The article discusses the many obstacles that first-generation college students must overcome to enroll in - and stay in - college.  In the article, Eric provides insight into what college means to many students from underserved communities as well as explaining why even the enrollment process can be very intimidating to these students.

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The Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program is hosting an interactive session highlighting opportunities specifically for early career and postdoctoral applicants. Program options and new international awards will be discussed.

The deadline to apply to the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program is September 16th, 2019. Applicants must be U.S. citizens.

Arts and Humanities faculty who are planning to apply for a Fulbright grant should contact Rachel Brubaker, Assistant Director for Grants and Program Development, Dresher Center for the Humanities.

For more information on Fulbright U.S. Scholar opportunities, visit https://www.cies.org/program/fulbright-us-scholar-program

All webinars are recorded and posted in the program's Webinar Archive.

Project: "We must take to the streets again": Black Power Resurgence, 1982-97

Tania Lizarazo, Assistant Professor, Modern Languages, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communication
Spring 2020 Residential Faculty Research Fellow

Project: Postconflict Utopias: Performing Everyday Survival in Colombia

Project: The Rest of the Story: Paul Harvey, American Evangelism, and Sonic Waves of Grain

 
Please join us in congratulating these fellows!

Christy Chapin, Associate Professor of History and Affiliate Faculty of Public Policy

Nianshen Song, Assistant Professor of History and Affiliate Faculty of Asian Studies
Project: The West Pagoda: Three and a Half Centuries of a Chinese Neighborhood

 

UMBC Retriever Essentials Team is looking for a new CCMA AmeriCorps VISTA for 2019-2020!

Retriever Essentials is a faculty, staff, and student partnership tackling food insecurity in the UMBC community. The program offers three ways for students to receive access to healthy foods and other essential supplies, free of charge: Food Zones, Save a Swipe, and Community Partnerships. Food Zones are six designated locations on campus where students can anonymously pick up a pre-packed bag of non-perishable groceries and toiletries. The intake process is anonymous, but a short demographic based intake survey is required--no financial evidence of need is required. Additionally, there are 3 locations on campus with donation bins--Retriever Essentials is a fully donation-supported food pantry-- where the campus community routinely provides non-perishable groceries for programming. The Save a Swipe program provides free meals to the campus dining hall. Students with meal plans can sign up to donate either 5 or 10 meals to the Save a Swipe “pool.” These meals then become available for use by students who are identified as food insecure by trained Retriever Essentials team members and campus staff, so they can eat on campus for free. Community partnerships act as the final pillar to Retriever Essentials. Retriever Essentials is aware that food insecurity is often the tip of the iceberg in a student’s financial struggle and can be the first of many barriers to academic success. To provide support for “higher needs services,” the UMBC Clinical Social Worker will refer students who are utilizing Retriever Essentials to other campus and/or community resources. All three aspects of Retriever Essentials programming provide a pathway to academic success for the most at-risk UMBC students.

 

The Office of Student Disability Services (SDS) mentor program is designed to assist students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) with enhancing their study time management test-taking stress management and social skills. Mentors will meet with their assigned mentees for a minimum of three hours per week during which time the pair will use provided material to learn about and practice the aforementioned skills. Selected mentors will be required to complete a one-day orientation track the hours spent with their mentee participate in a mid-semester check in with the program coordinator and complete an evaluation at the end of the mentor program. The mentor program will last 15 weeks during the fulsome master 2019. The deadline for turning in your application is May 23^rd so be sure to apply by then!

 

Mentors will be enrolled in the 096 Community Service & Learning Practicum, and upon completion of all program requirements, mentors may list participation in the program on the resumes and will have the 096 Practicum notated on their official transcript. Mentors will also gain an increased awareness about disability issues and have the opportunity to help students with ASD succeed in college

 

To apply to the SDS Peer Mentoring Program click here. 

 

 Click here for the application: https://forms.gle/Sgz9nNMyD2Cu7VEHA