REMINDER: Crafting a Mission for Your Food Business! Come out to our Workshop 10/4 to hear from Elena Rosenblum!

Hello Retriever Entrepreneurs! Do you have a dream of starting a food business? This workshop is for YOU!

Our next event of the semester will be held NEXT Wednesday, October 4th from 12-1pm in Commons 331!

Your mission is what you will base everything on moving forward for your business, from the products you decide to launch, your pricing strategy, brand messaging, and team. In this workshop, we will explore why a clear company mission matters, how to set one, and how to use it as you scale.

Students, faculty, alumni, and members of the business community are welcome to attend! FREE snacks will be provided! We hope to see you there!


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Janet Magruder has worked at UMBC since 1992, serving in many areas before joining the Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture (formerly the Fine Arts Gallery) in 1999. She served as a Senator for the Classified Senate from 1995-2002, Chair for the Review Committee from 1995-1997, and a member of the Executive Committee of the Council University State System between 1998-2001. Her final day at UMBC will be September 29, 2023.


Janet has played many important roles for CADVC. She not only administered our business and financial matters, but mentored staff and student workers and advised artists, colleagues, vendors, and partners on CADVC's highly specialized business and administrative matters. She is patient, helpful, and kind. Student workers under her supervision would stop by the gallery to greet Janet or tell her that "working at CADVC doesn't feel like work." Janet's generous administrative care sustained our physical space, working conditions, and the experiences of staff, artists and audiences alike.


So many people at CADVC and in the wider University know and love Janet, and we will all miss her. Please join me in wishing her well in her next steps as she moves on from her storied career at UMBC.


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*Please share with your departmental employees*

The last day to use excess annual leave and unused personal leave for calendar year 2023 is January 13, 2024. Prior communications had noted January 4th and January 11th in error. 

Please refer to the corrected 2023 Year End Memo for additional information regarding year end leave. 

Questions may be directed to my attention at mcnamara@umbc.edu.

Thank you.
Sherrell McNamara, HRIS Manager
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The Mid Autumn Festival is a harvest festival and holiday that takes place on the 15th day of the 8th month of the Lunar calendar. Predominately observed across Asian countries such as China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and many other ethnic Chinese communities. 


While celebrating the autumn harvest as a whole is a focus of this time of year, depending on which Asian culture and country you are focusing on, you will find different cultural traditions and beliefs such as an emphasis on the moon, gathering with family, and even honoring those who have passed. Across all of these countries, the importance of gathering with family and loved ones can be seen.


Each country has its own name or reference for the Mid Autumn Festival, here are some of them (for additional viewing, please see the attached photo): 



During the Mid Autumn Festival, you will find many people eating and gifting Mooncakes, a pastry filled with different rich flavors such as red bean or lotus. You may also find crescent-shaped rice cakes called Songpyeon (Korean) filled with either red bean, chestnuts, or even toasted sesame seeds. Similar to other holidays across the world, food plays an important aspect to many during the Mid Autumn Festival. 


To learn more about The Mid Autumn Festival across a couple of different cultures, check out the links below! 


Chuseok in Korea 

Tsukimi, The Moon Festival 

Hong Kong Celebration of The Mid Autumn Festival


Angelina, our Assistant Director of The Mosaic: Center for Cultural Diversity wishes all a Happy Mid Autumn Festival, and from her own culture and language: 추석잘보내세요! (Happy Chuseok)! 

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Join Admissions Deans from six law schools for a 360-degree view of the law admissions process today.


Crafting your Personal Statement (and other essays)
Monday, October 16
4:00-5:30 PM (EST)
RSVP here

The law schools of the East Meets West Coast Law School Consortium actively work to bring basic and accurate information to law school applicants throughout the country. Focused on First Gen and BIPOC applicants, this Consortium lifts the curtain and let them know what Deans of Admissions really think.


For more information visit
https://lawadm.qu.edu/portal/eastwest



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- Follow the official Inktober 2023 prompt list (linked below)
- Entries will only be seen on Instagram
- 1 entry per person per prompt (max. 31 entires per person)
- Use the hashtag in order for an entry to count
- Winner will be selected November 1
- Follow @umbcbookstore on Instagram to see our staff illustrations
- A weekly Ink Item will be on sale for 10% OFF
- Sketches do not have to use the promotion item for the entry to count
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Hope all is well. Please join us today for a presentation from Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine. We would really appreciate it if you can come to our meetings as your participation really matters to us and encourages to plan future meetings. Hope to see you there.

