Real People Profiles: Catie Collins
I’m asking some of the people you might encounter on the UMBC campus, including students, faculty, staff and alumni, to answer a few questions about themselves and their experiences. These are their responses.
Name: Catie (with a C) Collins
Hometown: Mount Airy, MD
Q: How long have you been at UMBC?
A: This is my third glorious year at UMBC!
Q: What is your current title (job or student organization position)?
A: SGA Supreme Court Judge Advocate, Vice President of Stilettos a cappella, and Student Administrative Assistant over at the Office of Institutional Advancement.
Q: In 12 words or less, what role(s) do you play on campus?
A: Wordy wielder of impartiality, student advocacy enthusiast & musical morale booster.
Q: What aspect of your UMBC role(s) do you enjoy most?
A: In every role I have on campus, I work with the most amazing people. That is not an exaggeration. In working at OIA, I get the chance to chat with Vice President Greg Simmons, who is one of the nicest people on campus. He not only regularly checks in with me about my student experience, he’s also always willing to answer any questions I have about UMBC itself. It’s refreshing to see that the administration is truly invested in seeing students succeed. (Also, for the record, I once heard him sing “Single Ladies”).
And then there are the SGA members I have the joy of working with. At the groundbreaking, I had the most wonderful experience of walking towards a sea of people in gold SGA shirts who turned to me and collectively shouted “CATIE WITH A C!” If that doesn’t warm the cockles of your heart, I don’t know what does.
Q: What is the most important or memorable thing you learned in college/have learned at UMBC?
A: A two-part incredibly important lesson: be patient and don’t get discouraged.
Ah, discouragement. It’s easy to feel powerless, particularly after you’ve attempted something and the results weren’t quite what you hoped. At the risk of sounding cliché, there’s a lot of truth in “try, try again”. If you just take that one extra step (reach out! Ask questions!), you’ll be surprised to find how many resources there are on campus to *empower* you, rather than leave you powerless.
As for the patience aspect…time for a real-life experience story. Ever since my freshman year I’ve been trying to find my right fit at UMBC – academically, socially, and even residentially. I followed the advice that everyone hears: “get involved”. I joined organizations and went to events, but it wasn’t some kind of immediate revelation like everyone said it would be. I still felt like I didn’t really belong.
Then this year, somehow, everything clicked, and I’m suddenly *that* girl – the one who walks into the SGA office without fear and feels warmly welcomed, who’s considering ordering monocles in bulk for an a cappella concert, whose suitemates are like a sickeningly adorable family, and who finally feels wonderfully engaged and fulfilled academically. UMBC has become my true home. I live here, work here, study here, and gladly trade in my free time to be as absurdly involved as possible. (Moral of the story: Get Involved. Be Patient. It will happen.)
Q: Complete this sentence: "I am a big fan of __________"
A: A napping zone. Think about it.
Q: Do you have any UMBC stories, little-known facts about UMBC, favorite spots on campus, or anything else you’d like to share?
A: Fun fact: Do you know what percentage of UMBC’s overall costs is paid for by tuition? Around 25%! (These are the things I find fascinating – I didn’t think it was so little!)
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UMBC Heroes
UMBC has launched an advertising campaign that highlights students who are making a difference. I love the concept, the images, and the idea that UMBC is embracing and touting the innovative contributions of student change agents. Check it out.
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Faculty Forum with Grad Students! Fri. 10/22 (Free Dinner!)
The annual When Faculty Say ‘x’, They Really Mean ‘y’ faculty forum/grad student seminar will be held this Friday, October 22, 2010, 4:30 – 6:00 PM, on UMBC’s campus, ACIV, LH4. Details online from the UMBC Graduate School Digest. Post an anonymous question … any grad student, from any school may post a question: http://promisecommunitybuilding.blogspot.com/ [...]
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Real People Profiles: Jill Randles
I’m asking some of the people you might encounter on the UMBC campus, including students, faculty, staff and alumni, to answer a few questions about themselves and their experiences. These are their responses.
Hometown:I don't have one. My Dad was career Army.
Q: How long have you been at UMBC?
A: This is my 19th year.
