The PROMISE Program is now on Tumblr where you can find daily updates with information on research or program funding opportunities, lifehacks, special advice, and anything that might be relevant to someone planning to attend, currently navigating, or preparing to leave graduate school. There's even a page on the blog where you can anonymously submit a question and someone on the PROMISE team will have an answer for you on our 'Ask Anything Thursday' feature.

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About PROMISE:

PROMISE: Maryland’s AGEP is a university system-wide effort for the state of Maryland to facilitate underrepresented STEM graduate student and postdoctoral professional development and pathways to careers. UMBC leads the alliance that consists of all 14 colleges, universities, and regional education centers in the University System of Maryland, four community colleges, and a former NSF Model Institution of Excellence Hispanic Serving Institution in Puerto Rico. PROMISE has been a critical catalyst for increasing enrollment, retention, and graduation rates of underrepresented minorities. The program also will contribute to the higher education literature on retention and professional development for graduate students and postdocs. The Rotating Postdoctoral Fellowship and the Professors-in-Training program for Maryland’s institutions (including Master’s serving institutions, HBCUs, community colleges, and an HSI) are among the innovations that respond to AGEP’s call to support the national goal of increasing the number of underrepresented minorities who will enter academic STEM careers.

To learn more about PROMISE please visit the program's website.

The following events may be of interest for most students in the LLC program:

1) Registration is open for the 4th International Conference on Intangible Heritage - September 21-23. Please visit the conference's website for more information

2) Proposals for the 3rd Biannual Conference of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies is still open. If you are interested in participating in the series of sessions on CHS in North America, please contact Dr. Michelle Stefano ms@umbc.edu.  Dr Stefano has proposed a session that includes include a diverse range of perspectives, and to provide an opportunity for articulating the connections, overlaps, and differences between current work in N. America and the critical heritage studies discourse.

You can find information about the conference here 

3) If you would like to receive the ACHS ICH Researchers Group newsletters and updates, which is a global listing of conferences, funding opportunities, inquiries, etc., please email Dr. Harriet Deacon: harriet@conjunction.co.za

 

Also, see:  http://criticalheritagestudies.org/

We want to share with our LLC friends some of the activities that our faculty and students have engaged in during the previous months.

Sanders, M. & Galindo, C. (2014) Communities,schools and teachers. In Bauserman, L. Martin, S. Kragler, & D. Quatroche  (Eds.) The Handbook of Professional Development, PK-12: Successful Models and Practices. New York, NY: Guilford Publishing.

Saper, C., Ulmer, G.L., Vitanza, V.J. (Eds.). (2015). Electracy: Gregory Ulmer’s Textshop Experiments. Aurora, CO: The Davies Group Publishers.

Saper, C. (Ed.). (2014). Readies: by Bob Brown. Baltimore, MD: Roving Eye Press.

Saper, C. (Ed.) (2014). Words: I But Bend My Finger in a Beckon and Words, Birds of Words, Hop on It, Chirping: by Bob Brown. Baltimore, MD: Roving Eye Press.

Saper, C. (Ed.) (2014). GEMS: A Censored Anthology: by Bob Brown. Baltimore, MD: Roving Eye Press.

If you have recently published a book, chapter or paper, or if you have presented at a conference or organized an important event, please send an email to Felix Burgos fburgos1@umbc.edu We would like to keep our community updated about your contributions.