Going home over the summer? Working a low-paying or unpaid internship and worried how you’ll pay for groceries? Just interested in a free bag of nonperishable food?

Retriever Essentials has an abundance of food available, and we want you to come shopping in our pantry!

Stop by during exam week and hand pack your own bag for the summer. Come once, twice, or as many times as you need. We want to make sure you’re well taken care of during the break.

Are you going to be on campus during the summer for classes? Fear not! Our normal Food Zones will be open and stocked full of bags to be picked up at your convenience.

Email retrieveressentials@umbc.edu or call 410-455-2765 to set up your shopping appointment, 8:30am-5pm Monday-Friday from May 15 - May 24. 

Ramadan will run from approximately May 5th - June 4th causing it to fall within the academic school year. In support of students, staff and faculty during Ramadan, Muslim Student Association (MSA) and Chartwells staff has developed meal strategy for Ramadan. 

Please look into Halal Dining options on Campus!

Kyle Shokeye, Complex, May 1 2019

“In its most recent study, the Hope Center for College Community and Justice at Temple University polled 86,000 students from 123 colleges. 

The study found that 45 percent of students experienced "food insecurity," which is defined as "limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe food, or the ability to acquire such food in a socially acceptable manner." This includes skipping meals and experiencing hunger due to lack of funds.

Working during college is not associated with a lower risk of basic needs insecurity, and neither is receiving the federal Pell Grant; the latter is in fact associated with higher rates of basic needs insecurity. The survey reported that, of those who experience food insecurity, over two-thirds of them are employed.”

As national averages of food insecurity increase each year, Retriever Essentials continues to believe that food insecurity undermines academic success. Join our fight to tackle food insecurity in our UMBC students so that they can not only live more comfortably, but show up to class well prepared in a holistic manner.

We encourage you to have conversations with your coworkers around basic needs insecurities among college students, not only here at UMBC but across the nation. What can you do to better support struggling students? If you’re interested in learning more, and how you can get connected to Retriever Essentials, please email us at retrieveressentials@umbc.edu!

Mission of the Nigerian Graduate Student Association

The Nigerian Graduate Student Association (NGSA) is an association committed to the intellectual success of all Nigerian graduate students at University of Maryland, Baltimore County. It is devoted to providing professional and social interactions and support among Nigerian graduate students. The NGSA will collaborate with the Graduate Student Association and the African Student Association to effectively pursue and achieve its goals of providing opportunities and support as well as fostering a sense of community for Nigerian Graduate Students through events, collaborative projects within and outside the association.

Goals

The NGSA committee seeks to accomplish its mission through:

Collaborating with the GSA and ASA on social events that foster academic and social events in which Nigerian graduate students feel represented and recognized

Provide opportunity to interact with each other as well as build a strong support system for each other and share job opportunities and resources with each other

Getting appropriate faculty and staff involved in the achievement of the mission of NGSA

Ensuring that NGSA provides a space available to first-year graduate students moving to the US from Nigeria and assist in making their transition a comfortable and enjoyable one. This would involve officials of the NGSA and its members attending orientations to speak to and welcome new Nigerian graduate students