Learning have been known as exceptional places to present and to learn from faculty colleagues on effective teaching and learning. This interdisciplinary teaching conference includes faculty, administrators, and graduate students from across the United States and abroad. Participants are given the opportunity to exchange ideas, build a repertoire of skills that can be put to immediate use, and to network with colleagues. The overall conference theme for the Lilly Conference series is “Evidence-Based Teaching and Learning.” Each of the Lilly Conferences are unique, but they all share the same great Lilly community spirit!

Time Sensitive

International Lilly Conference - Bethesda, MDJune 2 - 5        http://www.lillyconferences-md.com

The call for proposals is open through February 16th. Plenary presenters include:  Saundra Yancy McGuire, Louisiana State University; Carl S. Moore, University of the District of Columbia and Christy Price, Dalton State College. Cosponsorships for teams of 5 or more are available.
 
Lilly National Conference – Newport Beach, CAFebruary 18 - 21     http://www.lillyconferences-ca.com

Plenary speakers:   Terry Doyle, Ferris State University; Christopher Hakala, Quinnipiac University; Kathryn Plank, Otterbein University; and Marilla Svinicki, University of Texas at Austin. The conference schedule has been posted to the conference website. Registration is open and available for daily or full conference participation as space allows. Please note the conference is near capacity and registrations will likely close within the next 2 weeks. The group rate for discounted lodging at the Hyatt Regency Newport Beach is valid through Saturday January 23. ]]>

For 35 years, the Lilly Conferences on College and University Teaching and Learning have been known as exceptional places to present and to learn from faculty colleagues on effective teaching and...

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Congratulations to Julie Rosenthal, Program Management Specialist for Gerontology Ph.D​ and Asian Studies who is the 2016 recipient of the Living the Dream Award which honors an individual and an...

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Please see below for course details.

Catalog Number: ANTH 397-01
Course Title: Environment and Culture
Class Number: 6083
Meeting Pattern: Th 4:30pm-7:00pm
Instructor: Dr. Rehak
Course Description:This course investigates the interaction between the environment and human behaviors and beliefs. Students will be introduced to the various ways in which anthropology has sought to understand human-environment relations, both from utilitarian perspectives (such as cultural ecology, ethno-ecology, and political ecology) and symbolic ones (focused on the meanings people give to the non-human world). In the second half of the course, students will consider how anthropology can contribute to the way we understand current environmentalist concerns and beliefs, focusing on applied anthropology in Maryland. ]]>

The Department of Sociology and Anthropology will be offering a NEW special topics course this Spring. Please see below for course details. Catalog Number: ANTH 397-01 Course Title: Environment...

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Please see below for course details.

Catalog Number: ANTH 367-01 (also listed as GWST 367-01)
Course Title: The Anthropology of Gender
Class Number: 7823 (8135 for GWST)
Meeting Pattern: TuTh 1:00pm - 2:15pm
Instructor: Dr. Rubinstein
Course Description:The Anthropology of Gender concerns the wide range of meanings given to gender and sexuality in different settings. In exploring how gender and sexuality are culturally constructed the course does not focus on the biology of gender and sexuality per se.  Rather, the course explores distinctive peoples understandings of gender and sexuality.  Lectures focus on basic principles by which to examine gender in cross-cultural perspective. Readings focus on detailed and complex examples of distinctive gender and sexuality system.

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The Department of Sociology and Anthropology is excited to offer ANTH 367 (The Anthropology of Gender) this Spring. Please see below for course details. Catalog Number: ANTH 367-01 (also listed...

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Leslie Morgan, Sociology & Anthropology, will be honored with the Mildred M. Seltzer Distinguished Service Recognition at the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education Conference in...

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The Detroit Urban Research Center (Detroit URC) is accepting applications to our second annual Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) Partnership Academy, a nationwide, year-long capacity building opportunity for "community-academic" teams with little or no CBPR experience, who are focused on improving health equity in their respective communities. Applications are due by February 15, 2016.
 
