The annual enrollment for USM MetLife Optional Life Insurance and Long-Term Disability Insurance begins today, March 1 and will run until March 15.  Employees that already participate in one or both benefits, the current coverage will continue, with no action required.

During this year's Annual Enrollment, eligible employees* may either enroll for the first time, increase or cancel their coverage. Elections made during this enrollment period will be effective April 1, 2023, or the first of the month following MetLife's approval of the request.

To take action, visit metlife.com/USMD and click the Enroll/View coverage button at the top of the page. 

Login Information:

• Employee ID= your W Number (no dashes or spaces).  Click here for instructions on how to locate your user ID/W-number.  
• Initial PIN/password= the last four numbers of your W number plus your four-digit birth year
• Note, if you logged in during the past year, all passwords have been reset to the above configuration for this Annual Enrollment.

Questions? 

Contact USM MetLife, they should respond within 1 business day.

*Employees that work 20 or more hours per week and are either a Regular or Contingent II employee. 

On March 1-2, 2023, we call upon Retrievers and our community everywhere to join us for Black & Gold Rush, 36 Hours of Giving, by making a gift of any size to support our campus community. Every donation helps UMBC provide students with the tools they need to become leaders and to reach their full potential.

The Office of Health Promotion uses public health approaches and strategies to contribute to our campus community's well-being and to offer applied learning experiences, such as the Peer Health Education Internship Program. We sincerely encourage you to give to the Office of Health Promotion. Your gift directly supports our ability to provide experiences and resources for our Peer Health Educators as they contribute to the well-being of our campus community through programs and events.

In addition, please consider making contributions to other programs and initiatives with the Division of Student Affairs that support student health and well-being, help students become involved, and help students develop skills for leading others. We want every student to thrive at UMBC and as alumni.

Offered in the context of the global climate negotiations, this program challenges student teams around the world to propose ideas for local-scale projects that will yield measurable results over the course of six months. This program is free and open to students at all levels of their higher education journey. It is offered by the University of Pennsylvania Environmental Innovations Initiative on behalf of the International Sustainable Campus Network. The deadline to submit a proposal is March 30.

 
ABOUT THE FORUM

The Global University Climate Forum brings student activists together to share ideas, learn, connect, and act on the global imperative of addressing climate change.  Offered in the context of the global climate negotiations, this program challenges student teams around the world to propose ideas for local-scale projects that will yield measurable results over the course of six months.  Accepted teams become a cohort that learns together, networks, shares ideas, and contributes to a growing body of inspirational projects that demonstrate the capacity of today’s youth to lead and have an impact.

​All proposals must be actionable by students without extensive contingencies and should be designed to yield measurable results over the course of six months. Proposals may reflect ongoing projects and activities so long as they are the intellectual capital of the students applying and there is a projected measurable outcome during the duration of the Forum implementation period. Students will be required to attend online workshops and encouraged to interact with each other over the six months of the Forum. Final projects will be collected into an online publication and showcased in an event after the 2023 climate COP in Abu Dhabi.

​The Environmental Innovations Initiative at the University of Pennsylvania leads the Global University Climate Forum on behalf of the International Sustainable Campus Network as a way to engage and inspire the next generation of climate leaders and showcase the value of academic institutions as the Knowledge Sector.

​​Learn more about the 16 projects in the 2022 cohort here. The outcomes of the 2020-2021 and 2022 cohorts are featured in the publication, The Knowledge Sector: The role of Higher Education Institutions in addressing Global Environmental Challenges, which contains contributions from Christiana Figueres and Patricia Espinosa, previous Executive Secretaries of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.

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Important Milestones

30 March 2023: application deadline (midnight EST)

15 April 2023: selected teams to be announced

April 2023: Students are required to participate in orientation workshops

May 2023: Monthly reporting and online events commence

16 October 2023: final reports due

30 November to 12 December 2023: COP28 in Abu Dhabi