Q: What is your current title (job or student organization position)?
A: Assistant Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education.
Q: In 12 words or less, what role(s) do you play on campus?
A: Working with colleagues, I develop programs and opportunities that support student success in the transition to college.
Q: What aspect of your UMBC role(s) do you enjoy most?
A: My work requires that I work closely with students, faculty, and staff on a broad range of initiatives. I love the variety of people with whom I work and also the variety of tasks with which I am blessed to be involved.
Q: What is the most important or memorable thing you learned in college/have learned at UMBC?
A: In college, I learned that often our perceptions are not accurate. One has to be careful about making judgments without having all of the information, and that the information on which you base your decision should be information you gather. Just because someone you know has an experience, that may or may not be a good one, does not mean your experience will be the same. Give people and opportunities a chance, try them yourself, get out of your comfort zone because, if you don't, you can't possibly know what you are missing or make a meaningful contribution that can help to improve something.
Q: Complete this sentence: "I am a big fan of __________"
A: Horses and riding.
Q: Do you have any UMBC stories, little-known facts about UMBC, favorite spots on campus, or anything else you’d like to share?
A: Years ago we were sitting at a table celebrating a staff member's retirement. I think the assumption by some of the students who had worked with her was that she did not go to college. Well...she did. She attended a local private college and graduated with a degree in History. When she shared this and most of the students jaws dropped to the ground (perhaps an example of a perception based on an assumption) she said..."Yes, I went to college when the goal of an education was to learn how to learn, not just to get a job. The tools I developed during my years in college have served me well in a variety of positions....they are transferable skills and I learned how to access and apply them." This is something I have never forgotten.
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Confessions
When I’m standing in front of a room full of people—something I do a lot in my job—I never know what to do with my hands. It’s not so bad when I’m speaking, and can use a gesture to emphasize a point. But when I’m standing next to a co-presenter or co-instructor and watching the other person talk, my hands feel like little beacons of awkwardness. I tend to be most comfortable sticking them in my pockets, but when I see others do that they look nervous and goofy. When I let them fall at my sides, I imagine that I must look stiff, like a robot. When I cross my arms across my chest, I imagine that I look wound-up and self-protective. When I clasp one hand with the other behind my back, I imagine I must look pretentious, or just contorted. As thoughts like these distract me from what the other person is saying, I’ll sometimes move my hands and arms from one position to another and back again, and I imagine they look like the blades of a helicopter whirling around me.
My insecurity in those moments is a throwback to an earlier time in my life, when my acute awareness of my own awkwardness was sometimes socially paralyzing. Filled with anxiety and self-doubt, I shied away from people at gatherings because I imagined that my trying to connect with them would be experienced by them as an unwanted intrusion. I yearned to understand the social rules that most other people seemed to have mastered, and was painfully conscious of my unwitting transgressions.
Eventually I became more confident and less self-conscious. In the meantime, my struggles to navigate my social world had some surprising benefits. I began to see things: subtle patterns in interactions and situations. I started to find that certain books and articles about leadership, civic engagement and education really spoke to me because I recognized, from personal experience and lifelong observation, the human dynamics they described. When I became a community organizer and began pulling a variety of people together to solve complex problems, I was able to draw on years of insights gained largely from trying very hard to look a little less like a dork.
Now I work at a job I love, and to which I feel called. It involves helping students to transcend their own sources of self-doubt, figure out who they are and what they care about, and discover their capacity to pull people together—navigating the nuances of complex interactions—to make a difference. And every single day I use and teach what I learned, and continue to learn, from struggling through my own doubts.
Every experience counts in life, not just the ones you can list on a resume. Anxiety and failure contain the seeds of wisdom and empowerment. If you can, be thankful for them, and embrace them for all they’re worth, even as you try to overcome them. And if you have an idea about what I should do with my hands when I’m standing next to the person presenting, feel free to share. I’m ready to learn.
