Dear UMBC Community,

Thank you for your cooperation as the Facilities Management team makes complex repairs to the campus hot water system. We expect this work to continue through the weekend and want to provide you with a status update for the affected campus buildings.

The following buildings will continue to have reduced temperatures and will not have hot water: Administration Building, Retriever Activity Center, University Center, Engineering Building, Information Technology/Engineering Building, Math/Psychology Building, Sondheim Hall, Sherman Hall, Albin O. Kuhn Library and Gallery, Public Policy Building, Physics Building, Biological Sciences/Schwartz Building, and the Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Building.

Erickson Hall and The Commons will have reduced temperatures but will have hot water provided by auxiliary systems.

All buildings will remain open as usual and classes will continue as scheduled. Bathrooms will remain functional with cold water available.

Dining updates include:

• Dining locations in The Commons, The Admin Coffee Shop, and Starbucks will be open as usual.
• Chick-Fil-A will be open from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Monday.
• Einstein's Bagels will remain closed until hot water is restored.

We continue to monitor the temperature in buildings and are working closely with building managers and Residential Life staff to make sure operations continue effectively and safely and our residential students remain comfortable.

We appreciate your support and will update the campus as soon as hot water is restored.

Kathy L. Dettloff, Vice President for Administration and Finance
Lenn Caron, Associate Vice President, Facilities Management

UMBC ACM Hi-Tea Meeting

12-1 ET Friday, 28 October 2022, ITE 346
UMBC ACM Chapter

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During the Winter and Summer sessions, POLI routinely offers a handful of courses, many of which we just do not have time to offer during the regular semesters. 

Some Special Topics Courses Include:

Poli 309 Politics and Film 
Poli 362 Citizens and Democracy
Poli 371 Comparative Asian Politics 
Poli 482 International Law 

An important note: Poli 395 National Security Policy of the United States will not be offered in Spring '23. So Winter is your last chance to take it until next school year.

These special sessions are an excellent and cost-effective way to move more quickly toward degree completion with some pretty fascinating classes. 

Special sessions courses are shorter, and thus more intense, than a semester-length class. We do NOT recommend taking more than one in the Winter and two in the Summer sessions.

Winter session helps you stay on track to graduate on time, especially if you can't take 15 credits during the spring and fall semesters. Most winter session courses meet degree requirements or are general education (GEP) courses required for all majors.

Registration clearance is not required for winter session. Advising is recommended, but not required.

Use myUMBC to register for up to 4.5 credits. If you would like to take more than 4.5 credits, submit an Excess Credit Permission Form to the Office of Academic and Pre-Professional Advising for review.

You can go here to see what is offered this Winter.

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