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Management Advisory Service (MAS) is very pleased to announce the launching of Online Ethics Training!
This new online training opportunity is available for you and/or your staff, upon request. Ethical standards in the workplace are important to the success of every employee, their respective department, and UMBC.
If you are interested in this new training for your department, please contact David Sohns in MAS at dsohns@umbc.edu to make the arrangements.
This training further contributes to providing a strong foundation for the ethical culture at UMBC. The training consists of a total of 5 modules that can be completed at one’s own pace with a short quiz at the end.
We hope that you will take advantage of this new training and look forward to hearing from you!
Sharon Doherty-Ritter
MAS Director
Written by Sofia Encarnacion, ‘22 Mosaic Student Diversity and Inclusion Peer.
My parents, siblings, and I do not practice any religion, but my parents still had us go to church for the first few years of my life. When I got older, my dad explained his reasoning for attending as a way to “understand American culture.” It was a Presbyterian church, and I didn’t have any friends there. Later, when we stopped going, my eight-year-old self was just relieved I didn’t have to wake up so early. All my friends at school were some denomination of Protestant and they didn’t care that I wasn’t. In sixth grade, a classmate told me I was going to Hell for not believing in God, but that was it. Overall, religion wasn’t a huge part of my socialization or upbringing. However, I was grateful that I knew the more well-known stories in the Bible, as there were plenty of references to them in pop culture and English class.
My relationship with Christianity always felt conflicting. When I was ten, I saw a man on the news imply that the 2010 Haitian earthquake was deserved because they “made a pact with the devil.” That was my first distinct interaction of people using their faith as an excuse for hatred. Despite this, I knew my Christian friends were good people. I was now an outsider of this type of faith, and my interactions with my peers were stronger influences than some random televangelist or the anti-LGBTQ+ Christians I’d see on TV. However, I noticed I was still putting up walls around myself from embracing organized religion.
As I got older, I knew there were other religions, but I guess I never thought about them until I befriended a Muslim girl on my bus. Sixth graders can be very ignorant. Our bus ride was almost an hour long so we’d spend a lot of time talking. As soon as she told us the purpose of her hijab, all the girls were very protective whenever she’d occasionally duck down in the bus seat to fix it. Some boys would try to peek at her, and the girls would shove them away. We definitely asked dumb questions, such as “Don’t you get hot wearing it?” Thankfully, she was really patient with us.
Fast forward to high school, I attend a student-run TEDx event. My favorite talk was called “Yes, I Do Shower In It” by a hijabi girl. She talked about the meaning behind her hijab, and her experiences with anti-Muslim sentiment after 9/11. The talk stuck with me so much that I shared it with friends from my hometown. My reaction—besides admiration for this 16-year old’s wit and humor—was that I am very oblivious to how religion impacts people’s everyday lives.
When I entered UMBC, the prominence of religious beliefs were a major culture shock to me. Involvement Fest has dozens of religious organizations, over 40 in fact, and they were all pretty active. When I joined the student staff for Mosaic one of my coworkers often expressed his dedication to God. As for the hijabi girl who gave the TEDx talk back from high school, I ended up working with her as well in The Mosaic and we ended up becoming close friends. When I lived on campus, the girl I roomed with was a Quaker and I was able to learn about Quaker values and customs. She told me their meeting house was welcoming of all faiths, even atheists. As a result of her openness, I put down my walls around organized religion and felt a lot more comfortable. The process involved a lot of listening, Googling, and conversations with my peers. I couldn’t just admit I was ignorant, I had to make a conscious effort to continue educating myself and checking my implicit biases.
I do not deny that religion and spiritual beliefs can and have sometimes been used to oppress and exclude others. However, there is an evident sense of camaraderie in each of these religious organizations. From my experiences, each group encouraged community service. And the purpose of this volunteering wasn’t for a high school graduation requirement like much of the volunteering I had seen in my youth: it was solely for helping others less fortunate. I saw how faith was also a source of solace when tragedies struck their community. Especially now, religion offers hope when almost everything feels hopeless.
P.S.: The hijabi girl (her name is Tirzah Khan, she’s now one of my best friends) started a TEDx student org: TEDxUMBC. Check us out and follow our IG @tedxumbc.
