CelebratingOrgs 2020 Award Winners
The results are in, and the 2020 CelebratingOrg award winners have been announced and the video can be
found here! Congratulations to all of our 2020 winners! Thank you to everyone who was nominated for all of the amazing work you have done this year, and to everyone who took the time to submit nominations.
2020 CelebratingOrgs Award winners:
Organization of the Year: National Society of Black Engineers
New Organization of the Year: Faithful Black Men Association
Leader of the Year: Ethan Hudson
Unsung Hero: Nicola Paul
Advisor of the Year: Dr. Marie van Staveren
Educational Program of the Year: National Society of Black Engineers
Baltimore Impact Award: New Friends of Yours
UMBC Impact Award: The Retriever
Event of the Year: CURL PWR
Collaboration of the Year: National Society of Black Engineers and Society of Women Engineers
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New Scholarship Opportunity!
Students with learning disabilities may apply.
Scholarship Opportunity for students with disabilities.
Preply (an online tutoring platform company) has a scholarship program for individuals with learning disabilities, and wants to invite the students of UMBC to apply for it. This year, they will award $3.000, $1.500, and $750 to the 3 best applicants. They can use the money to cover their educational expenses or to learn a language.
It contains official rules, application form and previous winners of our scholarships.
Below, you may also find the general conditions and eligibility requirements:
- Currently enrolled undergraduate and graduate student with a documented language learning or reading disability.
- 16-35 years old.
- Minimum GPA: 2.5.
- To apply, a student should submit a short video explaining why he's the best candidate for this scholarship (we do not publish the video and keep it private).
- The video submission should be logically related to the following topics: “Overcoming cognitive disabilities” and “Learning foreign languages”.
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Virtual Circle for (Aspiring) Anti-Racist White Allies
Cross-Promoting for our Restorative Retriever Partners!
Please check out this opportunity hosted by Jeff Cullen and Lauren Mauriello for White-identified community members.
Description and registration link below:
Black America is angry and TIRED. Eliminating racism, while certainly a collective effort, is a project that white folx at UMBC can undertake here, now, and going forward. This circle will utilize restorative practices to hold space for white-identified faculty, staff, and students who have either questions or answers they wish to share. Whether you are deeply involved in anti-racist work or hoping to become more involved, this is a good opportunity to develop relationships with other like-minded people and hold each other accountable as we seek to "level up.". Please complete this form to register for the circle. We look forward to keeping circle with you.
Women's Center Summer Hours of Operation:
The Women's Center continues to provide support and services remotely Monday through Friday throughout the summer. We encourage campus community members to contact us through email at womenscenter@umbc.edu. The summer is a critical time for staff to prepare and plan for the fall semester and we appreciate your patience in our email response.
The Women's Center space including our lounge and lactation room will remain closed until further notice. Just think, our new couches are going to feel even more comfy once we get to use them together again!
Individualized Support Meetings:
Women's Center professional staff are available for individual meetings and support which we can provide via phone or video chat; to schedule an appointment, email womenscenter@umbc.edu. If you are already working with a specific staff member and need to set up additional meetings, feel free to reach out to the staff member you have been working with directly (via email or even g-chat!).
Women's Center Summer Program/Events:
The Women's Center generally does not offer programming or events throughout the summer, but during this time of distance learning and remote work we are prioritizing community building and maintaining connections with you!
Please continue to closely monitor this myUMBC page as additional virtual programs may be planned throughout the summer. We also encourage you to check out our blog for 24/7 learning!
UMBC Together:
Throughout this time, community building, care, and support remain central to our mission even though the way we deliver those services look different right now. We know that, even though UMBC's campus is closed and summer classes remain online, our students, faculty, and staff will continue needing support and community -- and the Women's Center hopes to continue doing what we do best to strengthen this campus!
If you haven't already, follow us on social media where we're still sharing resources and communicating with our community!
Please also feel free to communicate with us through any of these channels with your needs and ideas to help us get through the remainder of the semester!
