Overview 
Graduate Record Examination
(GRE) Preparation

This four week 8 session workshop prepares prospective students to take the computer-adaptive Graduate Records Examination. The purpose of the course is to improve students’ performance on the GRE test by:

• Providing students with successful test management techniques
• Familiarizing students with question types specific to the GRE
• Teaching the logical, rhetorical, and mathematical problem-solving techniques relevant to the GRE
• Teaching essential grammatical and mathematical concepts and techniques in application to real test problems
• Identifying the specific problems posed by the GRE, and analyzing common test-taking errors
• Improving performance and reducing test anxiety through practice testing

This workshop is taught by Mary Gallagher who has helped hundreds of students perform better on their GRE examinations. While this workshop provides participants with very valuable information, techniques and strategies for maximizing their potential on the GRE. Please note that this course does not replace studying. In addition to taking this workshop we recommend that students dedicate significant time to studying for the examination in order to be truly prepared.

Please visit the Graduate Record Examination web site at www.gre.org to view information on the GRE exam.

Sept 17- Oct 10, 2019

T/TH 6:30-9:15pm

$50 DISCOUNT CODE: GRE19FLR

LSAT

Overview Law School Admissions Test Preparation (In-Person)

This four-week, eight session workshop prepares students to take the Law School Admission Test (LSAT). Enrollees will review the fundamentals of each section of the LSAT (Logical Reasoning, Analytical Reasoning, and Critical Reading sections) and develop a rigorous test preparation schedule. The instructor will provide handouts, testing materials, and scored analytics for each student. Course objectives include:

• Sitting for a full-length, proctored, practice LSAT
• Classifying and dissecting key problem-types from each LSAT section
• Reviewing logical principles (with a focus on necessary vs. sufficient conditions and correlation vs. causality)
• Learning to simplify questions by reducing them to their most essential components (with emphasis placed on Logical Reasoning questions)
• Utilizing formal notation and diagramming strategies to convey rules efficiently in logic games
• Synthesizing and combining rules and strengthening inferencing ability

The course will conclude with each student having establishing a personalized preparation timeline goals and setting personalized timing-checkpoints for each LSAT section.

This workshop is taught by Simon Maxwell who scored in the top 99th percentile of the LSAT test.  While this workshop provides participants with very valuable information, techniques and strategies for maximizing their potential on the LSAT. Please note that this course does not replace studying. In addition to taking this workshop we recommend that students dedicate significant time to studying for the examination in order to be truly prepared.

Oct 1-24, 2019

T/TH 6-9:30pm

$50 DISCOUNT CODE: LSAT19FLR
Learn more and sign up: TESTPREP.UMBC.EDU

Sign up here: https://www.groupraise.com/events/98601

Looking forward to seeing many of you there!

~ Your ISSA Board

For more information please visit the WOC Conference website at: https://s4.goeshow.com/ccgroup/womenofcolor/2019/register.cfm

If you would like to attend, please register on this site and also contact Diane Crump-Fogle (crump@umbc.edu) or Chrisi Giannakaris (chrisig@umbc.edu) from the UMBC Career Center.

A year ago, the UMBC community shared their experiences and concerns about the university's response to sexual violence. Retriever Courage was implemented as a response to this concern. Now, it is time to again come together as a community and talk about lessons learned, what has been done, and the next steps we can take together to make UMBC a safer and more caring environment for all.

Please consider attending the Fall Gathering on September 18, from 4 - 6 p.m. in the University Center Ballroom. During this event, the Retriever Courage Implementation Team and other campus partners will share a range of updates about the steps they are taking to improve the University’s response and ultimately prevent violence in our community. In addition, there will be a panel discussion where community members will have the chance to ask questions or provide feedback.

Release time will be granted for employees to take part in this event, and everyone is encouraged to attend.

In addition to attending the event, you can also learn more by visiting the Retriever Courage website and viewing the dashboard. This site will be regularly updated throughout the year to share progress and timelines on implementing the recommendations made by our community and the external consultants. 

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The UMBC McNair Scholars Program will present the inaugural Hill-Robinson McNair Lecture, named in honor of Cynthia M. Hill, Former UMBC Associate Provost & Founding UMBC McNair Director, and Thomas Robinson, PhD., Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and McNair Research Methods Faculty for over 28 years. Here is the link to the flier for the event. All are welcome and encouraged to attend!

This year’s lecturer will be Durell M. Callier, PhD, ’07, UMBC McNair Alum (REM 14), Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership at Miami University and Co-visionary of Hill L. Waters (www.hilllwaters.com), an arts-based collective. The title of his lecture: “Queer Roots and Causes: Reframing Anti-Black Violence in the Lives of Youth.”

Abstract from Lecturer: The victimization of queer youth both within and beyond schooling contexts in recent years has garnered growing public concern. Equally so, the premature deaths of Black youth at the hands of law enforcement and vigilante justices have increasingly captured public attention and calls for change. Despite being seen through monocausal frames, anti-Black and anti-queer violence are overlapping and mutually constitutive. Throughout my talk, I illuminate connections between anti-Black and anti-queer violence as they shape the lives of youth of color. Centering the lives of three youth, Carl Joseph Walker Hoover, Jaheem Herrera, and Tyrone Williams, I argue that the systematic premature and preventable deaths experienced by Black and queer youth are a function of state apparatuses and sociocultural institutions constructing youth of color and Black youth in particular as queer subjects.

The 2019 Hill-Robinson McNair Lecture is co-sponsored by: UMBC McNair Scholars Program, Dresher Center for Humanities, Center for Social Science Scholarship, Campus Life’s Mosaic: Center for Culture and Diversity, American Studies, School of Social Work, Language, Literacy, and Culture Program, Africana Studies, and the Women’s Center.  

For more information, please Michael A. Hunt, Project Director, UMBC McNair Scholars Program, michaelahunt@umbc.edu.