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Dept. of Africana Studies Fall 2013 New Course! AFST 390

Register for AFST 390: Thursdays 7:10PM - 9:40PM

Register for AFST 390: Thursdays 7:10PM - 9:40PM Can we end racial disparities in health care? This new AFST course examines the relationship between the American health care system and Blacks....

Posted: September 4, 2013, 2:22 PM

Imagining America: Calling Publicly Engaged Grad Students

2013 National Conference: A Call to Action, Oct. 4-6

Thanks to the support of Provost Rous, UMBC is joining Imagining America, a consortium that encourages and promotes scholarship in the arts and humanities and asks its members to translate this...

Posted: September 4, 2013, 1:03 PM

Job Posting: New After-School Partnership

FOUR paid fellowships

UMBC STEM Initiative (USI) is an out-of-school time program for 1st through 4th graders.  It was created with two things in mind: students’ academic and personal growth. Academic: While USI...

Posted: September 4, 2013, 12:58 PM

Lindsay Loeper on the history of UMBC's Free Hour

I believe understanding our shared history enables and empowers us to work together to build the UMBC of our hopes. “In the Archives” is my series highlighting the ways people have co-created this...

Posted: September 3, 2013, 3:05 PM

Represent UMBC ad the Student Conference on US Affairs

Application Deadline: Sep. 20

The Political Science Department is currently looking for two students to represent UMBC at the Student Conference on US Affairs. This annual four-day conference takes place at West Point October...

Posted: September 3, 2013, 12:32 PM

CFP: Working Papers in TESOL & Applied Linguistics

Teachers College, Columbia University

Teachers College, Columbia University Working Papers in TESOL & Applied Linguistics is an online journal (http://www.tc.columbia.edu/tesolalwebjournal) dedicated to publishing...

Posted: September 3, 2013, 8:17 AM

CFP: 35th Ethnography in Education Forum

Ethnographic Imagination AND Screening Scholarship Media

"The Ethnographic Imagination: Arts, Multimodality, and Pedagogies of the Possible"   February 28 – March 1, 2014 Center for Urban Ethnography University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of...

Posted: September 3, 2013, 8:15 AM

AFST Welcomes New Dept. Chair

Department of Africana Studies,  Tyson King-Meadows, Ph.D. Beginning Fall 2013 Dr. Tyson D. King-Meadows is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of...

Posted: August 30, 2013, 12:26 PM