The Adjunct Faculty Advisory Committee's elections will be open from April 26 - May 5, 2023. We ask that you select the candidate(s) who you believe will best represent your College's adjuncts as we move forward in our charge.

Information about each candidate is available for review on the election polls pages below:

College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences

College of Engineering & Information Technology

College of Natural & Mathematical Sciences

Non-College Affiliated

Thank you for your support!

Please review the candidates in our nomination document linked below and select one who you would like to have represent non-college affiliated adjuncts as part of the Adjunct Faculty Advisory Committee for 2023-2025. Voting ends Friday 5/5/2023. 

Candidate Statements

Please review the candidates in our nomination document linked below and select one who you would like to have represent your College as part of the Adjunct Faculty Advisory Committee for 2023-2025. Voting ends Friday 5/5.  

Candidate Statements

Please review the candidates in our nomination document linked below and select two who you would like to have represent your College as part of the Adjunct Faculty Advisory Committee for 2023-2025. Voting ends Friday 5/5/23. 

Candidate Statements

Please review the candidates in our nomination document linked below and select one who you would like to have represent your College as part of the Adjunct Faculty Advisory Committee for 2023-2025. Voting ends Friday 5/5/2023. 

Candidate Statements

UMBC chemical engineering students win first place in the 2023 Mid-Atlantic Regional AIChE ChemE Jeopardy Competition. Thus, qualifying for the 2023 National AIChE ChemE Jeopardy Competition in Orlando, FL in November as part of the AIChE National Conference. This is the fourth year in a row a UMBC team qualified for the National AIChE ChemE Jeopardy Competition.

Eighteen teams competed during the AIChE ChemE Jeopardy Mid-Atlantic Competition held at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA, including two teams from UMBC. After the preliminary rounds, the UMBC teams placed first and second in the semi-finals, tied at 9 points each. The semifinal round was a knockout round, and UMBC’s ‘Team One’ advanced to the finals. The final round of competition was between UMBC, Johns Hopkins University (2nd place) and Stony Brook University (3rd place). 

The success of both teams is the result of consistent hard work and support from the teams’ faculty advisors are Dr. Neha Raikar and Dr. Mariajosé Castellanos as well as other students. Taylor deSilva, chemical engineering ‘23, is instrumental in preparing the teams for competition by organizing weekly practices including setting up sample game boards. 

Team One

• Ethan Banks, chemical engineering, traditional track ‘24
• Paul Loberg, chemical engineering, biotechnology and bioengineering track ‘24
• Max Bobbin, chemical engineering, environmental engineering & sustainability track ‘23
• Catherine Wraback - chemical engineering, traditional track ‘23

Team Two

• Pavan Umashankar, chemical engineering, biotechnology and bioengineering track ‘24

• Colin Jones,  chemical engineering, biotechnology and bioengineering track ‘25

• Jacob Craft, chemical engineering, environmental engineering & sustainability track ‘24
• Zachary Bogart, chemical engineering, environmental engineering & sustainability track ‘23

UMBC CBEE students and advisor at the AIChE 2023 Mid-Atlantic Student Regional Conference, April 22-23

Photo Credit: Max Bobbin

Back to front;  Pavan Umashankar, Paul Loberg, Caton , David Ni, Zachary Bogart, Ben Willing, Catherine Wraback, Jacob Craft, Colin Jones, Neha Sian, Dr. Neha Raikar, Sarah Donyaee, Afrah Ahmed, Ethan Banks, Max Bobbin. 

AIChE Conference Chem-E Jeopardy Competition Bracket 

UMBC teams placed 1st and 2nd in the Semi Finals round, tied at 9 points. 

From Syllabi to Textbooks - Accessibility in Open Educational Resources for Institutions of Higher Education

A series of 3 no-cost intensives designed to build capacity in IHE teams

ISKME and CAST’s National AEM Center invite teams of faculty to learn how to use accessible Open Educational Resources (OER) to make learning more equitable and bust the barriers to learning that millions of learners experience every day. 

The Accessible OER Academy series is provided at no-cost to faculty at Institutions of Higher Education (IHE) and will introduce cohorts to how openly licensed resources are key levers for both adapting existing resources to increase digital accessibility and designing resources that are accessible for learners with disabilities from the start. Participants will also gain an understanding of how accessibility relates to Universal Design for Learning (UDL). 

We invite educators from the same Institution to form a cohort. Throughout the six-week series, cohorts will receive access to a curated set of high quality resources to review and adapt for use in their own settings. Institution cohorts that complete all six sessions will be invited to present at a national summit alongside CAST and ISKME. Each individual participant of the Academy will receive a certificate of completion. Each team will submit one application.

We encourage cohorts of 3-5 faculty to represent a diversity of lived experiences, classroom expertise, and current educational roles. Consider building your team with representatives from full-time faculty, part-time faculty, disability services, ed tech, assistive technology, library media, and administration. Your team will produce resources that can be used with and to benefit all learners, so consider building a team that can collaborate for instructional purposes. The cohort will explore modifying a variety of resources - with a focus on syllabi and entire textbooks.

The series will consist of three 90-minute webinars with three 90-minute implementation sessions between each. All sessions will be at 1:00pm ET/10:00am PT.

• 101 - Collaborative Questioning and UDL - on May 4th and Implementation Session May 11th

• 201 - Adapting and Creating Accessible OER on May 18th and Implementation Session May 25th

• 301 - Curating and Evaluating OER for Accessibility on June 1st and Implementation Session on June 8th

Apply as a team by May 1st. If you have any questions, please contact Joanna Schimizzi (joanna@iskme.org) or Alison Driscoll (adriscoll@cast.org).