Administrative Experience

Academic administrative work is interesting, challenging and sometimes frustrating. Here are some of the more demanding assignments I've agreed to take on.

• Director of Honors Program, Modern Languages and Linguistics. 2007-.
• Director of UMBC Center for the Humanities. 1999-2005.
• Finalist judge for U.S. Professors of the year 1998, 2000. Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
• Chair, Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics, UMBC, 1992-1996.
• Chair, Subcommittee on the Undergraduate Experience, Provost's Committee on University Priorities, UMBC, 1995-96
• Chair, Working Group on Information Transfer Technology and Library, Middle States Accreditation Self Study, UMBC, 1994-95.
• Co-chair, Subcommittee on Faculty/Staff Development, Provost's Committee on University Priorities, UMBC, 1994-95.
• Chair, Subcommittee on Instruction, President's Initiative on Information Transfer Technology, UMBC, 1993-95.
• Member, Pew Roundtable Coordinating Committee, UMBC, 1993-94.
• Coordinator, Hillcrest Elementary School foreign language intern program, 1993-94.
• Member, Provost's Committee on Faculty Rewards, 1992-93.
• Associate Chair, Modern Languages and Linguistics, UMBC, 1986-87, 1991-92.

Thomas T. Field
Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics
UMBC
Baltimore, MD 21250

University of Maryland Baltimore County
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