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The spring 2023 Student Course Evaluation (SCE) process is in progress. The SCEs will be available online through Tuesday, May 16, 2023, at midnight.
Student Course Evaluations are valuable for understanding and evaluating student and faculty experiences. All responses are anonymous and are not released until after spring semester final grades are submitted.
The survey application is accessible by email link, a Blackboard building block link, and a "Student Course Evaluations" link that is available on myUMBC. Students can use their myUMBC credentials to log in to their profiles and complete surveys for the courses in which they are enrolled.
Faculty are encouraged to promote the SCE survey and to remind students that the survey can be completed anytime through midnight on May 16, 2023.
From the Office of the Provost
Hi Everyone,
I hope the end of your semesters are going well as we go into the last few weeks of class as well as preparing for finals. Below is information from the Graduate school regarding Summer Residency and Summer registration and options for Graduate Students. Please see the attached documents as well!
Summer Residency Clarification
The Graduate School will begin working on GA Residency Exception review for the summer semester in the next couple of weeks. Our goal is to identify students who were GA's and had residency exceptions in the past term but are no longer GA's for the current term. GA's who do not have a contract for the summer semester will be changed back to out-of-state or billing purposes unless their official status is "in-state" resident. If a GA will be returning in the fall semester, once their fall appointment letter and tuition remission forms are received, the Graduate School will change their residency status back to "in-state" for billing purposes.
Summer Registration Requirements and Options for Graduate Students: FICA-Exemption
All graduate students employed and not enrolled in at least 3 credits in the summer while on a Graduate Assistantship are subject to FICA taxes on their earnings.
If domestic Graduate Assistants are not registered for at least three (3) credits at all times during the summer, the Graduate Assistant and the supporting department will each pay approximately 7.65% of the student's gross pay each pay period as FICA.
International Graduate Assistants with F-1, J-1, M-1, or Q-1 immigration statuses MAY be FICA-exempt but should consult the information in the following links, to determine eligibility for exemption:
https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/foreign-student-liability-for-social-security-and-medicare-taxes
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So much has happened in the past three semesters, on campus and in the world, and the EC would like to collect some comparative data to understand how everyone is managing since the fall 2021 return to campus. To that end, we created a survey with a combination of questions, including multiple choice, Likert scale and free-response. Faculty who are short on time are encouraged to fill in what they can or to reach out to their senator or a colleague who can gather their feedback to send to us. I'd be happy to collect the latter via email (mcdonoug@umbc.edu).
The deadline for completing this survey is Tuesday, May 16th (last day of classes) at 5 p.m.
Here is the link: https://forms.gle/pTQKFmjj771Tb2W26
Thank you,
Susan and the FS Executive Committee
iHARP congratulates Louis Lapp, high schooler at Baltimore Polytechnic Institute and an Ingenuity Project student, for winning 1st place in the Mathematics Computer Science category and being selected as one of two overall winners at the 2023 Morgan State University Science Mathematics Engineering Fair. With his win, Louis will be moving forward to the international Regeneron ISEF 2023 where he will compete in the world's largest pre-college STEM competition. The 2023 Regeneron ISEF will be hosted in Dallas, Texas where Louis will be one of over 1,800 high school students competing from around the world for awards, prizes, and scholarships.
Louis's winning project titled Integrating Fourier Transformation and Residual Learning for Arctic Sea Ice Forecasting was made possible by the partnerships between iHARP, UMBC, the Ingenuity Project and Baltimore Polytechnic Institute. These vital partnerships allow highschool students to participate in real-world research projects conducted at colleges, universities and research institutions such as iHARP. Programs like the Ingenuity Project enable iHARP to foster and grow the next generation of researchers, critical thinkers, and innovators like Louis Lapp.
Louis would like to thank iHARP and his iHARP mentors, Dr. Wang and Sahara Ali, for their support throughout this project and he looks forward to competing this coming May at Regeneron ISEF 2023 in Dallas, Texas. Traveling to Dallas will be the furthest south Louis has gone in the States to date, and he is looking forward to checking out the sights while competing at Regeneron ISEF.
We are excited and honored that iHARP has been able to be an integral part of Louis's journey and success in becoming a part of the next generation of innovators that are tackling climate change head on. We look forward to continuing his mentorship in iHARP and seeing his growth as an innovative human.
We invite you to join us in wishing Louis great success at the upcoming Regeneron ISEF 2023!
To learn more about iHARP and the research the center is conducting, please visit our website by clicking here. Are you a student or researcher interested in collaborating with iHARP? Please email us at iharp@umbc.edu
By Nikki Monczewski, M.S. '22, human centered computing
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