Retriever Essentials, UMBC's food pantry, is excited to share that we are offering FREE Thanksgiving Meal Bags to community members in need. If you or your family are in need of Thanksgiving dinner items, please fill out this formby Monday, November 16th. The bags will include some easy-to-prepare, non-perishable, Thanksgiving meal items. The bags will be available for pickup at the 24-hour Campus Police Station between November 23rd and November 25th. *Please email retrieveressentials@umbc.edu if you have any questions or concerns, or if you cannot pick up your Thanksgiving Bag for any reason. We may be able to coordinate home delivery on a case-by-case basis*

The Home for the Holidays Food Drive will be running from Monday, November 9th to Friday, November 20th. If you are interested in supporting our community and would like to donate, we are accepting the following items:

• Canned yams

• Canned cranberry sauce 

• Stuffing 

• Boxed instant mashed potatoes

• Canned potatoes

• Canned or boxed instant gravy

• Coffee/Tea (please no Keurig cups)

• Hot Chocolate

• Apple Sauce

• Instant Pudding 

• Canned fruit

• Rice-or-roni

• Can openers 

• Self stable milks (soy, dairy)

• Travel-sized shampoo and conditioner & lotion

• Regular-sized shampoo and conditioner

• Vegetarian soups

• Chapstick

• Toilet paper

• Deodorant

• Jellies

We kindly ask that you donate only items from this list, as these are our highest priority needs.

We are also accepting $25-50 gift cards to support families' needs for perishable items (pies, butter, turkeys, eggs, vegetables, etc.) that unfortunately we cannot provide through the pantry.

Donations can be taken to the 24-hour UMBC Campus Police Station or delivered contactlessly via ourAmazon Wishlist. Please use the following contact info and address when ordering through Amazon:

Deveraux Smith

Retriever Essentials

Sherman Hall 205

University of Maryland Baltimore County

Retriever Essentials would also like to invite you to our Home for the Holidays Virtual Community Dinner. This will take place on Thursday, December 3rd at 7 PM viaGoogle Meet. Please RSVP on ourmyUMBC page.

We wish you a happy and safe holiday season,

The Retriever Essentials Team

The Office of Equity and Inclusion and the Inclusion Council is committed to partnering with the UMBC community. We acknowledge that there are many faculty, staff, and student groups that are already doing important inclusion work in our community and beyond. We believe in the power of collaboration and seek to help elevate and provide space for the important work that is already underway. 

The Inclusion Council is now launching working groups to gather information, develop recommendations, and propose a plan of action with respect to a number of issues that have been identified by our community as priorities. We encourage UMBC community members from a variety of backgrounds to participate in these working groups. We specifically would like more graduate student representation in the working groups. As a community, we plan to draw on the leadership and wisdom of our students, alumni, faculty, and staff, many of whom confront these issues every day through their teaching, research, and activism.  

If you are interested in joining any of the working groups, please submit your top two choices via the Inclusion Council Working Group Selection Form.  You will find a brief description of the proposed subject matter for each group there.

 https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfz9BEOs7QglgCQK_sklMlIxhezsAlf-WvA6q5RWH3UxorLHQ/viewform?usp=sf_link

GSA Community Liaison

October 28, 2020

University of Maryland, Baltimore County 

Office of Graduate Student Life

GSA COMMUNITY LIAISON– GRADUATE ASSISTANT POSITION, 20 hours a week – AY 2020 –2021

The Office of Graduate Student Life (OGSL) is operated by the Graduate Student Association (GSA) to meet graduate students' needs as they pursue degrees at the master’s and doctoral levels in all disciplines at UMBC.

The successful candidate MUST be eligible for Federal Work-Study, determined by the student’s FAFSA (must be a U.S. citizen or a Permanent Resident).

Duties of the Community Liaison:

 Representation

•Facilitates GSA’s community engagement efforts and programming.

•Facilitates communication between GSA, OGSL, graduate students, UMBC University Committees, and the greater UMBC/Baltimore community.

 Graduate Student Organization Support

 •Advises, trains, and coordinates 26-28 Graduate Student Organizations (GSOs) and approves event requests while supporting them in event organization, as needed.

•Maintains a record of expenses of 26-28 Graduate Student Organizations and submits reimbursement requests on behalf of GSO leaders.

•Completes Journal Entries as needed.

•Receives approval from EAA on all student reimbursements and sends documents to accounting for final payment

OGSL Expectations

 •Serves as a member of the OGSL and assists the OGSL & GSA in its mission of supporting and promoting graduate students.

•Collegially supports and assists the GSA Executive Administrative Assistant, the Communications Manager, and the Travel & Research Grants Coordinator.

•Collaborates with the OGSL team & GSA Executive Board to implement GSA’s mission.

•Attends weekly OGSL team meetings, monthly Senate meetings, GSA Social.

Hours, Graduate Student Week events, the Graduate Experiences, Achievements, and Research Symposium, and The Graduate School events. Works 20 hours per week, staffing the office.

•Prepares monthly report for the Executive Councils review and places in Google

Drive/FY21 Reports.

•Maintains and develops knowledge of the Graduate Student Handbook,

The Graduate School policies and GSA policies.

•Other duties as assigned (e.g., assisting with the Graduate Research Conference).

Qualifications & Requirements 

•Must have flexible availability throughout the week to participate in committee meetings and GSA/OGSL events.

•Strong interpersonal, analytical, oral, and written communication skills required; conflict resolution skills desired.

•Knowledge of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Google applications.

•A commitment to diversity and team building is essential.

•Bachelor’s degree, full-time enrollment in a UMBC master’s or doctoral degree program, and be in good academic standing with The Graduate School.

•May not hold a doctoral degree or have UMBC adjunct faculty status.

•Ability to work independently and as a part of a team is essential.

•A positive attitude, strong time management skills, and a sense of humor are

advantageous.

This is a 20-hour/week assistantship, including tuition remission for Fall and Spring, stipend for Fall and Spring AY 2020-2021, and GA health insurance.

Please follow application instructions carefully. Your application will not be reviewed unless all of the following materials are submitted electronically:

Electronically submit:

• Your resume in PDF

• Your unofficial UMBC transcripts if already an enrolled UMBC graduate

student OR official transcripts of other universities attended if a newly admitted UMBC graduate student

• Cover letter in PDF

• Contact information for faculty reference (Name, Title, Address, Email,

Phone) to:

Dawn L. Galindo, E.A.A.

GSA

The Commons 308

dgalindo@umbc.edu