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Apply now to join the Retriever Integrated Health Student Advisory Council (RIHSAC). In addition to being the voice of students’ needs and concerns, RIHSAC will have the opportunity to develop ideas and programs, facilitate communication with students, and participate in outreach events. We hope to have a council of students who reflect the diversity of UMBC's community. Undergraduate and graduate students majoring in any discipline are eligible. RIHSAC will meet with RIH staff every other month during the academic year.
Please complete the RIHSAC Application if you would like to work with us to best support UMBC’s student community.With the 2024 election right around the corner, we wanted to introduce you to the great work of UMBC's Center for Democracy and Civic Life (CDCL). CDCL helps people develop the knowledge, skills, and dispositions to create healthy communities and tackle challenges together. Their work builds from the premise that civic life encompasses everyday settings and relationships through which people can generate the power to shape their world.
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September 12, 2024 from noon – 1 p.m. Common 329/WebEx
Hi Retrievers!
We loved meeting you all at Involvement Fest! If you didn’t get a chance to meet us then, that’s okay! Our first general body meeting will be online next Monday, September 16th, at 12 pm. During the meeting, we will go over the finer details of our club, such as our mission, brigade dates, fundraising, and personal experiences from past brigades. We hope to meet you all again. Please scan the QR code on the attached flyer or click the link below to sign up! We hope to see you there :)
Best,
Global Brigades E-board
Hey CyberDawgs!
Today is the Day! Our first meeting of the semester is tonight, 7:15PM to 8:15 PM in ILSB 118. You can also join us virtually on Webex: https://umbc.webex.com/meet/CyberDawgs. If you are unable to attend, we'll be releasing the meeting recording and the slides.
Tonight will be our club welcome/intro, where we'll introduce the Board and go over our plans for the semester. Also, we’ll have a brief Intro to Cyber presentation. After tonight, you’ll be able to dive right into our CyberPaws CTF Challenges. We'd love to have you join us and check out what we're all about!
Again, don’t hesitate to reach out to me on Discord (@_bp_vortiger) if you have any questions.
Respectfully,
Izzy
CyberDawgs Vice President
]]>Jill Vasbinder, adjunct faculty, Department of Dance (Dance Appreciation, Dance History) has created an Open Educational Resource (OER) dance history course as a recipient of the 2023 Maryland Open Source Textbook (M.O.S.T.) Faculty OER Grant Program.
The course, Dance History I: Cultural and Classical Forms, offers a more diverse, inclusive, and equitable curriculum that examines the history of dance. Vasbinder began exploring the use of open licensed materials in dance and dance education as a way to practice inclusion in the classroom.
Vasbinder received a $2,000 grant plus participation in the Rebus Textbook Success Program to create the OER course this past year.
She has published and presented on the use of open licensing in dance and viewed the M.O.S.T. Faculty OER Grant Program as an opportunity to “transform Dance History I into an OER course that can be shared with dancers and dance educators … to help bring a more inclusive understanding of a greater variety of dances.”
Carol Hess, professor and Chair, Department of Dance, shared, “Over the past several years, Ms. Vasbinder has been transforming her Dance History I course to contain more inclusive, de-colonized content, a wider array of assessment modalities, and embodied experiences for the students. Her OER course shares an approach to the teaching of Dance History that will be a valuable resource for both instructors and students.”
Hess was a project team member on the M.O.S.T. Faculty Grant supporting Vasbinder’s work. Other team members were Erin Durham Wright, Reference & Instruction Librarian; Josh Abrams, Instructional Design Specialist, Instructional Technology; and Susan Biro, Manager, Online Learning, Instructional Technology.
“The process of creating this resource has been an amazing collaboration renewing my joy of teaching and exploring the ever expanding ways to share and learn,” says Vasbinder. “My hope is that this OER course will continue to be updated and expanded and grow to include modules from other dance history scholars as we continue to receive feedback from student and scholar adopters of this work.” She is excited to learn how the course is adopted and adapted by others in the field.
Dance History: Cultural and Classical Forms is now available. Potential adopters and adapters will be able to find the course in the M.O.S.T. Commons, OER Commons, and the DELRdi (Dance Education Literature and Research descriptive index).
The Maryland Open Source Textbook (M.O.S.T.) initiative supports efforts to increase faculty access, affordability, and achievement for students at Maryland’s postsecondary institutions through the incorporation of open educational resources (OER) into teaching practice.
From spring 2014 to fall 2023, 210 courses at 29 institutions across Maryland have switched to OER, saving students more than $22 million in cumulative textbook costs. Since spring 2014, M.O.S.T. has impacted more than 160,000 students, who saved an average of $137 per course.