The Office of Equity and Inclusion and the Inclusion Council is committed to partnering with the UMBC community. We acknowledge that there are many faculty, staff, and student groups that are already doing important inclusion work in our community and beyond. We believe in the power of collaboration and seek to help elevate and provide space for the important work that is already underway. 

The Inclusion Council is now launching working groups to gather information, develop recommendations, and propose a plan of action with respect to a number of issues that have been identified by our community as priorities. We encourage UMBC community members from a variety of backgrounds to participate in these working groups. We specifically would like more graduate student representation in the working groups. As a community, we plan to draw on the leadership and wisdom of our students, alumni, faculty, and staff, many of whom confront these issues every day through their teaching, research, and activism.  

If you are interested in joining any of the working groups, please submit your top two choices via the Inclusion Council Working Group Selection Form.  You will find a brief description of the proposed subject matter for each group there.

 https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfz9BEOs7QglgCQK_sklMlIxhezsAlf-WvA6q5RWH3UxorLHQ/viewform?usp=sf_link

Call for Papers

Mellon Emerging Scholars Conference

“Sustaining Diverse and Inclusive Communities”

Thanks to generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Queens College has undertaken a three-year project led by faculty and students to advance understanding and formulate plans of action that foster diversity and inclusion in urban communities and higher education.  As part of this, the College will host a two-day conference to showcase research by emerging scholars in the humanities and social sciences.

The two-day conference will be held on November 13-14, 2017, on the Queens College campus located in the heart of the world’s most diverse urban place.  Our students hail from 150 different countries and speak 70 different languages.  The conference will afford ample opportunities for interdisciplinary exchange and contribute to the professional development of the emerging scholars who participate as well as for students and faculty from across CUNY. A special reception for undergraduates, held on the first evening of the conference, will provide them a chance to meet and talk with conference presenters and attendees to learn more about shared fields of interest and careers in higher education.  Conference proceedings will be broadcast via the web and also captured for later podcasts, thus amplifying their impact.  Publication of selected papers as a book is also planned.  Finally, time will be set aside for interviews arranged in advance of the conference for open faculty positions at Queens College and other CUNY campuses to take advantage of this recruitment opportunity to enhance faculty diversity. 

Scholars, especially those in the early stage of their career, are invited to propose papers no more than 30 minutes in length. While limited travel and accommodation support will be provided, participants are encouraged to solicit funding support from their home institutions. 

Learn more about the conference by go to:

http://mellondiversity.qc.cuny.edu/

Learn more about Queens College by going to:  http://www.qc.cuny.edu/Pages/home.aspx

Please send a 250-word proposal and CV to:

Mellon Conference Program Committee

c/o Michael Wolfe, Dean of Social Sciences

Michael.Wolfe@qc.cuny.edu

Deadline:         August 15, 2017