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Late night at True Grits is this weekend!

(seb): Weekly Movie - Girls Trip

Friday, February 23, 2018 at 9:00pm Lecture Hall 1: Biological Sciences. Free admission and popcorn. Saturday, February 24, 2018 at 9:00pm Lecture Hall 1: Biological Sciences. Free admission and popcorn.

Trans AFTER College

Monday, Feb, 26, 5:30 - 7 p.m. in the Commons: Skylight Room

This event is for trans+ students, staff, and faculty and their cisgender

allies. At this panel event, invited guests will talk about their experiences of being trans and/or gender variant in their personal and professional lives post-college and will provide good practices for trans inclusion in our daily lives. This event is followed by the Trans In College event hosted last fall and is intended to complement the previous discussion. Note: You did not have to attend the fall event to attend this spring semester event. A reception will take place after the panel discussion and attendees are encouraged to continue the dialogue and network with each other.

Retriever Link Up

One Million Acts of Good Campaign

UMBC was selected as one of 50 schools to participate in the One Million Acts of Good campaign in partnership with Ellen and Cheerios. UMBC Dining Services is being sent 300 MATTERboxes and supplies for a speed volunteering event set to occur on March 1st at True Grit’s from 12pm-2pm.

The boxes consist of snacks, cereal, stickers, YOU MATTER notes, and more, and will be packed and donated to local charities.

We are encouraging 24 students to sign up in shifts for this volunteering event here: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e0f4fafab29a2fc1-onemillion

We will also be promoting shirt giveaways leading up to the event asking students to post on social media how they “do good” and tag #OneMillionActsOfGood and #UMBCgood

Our hashtags for the event are:

#OneMillionActsOfGood

#UMBCgood

Remember sign up today and share your "do goods!"

Retriever Leadership Institute

Chopped Competition

Do you consider yourself a chef? Are you interested in being a participant in our Chopped Competition?

Fill out our application to participate in UMBC's greatest cooking competition here: goo.gl/A7mbs3

PRAC 102 - Building Skills for Career Success

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PRACTICUM AVAILABLE THIS FALL TO STUDENT EMPLOYEES!!
"PRAC102 - Building Skills for Career Success"

Who is Eligible? ALL UMBC Student Employees who are working a minimum of 8 hours per week on campus. It is open to all levels and majors.

Purpose of the Practicum: To help student employees enhance and showcase their skills in the workplace at UMBC.

HOW can you help? Please spread the word to ALL student employees about this opportunity and encourage them to sign up by March 5, 2018. If you would like a team member to present the PRAC to your student staff, please let me know.

Background on PRAC 102
As you know, making connections between campus jobs and both academic lives and future careers is really about seeing transferable skills. Through this practicum, students will not only make those connections but learn how to articulate those connections to help them in resume writing and interviewing for jobs. Students will also attend and reflect on workshops that help them develop skills they are using on the job now and in the future. This zero credit course will appear on their academic transcript.

For more information about the practicum and to obtain the Syllabus, click here.
Supervisor endorsement will be requested for students interested in enrolling.

For a list of weekend activities log onto https://my.umbc.edu/events/weekend.