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Have you thought of taking a First-Year Seminar?

How about taking a First-Year Seminar that explores the world of the deaf community.

FYS 102-06: The Deaf Community and Its Culture

meets Social Sciences (SS) requirements (GEP, GFR)

First-Year Seminars are open to all students during their first year at UMBC. THE DEAF COMMUNITY AND ITS CULTURE-Through lectures, directed readings, attendance at deaf community events, and student research presentations, this course will introduce students the American Deaf Community, their unique culture, history and language. This course will also highlight significant impacts that American education systems, laws, and technologies have had on the Deaf Community's social status. The course will have several guest speakers, both Deaf and hearing, who will explore specific topics in depth such as CODA, Deaf Education, Interpreting, and Audism.

John 15: 9, 13-17 (NIV) - “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit-fruit that will last-and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you. This is my command: Love each other.”

This love began with the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. God is love (Greek - agape). We are made in the image of this eternal God who is this self-giving love and from whom this sacrificial love flows. This is why we look for all kinds of love. But once we enter/receive this saving love of God through Jesus, we hunger and ache and want this love - in Christ, for it is who we are. This love is truly irresistible. The disciples who followed Jesus and witnessed this greatest love were changed! They knew they had been found by the greatest love! They finally knew who they really were and this love changed them forever! Have you been found by this greatest love? Do you know this greatest love? Have you opened yourself up to God to be vulnerable before Him to experience a brokenness that is the deepest and most secure love? Have you experienced God flowing into your heart with seeming turmoil only to find that everything is put into God’s good order? This love is the journey we want, for it takes us into the very heart of God. This is the real love that we want. This is the love we want to taste every day!

Today consider this in prayer: There is no greater love than this - to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

-GK

Friday, August 18: 11:30 AM – 4 PM

Our speakers were winners of the NSF GRFP Fellowship (as graduate students), and now as educators, they have taken their winning method on the road. They have given workshops at Harvard, MIT, UMBC, Howard, the University of Puerto Rico, and other schools, and have collectively assisted students with earning millions of dollars in fellowship award money. Each NSF GRFP Fellowship is worth more than $100,000. Our speakers have helped to produce several winners. You can be one of them!

• This is a special session, concurrent with the NSF LSAMP’s Math Institute. This session is open to all undergraduate students, and first and second-year graduate students.
• Session time: Part I: 11:30 – 1 PM – Applying for the Fellowship.
• Session time: Part II: 2:30 – 3:30 PM – Starting Your Application on Fastlane.
• Lunch with participants from the LSAMP Math Institute will be available to all who choose to stay for Part II.
  • Dr. Frances Carter-Johnson, Data Scientist, National Science Foundation
  • Dr. Patti Ordóñez, Associate Professor, Computer Science, University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras (also, Researcher at FACEBOOK, and The MIT Center for Brains, Minds, + Machines)
  • Dr. Lola Brown, Assistant Dean of Engineering, and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, City College of New York (CCNY)

Princeton Review has again featured UMBC as one of the nation’s top universities in its popular undergraduate guide, The Best 382 Colleges, published this week. Put simply, Princeton Review Editor-in-Chief Robert Franek says, “We chose UMBC for this book because it offers outstanding academics.”

UMBC fit into the top 15% of 2,500 colleges Princeton Review considered. Their analysis included 137,000 student ratings of colleges and universities across dozens of categories, from financial aid to career services and the classroom experience. It also incorporated feedback from college administrators and from Princeton Review visits to participating campuses.

Princeton Review’s UMBC profile particularly highlights the quality of teaching found at the university, and faculty’s deep commitment to supporting student success. One student shared that UMBC is home to “extremely intelligent professors that have a knack for inspiring the students.” Others noted, “this is a university where teaching comes first” and “most of the professors are so helpful” when it comes to offering students additional support through office hours.

The guide recognizes UMBC’s solid reputation as a place where “students take education seriously,” referencing the common feeling across the university that “UMBC is a place where it is cool to be smart.” But this level of student engagement isn’t limited to academics, Princeton Review emphasizes. One UMBC undergraduate shared, “almost every student at UMBC is involved with at least a couple of extracurricular activities, which connect them to the campus.”

“Overall, it seems, ‘People fit in [at UMBC] by being intellectually creative and finding a community,'” The Best 382 Colleges guide notes.

Reflecting further on the college experience, one student shared, “UMBC wants to see every student succeed—they provide you with the tools, people, and resources to make sure you get where you want to go in life.” The guide also points out that UMBC “has a strong reputation for diversity and students feel ‘it enriches our school and everyone gets to know everyone despite culture or ethnicity.'”

Specific UMBC programs highlighted in the guide range from the sciences and mathematics to the performing arts, with special recognition going to UMBC’s “technologically advanced” Performing Arts and Humanities Building. The university’s convenient location just outside of Baltimore, near Washington D.C., also received high marks.

In January of this year, Princeton Review also featured UMBC in its 2017 Colleges That Pay You Back guide, which includes the nation’s top colleges that balance “a superb education with great career preparation and at an affordable price.” Most recently, Forbes and Money magazines recognized UMBC as a “great investment” for students, and The Chronicle of Higher Education named UMBC one of the nation’s top academic workplaces for the eighth year in a row. That ranking distinguished UMBC as an “honor roll” institution, as one of just ten large universities nationwide to excel in nearly every measured category.

Header image: UMBC’s Orientation Peer Advisors, summer 2017. Photo by Marlayna Demond ’11 for UMBC.

REPORTS TO: Executive Director

TYPE: Full-time, exempt

HOURS: M-F, 9:30-5:30 Occasional evenings and weekends

REPORTS TO: Executive Director

TYPE: Full-time, exempt

HOURS: M-F, 9:30-5:30 Occasional evenings and weekends