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The deadline to apply for the Spring 2023 MLE Cohort has been extended to Wednesday, February 8th, 2023 and will close at 11:59pm.
The Multicultural Leadership Experience (MLE) is a collaboration between Campus Life and Initiatives for Identity Inclusion & Belonging (i3B), that seeks to:
Engage participants in a multicultural development and leadership learning program;
Enhance participants' understanding of their social identities, leader identity, as well as their capacity to lead;
And enable participants' development through authenticity, self-awareness, relationships, and capitalizing on difference.
The sessions are as follows:
- Monday, February 13th, 3 - 4:30pm
- Monday, February 27th, 3 - 4:30pm
- Monday, March 13th, 3 - 4:30pm
- Monday, April 17th, 3 - 4:30pm
- Monday, May 15th, 3 - 5:00pm
***All sessions will take place in The Commons 2B23 | The Mosaic: Center for Cultural Diversity***
Participants will be exploring the concept of Authentic Leadership, Legacy Building, and Breaking Barriers of White Supremacy within Leadership. We will do this in a leadership learning cohort by:
The purpose of all MLE programs is to provide a space for students and student leaders who identify within diverse or marginalized backgrounds to discover their own capacity to lead, while also promoting a better understanding of their experiences, issues, strengths, and outcomes in navigating their own collegiate careers. However, ALL students are welcome to apply!
Registration has been extended to close on Wednesday, February 8th, 2023 at 11:59pm. If you are interested in signing up to be a part of our Spring 2023 cohort, you can sign up using this form. Both undergraduate and graduate students are eligible to participate. In order to be accepted into the program you must commit to all 5 sessions. Please answer all of the questions before submitting your registration. Any questions can be sent to campuslife@umbc.edu and i3b@umbc.edu.
]]>What are Writing Accountability Group, or WAGs at UMBC?
What: Writing Accountability Groups (WAGs) are voluntary and facilitated by fellow UMBC graduate students
Who: WAGs are comprised of a group of graduate students (usually 4-8 participants per group) interested in developing writing habits and accountability
Why: Develop habits of writing every day for a short, manageable period of time by setting goals and being accountable to WAG peers
When: WAG groups meet once a week for 60-90 minutes for 10-12 weeks. The group finds a weekly time mutually convenient to all group members.
Where: The group decides on a mutually convenient location to meet, whether in person or online via WebEx or other video conferencing platform
Want to Learn More?
AOK Library’s Faculty has created a guide for facilitating Writing Accountability Groups. Visit here for more: https://lib.guides.umbc.edu/wags
WAGs were developed by Dr. Kimberly A. Skarupski, Ph.D., MPH. Visit here for more: https://www.wagyourwork.com/
Name: Pradeep Agrawal
Internship, Co-op, or Research Site: Campbell & Company
Position Title: Software Engineer Intern
Major or Program: Computer Science
Current Class Level: Master's Student
Work Term: Summer 2022 Internship and Fall 2022 Co-op (Ongoing)
Tell us about your internship, co-op, or research opportunity, including your day-to-day responsibilities.
My position duties include working as a member of the Data and Trading Systems engineering team on project-based assignments. I work on Python Language along with MSSQL and Oracle DB to implement packages to automate the trading systems. Building data ingestion workflows using Python, Apache Airflow, and SQL
Describe the process of obtaining your position. When did you hear of the position and submit your application?
When I was looking for Summer 2022 Internship, I cam across the intern position at Campbell & Company in January. I applied through various platforms like LinkedIn, Career Fare, UMBCworks and Handshake. One day, I got the call from HR of the Campbell & Company to schedule the technical round in the First week of March. My technical round lasted for about 3 hours and after 3-4 days, I got a call from HR to congratulate me for my offer.
Which of the following resources did you use to find your current experience?
UMBC Career Center, Career Fairs, UMBCworks, LinkedIn or Other Social Media
What have you enjoyed the most about your position or organization?
I like the work environment here. My team members are very helpful and inspiring. We do a lot of brainstorming around problems before diving into the coding part. Which is the best part of my work.
How do you believe you have made an impact through your work?
So far I am able to develop 4 packages which are being used by the live data and trading systems without any fail. For that, I got appreciate by my manager in our Quarterly meeting.
What advice would you give to another student who is seeking an internship or similar experience?
