UMBC + UMB WRITING CENTERS PARTNERSHIP: HIRING GRADUATE STUDENTS

The UMBC Writing Center and the Writing Center at the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB), are partnering to share resources and offer UMBC graduate students the opportunity to apply for paid positions as peer writing consultants through the UMB Writing Center. 

Successful candidates will join the UMB Writing Center staff, working one-to-one with writers at UMBC and/or UMB in on-campus and in online graduate-level courses, as well as with UMBC and UMB staff and faculty writers and writers across Baltimore communities. These positions are especially ideal for graduate students interested in careers involving these fields: 

• teaching
• information literacy
• intercultural communication
• science communication
• publishing and editing
• academic research
• public advocacy
• public health and policy
• community-engaged non-profit work. 

DIVERSITY, EQUITY, + INCLUSION EXPERIENCE FOR HIRED GRADUATE STUDENTS

Newly hired graduate students will also participate in rigorous, ongoing training in consultation practice and, importantly, will join the Baltimore Writing Center Project (BWCP) - a collaboration among a diverse, interprofessional group of writing center administrators and graduate and undergraduate peer consultants from Baltimore metropolitan-area universities. 

This project focuses on how writing centers can leverage institutional resources across Baltimore City to grapple with structural and systemic racism inside and beyond the academy. Participants confront linguistic racism and the reproduction of white language supremacy in writing practice and research by engaging in multimodal composition strategies, egalitarian processes of consultation practice, and intersectional counter-storytelling.

Apply through the UMB Writing Center's employment page.

Questions? Email Elaine MacDougall, Director of the UMBC Writing Center, at efick1@umbc.edu and/or James Wright, Associate Director of the UMB Writing Center, at james.wright@umaryland.edu

The Student Affairs Business Services Center (SABSC) has relocated to Erickson Hall, Suite 042. Please note the following updates: 

New Student Organizations Business Office (SOBO): Open beginning Monday, August 1, SOBO is dedicated to student organizations' business and financial activity and will be located in Commons 337 (in the Campus Life suite). SABSC staff who work with student organizations will rotate between SOBO in The Commons and SABSC in Erickson 042. 

Deposits: Beginning Monday, August 1, all deposits should be taken to Commons 337 for processing. Until then, deposits needing to be processed should be taken to Erickson 042. 

Payroll Activity: Payroll activity (e.g., new hire appointments) will be handled by SABSC staff located in Erickson 042. Please note that all student payroll appointments will also be held in Erickson 042. 

Hours: Both offices will be open 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday
Email tmdelin@umbc.edu with questions.

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