Other Resources

updated 8/1/2024

The College of Engineering and Information Technology (COEIT) participates in several UMBC programs and initiatives that reflect specific efforts to improve the inclusion of underrepresented groups as members of the campus community, which extends its reach beyond our campuses. Our commitment to sustaining a nurturing environment that welcomes diverse learners and ideas that are developed to intentionally support a collaborative exchange of ideas and knowledge that lead to greater understanding and appreciation of our differences and the areas where we have shared experiences. Our strategic directions, goals, and performance measures are reflected in our vision and mission and align with our COEIT Strategic Plan.

See below for a list of resources to explore in the context of the college and UMBC.

The information and links shared on this page are meant to provide a quick glance at UMBC and COEIT resources you may use to answer questions and explore resources, guidance, and support. This list is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all available resources.

  • USM Professional development week
    Description: This annual conference consists of a dynamic blend of on-demand workshops and live sessions led by experts.
  • Black Faculty and Staff association
    Description: The BFSA is dedicated to promoting an environment that fosters cultural awareness and enrichment through advocacy, mentoring, professional networking, and quality programming.
  • USM Professional Staff trainings including recent “Combating Bullying and Harassment in the Workplace” [link to video content]
  • UMBC Mosaic Center
    Description: The Mosaic is a center for resources, community building, and staff support, and is a lounge space for UMBC community members of all backgrounds to use for relaxing, programming, small events, and small gatherings.
  • UMBC Wellness Center
    Description: The Center for Well-Being provides space for both the Counseling Center and University Health Services to expand their outreach, services, and mission.
  • Retriever Essentials
    Description: Retriever Essentials is a faculty, staff, and student partnership to tackle food insecurity in our university community.
  • Bits & Bytes
    Description: weekend on-campus event for high school students interested in computing or engineering; focus on gender diversity.
  • Maryland Center for Computing Education**
    Description: The long-term vision is for a collaborative Center that has connections with USM campuses, school systems, nonprofits, industrial partners, and other government agencies for a strong public-private partnership.
  • Ingenuity Project**
    Description: Our mission is to prepare and launch the next diverse generation of nationally competitive STEM leaders from Baltimore City Public Schools.
  • Cyber 101
    Description: Cyber 101 is a weekend on-campus event for high school students interested in cybersecurity; focus on gender diversity.
  • UMBC Diversity plan [PDF]
  • Latino/Hispanic Faculty Association
    Description: This association promotes recruitment, retention, and success of Latino/Hispanic faculty and stimulates UMBC’s links with the surrounding Latino community.
  • LGBT Faculty/Staff Association
    Description: This association promotions and support opportunities for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender faculty and staff at UMBC and reflects LGBT visibility and diversity to the wider community.
  • Faculty ADVANCEment Workshops
    Description: These workshops are open to all UMBC faculty and provide the information needed to successfully advance through the ranks of academia.
  • Faculty Family Support Plans
    Description: These plans enable faculty members to create individual plans, which allow them to reduce or otherwise modify their workload, especially teaching duties, to maintain a work/life balance.
  • On-Ramps to Full Professor
    Description: This National Science Foundation grant offers calibrated support at critical junctures for post-family leave associate professor women to accelerate research productivity while minimizing the effects of productivity gaps.
  • Postdoctoral Fellowships for Faculty Diversity
    Description: UMBC’s Postdoctoral Fellowship for Faculty Diversity is a two-year in residence fellowship designed to increase faculty diversity at UMBC by supporting the success of promising new Ph.D. recipients and preparing those scholars for possible tenure track appointments at UMBC.
  • NSF INCLUDES Alliance: Re-Imagining STEM Equity Utilizing Postdoc Pathways (RISE UPP)
    Description: RISE UPP seeks to help R1, R2, and teaching-intensive institutions recruit and train postdoctoral scholars from underrepresented backgrounds in STEM, and help them build community and supportive networks, facilitating their progression into tenure-track positions.
  • Support for faculty for the Faculty Success Program
