• August 18-20 PROMISE Summer Success Institute, Sheraton Columbia Hotel

• August 26 Graduate Student Orientation Seminar: How to Understand and Exceed Your Advisor's Expectations
  • Sponsored by UMBC's Graduate School, the Graduate Student Association, and PROMISE
  • Open to all students, all campuses
  • Commons, Rm. 331
  • 12:30 - 2:30
  • Lunch will be served

• Friday, September 9, 2005 PROMISE Fall Opening Meetings (Individual Campuses)
  • UMBC PROMISE Opening Meeting, UMBC Campus, Public Policy Building Rm. 206
  • UMCP PROMISE Opening Meeting, UMCP Campus
  • UMB PROMISE Opening Meeting, UMB Campus
  • Food will be served at all meetings

   

• Friday October 21, 2005 PROMISE Tri-Campus Workshop
  • "Preparing Oral and Poster Presentations: Marketing Yourself as a Researcher of Excellence"
  • 4:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.
  • UMBC Campus, Public Policy, Room 206
  • Dinner will be served

   

• Friday November 18, 2005 PROMISE Tri-Campus Study Group Connection and Fall Harvest Dinner
  • Adele's Restaurant, UMCP Campus (located in Stamp Student Union)

   

• Friday December 16, 2005 PROMISE Tri-Campus Seminar Semester Series: "Reflections"
  • UMB Campus
  • "Looking Back to Move Forward"
  • Dinner served

   

• Monday January 23, 2006 PROMISE Tri-Campus Research Symposium
  • UMCP Campus
  • Colony Ballroom, Stamp Student Union
  • 9 AM - 5 PM
  • Breakfast and lunch will be served

   

• Friday February 17, 2006 PROMISE Spring Opening Meetings, Individual Campuses
  • UMBC Spring Meeting
  • UMCP Spring Meeting
  • UMB Spring Meeting
  • Food will be served at all meetings

• Friday - Sunday March 3-5, 2006, PROMISE at Coolfont

• Berkeley Springs, West Virginia
• Buses leave from UMBC's campus
  
• Friday March 10, 2006 PROMISE Tri-campus Seminar at UMCP
  • FEATURE: "Rewards and Challenges of Faculty of Color"
  • UMCP Campus
  • Food will be Served
    
• Friday April 21, 2006, PROMISE Tri-Campus Seminar Spring Semester Series: "Reflections"
  • UMB Campus
  • "Looking Back to Move Forward"
  • Dinner served

• Saturday May 6, 2006, PROMISE Cookout,12-4 p.m.
  Location: Patapsco State Park

UMBC Graduate Student Success Seminar Calendar 2005-2006 (all students, all campuses welcome)

Other AGEP and National Events

Sept. 22- 24 2005: EMERGE (Empowering Minority Engineers/Scientists to Reach for Graduate Education) Conference, Atlanta

October 27-30 2005: SREB Doctoral Scholars Institute on Teaching and Mentoring, Arlington, VA

June 2006 Howard University-University of Texas AGEP (HUTEP) Preparing Future Faculty Institute

Peer Mentor Meetings, Dissertation Writing Meetings, PROF-it (Professors-in-training)

UMBC

• UMBC Peer mentors Meetings: TBA
• PROF-it Professors in Training Meetings: TBA
• Dissertation Writing Days: Thursdays, every two weeks. Start date: TBA

UM College Park

• UMCP Peer Mentor Meetings
  TBA (Schedule will be set by Dr. Johnetta Davis and Gloria Anglon)
• BGSA Dissertation Group meetings: TBA
• PROF-it Professors in Training Meetings: TBA (with UMCP Center for Teaching Excellence )
• Dissertation Consultation: Mondays by appointment with Dr. Tull

UMB

• UMB Peer Mentor Meetings
  TBA (Schedule will be set by Jill Pegues)
• PROMISE Resource Room, open daily, 9-5, M-F. Jill Pegues available daily for discussions.
• PROF-it Professors in Training Meetings: TBA

• UMBC GSA Graduate Student Breakfasts: Thursdays, 9:00 - 10:30 a.m., Commons Rm. 308 (FREE to UMBC Students)

• UMCP Graduate Student Government (GSG) get-togethers (called "Grad Pub") at R. J. Bentley's Restaurant, 4-7 p.m. Fridays (FREE to UMCP students)