Dear UMBC Community,

I write to inform the campus community that I will be launching a national search for the vice president of student affairs in partnership with the search firm Isaacson, Miller. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Dr. Nancy Young, who will be leaving the role on June 30, 2023, for more than 35 years of service to our UMBC community.   

Young joined UMBC in 1986 and has served as the vice president for student affairs since 2007. Grounded in an exceptional commitment to our students, Young's visionary perspective and service to the UMBC community has been instrumental in recruitment, retention, and student outcomes.

Under Young's leadership, the resident community grew to 4,000 beds, furthering the development of the residential campus. In recent years, Young advocated for and opened the Center for Well-Being and played a pivotal role in bringing the American Council on Education's Internationalization Lab to the campus. A champion for our core values of diversity and inclusive excellence, she established a director of inclusive excellence within the Division of Student Affairs and expanded support, programming, and resources for our diverse student population. Young served as a key leader in the campus response to the global pandemic and its impact on our community.

Young's leadership has been recognized in the broader higher education community. In 2021, she served as chair of the Council of Student Affairs for the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, collaborating with other student affairs leaders across the U.S. to develop and promote practices that enhance students' experiences and well-being during one of the most challenging times in higher education and student affairs. In October, she traveled to France as the recipient of a 2022 Fulbright International Education Administrators award. Young attended a seminar helping U.S. international education professionals and senior higher education officials create empowering connections with their counterparts and the higher education systems of other countries. She was also recognized as one of Maryland's Top 100 Women for 2022 by the Daily Record.

Please join me in thanking Vice President Young for her commitment and service to our community.  

Sincerely, 

President Valerie Sheares Ashby

Dear UMBC Community,

The Department of Human Resources cordially invites you to the 2022 Annual Service Awards Ceremony. We hope you will join us in the Retriever Activity Center (RAC) for this celebration of service on Thursday, December 8, 2022, from 11:30 a.m. -- 1:30 p.m.

Register Here

This year, we are returning to an in-person event to shout out, support, and honor our colleagues in a celebration of their important milestones at UMBC and with the State of Maryland. We have planned a fun, exciting, and engaging experience that will include heartwarming stories, recipient award acknowledgements, fabulous prizes, delicious refreshments, and the return of the interactive trivia game Kahoot! -- remember to bring your phone to participate! For more information, please visit the HR Service Awards website.

Registration is required by December 6 for attendance and raffle prize eligibility. We look forward to seeing you on December 8!

Dr. Lynne Adams, Chief Human Resources Officer

We want to hear from you! Volunteer to participate in a focus group on November 30, 2022 from Noon-1 p.m. The topic for our first focus group of the year is Residential Life Community Spaces & Amenities. 

If you are available and interested, we encourage you to sign-up by submitting the volunteer form (https://forms.gle/RiFVjEVZGc19Xv51A) by November 9, 2022 at 5PM.  

Residential Life will select a random sample of volunteers (10-15 students) to attend the November focus group.  If invited to participate, lunch will be provided. 

Happy Veterans Week Everyone!

Please join Off-Campus Student Services (OCSS) as we host events each day dedicated to celebrating, educating, and most importantly, getting our veterans, dependents, and current service members plugged in to all the great things offered here at UMBC. 

This is a week dedicated to honoring veterans, dependents, and current service members for their contributions to the culture of service here at UMBC. If you belong to this community, we are providing you with opportunities for massage, acupuncture, an escape room trip, lunch with UMBC veterans who are faculty and staff, a Chick-fil-A breakfast, and giveaways.

Throughout the week, our community will have the opportunity to share written messages of support to our veterans (email agetach1@umbc.edu or veterans@umbc.edu). These messages will be shared on Veterans Day, Friday, November 11. Please share our post with your campus networks.

Thank you. 

On behalf of OCSS,

Alex Getachew, Graduate Assistant for Veteran Student Services