We cannot ignore this! @NAACP just announced a travel advisory to Florida, saying "Florida is openly hostile toward African Americans, people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals"
All medical associations should follow the lead!!
#WhichSideAreYouOn
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“By our words and through our actions, we want you to feel that you belong and know that you are welcome,” Valerie Sheares Ashby told students at her inauguration ceremony. #UMBCpresident (via @baltimoresun) https://t.co/ZLhBd9sGkI
“It is absolutely fitting that we now have her as the president here at UMBC…an institution that understands that we don’t have to choose between advancing innovation and advancing equity. We can and we will do both.”- @GovWesMoore. #UMBCpresident
“While there are many measures and rankings in higher education, here we are bold enough to say not only do we refuse to deem ourselves excellent unless we do it through an inclusive culture; we are actually stating that true excellence is impossible without it!”- #UMBCpresident
As part of this week’s Inauguration, #UMBCpresident Valerie Sheares Ashby hosted a Faculty Salon to hear more about community-based work. “You all just gave me the gift of a lifetime. I love research & I want us to be liberal in what we think of as research…we need all of it.”
It's a beautiful week to celebrate all of our inauguration events for President Valerie Sheares Ashby! Take/upload your own photo to commemorate this exciting time in UMBC's history and share on social media using #UMBCpresident. https://t.co/hEElVNdl4v
We're looking forward to all of the opportunities to celebrate #UMBCpresident Valerie Sheares Ashby! Learn more about what's in store and don't forget to RSVP. https://t.co/0aDemOFxFh
@RevJacquiLewis We need to start naming the structural racism, over-deployment in our neighborhoods, incentives for arrests instead of low-intervention resolution, deployment of police for social or mental health work, militarized response to protest, selective enforcement of laws
What motivates our president when she's hitting the gym? #UMBCpresident Valerie Sheares Ashby shares what's playing through her headphones when she's working out. Let us know what you think she should add to her playlist!
Agree! First day of the Pediatric Pulmonary Network Meeting was a success! Using the Delphi method to decide on priorities to improve childhood lung health. Great to network with so many great colleagues 😃
If you’ve been wondering how we’ve been doing w/air pollution across #NYC in the last 10yrs take a 👀.
BONUS, we compared concentration based on historical redlining… 1/
The effects of the historical practice of residential redlining in the... https://t.co/9xFpHck2jF
“This is a time when you begin to define what you love, what really matters to you, who you want to be in this world, and what difference you want to make in the lives of others.” - #UMBCpresident Valerie Sheares Ashby. #UMBCwelcome
If you're a Christian and you're big mad about the possibility of student loan debt being canceled.
Let me remind you that the entirety of your faith is built on a debt that you can't pay that someone else stepped in and paid for you