Stories

Learn more about the Student Affairs story through its people, expertise, and achievements. Student Affairs staff are leaders in their fields. Their compassionate, thoughtful approach puts students at the center of all they do. Staff regularly receive awards and acknowledgements for their leadership. They are interviewed for local and national news and trend stories, and for publications in their field of expertise.

Retriever Essentials Receives Hunger-Free Campus Grant

Retriever Essentials has received a $18,360 Hunger-Free Campus Grant to support its student staff and programming. Hunger-Free Campus is a state grant program run by the Maryland Higher Education...

Posted: October 8, 2024, 10:01 AM

Inaugural VPSA Staff Awards Announced

Career Center Director Christine Routzahn, Off-Campus Student Services Assistant Director Amery Thompson, and Retriever Essentials Program Coordinator Ariel Barbosa are the recipients of the...

Posted: June 24, 2024, 9:18 AM

Center for Democracy and Civic Life Staff Present at CLDE

Center for Democracy and Civic Life staff, Dr. David Hoffman, Ph.D. ‘13, and Tess McRae ‘22 led UMBC’s delegation at the June 2024 Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement (CLDE) Meeting hosted by...

Posted: June 11, 2024, 10:56 AM

Dr. Bruce Herman, RIH director, to retire from UMBC

Campus wide reception July 10, 2 - 4 p.m., Skylight Room

Dr. Bruce Herman, director of health and counseling for Retriever Integrated Health (RIH), is retiring from UMBC effective August 1, after four decades of service to higher education, including 26...

Posted: June 5, 2024, 12:11 PM

Expansion of MTIP featured in technical.ly

Program administered by UMBC’s Career Center

The recent expansion of the Maryland Technology Internship Program (MTIP), administered by UMBC’s Career Center, was featured in the May 22, 2024 technical.y article, “Major state funding boost...

Posted: June 4, 2024, 1:15 PM