Due to a water main break this morning, the following campus buildings will not have water today: Chemistry, Schwartz Hall, Biology, Lecture Hall 1, and The Commons.  

The Commons will close for the day. The following food venues will be open today as alternatives: True Grits, Starbucks, Chick-fil-A, the Admin Cafe, and Einstein Bros. Bagels. 

Chemistry, Schwartz Hall, Biology, and Lecture Hall 1 will remain open for use; however, the bathrooms in all of these buildings will be closed. Occupants may use restroom facilities in the University Center, Math/Psychology Building, and Fine Arts. Signs will be posted on all affected bathroom doors and building entrances.

Facilities Management is onsite and working with our mechanical contractor to repair the water main and restore water to these buildings. A campus alert will be sent when the water main is repaired and water service is restored.

Due to a water main break in The Commons, The Mosaic will be closed today, Friday, November 15, 2024. The Center will re-open to our usual operating hours on Monday, November 18, 2024 at 10 am. 

If you have any questions, please email us at i3b@umbc.edu. 

The Gathering Space for Spiritual Well-Being in The Center for Well-Being will remain open today. 

Hello everyone!

Chai Chats with Meghna has been cancelled for today due to the water main break affecting Commons. Please come out to the next one on December 2 from 12:30-1:30pm in Commons 331. Thank you!

Click on the link below to learn all about the RISC grant at UMBC and what that means for research security compliance at UMBC and other mid-sized universities.

https://umbc.edu/stories/research-integrity-security-compliance-program/

   Spring

   MW 1:00 - 2:15pm with Dr. Eric Brown 

   W 5:30-8:00pm (Online) with 

                 Dr. Nicholas Bonneau

HCST 499 - Advanced Topics in HCST : 

The workshop will be conducted by Jeff Benjamin, a veteran TestMasters instructor who scored a perfect 180 on an officially administered LSAT, received a J.D. from NYU, and has over 20 years of LSAT teaching experience. 

Attendees will be challenged with a series of difficult LSAT questions and Jeff will demonstrate the most effective methods for tackling them.

Dear UMBC Community,

 

We are pleased to announce that effective January 1, 2025, we will be changing the titles of “lecturer,” “senior lecturer,” and “principal lecturer” to “assistant teaching professor,” “associate teaching professor,” and “teaching professor,” respectively.

 

These title changes reflect the roles and duties of our full-time teaching faculty and give UMBC the opportunity to model inclusive excellence within faculty ranks. Aligning our titles with those used at many other universities and systems nationwide will also enhance our ability to recruit and retain the most qualified full-time teaching faculty.

 

The decision to update the titles arose from a collaborative process involving shared governance, and UMBC faculty were essential in guiding changes at the system level. I would like to thank all UMBC faculty who participated in this multi-year process. In fall 2021, the UMBC Faculty Senate Executive Committee began exploring the possibility of a title change for lecturer rank faculty that better reflected the roles and duties of non-tenure track faculty. Through surveys and listening sessions, the Faculty Senate Executive Committee learned that including the word “professor” in the title would: align better with job descriptions and responsibilities than the word “lecturer”; improve how lecturers are perceived and valued on campus by students and other faculty and off campus at professional conferences; enhance perceived credibility when signing recommendations letters for their students; and reaffirm UMBC’s commitment to inclusive excellence within faculty ranks by giving our teaching faculty the recognition they deserve.

 

The title name changes were approved by the Faculty Senate on April 12, 2022. The University System of Maryland (USM) Board of Regents approved and added the titles of “assistant teaching professor,” “associate teaching professor,” and “teaching professor” to the II-1.00 USM Policy on Appointment, Rank, and Tenure of Faculty on June 14, 2024. 

 

We believe these changes will positively impact our community and further UMBC’s mission of inclusivity and excellence.

 

Sincerely,