Last Day to Enroll in Courses 9/10 Important words of advice Hi Political Science Students,

I wanted to make all of you aware that tomorrow is the last day that you are able to enroll in a course for the semester. As many of you know, I do not encourage students to switch classes at this point in the semester because many classes have already had assignments due and collected. However, if you do decide to switch classes or enroll in a new course at this point in the semester, it is extremely important that you reach out to the professor of the course. I cannot emphasize this enough, especially now that the majority of classes are virtual. As a new student in the course, it is your responsibility to reach out to the professor via email and inquire about what you may have already missed and what you need to do in order to catch up in the class. In the virtual class setting it is more  difficult for the professors to tell if you have recently added their course. Thanks for taking on this responsibility during these unique times. 
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Meeting Schedule (subject to potential changes):

General Body Meetings: Weekly on Wednesdays; starting on Wed 9/16 at 4pm

 

Trans Tuesdays Discussion Group: Bi-weekly on Tuesdays; starting on Tues 9/15 at 4pm

 

Education & Advocacy (Events planning) Discussion Group: Bi-weekly on Mondays; starting on Mon 9/21 at 4pm


Here is a link to a VoiceThread that Jordan, our Edu & Advocacy Director, made! It includes all pertinent info (and then some): https://umbc.voicethread.com/share/15340071/

 

And here are our other socials for those of you who missed us at I-Fest (please connect with us!):

IG/Twitter - @umbclgbtq

myUMBC - https://bit.ly/2Zey1Sw

Discord - https://discord.gg/nJx2mFS

 

These will be your best bet to find out what we're up to, what meetings we've got coming up, and anything else you might need! And please reach out to any of our e-board by e-mail if you're having trouble accessing any of these things or finding what you’re looking for!

 

Executive Director: Shannon Ashley (any pronouns) - sash4

Treasurer: Irene Azurmendi (she/her) - irene3

Social & Membership Director: Piper Sweeney (she/her) - pipers1

Edu & Advocacy Director: Jordan Packett (they/them) - jordanp2

Director of Trans Programming: Chris Bescher (he/him) - christb3

Communications Director: Emily Tanis (she/they) – etanis1

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Sea stars regenerate their arms. Most species of planaria, a type of flatworm, can regenerate everything from their brains to their digestive organs. But if you lose part of a finger in a shop class accident, or while chopping vegetables for dinner, you’re out of luck—for now. “Why can the worm do it, and we cannot?” asks Daniel Lobo, assistant professor of biological sciences. That’s not really the question, though, he explains. ]]> Salamanders regenerate their tails. Sea stars regenerate their arms. Most species of planaria, a type of flatworm, can regenerate everything from their brains to their digestive organs. 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This story was written by Catalina Sofia Dansberger Duque and first appeared on news.umbc.edu

UMBC’s Taka Yamashita has been awarded a $1.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences for an innovative three-year research project on how adult literacy impacts success in community college STEM education and job training programs. Yamashita is an associate professor of sociology and faculty member in the UMBC/UMB gerontology Ph.D. program. He will explore how the literacy, numeracy, and problem-solving skills of adults (ages 18 and over), can be indicators of career and academic readiness in community college STEM programs.

Meeting workers’ and STEM industry needs

Many workers with limited academic credentials or skills face the need to expand their skill set to fit a rapidly changing STEM-focused labor market. The wide range of skills needed for STEM jobs creates both challenges and opportunities for workers to begin “middle-skill” positions, which do not require four-year undergraduate or graduate degrees. Career training programs can make a significant difference for these workers.

Yamashita notes that community colleges are uniquely positioned to meet the needs of adults who seek STEM skill training. However, in addition to knowledge and work skills, many workers also need to learn the basic skills to manage college level coursework, he explains.

“While community colleges can offer a path, students’ community college readiness may present a barrier to completing the training and entering the STEM workforce,” shares Yamashita. He explains, “Recent national data clearly showed that many of the adults seeking to aquire new new knowledge and skill sets do not have the sufficient basic reading and math skills needed for higher education coursework in the U.S.”

The power of three perspectives

This research project is led by Yamashita, principal investigator; Rita Karam, senior policy researcher at RAND Corporation; and Phyllis Cummins, assistant director of research at Scripps Gerontology Center at Miami University of Ohio. The team will gather quantitative and qualitative data from three community college STEM programs. These include programs at Clover Park Technical College in Washington state, Cuyahoga Community College in Ohio, and Ivy Tech Community College in Indiana. 