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82418011611?pwd=NjRqSVRJSnFkUFZSNnJ2YnQ1UDJ6Zz09

Meeting ID: 824 1801 1611
Passcode: 998440


Best,
Pre-Med Society Board




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The Pre-Law Society is planning a Field Trip to GW Law! 

Interested in Attending?

Submit this form today!

Questions?  Please contact the Pre-Law Executive Board 

President, Veronica Goonan: vgoonan1@umbc.edu
Vice-President, Michelle Enomanna: m325@umbc.edu 
Treasurer, Hannah Huff: hannahh1@umbc.edu
Secretary, Sukky Bada: obada1@umbc.edu
Social Media Director, Najwa Nassali: ye24493@umbc.edu
Pre-Law Advisor, Molly Timko: mtimko@umbc.edu

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Dear UMBC Community,
 
As I said at my inauguration in the spring, there is much to celebrate in reflecting on UMBC's journey and the institution it has become since its founding in 1966. Over the decades, UMBC has become a national model for inclusive excellence, a comprehensive Research 1 public university, and a welcoming learning community that engages actively in advancing our surrounding neighborhoods, the state of Maryland, and the wider world. We are inspired and propelled by our shared values and a shared vision for UMBC. 
 
We have the vision. The time is now to take up the challenge of setting a course to realize that vision. Over the coming year, it will be our collective endeavor to articulate a set of strategic aims for the university. We launch that effort officially today, and you will hear more in the coming days and weeks about the process by which we will invite your broad engagement--first in helping to determine how we will go about the work of strategic planning, and then in developing the plan and its aims. I have met this month with shared governance leaders and asked for their partnership in this effort. 
 
Our strategic planning will be informed by the UMBC Bold Campus Conversations we convened last spring--listening sessions facilitated by students, faculty, staff, and alumni and attended by more than 1,000 members of our community. I am pleased to share with you the final report from those listening sessions prepared by our Bold co-chairs, Professors Vandana Janeja and Michelle Scott, and Vice President for Institutional Advancement Greg Simmons. It is a terrific summary of the sessions, which explored our aspirations for the undergraduate and graduate student experience, the research enterprise, economic development, community engagement, and more. I am deeply grateful to our co-chairs and to all who facilitated or participated in those sessions. 
 
If you did not participate, do not worry: You will have many opportunities to engage in strategic planning. The Bold conversations were critical for our collective listening and learning, but they were just a beginning. As we move forward with strategic planning, we will look to continue to engage every part of UMBC and to hear diverse perspectives and voices from throughout our community. 
 
Why bother with strategic planning, you may ask? The process of developing strategic priorities can unite a community, and a strategic plan that is grounded in our specific purpose and values can serve as a consistent reminder of who we are and what truly matters. It can engage all our audiences--our stakeholders, our neighbors, and our prospective students, families, and employees--in understanding and joining us in service of our purpose. 
 
And articulating our purpose is both important and urgent in today's world, when the value of higher education is questioned daily; when the public mission of our institutions can easily be forgotten; when diversity, equity, and inclusion are positioned aggressively as barriers to excellence, rather than integral to it; and when a liberal arts approach to education is essential to solving the complex challenges of today and tomorrow. We have not only the opportunity, but also the responsibility to continue the pursuit of our vision to redefine excellence in higher education, and, as we do so, we will communicate to our community and to the world the extraordinary, distinctive value of our beloved UMBC.
 
Sincerely,
 
President Valerie Sheares Ashby

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The Pre-Law Society is planning a Field Trip to GW Law! 

Interested in Attending?

Submit this form today!

Questions?  Please contact the Pre-Law Executive Board 

President, Veronica Goonan: vgoonan1@umbc.edu
Vice-President, Michelle Enomanna: m325@umbc.edu 
Treasurer, Hannah Huff: hannahh1@umbc.edu
Secretary, Sukky Bada: obada1@umbc.edu
Social Media Director, Najwa Nassali: ye24493@umbc.edu
Pre-Law Advisor, Molly Timko: mtimko@umbc.edu




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