Dr. Autumn Reed, Director of STRIDE and Coordinator of Faculty Diversity Initiatives at UMBC, invites PROMISE to a play on UMBC’s campus with the CRLT Players of the University of Michigan. Dr. Reed has served as a PROMISE Mentor-in-Residence, and facilitator for the 2016 PROMISE roundtable on faculty diversity that was part of the Research Symposium at College Park. She notes the following:

 As part of UMBC’s continued efforts recruit and retain a diverse and inclusively excellent faculty, we are actively seeking ways to improve departmental climate. Bringing the University of Michigan’s CRLT Players to perform “Navigating Departmental Politics” on March 31st from 10-12pm and from 4-6pm is central to our efforts. This interactive performance provides an opportunity for us to reflect and participate as community in a facilitated discussion on this topic.

THURSDAY, March 31, 2016

Performance #1: 10 AM – 12 noon

Performance #2 (Repeat): 4:00 PM – 6 PM

Location: University Center Ballroom, UMBC. Directions. The University Center (UC) is in the center of the campus. The Building houses the Chik-Fil-A and Starbucks cafes, on the first floor, the College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences Dean’s Office, the English Language Center, and the Discovery Center. The ballroom is on the 3rd floor of the UC. The back of the UC leads to the Engineering Building. The front of the UC faces the Biology and Math/Psychology buildings on UMBC’s main walkway. The UC is adjacent to the Chemistry building.

The play (sketch) is based on events that occur during a faculty meeting. (See the CRLT description.) All members of our PROMISE community are invited to this event. We hope to see graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty there. A group from the UMBC PROMISE team will be at the 10:00 AM performance.  Feel free to sit with us! Leave a message in the comments if you have questions.

REGISTER: Free

If you have a UMBC ID, please RSVP here via MyUMBC:

http://my.umbc.edu/groups/facultydiversity/events/38419.

VISITORS: If you are coming from another institution, you can register by posting your name and affiliation in the comment section of this email.

This event is open to faculty, staff, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and friends. Thank you to Dr. Reed for inviting the PROMISE community-at-large to experience this event.

• Language, sexuality and pedagogy
• LGBTQ+ discourse
• Literary and media representations of LGBTQ+ life
• (Anti)homophobic and transphobic discourses, and other languages of discrimination
• Pornography and/or the language of desire
• Queer linguistics and (hetero/homo)normativity
• Variationist approaches to LGBTQ+ language/identity
• Intersectionality, language, and sexual identity
• Language, sexuality, and affect

PROMISE at the University of Maryland College Park  and the Graduate School’s PhD Completion Series invites you to come to campus for two important talks that will help you with your dissertation.

If you have questions, please contact PROMISE at the University of Maryland College Park. 

Christopher Perez

Associate Director of Diversity and Inclusion

The Graduate School | University of Maryland

2123 Lee Building | College Park, MD 20742

301.405.0763 | cperez6@umd.edu | gradschool.umd.edu | @UMDGradSchool

Advancing graduate education. Enhancing the graduate student experience.

The PROMISE AGEP enjoys a partnership with the Ana G. Méndez University System in Puerto Rico, with campuses in Florida (Orlanda and Tampa Bay), and Maryland (Wheaton). The Ana G. Méndez University (AGMUS) offers a unique degree program for adult learners, using a dual language model of Spanish and English. You can read more about the Capital Area Campus on Veirs Mill Road in Wheaton, Maryland here: http://www.suagm.edu/capitalareacampus/. The Maryland Capital Area Campus is a hub or center for three universities in Puerto Rico, offering particular courses and degrees from each campus. In this way, professionals who want to have careers that utilize two languages, can receive their undergraduate and/or graduate degrees using the Dual-Language degree model here in Maryland without having to go to Puerto Rico.

The Chancellor of AGMUS, Dr. Carlos Padin and other faculty from the Puerto Rico campus, along with the Capital Area Campus Director (president) Silvia Navarro and the Academic Director, Ivette Cruz, have participated in SSI, and have been great supporters of PROMISE. The Capital Area Campus came to UMBC last semester to  provide a system-wide seminar that discussed the opportunities at the AGMUS campus in Maryland. AGMUS is offering additional courses for teaching, and they offer these to you. You may take the asynchronous courses online, or come to the Capital Area Campus in Wheaton, Maryland to attend in person. Course dates, times, and the opportunity to create an account for complementary registration can be found here, http://agmus.gosignmeup.com/Public/Course/Browse.

Ivette Cruz, Academic Director of the Capital Area Campus Invites You!

The list below was provided by Ivette Cruz, Academic Director – CAC, who thought that these courses would be of interest to you. She is looking forward to having graduate students and postdoctoral fellows from our institutions participate! AGMUS offers these opportunities to PROMISE in hopes of providing professional development and interest in becoming a bilingual professional, and toward inviting you to apply for their faculty job openings, as available.

Courses Developed for AGMUS Faculty are Offered to Participants of PROMISE 

The courses below are provided for the AGMUS faculty. They are being offered to you as part of the “and the professoriate” part of the PROMISE: Maryland’s Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP). The PROMISE AGEP also has as a sub-program, PROF-it: Professors-in-Training, and we participate in the CIRTL network for research and teaching. We encourage our graduate students and postdocs to take advantage of this generous offer from AGMUS.

• March 16-20, 2016 Introduction to Blackboard 9.0
• April 6-10, 2016 Constructivist Assessment
• April 13-17, 2016 Intermediate Blackboard 9.0
• May 11-15, 2016 Cognitive Academic Language Learning Approach: CALLA
• May 25-29, 2016 Advanced: Using Blackboard 9.0 in Class
• June 1-5, 2016 Searching, Evaluating, and Selecting Dual Language Internet Resources
• June 15-19, 2016 Designing Constructivist Activities
• June 22-26, 2016 Instruction and Assessment
• July 6-10, 2016 Constructivist Assessment
• July 13-17, 2016 Searching, Evaluating, and Selecting Dual Language Internet Resources

Course Descriptions

Dual Language Workshops with descriptions (Download PDF)

For more information on the courses, you can contact the Campus’ Academic Director, Ivette Cruz,  (301) 949-2224, Ext. 8404, and cc Mayra Marenco-Fuente:  maymareno@suagm.edu. Finally, please cc promisestaff@gmail.com. Include your name, department, and school, in all email messages.

REGISTRATION, Dates and Times

Register for either the asynchronous online courses, or the Capital Area Campus courses. You can take the online course anywhere, but you will need to come in person for the Capital Area Campus courses.

http://agmus.gosignmeup.com/Public/Course/Browse

You will have to create a free account to register. Use CAC (Capital Area Campus) as your campus during the registration process. 

The Campus Catalog provides additional information about the courses that are taught and the university’s structure.

MORE from our PROMISE -AGMUS Information Session in 2015:

https://promiseagep.wordpress.com/2015/10/06/bilingual-teaching-opportunities-and-faculty-positions-at-the-ana-g-mendez-university-in-wheaton-md/

Here’s how courses at AGMUS work for their students. You can consider being a professor, or benefit from the professional development opportunities (above) that are provided for their faculty.

Of Note - Recent highlights from the Language, Literacy & Culture PhD Program