Oh, how we miss you! But, whether you're here with us in person or we're meeting in virtual space -- We see you. We believe you. You matter. And, we're here for you.
The Women's Center Team
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Other Helpful Resources:
To report and seek services for incidents related to sexual violence, relationship violence, and all other sexual misconduct, complete the online form located on the Office of Equity and Inclusion's website. TurnAround's 24/7 helpline is 443-279-0379. For a full list of off-campus resources, visit Retriever Courage.
For UMBC community members who need access to healthy food and other essential supplies visit Retriever Essentials or the myUMBC Retriever Essentials group for up-to-date information on how to access food and toiletry items. The UMBC Campus Police Department is a designated Food Zone and remains opens during this time for community members needing pre-packed bags of nutritionally balanced nonperishable food and travel size toiletry items. To pick up a bag, contact the Campus Police at (410) 455-5555. If you need assistance connecting with the Retriever Essentials team, the Women's Center is happy to assist you!
For information about Academic Success Center's services and support (tutoring, Writing Center, SI Pass, academic advocates, etc.) visit their website.
For access to health and human services information ,visit 2-1-1 Maryland or dial 2-1-1.
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Crosspost: Inclusive Language Conference
Check out this free learning opportunity!
Hello Mosaic, Interfaith, and Pride Center community,
Tomorrow, UMBC's Office of Institutional Advancement will hosting The Evolving World of Inclusive Language: How to Develop and Apply Best Practices that will be taking place tomorrow, Wednesday, June 9, 2020 from 9:00a.m.-1:30p.m.
This event is completely free and is open to all. You'll even see some familiar UMBC faces including some of our Diversity and Inclusion staff.
Attendees are welcome to attend as many sessions that fit their schedule and register up until minutes before each session.
Please register
here. All call-in information to join the session is included under the respective session in the link above.
Campus Status: The University is open, with employees working remotely. UMBC’s physical campus remains closed. Maryland is currently under a Safer at Home Order.
For the most updated information and more information on actions to reduce COVID-19 risks in our community, please visit
covid19.umbc.edu.
Retrievers Return Roadmap
- Visit our site regularly for the most updated information on fall planning. We expect to be able to share additional information on fall courses by the end of the month.
Student Services and Support
- Join the UMBC Career Center for a free virtual Career Launch Summer Series designed to focus and invigorate your job or internship search. Whether you’re looking for full-time work as a Class of 2020 graduate, seeking an internship, or simply exploring your career options, you can make the most of this time to prepare yourself for success.
- Registration for the annual Maryland Career Consortium (MCC) Virtual Career Fair on Friday, June 19, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. is now open. The MCC Career Fair provides students and alumni from all member institutions, including UMBC, the chance to connect with employers around the region. Registration is required. For questions, contact the Career Center at careers@umbc.edu.
- International Education Services is hosting a virtual Town Hall this Friday, June 12, from 4 - 5 p.m. EST for current international students, faculty, and staff. Click here on Friday to connect with IES staff, ask questions, and engage in discussions.
Business Continuity and Staff Support
- Faculty and staff may opt in to receive the spring UMBC Magazine at home. To receive yours, please fill out this form by close of business, Wednesday, June 17.
- Under the Federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System approved coronavirus-related distributions from the Optional Retirement Program for eligible active employees. Faculty & Staff enrolled in the ORP should see this notice for more details.
In the spirit of #UMBCTogether, the Women’s Center is committed to providing care space for faculty and staff to truly come together as we continue remote work, distance learning, and navigating the ever-evolving context in which our lives go on.
We invite faculty and staff interested in coming together to explore various topics like grief + loss, empathy, wholeness, and showing up for others and how these experiences intersect with the necessary physical isolation of working and living through a pandemic. This care space will also be intentional in holding space to explore the ways in which these topics intersect and inform our experiences with the movement for racial justice, healing, and accountability.
