University of Maryland, Baltimore County has retained Isaacson, Miller to assist in the search for the next President. Gale Merseth and Keight Tucker Kennedy are leading this search with Vijay Saraswat and Berkley Burke. The position profile is underway, and will be posted to this site once completed.

Members of the UMBC community are welcome to engage in the search committee process. You may both nominate an outstanding individual you believe should be considered as UMBC’s next president as well as take a short survey to provide input for the search committee on what should be the leadership qualities and priorities of the next president.

Please join us (ADS, SDS, The Women's Center, Critical Social Justice and more) for the screening of Crip Camp, today at 3p, if you have seen it already, the discussion starts online at 5:00.  Details for joining today's Crip Camp Event are linked here.

Our next UMBC Accessibility Walk happens this Friday at noon. Consider dressing up as a s/hero-with-a-disability for our trick-or-treat theme.

And speaking of celebrations, and observing the holiday accessibly and inclusively- here are tips about dressing up and preparing for the holiday - there are simple strategies for an inclusive experience, as well as avoiding costumes that perpetuate stigmatization by overlapping horror with disability.  Read more here.

On the horizon for November - please join us, with Athletics' Allied Sports for their League of Dreams event on the 11th in the RAC - click here for details.

A photo of a carved, lit jack-o-lantern with a cartoonish surprised face accompanies the myUMBC post.

The AI Innovation Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Data Science equips students with in-demand skills like data analysis in Python, statistics in R, and machine learning with tools like Tensorflow and Keras. Leveraging these new tools, students build out a professional portfolio with a capstone project, AI + X, that draws on students' unique interest and domain expertise. Students in will use AI techniques to impactfully address practical education concerns to devise intelligent solutions– learning computational skills that give the potential to approach any problem with brilliance– from building communication systems to support diverse communities to detecting resume bias. Students will use their expertise to design imaginative resolutions cognizant of modern day learning techniques. For more information: Visit inspiritinnovators.com and see our AI + Education flyer. 

Mrs. Graham is a 7th grade science teacher at Drew Freeman Middle school and is currently taking classes within our program on top of teaching full time. We would like to recognize her for all her hard work, dedication and success in the classroom. 

Well I am Brittany Crowder at UMBC, but  my students call me by my married name Mrs. Graham.  This is my 3rd year teaching science at Drew Freeman, but my 5th year over all as a science teacher. I was voted teacher of the month for September. 

I like to start off by saying thank you to all those that have had a hand in my evolution as a teacher over the past year. At Drew Freeman there have been so many changes, added on to being short staffed of tenured teachers for the 7th grade,  so I decided to step up an be the Lead teacher for my co-taught team. Although we are a cotaught team. I spent my first month teaching without a co teacher. I was Leading a team  of core content teachers and manning my own classroom of 24-28 students per class.

Although my health has presented some recent issues, I still push and go above and beyond  the standard duties of just simply teaching. My Goal every year is to imprint on students. Leaving such a strong impact that it will change the mindset of student and forever improve their lives. I am forever encouraging my students and empowering them to do great and be great.  My motto is and will always be this: I am a science teacher, but I do not just teach science. I teach skills and discipline mechanisms through the avenue of science education.

If there is anymore you would like to know please feel free to email me any specific questions.

With Much Gratitude,

Mrs. Graham 

Dear colleagues and friends,

I am writing to let you know that Hopkins Retrospective, JHU's "public history" program is expanding! We're looking to hire 3 positions to support our various initiatives (research, processing archival collections, fellowships, social media); you can read about each more at the links below:

1. Processing and Research Archivist – https://jobs.jhu.edu/s/Bhd61D   

 

1. Historian and Education Coordinator – https://jobs.jhu.edu/s/v9mUBH  

 

1. Digital Content and Outreach Coordinator – https://jobs.jhu.edu/s/Q4kX73

CAHSS Senators are looking forward to serving the needs of our various departments and hope to receive some feedback through a first Town Hall. In order to get a better understanding of your own experiences, we invite you to fill out this form and attend our first Town Hall meeting. 

 

Form: https://forms.gle/Twgr5cwgy8VVPW9C6 

 

The meeting will take place via Webex on one of three proposed dates: Thursday 11/11, Monday 11/15, or Wednesday 11/17 from 5-6 PM EST. Please indicate your preference in the above Google Form. Respondents and attendees will be entered to win a $25 gift card to the UMBC Bookstore.

 

We look forward to meeting you and serving your needs this upcoming academic year.

 

Kind regards,

Grace (she/her), Chiquita (she/her), Elle (they/them), and Alyssa (she/her)

During this time of continued uncertainty and change we are faced with many stressors that impact the way we live & work affect our ability to take care of ourselves and others.  We need tools, frameworks, resources and support from our community to steady our individual and collective boats so that we may bring the best version of ourselves to our life and our work in supporting students.

Learn more about the work for Supporting Students with Long COVID with today's lead article from Inside Higher Ed, linked here.  

The article covers how students working with health care providers may work with departments like Student Disability Services (link).  For those new to the process, learn more about Getting Started with SDS here (link).

A photo of man getting tested for COVID with a nasal swab by a masked and gloved woman wearing white with a red hijab accompanies this post.  Credit: Jakayla Toney via unsplash.com.