Please share with students!

America East Conference Men's Basketball Championships vs. Vermont!

Saturday, March 14 at 11 a.m.

Doors open at 10 a.m.

Chesapeake Employers Insurance Arena

Tickets go on sale at 8 p.m., Wednesday, March 11

Don't miss out, get your tickets before they're gone! 

Free for students with campus ID

Party on the Plaza

Students, come to the Chesapeake Employers Insurance Arena Plaza for a free continental breakfast at 10 a.m. First 150 students receive a free coffee from Tom's Coffee Truck, refreshments provided by Chartwells Catering.

Residential Students:

8-month residents, your ticket to the game is your ticket to stay on campus!

If you get your ticket by noon on Friday, you will be permitted to remain in housing until Saturday, March 14 at 5 p.m. 

True Grit's will be open for dinner on Friday until 8 p.m.

To all chip users,

We have a few maintenance activities to keep our storage servers secure and reliable. During business hours (EST) on Tuesday March 31st, we're going to patch the ada-rstor server and perform an upgrade on the RRStor Ceph storage cluster. During this time, ada-rstor storage (volumes under /umbc/ada) will be briefly unavailable, and users of the rrstor ceph storage server (volumes under /umbc/rs) may see short interruptions or slower performance.

No immediate action is required today. As we get closer, please plan critical work with this time frame in mind and make sure jobs can handle brief storage pauses.

Separately, the server hosting ada-rstor is aging hardware that is no longer warranty, so we will need to migrate data off its storage volumes to newer, supported systems in the near future.

As always, remember to submit any issues you have here: https://rtforms.umbc.edu/rt_authenticated/doit/DoIT-support.php?auto=Research%20Computing

Do you know a faculty member or academic department that goes above and beyond to make learning more accessible and inclusive for all students? Now is the time to recognize them!

The UMBC Accessibility Trailblazer Awards celebrate individuals and departments who are pioneers in creating accessible course materials, inclusive content, and teaching practices grounded in Universal Design for Learning (UDL). These trailblazers help ensure that every student has the opportunity to learn and succeed.

We especially encourage student nominations, but nominations from colleagues are also welcome.

• Deadline to submit nominations: April 30
• Accessibility Trailblazer Award Nomination Form

Awardees will be recognized by the Department of Accessibility & Disability Services (ADS), which houses the Office of Student Disability Services (SDS). They will receive certificates of recognition, be acknowledged by their Deans and senior leadership, and be celebrated with the UMBC student community. Finally, they will also be featured on the ADS bulletin board and highlighted in our quarterly newsletter to recognize their commitment to accessibility and inclusive teaching practices.

Take a moment to recognize someone who is making a meaningful impact on accessibility at UMBC!

Questions? Contact the ADS office at (410) 455-2459 or disability@umbc.edu.

Inclusive excellence has long been a cultural touchstone at UMBC. Before now, we haven't had a definition or any other shared language to describe what we mean. This is your chance to inform our definition. Leaders in the Division of Institutional Equity have drafted a framework for inclusive excellence, and we want your input! 

The framework aims to articulate our community's shared commitments in a way that can communicate our values, guide action, inspire new collaboration, and support the development and implementation of UMBC's next strategic plan.

Join The Centers for Social Justice Dialogue and Democracy and Civic Life for UMBC Talks, which are 90-minute, co-facilitated dialogues designed to support your engagement with the framework. Each UMBC Talk will be the same, so please sign up for the one that best suits your schedule. We hope to see you there. Come and leave your mark on this important moment in UMBC's history. 

Spring Semester Open Forums

Friday, April 10, 2:30 - 4:30 p.m., UC 312 -Foregrounding faculty and staff experiences but open to everyone, with opportunities for all participants to be in conversation with people with similar UMBC affiliations.

Wednesday, April 15, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m., UC 312 - Open to everyone. Conversations will be held in mixed groups.

Friday, April 24, 10:00 a.m. - noon, UC 312 -Foregrounding graduate student experiences but open to everyone, with opportunities for all participants to be in conversation with people with similar UMBC affiliations.

Friday, April 24, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m., UC 312 -Foregrounding undergraduate student experiences but open to everyone, with opportunities for all participants to be in conversation with people with similar UMBC affiliations.

Tuesday, April 28, 3:00 - 5:00 p.m., Virtual - Open to everyone. Conversations will be held in mixed groups.

Stay tuned for potential additional dates! Download the attached flyer to post or share.

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UMBC Talks is a collaborative initiative that aims to enhance the sense of community, vibrancy, and well-being at UMBC through guided community conversations that reestablish our commitment to inclusive excellence and foster a sense of pride for what it truly
means to be a UMBC Retriever. Using this framework offers a dialogic process for gathering community input on shared values.

If you have any questions about this feedback process, please feel free to reach out to Drs. Ciara Christian and David Hoffman at culture@umbc.edu.

These events are open for full participation by all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or any other protected category under applicable federal law, state law, and the University's nondiscrimination policy.