• Duration: Spring 2026 Semester (January 26, 2026 - June 5, 2026 )
• Time Commitment: Minimum 15 hours per week, with at least one day in the office
• Location: World Trade Center Baltimore, 401 E. Pratt Street, Baltimore, MD 21202
• Compensation: Semester stipend of $4,000 provided
• Application Deadline: November 30, 2025

• Direct interaction with business executives and foreign diplomats
• Attendance at all WTCI prestigious networking events
• Professional mentorship and references
• Real-world project experience in areas such as:
• Global engagement and public diplomacy
• International program management
• Business development and membership services
• Marketing and communications
• Event planning and execution
• Opportunity to work with visiting international delegations
• Access to Maryland's top international companies and industries

• Interested in international relations, global business, and cross-cultural engagement
• Professional, motivated, and eager to learn
• Comfortable working in a dynamic, small-team environment
• Available during standard business hours

Skills Courses are taught by subject-matter experts, and prepare you for real-world impact on campus, and in neighborhoods, nonprofits, government, and beyond.  

The Shriver Center is located on the first floor of the Public Policy Building, just past the elevators.  Light refreshments will be provided!  

RSVP HERE:

Where did the ghost get their Halloween costume? At a bootique.

Choice will host a costume pop-up closet--a bootique--for neighbors in Cherry Hill (south Baltimore City) on Saturday October 25, 2-4 p.m. We hope to have 100 costumes to distribute. Do you have any butterfly wings, crowns, super hero get-ups that you would like to donate? I would love to take them off your hands. All sizes welcome.

I have a box outside of my office in Shriver: Public Policy (PUP) 116. Please feel free to drop them off until Thursday, October 23.

Thanks to the many student organizations who are supporting this effort including Sisterhood who held a bake sale to buy ones! And thanks to Division of Professional Studies/Shriver colleagues who have been generous too. 

Why Cherry Hill? It's our mothership! Choice was founded in Cherry Hill in 1988. It's our only residential neighborhood-based office. 

CAHSS Faculty Members are invited to submit a proposal to be nominated for the 2026 Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program competition, sponsored by Carnegie Corporation of New York. Details are below.

• The purpose of the Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program is to support high-caliber scholarship in the social sciences and humanities. The 2026 program expects to provide fellowships of $200,000 to 30 exceptional scholars, journalists, and public intellectuals. The funding is for a period of either one or two years, with the anticipated result being a book or major study.

• The 2026 call for applications is on the theme of political polarization in the United States. The Corporation anticipates that the work of the Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program will explore the many ways political polarization in the United States manifests itself in society and suggest ways that it may be mitigated. Studies of polarization in other countries will be welcomed providing they offer lessons that can be applied to the United States. Projects based in disciplines across the humanities and social sciences are welcomed.

• UMBC may nominate two scholars for the competition: one tenured and one senior untenured (i.e. teaching professors and professors of the practice). Candidates must have a Ph.D. or hold a terminal degree in their field. Untenured candidates will need to become PI Eligible through the exception process, which requires a letter from the Dean or ADR explaining that the faculty has undertaken significant research during their appointment at UMBC.

• Andrew Carnegie Fellowships are open only to citizens or permanent residents of the United States.

• Previous UMBC nominees who applied for the theme of political polarization are not eligible to apply again.

Please keep in mind that Carnegie seeks projects that will be written to communicate with a broad audience. You may find it useful to browse the projects that were awarded last year and read through a study of their focus and potential impact since the theme (political polarization in the U.S.) is unchanged.

The Carnegie jury will evaluate nominations by the following criteria:

• Originality and promise of the idea
• Quality of the proposal
• Promise to offer means to reduce harmful polarization or to enhance social cohesion
• Record of the nominee
• Plans to communicate findings to a broad audience

If you are interested in being considered for the internal competition, please EMAIL the following application materials to:

Carnegi.bs0ulrhjc4r5p385@u.box.com by 5 pm EDT on Wednesday, October 15, 2025.

We urge you to contact CARAT Associate Director Rachel Brubaker (rbruba1@umbc.edu) or CARAT Director Marc Ruppel (mruppel@umbc.edu) as soon as possible to discuss your proposal.

Your application materials must include:

1)  A 3-5 page, double-spaced prospectus describing the project, including a projected work plan and approximate time frame. Fellowships will be for either 12 or 24 months and must begin on the first of the month between July and September of 2026, and no later than September 1, 2026.

Note: The Carnegie program allows flexibility in how you manage your time commitment. You may opt for a regular fellowship leave or decide to teach part-time during the semester while working full-time on your project during the summer. 

2) Curriculum vitae

3) Estimate of budgetary requirement for a one- or two-year project. Funds may support:

• Salary and fringe benefits
• Project-related travel (research, conferences)
• Research assistants (hourly or stipend)
• Other project needs (i.e., data collection, surveys, transcription, project supplies and a consultant or contractual service)

The Dean's Office will convene a panel to review the applications and select one or two scholars to recommend to the President as UMBC's nominee(s) by October 22nd. The nominee(s) will work with CARAT to complete the application process and to forward all materials to the President's Office by October 30th. A letter of nomination from President Sheares Ashby is required for the application. Applications must be submitted to the Carnegie Corporation of New York by November 07, 2025 (5:00 P.M. EST).

For additional questions, please contact Associate Dean Alan Yeakley (ayeakley@umbc.edu), Marc Ruppel, Director of CARAT (mruppel@umbc.edu), or Rachel Brubaker, Associate Director of CARAT (rbruba1@umbc.edu).