Graduate Students, 

Please join us on April 22nd 4:00 - 5:00 PM for a unique workshop to help you gain skills in getting big projects DONE. That's right: lit reviews, manuscripts, theses, proposals, dissertations - they take a long time, but with the right tools they can take much less time. Graduate school (and the work you take on after graduate school) often involves long term projects because the complex problems, ideas, and discoveries we tackle take time. So how do you manage these projects well and make progress efficiently? Dr. Ramon Goings, assistant professor in Languages, Literatures and Cultures, and author of 14 Secrets to a Done Dissertation, is here to help you navigate the process of finishing BIG work more quickly than you'd imagine. Please join us April 22, 4:00 – 5:00 PM, for this great opportunity. 

About Dr. Ramon Goings

Dr. Goings’ research interests are centered on exploring the academic and social experiences of gifted/high-achieving Black males PK-PhD, diversifying the teacher and school leader workforce, and investigating the contributions of historically Black colleges and universities. Dr. Goings is the author of over 50 scholarly publications including four books. His scholarship has been featured in leading academic and popular press outlets including: Teachers College Record, Adult Education Quarterly, Gifted Child Quarterly, Inside Higher Ed, Education Week, and Diverse: Issues in Higher Education. His most recent research on Black male adult learners won the 2019 Imogene Oaks Award from the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education which honors a scholar whose research contributes significantly to the advancement of adult and continuing education. Along with his scholarship Dr. Goings served as the Editor-In-Chief of the Journal of African American Males in Education from 2017-2020, was named a 2017 Emerging Scholar by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, and received the 2016 College Board Professional Fellowship.

Prior to working in higher education, Goings was a music education and special education teacher in several urban school districts including Baltimore City Public Schools and was a foster care and youth probation counselor/advocate in New Haven, Connecticut. In 2013 he served as a fellow with the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans. He earned his Doctor of Education degree in urban educational leadership from Morgan State University, Master of Science in human services from Post University, and Bachelor of Arts in music education from Lynchburg College (now University of Lynchburg).

More information is available on Dr. Goings’ website: http://ramongoings.com/

All graduate students are invited to attend this event. Please RSVP by clicking the "Going" button below.

If you need any accommodations or have questions, please contact Miss Yarazeth Medina yarazeth@umbc.edu a week before the event date.