September 2023

Dear UMBC Colleague:

UMBC is a community that cares for students, staff, and faculty. We want to thank you for your ongoing partnership and compassion in supporting the safety and well-being of everyone on our campus, especially our students. 

The UMBC Behavioral Risk Assessment and Consultation Team (BRACT) is a multidisciplinary team that examines reports of concern to assist in maintaining campus safety. The team assists faculty, staff, and students with situations and behaviors that are concerning, disruptive, and/or threatening as well as the support and resources needed to ensure continued success on campus. 

Each department will receive our updated BRACT Poster and a BRACT sticker to share with all staff members that includes a link to the Student Affairs website and BRACT information, including the BRACT folder (UMBC Faculty and Staff Guide for Helping a Person in Distress). 

Student Affairs also offers a Retriever Peer-to-Peer listening program as well as training designed to give community members tools to help when someone is struggling with a mental health or substance use challenge. Mental Health First Aid is a 1-day skills-based course that helps identify and respond to mental health and substance use challenges. QPR (Question, Persuade, Refer) is a 1.5-2 hour training course that teaches how to talk to someone who may be thinking about suicide and encourage them to get the help they need to prevent suicide. 

Please reach out to our Community Health and Safety staff, Sue Poandl (spoandl1@umbc.edu) or Brandyn Holtzinger (bholtzi1@umbc.edu), if you have questions, a situation you would like to discuss, to request a training for your unit, or to request additional posters or stickers.  

Best,

Renique Kersh, Ph.D.

Vice President for Student Affairs, UMBC

Description:

In this session you will learn how to secure datacenter assets (servers, containers, SQL, storage) in your datacenter, Azure, AWS, or GCP.

Target Audience:

CISO, Data Center Manager, Director of Infrastructure, etc.

Presenter:

UMBC Adjunct Faculty Advisory Committee Meeting

September 29, 2023, PAHB 428 or WebEx

4:00 - 5:00 p.m.

      I.        AFAC Conference: Stronger Together

a.     Updates from Jill

b.     Mugs ordered/delivered by Friday  

c.     Both virtual and in-person options

d.     Did walk through testing of computer/camera

    II.        Recap of Meeting with President/ Interim Provost

a.     Discussed how do we move on changing the conditions of long-term adjuncts

b.     Discussed increasing the minimum per credit hour

c.     Getting clarity on breadth of adjuncts (long-term, short-term, and in-between)

d.     Discussed year-long contracts/Contingent II/Part-time non-tenure faculty track  

e.     Discussed health care (who can, who can’t)

f.      Discussed the disparity in pay increases for full-time faculty vs adjuncts over past 10 years

   III.        USC/Strategic Plan/Plan to Plan to Plan

a.     How can we best reach our constituents to assess their needs?

b.     Who are our constituents?

c.     Who aren’t we reaching? Why?  

  IV.        College Level Thoughts (revisited)

a.     Like us to think about creating adjunct groups per college similar to what they do in CMNS

b.     Would imagine them to meet monthly and not be department specific

c.     Bonnie: Have they been effective in your mind?

d.     Possibly work through your Deans on this idea  

    V.        New Business