In this 4-part summer series, the Women’s Center staff, along with its Advisory Board members, will carve out large and small group discussions online. Over the course of 90 minutes, all participants will begin the conversation together by exploring the topic/issue of the day. Topics may be explored through the discussion of an article, podcast, or a presentation/speaker.
Participants will then be invited to break out into smaller group discussions to dig deeper into the topic based on the social identities/roles/situations they are navigating through the pandemic. Proposed affinity groups may include Parents, Caretakers, Partnered Relationships/Cohabitation, and Singles/Independents (though we are open to other suggestions or the idea that different break-out groups may be needed for different sessions). Participants can switch groups from session to session or choose to not select a particular affinity group by selecting a heterogeneous discussion group.
After the conclusion of the small group discussion, participants will rejoin the larger group to discuss important take-aways with the goal of informing our perspectives for greater care and empathy for ourselves and others moving forward in the day and beyond.
Discussion dates and details will be posted on our myUMBC group soon with the hope to have one discussion in late June, two in July, and one in early August.
Participants will be required to RSVP via the myUMBC event post prior to the discussion taking place in order to receive a pre-discussion survey that will help us prepare for and assign the small group discussions.
Participants are not required to participate in all 4 discussions and can sign-up for discussions based on interest and availability.
Participants are encouraged to engage in whatever time frame is most accessible to them and to not view the 90-minute session as a barrier to participation.
Access to the discussion link will be sent via email to registered participants.
The first discussion series will take place on June 30th and will focus on the topic of Lost + Found. To learn more and/or to sign-up, visit the myUMBC event post. The other discussions will take place on July 9, July 21, and August 5th. More details about these discussions are forthcoming.
UMBC faculty and staff of all genders are invited to participate in this series. This summer discussion series follows the Women’s Center Brave Space model in order to create a community environment that fosters care, learning and critical discussion.
As the ScholarWorks@UMBC repository grows and departments such as the Center for Aging Studies consider using it as the platform for their publications, check back often to stay up-to-date on research done here at UMBC.
This post was written by Heidy George, Program Associate for Student Diversity and Inclusion.
“No pride for some of us without liberation for all of us.”
-Marsha P. Johnson
June is PRIDE season. A month where we celebrate all things gay with loud parades, gender bending drag shows, thumping music, rainbows, and glitter. So much glitter. This year is particularly special, as it is the 50th anniversary of the very first PRIDE parade held in the 51 blocks of Central Park in New York. This milestone made me reflect on how our community has gotten here. New York, however, as well as many other cities look different this year...
It is PRIDE season, where amidst the celebration - most non-Black, mostly cis, LGBTQ+ folk forget that Black and Brown trans and queer people carved this month out with their bodies. Black and Brown trans women (especially) led the struggle and the riots that started the revolution which gave us the rights we enjoy today. These riots, coupled with those bloodied and bruised bodies, were the catalysts for what we now know as PRIDE.
It is PRIDE season, during an utterly unforgiving global pandemic. And if I didn’t understand how systemic racism actually works, I would certainly call Corona a racist.
It is PRIDE season, as our world protests white supremacist and government sanctioned police violence that forced countless Black, Indigenous and Brown families to bury their children.
It is PRIDE season, but right now, I can’t celebrate.
It is PRIDE season, and I honestly don’t know how any of my Black siblings still have any fight left in them.
It is PRIDE season, yet Nina Pop, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Sandra Bland, Tamir Rice, Freddie Gray, Korryn Gains, Atatiana Jefferson, Tony McDade, Ahmaud Arbery, Trayvon Martin, Aiyana Jones, Mike Brown, Eric Garner, Philando Castile, Walter Scott and countless others are no longer with us.
So I ask, how many names do we have to see before we do something?
We need to do better.
If you ain’t Black, YOU need to do better. Full stop.
If you ain’t Black but you’re LGBTQ+, YOU need to do better. You don’t get a pass for being LGBTQ+. Period.
So, what are you going to do?
Are you going to prioritize Black and Brown voices?
Are you going to take the time to learn Black Africana history and Black Africana contributions?
