September 10: Retriever Ready Action Update

Thu, 10 Sep 2020 17:55:13 -0400
covid19update

Please see the latest updates on UMBC’s Retriever Ready website. We encourage you to bookmark this site for the most current information on UMBC’s COVID-19 response, online learning this fall, and more. Questions? Please email covid19@umbc.edu.

COVID-19 Health & Safety

UMBC’s Public Health Dashboard provides timely data about the prevalence of COVID-19 within our main campus, based on UMBC’s on-campus testing and reported results from off-campus testing among UMBC faculty, staff, and students who are approved to be on campus this fall. UMBC’s current positivity rate is 0.7%.

New Service-Learning Opportunity: Apply for the Reach Together Program

Students: UMBC’s Sherman STEM Teacher Scholars Program, in collaboration with The Shriver Center, is seeking applicants for the Reach Together Program. This new program engages UMBC students in mentoring and tutoring Baltimore City youth. Applicants should be in their second year at UMBC or beyond. Mentor-tutors will each provide targeted math tutoring for five students through an eight-week program (September 28 – November 20) with a week of training starting on September 21. Submit your application as soon as possible through this Google form and schedule a 15-minute interview between now and September 18.

UMBC Together

Visit the UMBC Together website for recent social media posts and the UMBC Together myUMBC group for weekly event spotlights.