Please join us for i3b's 9th Annual Lavender Celebration. An evening to celebrate the wonderful achievements of UMBC’s LGBTQIA+ graduating seniors, graduate students, and their allies. LGBTQIA+ students overcome incredible odds to succeed and make a difference at UMBC. This ceremony is in recognition of LGBTQIA+ students and in recognition of all the allied staff, faculty, alumnx, and programs that work to support them. Graduating seniors and graduate students who RSVP will be recognized and receive lavender honor cords. To receive your Lavender honor cords and pin, please fill out our Lavender and Black & Latine/x Celebration Social Media Campaign + Graduation Package Form. DEADLINE to receive cords: May 6, 2022 at 9:00a.m. Award categories will encompass student, staff, faculty, and programmatic efforts, and will include recognition for LGBTQ+ individuals, as well as allies to the community.
Co-Sponsored By: LGBTQ Faculty and Staff Association and Women's Center
RSVP Here and you can mark as “Going” on myUMBC!
Award Selection Committee Interest & Award Nomination Form
To stay up to date with Pride Center happenings, you can sign up for our Listserv/Google Groups HERE.
Our i3b staff strives to create the most inclusive environment possible. All undergrads, grads, staff, faculty, and alumnx are encouraged to attend! If you need to request a disability-based accommodation or have any questions? Contact us at i3b@umbc.edu. For our uploaded event recordings, attendee lists, works cited, and other materials, please check out our Initiatives for Identity, Inclusion and Belonging (i3b) Events Drive on our Linktree. Materials will be available in this Google Drive within one business week after the event unless otherwise specified.
This evening event celebrates the wonderful achievements of UMBC’s Black and Latina/e/o/x graduating seniors and graduate students. Black and Latine/x students have been historically underrepresented in post-secondary degree attainment and have overcome incredible odds to succeed and make an invaluable contribution to the wider UMBC community.
This ceremony is in recognition of this milestone of our Black and Latine/x students as well as an evening to be in community with all the staff, faculty, alumni, and loved ones that have supported them. Seniors and graduate students graduating in Spring and Fall 2022 will be recognized and receive a Black and Brown honor cords, as well as a special CBLA Black and Brown pin! To receive your Black and Brown honor cords and pin, please fill out our Lavender and Black & Latine/x Celebration Social Media Campaign + Graduation Package Form. DEADLINE to receive cords: May 6, 2022 at 9:00a.m. Award categories will encompass student, staff, faculty, and programmatic efforts, and will include recognition for Black and Latine/x community members, as well as their allies.
Please RSVP HERE. [RSVP is highly encouraged]
Award Selection Committee Interest & Award Nomination Form
Family and friends of graduates are encouraged to attend. You won't want to miss this!
Our i3b staff strives to create the most inclusive environment possible. All undergrads, grads, staff, faculty, alumni, and community members are welcome to attend! If you need to request a disability-based accommodation or have any questions? Contact us at i3b@umbc.edu and slj@umbc.edu. For our uploaded event recordings, attendee lists, works cited, and other materials, please check out our Initiatives for Identity, Inclusion and Belonging (i3b) Events Drive. Materials will be available in this Google Drive within one business week after the event unless otherwise specified.
Dear UMBC Community,
We are excited to share that UMBC is featured in this season of "The College Tour." This television series--hosted by Alex Boylan of "The Amazing Race" and a team of award-winning producers--tells the story of what life is like on college campuses across the United States.
Through a series of student interviews in each episode, viewers have the opportunity to explore the academic, social, cultural, and campus life of a featured college or university. Over the past three seasons, top universities like the University of Oregon, Baylor University, the University of Connecticut, Arizona State University, and the University of Miami have participated in the series. "The College Tour" is available on IMDb TV, Amazon Prime, and "The College Tour" app and website, making campus tours accessible to prospective students around the world.
This past fall, "The College Tour" visited UMBC's campus and interviewed 20 undergraduate and graduate students about a variety of subjects including mentorship, co-creating our campus, research, entrepreneurship, student support, leadership development, athletics, and community. Through our students' stories, viewers will learn about life at UMBC and explore what makes us a unique and thriving university.
