Wednesday Wisdom Series
Campus Food Facilities
Dear Graduate Students and Graduate Assistants,
This week we will be sharing some helpful resources provided by UMBC (and its partners) to help eliminate the burden of food insecurity* for UMBC members:
Meal Plans:
- As Graduate Assistants, you are eligible for purchasing Faculty & Staff Meal Plans.
These meal plans allow either 10, 20, or 75 meals to be used at any dining venue on campus with the exception of the Skylight Room.
You can purchase a Faculty & Staff Meal plan following this link.
Please also consider donating meals to those in need through the 'Save-a-Swipe' program.
Retriever Essentials:
- To tackle food insecurity, UMBC offers free, pre-assembled, and nutritionally balanced bags of non-perishable food and toiletries.
- These items are available for pickup at various food zones across the campus.
- You can locate these Food Zones here.
- Please also consider donating to the Retriever Essentials pantry.
Free Farmers Market:
- Every Thursday, from 2:15 to 3:00 PM, you can stop by the AOK Library (towards Erickson Hall and Walker Ave) to grab fresh produce and assorted dry goods.
True Grits Discounts:
- For Graduate Students, you can purchase a meal (without a meal plan) at a discounted rate of ~ $7. You would need to show your campus ID to prove your student status.
- For all UMBC students and staff, you can purchase a meal (without a meal plan) from True Grits at a flat rate of $6 on Fridays.
Additional Resources:
- For all dining options, daily menus and hours of operation, visit Dine-on-Campus.
- To learn more about Retriever Essentials food access programs, visit them here.
If there is anything specific you want GAAC to discuss / explain in our Wednesday Wisdom series, please reach out to us at gaac@umbc.edu.
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*The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) defines food insecurity as a lack of consistent access to enough food for an active, healthy life.
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Thank You Chris! Welcome Mohan!
Dear AAAFSC Community,
Thank you very much for participating in our Spring 2023 election. We had the highest level of member engagement in the history of AAAFSC.
We thank Chris Tong (Modern Languages, Linguistics & Intercultural Communication) who will be cycling off his two years of leadership to AAAFSC at the end of this semester.
Just in case you haven't met Chris:
Chris speaks English, Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese, and German and has reading knowledge of French and Japanese. He also helps coordinate Chinese language teaching in the Department of Modern Languages, Linguistics & Intercultural Communication. Chris publishes on the intersection of culture, politics, and ecology in modern China and the United States. In
this story in UMBC Magazine, Chris shares his Fulbright experience in the People’s Republic of China with Catalina Sofia Dansberger Duque and talks about his personal connections to research.
We also welcome Mohan Sundaram to the AAAFSC executive board. Mohan will serve as a member-at-large from Fall 2023 to Spring 2026.
Mohan is a Lecturer in the Information Systems department at UMBC. He has a BS in Chemical Engineering, an MS in Industrial Engineering, and an MS in Operations Research from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OHIO. He has over 32+ years’ experience at GE Lighting in various capacities in the Supply Chain Organization. His strength lies in bringing practical business applications and experiential learning to the classroom. He teaches classes in the areas of applied Business Statistics, Management Science, Data Analytics, Operations Management, Logistics, Lean Six Sigma and Global Supply Chain at both Undergraduate and Graduate levels. He is passionate about teaching statistics and quantitative methods for business decision-making. He is also APICS and Six Sigma certified. His teaching experience includes Johns Hopkins, UMD, Towson, UMBC, UBALT, Kent, CASE, John Carroll, and Cleveland State Universities.
The new AAAFSC executive board :
Shuyan Sun, Chair, (Fall 2022-Spring 2025)
Emily Yoon, Vice Chair (Spring 2022-Fall 2024)
Marissa Clayton, Secretary (Fall 2022-Spring 2025)
Sharon Tran, Member-At-Large (Fall 2022-Spring 2025)
Liang Zhu, Member-At-Large (Spring 2022-Fall 2024)
Mohan Sundaram, Member-At-Large (Fall 2023-Spring 2026)
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Shared Service Center Update
Good Afternoon AAOU SSC Departments,
The shared services center is please to announce we have finalize recruitment for our vacancies, and have received acceptance of offer letters for four (4) new hires. One of which has already started with us, this past Monday (4/10/23), the other three (3) new hires are scheduled to start with us on Monday, May 8th.
Please join us in giving Rachel Garcia, who started with us on Monday, as our Business Operations Coordinator, a warm welcome to the AAOU SSC!
Over the next month, we will be working to get all new hires the necessary system access, which includes the completion of the Paw Procurement System, (PAW) and PeopleSoft Finance Security Access Forms. Some of these forms may require department approval once routed, so if you receive a request to approve an access form for your department via DocuSign, please do not overlook the email, please take a moment to review and approve the form.
We will send a more formal update and welcome to all of our new hires once everyone has started with us in May, with additional details about a timeline and plan to resume full operations for all AAOU SSC departments.
For now, if you happen to receive a DocuSign for your approval for the
Paw Procurement System (PAW) and PS Finance Departmental Approval Security Access form for Rachel Garcia, please review and approve the form. If you have any questions about the form feel free to contact me directly at
vcruz@umbc.edu.
For your reference, this form is giving Rachel approval access to the following functions AAOU SSC handles on behalf of all AAOU SSC departments:
-Requisitions
-Invoices/Payment Requests
-Journal Entries
-Budget Transfers
Thank you,
AAOU SSC Team
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