In this The Baltimore Sun article on student absenteeism, Assistant Professor Jing Liu shares that strengthening relationships between students and their school communities, and home-based interventions, can help prevent chronic absenteeism. Read more ⬇️

Update: UCLA has released internal data that conclusively refutes the viral Free Beacon article about diversity in medical school admissions, and confirms the counter-narrative detailed in the thread I wrote in response. Here’s a quick breakdown:

What a great initiative from Kimberly Griffin Haynes and UMD College of Education to surprise three alumni during Teacher Appreciation Week! go.umd.edu/3QElouG

Leaving academia is so much harder than simply creating a resume and applying to jobs. It's a loss of your career plans. Your community. Your academic accomplishments. Your identity as an "expert". Writing a resume is easy. Grieving is hard.

What an amazing hire - Dr. Haddix is a GREAT leader! So excited for her and for Wisconsin!

Hey everyone, I'm the founder of a Black-owned coffee business, and we've been struggling with online sales for a while now. We donate to HBCU student scholarships and other causes with every sale. Your shares and RT's are much appreciated! 🙏🏿

Research staff Univ. of Maryland have been recognized for promoting hair equity and underscoring research practices that include individuals with diverse hairstyles and textures in neurological research. Read more here: go.umd.edu/hairequity and on our Roundup out tomorrow!

Hey friends Prof M is great to work with if you know anyone who can do some infographics or visualizations please share ☺️.

Can grow-your-own programs address local teacher shortages and diversify the workforce? UMD College of Education Associate Prof David Blazar and team explored these q's by studying the Teacher Academy of Maryland. Read their new IZA World of Labor article here! 👇 wol.iza.org/opinions/empow…

Full disclosure: I am a graduate of the Head Start Program. In this thread, I will sketch out how this program helped me.

#MISSING: 12-year-old Tayzha "Alona" Warren (4'10" 120 lbs). Last seen at 8:30 p.m. on June 20 in the #Pikesville area. Her clothing description is unknown. She may be wearing red “Crocs” with sparkles. Anyone with information, please call 911 or 410-307-2020. #help #find

Sometimes you just have to forgive yourself and move on Image: instagram.com/ladybluebottle

The UMD College of Education Dean is in the house!! Kimberly Griffin Haynes reminds us about the commitment to #servethepublicgood and the value of #partnership via #2024nic.

⁦UMD_TLPL⁩ ⁦UMD College of Education⁩ ⁦UMD Right Now⁩ ⁦Kimberly Griffin Haynes⁩ ⁦Center for Educational Innovation and Improvement⁩ what a wonderful NIC gathering by CEii Dr. Eubanks and team with our PGCPS partners! Participation of Dean Griffin and Provost Rice made it even more special!

Congratulations to Rachel Romeo, PhD, CCC-SLP on being the 2024 recipient of the Flux Young Investigator Award

Where is Alvina? She was taken yesterday, please amplify this until she's found Asante

Keep going. You have what it takes and your effort will be worth it Image: instagram.com/taniascreative…

Pre-tenure faculty often get the advice to keep a record of everything you do before tenure. But what does "everything" mean? Here's a list of tenure-relevant activities and a template to keep track of all of them. #TenureTrack #PreTenure #AssistantProfessor #AcademicTwitter

I also want to encourage academia-bound underrepresented neuroscientists in their PhD stage to apply for this awesome opportunity! I have earned 2 years of funding for the rest of my PhD + up to 4 years of funding for my Postdoc! Happy to help any applicants seeking advice :)