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Scenes from the Bonfire
Scenes from UMBC's Homecoming Bonfire on Wednesday night, October 13th:
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| First-ever Homecoming pancake-eating contest |
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| Rosy and Lexx didn't get to see a Homecoming bonfire last year when they were freshmen (it got rained out), so this was a special night. |
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| In the pancake line . . . |
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| Traditionally the bonfire is lit by the members of the First Year Council, because it was a First Year Council member--Thomas Locastro--who launched the bonfire tradition. This time members of the 2009 First Year Council also were invited to participate because of last year's bonfire rainout. But there were so many FYC members who stepped forward to grab the lit torches that they ended up having to choose just a couple of representatives to light the bonfire. |
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| At this point, a few people around me were actually snickering about what a lame fire this was. They didn't know what was coming. |
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| First Year Council members (and their student advisor, Naina Khandelwal). |
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| The circle of people kept getting wider as it became too hot to stand close to the flames. |
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| One of these guys said, "Do you want a picture of some tennis players?" |
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| Some amazing colors in the embers. Non-toxic, I'm sure! |
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| This is the way the bonfire ends: not with a bang, but a shower. |
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Real People Profiles: Jamie Adasi
I’m asking some of the people you might encounter on the UMBC campus, including students, faculty and staff, to answer a few questions about themselves and their experiences. These are their responses.
Name: Jamie Adasi
Hometown: Rockville, MD
Q: How long have you been at UMBC?
A: 3 months! J
Q: What is your current title (job or student organization position)?
A: Graduate Coordinator for Cultural & Spiritual Diversity, Office of Student Life.
Q: In 12 words or less, what role(s) do you play on campus?
A: I help students develop cultural awareness that will last a lifetime!
Q: What aspect of your UMBC role(s) do you enjoy most?
A: Interacting with passionate, amazing and engaged students, faculty and staff who see themselves as both leaders and social change agents.
Q: What is the most important or memorable thing you learned in college/have learned at UMBC?
A: To get involved! We are all here to learn and get degrees, but what will set us apart from others when we graduate and are applying for jobs/graduate schools? Most of the time it’s the co-curricular things that we got involved with. These can also be hands on experiences that help us shape who we want to be and what we want to do with our lives (study abroad, service/volunteerism, student group involvement, etc…).
Q: Complete this sentence: “I am a big fan of __________”
A: FOOD! Haha I’ve always said that I’d be willing to try any food once (except for the food that I’m allergic to—shellfish and peanuts/tree nuts).
Q: Do you have any UMBC stories, little-known facts about UMBC, favorite spots on campus, or anything else you’d like to share?
A: This is one that I’m still working on since I’m so new, but what I’d like to say is that the Mosaic Center’s doors are open to ALL students, faculty and staff. So if you just need a place to chill out during your busy day, stop by and vent, or meet up with others, stop on by and someone will be here to help you! J
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New Mission Statement for Student Affairs
If you've attended a Welcome Week program, participated in a leadership retreat, sought medical care on campus, lived in a residence hall, joined a student organization, shot pool in the Commons Game Room, danced at a Ballroom event, attended a campus job fair or ridden a UMBC Transit bus, you've been touched directly or indirectly by UMBC's Division of Student Affairs. The Division encompasses the Offices of Residential Life, Student Life and Off Campus and Transfer Student Services, The Commons, Event Planning and Conference Services, University Health Services, University Counseling Services, Transit Services, Student Judicial Programs and the Career Services Center.
What I find remarkable and inspiring about the Division's new mission statement is that it unites all of these different departments and their myriad initiatives, programs and services behind the shared purpose of student learning and success. Here is the complete statement:
The Division of Student Affairs facilitates learning and prepares students for success in our multi-cultural and increasingly global society and work force.
We will accomplish our mission by:
- providing and co-creating programs, services, systems, facilities and environments that foster learning and personal development.
- collaborating with and facilitating relationships between students and among students, faculty, staff and others from the university and community to integrate curricular and co-curricular experiences.
- leveraging the expertise within Student Affairs to assist faculty, staff and students in areas of strength such as interpersonal and cultural competence; civic engagement, community and leadership development; work force and career development; public health and safety.
To me, it's impressively--and appropriately--ambitious to envision students' many interactions with all of the Division's offices as opportunities for real learning and growth. It's an especially inspiring commitment in light of the statement's acknowledgment of students as partners and co-creators of their experiences. It makes all the difference that the Division aspires to carry out its work with students, rather than just providing information and services to students.