I also encourage you all to check out our Interfaith Dialogue series session on October 27, 2020 where we will discuss the relationship between religious organizations and social change.
All utilities and WiFi (Verizon Fios Gigabit connection) are included in the rent!
Price may be negotiable within reason.
A breathtakingly original work of history that uncovers a massive enslaved persons’ revolt that almost changed the face of the Americas
“As the rebellion lighted from one plantation to another, colonists panicked. Instead of rallying to the colony’s defense, they acted to save themselves. Rather than protecting their plantations, they hurriedly readied themselves to abandon them.”
—from Blood on the River
On Sunday, February 27, 1763, thousands of slaves in the Dutch colony of Berbice—in present-day Guyana—launched a massive rebellion that came amazingly close to succeeding. Surrounded by jungle and savannah, the revolutionaries (many of them African-born) and Europeans struck and parried for an entire year. In the end, the Dutch prevailed because of one unique advantage—their ability to get soldiers and supplies from neighboring colonies and from Europe. Blood on the River is the explosive story of this little-known revolution, one that almost changed the face of the Americas.
Drawing on nine hundred interrogation transcripts collected by the Dutch when the Berbice rebellion finally collapsed, and which were subsequently buried in Dutch archives, historian Marjoleine Kars reconstructs an extraordinarily rich day-by-day account of this pivotal event. Blood on the River provides a rare in-depth look at the political vision of enslaved people at the dawn of the Age of Revolution and introduces us to a set of real characters, vividly drawn against the exotic tableau of a riverine world of plantations, rainforest, and Carib allies who controlled a vast South American hinterland.
An astonishing original work of history, Blood on the River will change our understanding of revolutions, slavery, and of the story of freedom in the New World.
On August 17th or 18th, we're planning a second attempt to fly a drone around the Math/Psychology building to survey the brick facades and window flashings. The drone will be flown within a few feet of the building going up/down, left/right across all facades. The drone will be equipped with a camera to record the existing conditions around the entire building. Safety spotters and flaggers will be present around the building to ensure any pedestrians in the area are kept safe from the drone flight path.
The weather needs to be nearly perfect for safe flights. If weather conditions change, the flight may have to be suspended and re-scheduled.
We appreciate your cooperation as we work to improve our campus. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Stacy Brian at 410.512.7516 or sbrian@umbc.edu.
Similar to other work from home phishing attempts targeting the UMBC community, this one follows the pattern. A malicious actor who claims to be from a company, in this case Cisco, offers the victim a job. This email also shows the subject line of “WORK FROM HOME” in all caps. An example of this phishing email can be seen below:
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From: steve mendez <stevemendez044@gmail.com> Date: Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 2:18 PM Subject: WORK FROM HOME To: <@umbc.edu> Cisco Systems Inc® is offering you a chance to secure a part time job. Kindly reply back with your alternate email address for more information.
Kind Regards, steve mendezHR Manager/Consultant Cisco Systems Inc® |
Past phishing emails attempts like this one ask the victim to reply with their personal (non-UMBC) email. Then the malicious actor would ask for more personal information such as the phone number, address, current job, and even the birthdate of the victim.
After the victim responds, they would receive another email. This email would be confirming that the victim got the job and that the scammer would be sending the first paycheck. In scams similar to this one the scammer has been known to text victims too.
If you do receive this or a similar scam, please DO NOT respond any further or click on any URLs. If you have provided any banking or financial information, please notify your bank or financial institution immediately. If you have been sent a check, you should not attempt to cash or deposit it. If you have deposited a check already, please contact your bank and tell them that it may be part of a scam.
Whether or not you responded to the scam or not, please forward the message (with the email headers) to security@umbc.edu. We will also keep track of any other information you submit about the scammers, such as their phone numbers if you receive a text message from the malicious actor.
How do I forward full email headers?
https://wiki.umbc.edu/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=1867970
To read more articles published by DOIT visit:
https://itsecurity.umbc.edu/critical/?tag=notice.
https://itsecurity.umbc.edu/home/covid-19-news/?tag=covid19
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