    Description: Participants receive weekly coaching, support from a custom-matched small group of peers, and access to training modules designed to advance their career and improve work-life balance.
  • STRIDE Committee and STRIDe Fellows
    Description: The STRIDE committee is charged with providing peer education that supports the efforts of search committees, departments, and colleges to recruit, retain, and promote diverse faculty and foster more inclusive and equitable academic spaces for our faculty peers.
  • ADVANCE Exec Committee
    Description: Launched with an NSF grant and now supported by UMBC, this committee provides advice and counsel to the Provost on programmatic initiatives designed to advance the success of women faculty in STEM at UMBC.
  • Black Faculty and Staff Association
    Description: The BFSA is dedicated to promoting an environment that fosters cultural awareness and enrichment through advocacy, mentoring, professional networking, and quality programming.
  • URM Committee
    Description: This committee guides the development and implementation of initiatives to address issues and concerns specifically associated with the hiring, retention, and advancement of minority faculty at UMBC.
  • Inclusion Council
    Description: This Council is a diverse group of UMBC community members that works to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) at UMBC.
  • Hispanic and Latinx Student Union (HLSU)
    Description: The student organization’s mission stands for students who are “unidos con tradicion y honor”–that is, students who are united with tradition and honor. We are united by our willingness to reach out to the community in any way, shape, or form.
  • Initiatives for Identity, Inclusion and Belonging (i3b)
    Description: The Initiatives for Identity, Inclusion & Belonging creates opportunities for students to build their awareness and knowledge of diverse people, cultures, and belief systems.
  • COEIT Prayer and meditation room
    Description: CSEE allows use of ITE 234 as prayer room (formerly used as a conference room)
  • COEIT/Campus All gender restrooms [PDF]
    Description: We are committed to making all-gender restrooms available across our campus.
  • Promise program for grad students HUB
    Description: PROMISE events build academic skills, social supports, and career networks fpr all graduate students and postdocs, especially those from underrepresented backgrounds.
  • Video profiles of diverse student body [YouTube videos]
    Description: Short videos were created and posted on UMBCtube and the CBEE website to promote the research and students in the department.
  • BPC plan IS [PDF]
  • BPC plan CSEE
  • Cyber grant
    Description: The key objective of this project is to increase the capacity in the cybersecurity workforce by creating, delivering and assessing a new undergraduate certificate program in cybersecurity.
  • Pathways
    Description: This program is to promote the success of transfer students in computing and engineering
  • PeerSIST
    Description: NSF BPC grant to support a peer mentoring program for transfer students majoring in Information Systems.
  • TSITE Scholars
    Description: Scholarship awarded to incoming transfer students majoring in computing and engineering who are passionate about CWIT’s mission.
  • IUSE
    Description: This project aims to generate new knowledge about how to best design data science curricula and pedagogy to promote learning among diverse undergraduate students.
  • Social Responsibility in Technology Symposium
    Description: This is an opportunity to showcase how we have gone beyond the traditional curriculum and are leaders in creating the next generation of socially responsible computing, information, and engineering professionals
  • CRA Taulbee Survey (separate surveys for Information and Computer Science/Computer Engineering).
    Description: Information, Computer Science, and Computer Engineering Information submitted as annual survey (separate surveys for Information and Computer Science/Computer Engineering).
  • CRA CERP Data Buddies (survey of previous education and past experiences for Information Systems and Computer Science and Electrical Engineering)
    Description: IS and CSEE department students (grad and ugrad).
  • AiiCE Computing Environment Survey (ACES) ACES differs from, yet complements the [CERP] Data Buddies Survey
    Description: The AiiCE Computing Environment Survey is an annual survey that explores how university CS departments foster equitable and inclusive academic environments for all students.
  • MIDFIELD Partnership
    Description: MIDFIELD is a partnership with higher education institutions with engineering programs.
  • NCWIT Tracking Tool completed for all COEIT engineering and computing plans
    Description: The National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) is the farthest-reaching network of change leaders focused on advancing innovation by correcting underrepresentation in computing.
  • ASEE Undergraduate Retention Survey

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