Instead of focusing on language specifics, just dive into the programming logics to develop sense of problem solving. It is more important that you understand which data structure to use to solve a specific problem. Also, you should be able to break down any big problem to smaller problems.
Please provide a short reflection or quote about what you liked most about your position / earning internship credit / working with the Career Center.
Focus on learning new things and understanding work culture.
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Want to be the next Intern of the Week? Make sure to fill out this form and stay tuned. New interns are announced every Monday! ]]>Attention all UMBC student employees!
What could be better than having an on-campus job?
Having an on-campus job and getting a notation on your transcript that tells employers you made the effort to enhance your professional development!
Interested in gaining a competitive edge in the job market? Sign up for PRAC 102- Building Skills for Career Success this Spring semester. Don’t worry, it’s not a formal class! With the minimal commitment of attending a few workshops and career events, you will be better prepared for the world of work and have the proof on your college transcript to show your employer.
DEADLINE TO REQUEST ENROLLMENT: Thursday, March 2, 2023
Make your campus experience count! Enroll TODAY! Enrollment is limited to the first 40 student employees. Don’t let this opportunity pass you by!
Open to all levels and majors. You must be a UMBC student employee working at least eight hours per week on campus.
Log in to Handshake, then navigate to Career Center > Experiences.
Click “Submit an Experience” and select “Career Center – On-Campus Student Employment (PRAC 102- Building Skills for Career Success)” as the Experience Type. Fill in the required fields and submit.
Your registration will be reviewed within two business days. The Career Center will enroll you directly upon review along with sending you additional details.
QUESTIONS, please contact Stephanie Taylor (staylor18@umbc.edu)
]]>Rediscover how some members of the Black Civil Rights Movement also played essential roles as activists in the US Disability Rights Movement, and paved the way for disability rights activists to influence social change and legislation. Many people with disabilities were part of both movements and continue to be today.
Dr. Sami Schalk is presenting on 504 and Beyond: Disability Politics and the Black Panther Party on February 23 at 4p (details and registration are linked) via the Dresher Center and co-sponsorship with ADS and I3B.
Some of the intersection of Crip Camp shows how intersectional being black and disabled can be - beyond the Black Panthers. Further back in history, learn new things about the famous Black figures who also had disabilities. For instance, Harriet Tubman lived with epilepsy and narcolepsy, a reminder that disability is both directly and indirectly linked to many forms of violence.
In the links described below, you may rediscover or learn for the first time about Black history being made in this moment, and there is so much to learn from the past. Research forays have been known to start at Brad Lomax, and end up at the Wild Zappers, a DC-based all black all deaf dance company - what new-to-you ancestral influencers and history-makers will become front-of-mind to you? Within the past month we learned of the research of Dr. Stephanie Keeney Parks via In A Different Key. In 2022 Megan Thee Stallion launched a website to support mental health.
Test your knowledge by taking this quiz with the National Black Disability Coalition (NBDC): (link)http://www.blackdisability.org/content/black-disabled-trivia
Important figures in Black History:
· Enter “Black History” plus any disability (i.e. "autism," "dyslexia," etc.) into a search engine and explore more about the intersectionality of disability.
Explore Black History and Disability Rights:
The National Center for Learning Disabilities (NCLD) has a great article about the integral role Black disability rights activists played in securing rights for all US citizens with disabilities. (link)https://www.ncld.org/news/honoring-black-history-month-unsung-heroes-of-the-disability-rights-movement/ For more on Brad Lomax, a leader in the 1977 protests that led to the implementation of section 504 of the rehabilitation act, see this NYT obituary (link) https:/www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/obituaries/brad-lomax-overlooked.html
Black Disabled and Proud: College Students with Disabilities is a website by the HBCU Disability Consortium. Their page titled “Black Lives Matter and Disability” speaks to the recent and daily making of Black history as it intersects with disability. (link)https://www.blackdisabledandproud.org/black-lives-matter.html The page includes links to thoughtful articles as well as self-care info.
The Disability Visibility Project’s Black Lives Matter page has podcasts (with transcripts) that explore the individual experiences of people who are actively contributing individually and/or organizing to raise awareness about being Black and having a disability. (link)https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/tag/black-lives-matter/ Click through on the posts and find things like Jen White Johnson’s Black Disability Lives Matter mural (link)https://jenwhitejohnson.com/Black-Disabled-Lives-Matter-Mural-Project
If you are looking for UMBC-based disability resources - use these links:
