Now in its second year, The Shriver Center’s SUCCESS Program was featured in a recent Southern Maryland Online article and Capital News Service video.

SUCCESS (Students United for Campus-Community Engagement for Post-Secondary Success) is the first four-year college experience for young adults with intellectual disabilities in Maryland. The article highlights the early progress of the program, which has seen its applications nearly triple.

Shriver Center Director Michele Wolff talks about how the SUCCESS Program has been building on feedback and response from students and families.

“We are building the program as we go, which is…a benefit and a challenge,” Wolff said. “The benefit … is that we can really listen to the students and their families … and build the program based on their interests.”

The article describes the positive experiences students and families are going through early on in the program, which is a non-degree program that focuses on independent living and preparing students for employment.

You can read the full article and the Capital News Service video which accompanies it here.

Congratulations to the UMBC men’s cross country team on winning their first America East championship since 2005!
From the news release:

Following a third place finish at last year’s America East Championships, the UMBC men’s cross country team wanted more. A year later, the Retrievers got it, winning the league title Saturday morning at Binghamton University.

Congratulations to the UMBC men’s cross country team on winning their first America East championship since 2005!

From the news release:

Following a third place finish at last year’s America East Championships, the UMBC men’s cross country team wanted more. A year later, the Retrievers got it, winning the league title Saturday morning at Binghamton University.

Associate Professor of English Piotr Gwiazda has just published his translation of Polish writer Grzegorz Wroblewski’s book of prose poems KOPENHAGA. This project was awarded a grant from the PEN American Center and UMBC’s Dresher Center for the Humanities.

Gabriel Gudding calls KOPENHAGA “one of the most important books of our time.” Joshua Clover describes it as “grim, glancingly beautiful, always necessary.” Marjorie Perloff comments: “Wroblewski is the true poetic chronicler of our 21st century diaspora in all its absurdities and anxieties.”