For details about the program--and to access the online application--please visit the CBPR Partnership Academy page on our website. ]]>

The Detroit Urban Research Center (Detroit URC) is accepting applications to our second annual Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) Partnership Academy, a nationwide, year-long capacity...

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Diversity, Learning, and Student Success
Shifting Paradigms and Challenging Mindsets
March 17, 2016 to March 19, 2016
Philadelphia Marriott Downtown
1201 Market Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107

Conference Overview

 “[We must] commit ourselves to the aspirations and ideals of the American creed, to a vision of democracy that is deliberative, inclusive and fair, and that seeks to address the problems of our day—poverty, racism, hyper-segregation, gender inequalities, homophobia, and religious hatreds. Conversations and actions about these topics are difficult but necessary. At this moment in our national history, colleges and universities remain one of the few forums for such conversations. Let us engage this task with wisdom and patience, seeking justice and, by so doing, rejuvenating the promises of our democracy.”

-- Ramon Gutiérrez, The Preston and Sterling Morton Distinguished Service Professor of History, The University of Chicago

The intersection of diversity, learning, and opportunity continues to shape American society and higher education.  The complexities of our history with diversity—in both the distant past and more recently—compel us as educators to engage in difficult, but essential dialogues to identify both institutional and individual barriers that stand in the way of our reaching full and meaningful inclusion in higher education for all students. Those difficult dialogues also must lead to action—specifically, to the dismantling of practices and policies that encourage division and polarization.

AAC&U’s 2016 Diversity, Learning and Student Success conference—“Shifting Paradigms and Challenging Mindsets”—will examine existing paradigms in higher education that serve as catalysts for marginalization and intolerance and impede the exploration and acceptance of difference as a core value in our democratic society and in effective educational environments.  The program will explore the kinds of entrenched attitudes and policies that rest on deficit-minded assumptions about diversity, student learning, and success.  It will engage participants in “courageous conversations” that are problem-oriented and solution-driven—designed to expand our abilities to fully serve and prepare all students for lifelong success and engaged citizenship.

Conference sessions will examine how to incentivize collaborative action and higher levels of interactivity across institutions to advance student success and build democratic capacity.  Participants will be able to use the conference to develop plans for using equity-minded, student-centered learning frameworks as a resource for developing strategic plans and campus-based change agendas. Those attending as part of campus teams also will be able to explore how to develop guided learning pathways and integrated approaches to diversity and student learning focused on problem-based high-impact practices and emerging innovations in digital learning.

AAC&U invites you to join with colleagues to advance a national conversation on the power of collaboration and community-building in identifying evidence-based strategies that advance high-quality learning environments and embrace the complexities of our shared history, while fostering robust discourse on the intersections of inclusion, diversity, equity, and learning for all.

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Diversity, Learning, and Student Success Shifting Paradigms and Challenging Mindsets March 17, 2016 to March 19, 2016 Philadelphia Marriott Downtown 1201 Market Street Philadelphia, PA 19107...

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In 2012 the Institute of the Black World 21st Century (IBW) convened State of the Black World Conference III (SOBWC III) at Howard University in Washington, D.C.,focused on the Theme – State of Emergency in Black America: Time to Heal Black Families and Communities. SOBWC III was dedicated to the memory of Dr. Ronald Walters, Black America’s leading Political Scientist. November 16–20, 2016, after the U.S. presidential elections, IBW will convene State of the Black World Conference IV in Newark, N.J., dedicated to the memory of the brilliant poet, playwright and political activist Amiri Baraka. This time the Theme of this major domestic and global gathering of people of African descent will be – It’s Nation Time… Again. The State of Emergency still persists in Black America and indeed in the Pan African world, but there have also been dramatic changes over the past four years which will serve as the context for what will be one of the great gatherings of Black people in the 21st century.


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