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Prof. Lincove elected to APPAM Policy Council

Lincove will serve as Institutional Rep for 4 year term

Congratulations to Prof. Jane A. Lincove for being elected Institutional Representative on the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) Policy Council! The Policy Council...

Posted: January 23, 2020, 10:53 AM

Sitar Arts Center Hosts Art Exhibition by Jonathan Zwi

Sitar Arts Center will be hosting an opening reception of 3S, a series of paintings by UMBC Music affiliate artist in guitar, Jonathan Zwi.  In addition to being a classically trained...

Posted: January 22, 2020, 4:03 PM

There's more than one good way to teach kids how to read

Article by Dr. Nash and Dr. Panther

"We are literacy professionals, former reading teachers who now prepare college and graduate students to teach kids how to read. As scholars, we believe in the study, exchange and debate of ideas....

Posted: January 22, 2020, 12:51 PM

TESOL Faculty On the Move!

Where in the world is Dr. Hult?

Professor Francis Hult held a week-long workshop on ethnographic and discourse analytic approaches to researching language policy as part of the LOT Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics...

Posted: January 22, 2020, 12:47 PM

Prof. Emeritus Salkever discusses reality of real wage rise

New Policy Brief available now

Public Policy Professor Emeritus David Salkever has released a new policy brief examining the reality of real wage rise over the past few years compared to economic reporting in national media. ...

Posted: January 22, 2020, 12:01 PM

Publ's Dr. Tormos-Aponte featured on SSN podcast No Jargon

Where climate organizing stands now: justice & equity

What does it take to sustain a global climate movement?  In the latest episode of the Scholars Strategy Network podcast No Jargon, Public Policy/Political Science Postdoctoral Fellow Fernando...

Posted: January 21, 2020, 3:29 PM

New faculty member arriving Fall 2020

Mir Usman Ali joins us from Indiana Univ's O'Neill School

The School of Public Policy at UMBC is excited to announce that Mir Usman Ali will be joining us as an assistant professor in Fall 2020. Dr. Ali's work on police accountability and citizen...

Posted: January 21, 2020, 2:51 PM

Faculty Member Dr. Lindsay DiCuirci Wins National Book Prize

Bibliographical Soc. of America Awards Prize Every 3 Years

Lindsay DiCuirci's book, Colonial Revivals: The Nineteenth-Century Lives of Early American Print (Penn Press, 2019) has been awarded the 2020 Bibliographical Society of America's St. Louis...

Posted: January 20, 2020, 1:05 PM

Stata materials and webinars for faculty and students

With the start of the new semester, Stata provides several resources for faculty and students including: A Teaching with Stata resources page Various training webinars, and  Various "cheat...

Posted: January 17, 2020, 2:19 PM

Members welcome: Educational Research and Writing Group

Join for the first meeting of the spring semester

Interested in educational research and writing?  Join the Educational Research and Writing Group, a faculty working group sponsored by the Center for Social Science Scholarship, for their first...

Posted: January 17, 2020, 11:45 AM