In addition to the mission statement, the Division has adopted the following strategic priorities:
- supporting students' success and retention
- preparing students for work, civic engagement and leadership
- fostering public health and safety, and
- enhancing life skills and interaction.
I participated in a meeting yesterday at which leaders from the Division's various departments started to develop plans for shared work to address these priorities and fulfill the commitment set forth in the mission statement. There is plenty already happening in the Division relating to the strategic priorities, but the participants started to identify gaps and envision new collaborations. As UMBC's Vice President for Student Affairs Nancy Young observed, translating these broad principles and priorities into practice will require that Student Affairs staff engage in the same sort of democratic interaction and problem solving that we hope to help students master. It's a good challenge for the months ahead.
So what do you think? What aspects of the new mission statement and strategic priorities surprise or intrigue you, and what questions do they raise for you?
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Real People Profiles: Christopher Moss
I’m asking some of the people you might encounter on the UMBC campus, including students, faculty and staff, to answer a few questions about themselves and their experiences. These are their responses.
Name: Christopher 'skooter' Moss
Hometown: Ijamsville, MD
Q: How long have you been at UMBC?
A: As a student, or as staff? Ha ha. I started attending UMBC when I transfered in the summer of my Junior year, Fall 2006
Q: What is your current title (job or student organization position)?
A: IT Support Specialist for The Commons.
Q: In 12 words or less, what role(s) do you play on campus?
A: I fix problems and find solutions for making the Commons more efficient.
Q: What aspect of your UMBC role(s) do you enjoy most?
A:I love the community that exists at UMBC, both faculty and students. I had the privilege of being a part of the student body prior to transitioning into my role in the Professional Staff world, and I feel as though having experienced both has given me a unique perspective in my role. The people at UMBC are what make all the difference, student and staff alike!
Q: What is the most important or memorable thing you learned in college/have learned at UMBC?
A: Trust yourself. You are the only one who truly knows what you are and what you are capable of. And on the same note, never sell yourself short. We are our worst critics, when usually unecessarily so.
Q: Complete this sentence: “I am a big fan of __________”
A: Creativity, it's what keeps me going during the day.
Q: Do you have any UMBC stories, little-known facts about UMBC, favorite spots on campus, or anything else you’d like to share?
A: Don't be afraid to try anything once. That is what will make your experience at UMBC worth it!
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Real People Profiles: Richard Byrne
I’m asking some of the people you might encounter on the UMBC campus, including students, faculty and staff, to answer a few questions about themselves and their experiences. These are their responses.
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Name: Richard Byrne
Hometown: Philadelphia, PA
Q: How long have you been at UMBC?
A: Five years total: Three as undergraduate (1984-1986) Two as employee (2008-present).
Q: What is your current title (job or student organization position)?
A: Editor, UMBC Magazine.
Q: In 12 words or less, what role(s) do you play on campus?
A: Collaborate with talented design team to create a magazine that tells UMBC's story.
Q: What aspect of your UMBC role(s) do you enjoy most?
A: The chance to meet the wonderful alumni, faculty, students and staff of UMBC and hear the amazing things that they are doing
Q: What is the most important or memorable thing you learned in college/have learned at UMBC?
A: I went to UMBC before UMBC was the honors university it is today. But the faculty, students and academic leadership of that era laid the groundwork for where the university is today. How? Hard work and determination. (So many students worked their way through UMBC in that era.) Focus on academics. (Faculty and academic leaders cared about students; students cared about classes).
Q: Complete this sentence: “I am a big fan of __________”
A: Albin O. Kuhn Library
Q: Do you have any UMBC stories, little-known facts about UMBC, favorite spots on campus, or anything else you’d like to share?
A: Favorite spots? The library. Fine Arts. (That was where I learned so much.)
Have to mention a few professors who had a big influence: Emeritus professor of history Robert K. Webb (who will lecture on campus in October); Former UMBC English professors Tom Vargish, Jim McKusick and the late Phillip Landon; English Department's Tony McGurrin.
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