EMAIL sent on 9/15/2009 to all UMBC graduate students, all graduate program directors and coordinators, and members of the UMBC community at large: Dear UMBC Community, We're announcing a special program for UMBC Employees who are also in graduate school. PROMISE: Maryland's Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP, http://www.umbc.edu/promise) and the UMBC Graduate School have created a "Dissertation House for Employees." This is new initiative will be a 1 + 1/2 day "Writing Retreat - On Campus" for our colleagues. We invite our colleagues to leave the office for 1 & 1/2 days to work on your own graduate school milestones (e.g., dissertation, proposal, qualifying exam preparation.) ELIGIBILITY ----------------------------- You are eligible for this program if you are a UMBC employee (50% time or greater), enrolled in a graduate program (M.A., M.S., or Ph.D) at UMBC -OR- enrolled in a graduate program at another university. LOCATION & TIMES ---------------------------------- * 1 Full day Friday, September 25, 2009, 9:00 - 5:00 p.m (Part I) Commons 329 * 1/2 day: Friday, October 2, 2009, 9:00 - 12 noon (Part II) Commons 331 Participants must plan to commit to both sessions. We will serve breakfast, lunch and a snack on 9/25 and breakfast on 10/2. This program is free for the UMBC Employee/Grad student. APPLICATION PROCEDURES ------------------------------------------------- Please let us know that you will come by sending the following to promisestaff@gmail.com by FRIDAY, SEPT. 18, 2009: A brief description (maximum 2 pages, font size 11-12 point 1 inch margins) that describes the project that you wish to accomplish during the Dissertation House period. Please use the following guidelines: (1) Summary of the project, including research question(s), data or texts, and method; (2) Amount completed on the project to date; and (3) Any obstacles that you are encountering that hinder completion of the dissertation. Include the following header information with the description: * Name * Address * Telephone numbers (home, office, and fax) * E-mail address * Academic Program and Year in the program Please don't worry about what you DON'T have or what you haven't been able to accomplish. Just send what you do have. We want this to work for you; we want you to come. If you see an obstacle, please let us know. We know about your hard work on campus and we want this to work for you. We are also opening this event to all UMBC employees on campus. If you have friends and colleagues who have not found time to do their own work because they've been so busy taking care of students, please let them know of this opportunity. We can take up to 15 participants. The PROMISE Dissertation House site is here: http://www.umbc.edu/promise/dissertation.html Please click events on the sidebar to refer to these details. An excerpt of this message will be included on that page. This project will include best practices from UMBC and PROMISE Dissertation House events that have been co-sponsored by the Council of Graduate School's Ph.D. Completion Project, The National Science Foundation's PROMISE AGEP, and the UMBC Graduate School. Best regards, Renetta Tull |