On March 1-2, 2023, we call upon Retrievers everywhere to join us for Black & Gold Rush, 36 Hours of Giving, by making a gift of any size to support any area that means the most to you. Our goal this year is ambitious -- 3,000 donors in 36 hours -- and every donation helps UMBC provide students with the tools they need to become leaders and to reach their full potential.
Division of Student Affairs departments work together and with campus partners to support student health and well-being, including helping students to become involved, develop skills for leading others and creating a group of friends and community. We want every student to thrive at UMBC and as alumni.
As we return to the physical campus, we want to strengthen our community and ensure students have the support they need. This means finding ways to rebuild and expand our resources and programs.
What can we do in 36 hours? Contribute to #UMBC #BlackAndGoldRush and see what's possible when we work together. Here are a few of the ways you can support students:
Funds that Support Health and Well-Being
Peer Health Educators - Your gift helps support an internship program for undergraduate and graduate students to become nationally certified in health-related topics and provide programs for the UMBC community, especially students. Please write in Health Promotion on the donation form.
Retriever Essentials -Your gift helps eliminate the burden of food insecurity for UMBC members and connects them to ongoing support networks, in order to enhance their academic retention and career success.
Retriever Integrated Health - Your gift helps support programs that help students, faculty, and staff to respond to student mental health needs, and programs to support student health and well-being. Please write in UHS and Counseling on the donation form.
Stay Black and Gold Emergency Fund - Your gift helps provide short-term financial assistance (tuition and fees) for current UMBC students who find it difficult or impossible to continue their education due to an emergency or sudden unforeseen circumstances.
Funds that Help Build Community
Campus Life Student Organizations- Your gift will help provide opportunities to promote student engagement through club and organization development and student leadership training.
Center for Democracy and Civic Life - Your gift will support students' participation in experiences that empower them to be effective and collaborative leaders and changemakers in their communities. These experiences include STRiVE and Alternative Spring Break.
Initiatives for Identity, Inclusion, and Belonging (i3b) - In addition to supporting students finding belonging in identity-based spaces across campus, your gift will fund programs that help students develop the skills needed to dialogue across differences and become more equitable and inclusive community leaders. When you give to the i3b fund, you support programs like Interact Dialogues Program, Your Story Belongs Here programming, and annual graduation celebrations like the Lavender Graduation & Scholarship and the Multicultural Graduation Celebration.Individuals can also specifically support LGBTQ Outreach support and programming by giving to the LGBTQ Outreach fund.
Join the ABCEI for Idea Pitch Day TODAY, March 1st from 11-12:30pm in ILSB 101.
This will be a great time to get feedback on your idea or existing business and find other students that might be interested in helping you as well as learning more about the CBIC.
This is the perfect opportunity for students who want to enter the competition to informally pitch their idea to an audience as a way to receive feedback in a casual, relaxed setting.
If you aren't sure you're ready to submit an idea, that's OK! This event is a great time to get feedback on your preliminary idea or existing business, and to find other students interested in helping you.
It will also give you a chance to learn more about the ABCEI's competitions and events.
UMBC has been informed that a third-party vendor for campus event ticketing, AudienceView (also known as University Tickets), recently experienced a payment card data security breach with its online Box Office services. The vendor has advised us that no UMBC information was compromised. However, in an abundance of caution, we have suspended online Box Office ticket sales through UMBC's online event ticket portal effective immediately, and until further notice.
Until this issue is resolved, traditionally ticketed events may be open (unticketed) or use alternative payment methods. For information about attending specific events, please see the event websites for athletics, the arts, and Student Affairs.
UMBC's Division of Information Technology has records of everyone who used the online ticket portal and has reached out to those who may have been affected. The national breach involves ticket purchases in the month of February. We strongly encourage anyone who purchased tickets through the ticket portal in February to review their credit card statements immediately, contact their banking institution regarding any suspicious transactions, and report the suspicious transactions to UMBC Police.
We will provide additional information regarding future ticket sales once the matter is resolved.
We encourage you to review our CyberSecurity Awareness website for guidance on further protecting your personal information and safe computing practices. As a best practice, we also recommend that you remain vigilant and promptly report to us and to the proper law enforcement authorities any suspicious activity or suspected fraudulent transactions.
If you have any questions please email security@umbc.edu.