Are you going to celebrate instead of appropriate Black culture?
Are you going to listen?
Are you going to donate?
Are you going to protest?
Are you going to organize?
What are YOU going to do?
If you're willing to do any of this, look for some roadmaps to guide you by visiting our page, our IG, the Women's Center, and the Office of Equity and Inclusion to get started.
Happy PRIDE everyone.
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This Time in America
During this time in America, each of us is faced with the challenge of understanding our position in society and our role in dismantling structural racism.
It is important to say the names on our minds—George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade, Sandra Bland, Korryn Gaines, Freddie Gray—and speak out against the police brutality that resulted in their deaths and the deaths of so many other Black people in this country. Action is essential to the future of our society, and action can take many forms, including protest, voting, and publicly acknowledging the pain of others.
It is also important to name the countless other forms of inequality that are just as deadly, including inadequate educational opportunities, lack of living wages and affordable housing, and unequal access to healthcare, healthy food, and high-quality public transportation. It is clear from recent protests across the nation and world that more people of all races and ages are seeing that structural racism permeates our society—our policies, laws, financial institutions, workplaces, academic and faith institutions, and our own actions and inactions. This recognition, while painful to many of us in different ways, should lead to actions that can build a stronger society.
To honor the memory of George Floyd and recognize the powerful emotions so many are feeling at this time, UMBC encourages faculty, staff, and students to pause from business as usual to participate in memorial events for Mr. Floyd and reflect on what we can do as individuals and as a university community to contribute to meaningful and lasting change. The University is offering two hours of release time for those who wish to take time off for this purpose. Please work with your supervisor to schedule that time. We also ask faculty teaching summer courses to be sensitive and accommodating to students who wish to honor Mr. Floyd’s memory and reflect.
Many in our community are asking what actions UMBC is taking now and how we can do more, both as individuals and as a campus. One of the most important things we can do is acknowledge that we as a campus and a community still have much work to do. We must take action, both on campus and through our engagement in the larger community, to address the impact of structural racism and inequality.
Moving forward with “business as usual” without acknowledging the lived experience of Black and other marginalized community members contributes to a pattern of harm for those directly affected. It is also important to learn about the historic roots of white supremacy, structural racism, sexual violence, gender discrimination, and other forms of systematic oppression and marginalization—in the wider world, and on our own campus.
We will continue to communicate to the campus about ways in which we are addressing these issues. Here are some examples of work that is underway.
- The Division of Student Affairs has developed a five-part workshop series focused on equipping faculty and staff with the tools and skills to engage in ongoing advocacy, self-work, and self-care in response to ongoing racial injustice and our current climate. Sessions will be open to faculty and staff across campus.
- There is a new [Free]dom Fridays weekly Webex. This student-centered program is designed to provide a virtual space to have an open dialogue about social justice and identity-based issues.
- The Black Faculty and Staff Association will be holding a Community Care Space for a facilitated discussion focusing on self-care, healing, shared processing, and resource sharing to support community members who may be feeling overwhelmed and angry.
- The Office of Equity and Inclusion has created this resource for Inclusive Excellence in Action, which provides resources for allies who are interested in actively supporting those most directly impacted by systemic racism and recent events.
UMBC was founded in 1966 in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement. Our campus continues to partner with public officials and communities across the state and nation to address societal challenges. Faculty, staff, and students are supporting teachers, children, and families in Baltimore and surrounding school systems; helping young people develop job skills; activating communities to tell their stories through the arts and humanities; using the social sciences to address inequalities resulting from racial status and poverty; and working to address violence and enact criminal justice policy reforms, with special emphasis on youth.
We realize there is much more work for all of us to do. As we grieve over the many lives unjustly lost or limited by racism, we are encouraged by the outpouring of statements of solidarity and caring conversations happening within our campus community and beyond. Recalling Civil Rights protests of the 1960s led by Black children, we are moved to see people of all races and ages around the world risking their health and lives to demand an end to systemic racism. We must not let this opportunity pass.
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