The Sherman Center/Shriver Center Literacy Fellows Program is a collaboration to provide literacy tutors for two Sherman Center partner schools: Bay Brook and Curtis Bay. Literacy tutors, UMBC undergraduate students with interests in education and community service, are enrolled in The Shriver Center’s 096 Community Service & Learning Practicum (Leadership Section), and responsible for recruiting and organizing other UMBC students to serve as classroom-based literacy tutors for young learners (grades K-3).

We are currently looking for tutors interested in working with 1st graders at Curtis Bay Elementary-Middle School that are available on both Tuesdays and Thursdays from 8:00-11:00AM (transportation will be provided).

For those that are interested, please reach out to our literacy fellows Luwam Gebreyesus (geb1@umbc.edu) or Vrinda Deshpande (Vdesh1@umbc.edu).

We will be holding our official interest meeting on Friday, September 21st at 5:00PM in the Shriver Center. 

MS SWIM PROGRAM (Fridays, 1 - 4pm)

MS Swim has some openings available for students interested in assisting Multiple Sclerosis patients with their water-based physical therapy (aquatic exercises), as well as a chance to develop relationship-building skills.  A great opportunity for anyone interested in a healthcare career! 

PAUL'S PLACE (Mondays/Wednesdays: Elementary School Mentor 3 - 4pm or High School Mentor, 4 - 6pm) 

Are you an education or social science major looking for hands-on experience working with youth? Artistic? Have some hobbies you’d like to work on or share? Walden Circle Community Center (WCCC) offers an afterschool program to 30 children in Woodlawn, MD.  We provide activity spaces, snacks, and tutoring.

Responsibilities and Duties Student Coordinators and Service Learners will be responsible for working with a particular age group (K-2, 3-4, or 5-6) of elementary students in small groups of 5.  Coordinators will help distribute after-school meals or snacks and transition students to complete homework.

Service Learners are responsible for providing guidance and enrichment for school work during this first hour. Hour two consists of leisure activities including but not limited to board games, outdoor recreation, arts & crafts, or other themes activities that are planned during the school year.

Qualifications
Must be committed and enthusiastic and have some experience working with youth. Candidates must also submit a background check which can be completed on campus at the UMBC police office.

Expected Commitment
Student Coordinators and Service Learners can choose anywhere between 1 and 5 days to participate with Walden Circle. Work hours are 3-6 p.m., Monday through Friday. You will be expected to maintain consistent attendance through the end of the semester but you will not report on holidays or snow days.

Other details 
Though this is an informal setting for after-school participants, training and guidance on classroom management will be provided. Lesson plans will be provided but Student Coordinators will also be responsible for creating alternative plans and/or tailoring lessons to varied abilities and work styles. Walden Circle is located in Woodlawn, MD and is about 15 minutes from UMBC. Transportation to and from the site is provided through the Shriver Center.

For more information please contact Emmanuel Ekekwe, eekekwe1@umbc.edu

We currently have two opportunities to be a Student Coordinator in Fall 2018. 

COLLEGE GARDEN YOUTH PROGRAM: Tue, Wed or Thurs (pick 1-2 days) 2:45-5:30. 

 An after school program run by the Y of Central Maryland for youth 1st-8th grade in Baltimore City. 

Student Coordinators at this site are asked to:

- Recruit and train service-learning students

- Drive s-l student to College Gardens on a weekly basis

- Act as liaison between Shriver Center staff, College Gardens staff and service-    learning students

- Lead 2 reflections sessions

- Attend Bi-Weekly Student Coordinator meetings

Qualifications: Valid Drivers License, Enrolled at UMBC

Preferred Qualification: Experience with youth or youth programming, excellent communication and organizational skills, experience in Prac 096.  

Background Check Required

MS SWIM: Friday 1pm-4pm: 

A unique program run out of the Y in Catonsville.  MS Swim asks service-learning students assist  adults with MS through stretches in the pool.  

To apply please email your resume to elgrose1@umbc.edu

The Dresher Center is pleased to have two internal fellows for the Fall 2018 semester:

Residential Faculty Fellow
Rebecca Boehling, Professor of History and Director of Global Studies and Judaic Studies Programs

Project: "Post-WWII Denazification as Transitional Justice"

Conceptualizing denazification as transitional justice requires positing the process as part of a reckoning with the recent past in pursuit of truth and justice, as prerequisites to reconciliation, and ultimately democratization. While the WWII Allies considered denazificaton as a prerequisite to reconciliation, the Germans least complicit with the Nazi regime usually had the most interest in denazification as transitional justice. Contradictions abound when military governments seek to impose democracy. Perhaps the best a foreign occupier can achieve in a country they have fought, invaded and defeated in war, is to set up legal and participatory political structures and regulate socio-economic frameworks in ways to restrict anti-democratic tendencies and promote opportunities for the growth of democracy. The lens of transitional justice will help reveal the limits of occupation and the necessity of removing anti-democratic obstacles to and setting up the framework and structures for civil society.

Aimi Bouillon, M.F.A Candidate, Intermedia + Digital Arts Graduate Program

Project: "Finding Ryukyu"

For her thesis project, Aimi aims to capture the hidden histories of local plant life, memorials, and landscapes in what are sometimes called somaesthetic structures, or affective environments that shape and perpetuate human behavior. Through images of the Okinawan environment, she seeks to discover indigenous Ryukyuan concepts used in maintaining healthy family, community, and societal relations with nature. She will be mining the symbolic capacity of documentary photography to represent known and unknown schematic narratives of Ryukyuan histories.

The Sherman Center for Early Learning in Urban Communities and The Shriver Center launch a new and exciting collaboration this year. The Sherman Center began working with early childhood educators at two partner schools in the 2017-18 school year. These schools, Lakeland and Maree G. Farring, serve students in grades preK-8. In the 2018-19 school year, the Sherman Center will expand its work to two additional partner schools:  Curtis Bay and Bay Brook.  Partnering with The Shriver Center's Service-Learning and Community Engagement (SLCE) Team will broaden the reach, support high expectations, and engage UMBC student leaders and participants in meaningful experiences with the local schools. 

The Sherman Center collaborates with its partner schools to implement site-specific and cross-site projects to improve early literacy instruction, resources, supports, and outcomes. Its focus on early literacy reflects the schools’ goals and a growing recognition of the importance of early literacy for young children’s lifelong success. The mission of The Shriver Center is to address critical social challenges by bridging campus and community through engaged scholarship and applied learning. To achieve these complementary goals, the Sherman Center and the Shriver Center seek energetic, organized, and dependable student leaders who love children and learning to serve as Sherman Center Literacy Fellows.  

Once these Fellows are selected, schedules for the sites will be promoted through the SLCE team's Fall 2017 Service Chart and marketed throughout a number of recruitment and engagement events leading up to and including the start of the fall semester. 

Please complete the following application and return it to Sherman Center Director, Professor Mavis Sanders, via email at msanders@umbc.edu by THIS Sunday, July 22, 2018.

Interviews will be conducted between Monday, July 30 - Wednesday, August 1, 2018.

Selected fellows will be notified by Monday, August 6, and offer responses will be required by Friday, August 10, 2018.