We are so grateful to the students who participated in "The College Tour." It is because of their generosity in sharing their time and stories that this opportunity is possible. We would like to thank:
Thomas Azari
Nailah-Bena Chambers
Courtney Coppersmith
Mohamed Galal
Logan Hawker
Gabby Khan
Levi Lewis
Zion Murphy
Lauren Norwood
Tchuissi Mbu Nyamsi
Katelyn O'Connor
Sandra Pinto
Colby Rood
Hannah Sadollah '19
Kara Seidel '18
Aarsh Shah
Maggie Taylan
Sarah Turner
Cindy Um
Giuliana Weiss
In addition to our core cast, we are also thankful to the more than 230 UMBC students, faculty, staff, and community members who supported the creation of our episode.
Please tune in and share! UMBC's episode is available to watch now on many platforms, and will be streaming on Amazon on May 10, 2022.
Dear Colleagues,
As the Spring 2022 commencement ceremonies near, we are looking forward to celebrating our graduates together as a community. Last week, we released tickets to graduates and shared our COVID-19 Safety Plan.
We hope that you will consider joining us as a volunteer for the ceremony. Volunteers are integral in helping ensure that the commencement ceremonies are a success for UMBC, our graduates, and their friends and families.
If you are interested, please complete our volunteer form no later than May 11. We will provide training and no prior experience is necessary. The form allows you to select specific ceremonies that accommodate your schedule.
If you cannot join us in person, we hope that you will plan to join us online, you will be able to stream the ceremonies at commencement.umbc.edu. We look forward to celebrating with you in May!
The Commencement Executive Committee
Graduate School Ceremony
Wednesday, May 25, 2022
10:00 am
Undergraduate Ceremonies
Thursday, May 26, 2022
10:00 am - College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, The Erickson School, and The School of Social Work
3:00 pm - College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences, College of Engineering and Information Technology, and The Division of Undergraduate Academic Affairs
Are you a UMBC Ph.D. candidate or post-doctoral fellow who is considering a non-academic career upon completion of your studies (e.g., biopharmaceutical industry, government)? Are you actively looking for a job now or will be looking for one within a year?
If you answered yes to these questions, we are seeking your input on a possible program designed to help prepare you to enter the job market!
The program would be tailored to help you in the following ways:
Please take a few minutes to answer this survey HERE by Friday, May 13, 2022.
Questions? Email Susan Hindle at: shindle@umbc.edu
]]>Campus phone services will be partially impacted today, Tuesday May 3rd, between 5:30 and 8:30 p.m. due to a scheduled repair of the data center electrical infrastructure. During this time phones on the legacy Rolm phone system and some emergency phones will be unable to make or receive calls. Phones on the new VoIP phone system and calls to UMBC Police will be unaffected. Should you experience an emergency during this time please use your cell phone to contact UMBC Police (410-455-5555) or 911.
This work is to complete the repairs of the emergency power infrastructure supporting parts of the campus phone system. On April 11 we announced a similar scheduled outage to install a temporary solution until we had permanent equipment. During this scheduled maintenance window permanent infrastructure will be put in place to restore power resiliency.
Thank you for your patience and understanding,
Damian Doyle
Deputy CIO & Senior Associate VP
Division of Information Technology
Dear UMBC Community,
Spring 2022 Student Course Evaluations (SCEs) are in progress. If you have not already completed your evaluations, I am encouraging you to do so soon. Evaluations are accessed online and will be available through Tuesday, May 17, 2022, at midnight.
Completing your SCEs is helpful for understanding and evaluating student and faculty experiences, especially as we've experienced changing learning environments throughout the pandemic. All responses are anonymous and confidential and are not released until after spring semester final grades are submitted.
You can access the online SCE with any device (e.g., desktop, laptop, tablet, smartphone). The survey application is accessible by email link, a BlackBoard building block link, and a "Student Course Evaluations" link that is available on myUMBC. Your myUMBC credentials are used to login to "profiles." Once logged in, students see a list of courses in which they are enrolled and can complete a survey.
Faculty are encouraged to promote the SCE survey and to remind students that the survey can be completed 24/7 from now through May 17, 2022, at midnight.
Provost Philip Rous
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