The researchers will assess students’ basic math, reading, and technology skills to predict their academic success in STEM skills training programs. They will also analyze national data and create the first national profile of basic skills across different segments of the adult population for a variety of STEM industries.

“We’re seeking to explore relationships between basic skills, college readiness, and academic outcomes,” says Yamashita. “Our goal is to better understand the underlying themes and/or key factors that are linked to enhanced basic skills and academic success in the STEM-related sub-baccalaureate programs.” These findings, Yamashita notes, could have a long-lasting positive impact on current and future workers’ lives as well as the STEM labor market.

Banner image: Yamashita. Photo courtesy of Yamashita.

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Before you change your schedule, ask yourself: 

  • Are you meeting the expectations of your classes? 
  • Is your course load manageable? 
  • Is the content relevant and helpful to your long-term academic goals? 

If you need to make a change, contact your academic advisor ASAP!
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Hello Psi Chi! 

Thank you to everyone who attended Involvement Fest today! If you attended today, your name was automatically added to our WebEx Teams contact list and you will receive all upcoming meeting links for Fall 2020 as they are sent out. (Please see our previous myUMBC post/email about Fall 2020 for all upcoming meeting dates).

Our first General Body Meeting (GBM 1) is fast approaching! It will be held this upcoming Monday, September 14th from 12-1pm. Our first meeting will be an introductory meeting and cover various topics, including: requirements for joining, introducing your Fall 2020 officers, what we have planned this semester, etc.

EVERYONE AND ANYONE IS WELCOME TO JOIN OUR MEETINGS REGARDLESS OF MEMBERSHIP STATUS (i.e., you do NOT have to be a Psi Chi member to attend our meetings/events).

We really look forward to meeting you all and seeing some friendly faces from past semesters!

***IMPORTANT***:

The other officers and I have decided to use WebEx Teams for our GBMs this semester.

If you are planning on attending Psi Chi's meetings this semester and would like to receive WebEx Teams meeting links, YOU MUST DOWNLOAD WEBEX TEAMS AND ADD YOURSELF TO OUR WEBEX TEAMS GROUP AT THIS LINK:  https://eurl.io/#m8WGOCLD6

If you enter your email after clicking the link above (and after downloading WebEx Teams, if you do not already have it installed on your computer), you should automatically be added to our Psi Chi WebEx Teams contact list and receive all meeting links when they are sent!

Please email me at apiesza1@umbc.edu if you have any questions! I know this semester will be a bit of trial and error with all of the different applications everyone is using to hold meetings, classes, etc., and I want to make sure everyone who wants to attend our meetings is able to!!

Stay safe & healthy,
Psi Chi E-Board
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Jerome Ellis is an Afro-Carribean composer, musician and writer whose recent performance at the Poetry Project's House Party became a feature story, Time Bandit, within the This American Life audio broadcast (transcript).  Both he and Sean Cane unpack how essential and shared the support for accommodation can be for people with disabilities.  We encourage you to take a moment and explore more through the links.

His inspiration for the performance: An author was essentially mocking a Brazilian law that supported people with speech disabilities, enabling accommodation. The conversation goes beyond his performance and becomes a deeper dive into his lived experience and how community engagement, as a support of accommodation and inclusion, matters.  The performance is supplemented with Poetry Project's transCRIPted, which is Jerome Ellis's illumination of the softer and subtler audio portions of the presentation.

He quotes Black feminist Kimberle' Crenshaw "Treating different things the same can generate as much an inequality as treating the same things differently" which is fully relevant for BIPOC experiences,  and also extends for the inclusion of people with disabilities via accommodation.  Inclusion occurs with accessible design, universal design, and accommodation.  He reached out to the event organizer - UMBC has robust options as well for people with disabilities. 

Accessibility and Disability Services and Student Disability Services work in partnership with the campus departments and event organizers to support equal access via design as well as accommodation.  We understand Jerome Ellis' frustration when people are thoughtless about how essential accommodation can be.

Disability can occur at any time, and we remind the campus of the following resources and online processes:

We encourage our entire UMBC community to be more familiar with these campus resources, and to engage with these offices for a deeper understanding of how people with disabilities are included at UMBC, including raising awareness about a concern by, or on behalf of, a person with a disability.

More on Jerome Ellis is linked here.

A close-up photo of a wired stage microphone accompanies the post.
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If you have any questions about making a scheduling change, please contact Ms. Castle at castl@umbc.edu before 5 pm tomorrow. 

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