In a study published today, researchers from Blackboard, University of Maryland Baltimore County, and VitalSource describe a joint project designed to test whether a predictive model of student...
By Robert Carpenter, John Fritz, and Tom Penniston
In FA17, UMBC validated Blackboard Predict against a homegrown First Year Intervention (FYI) alert program, which asks faculty (at midterm) to identify freshmen and transfer students at risk of...
A space for women of color to be supported and encouraged!
Women of Color Support Group is a semester-long group. It is designed to provide undergraduate and graduate students who identify as women of color with a safe and confidential space to obtain...
Exempt and non-exempt staff are welcome to participate. Participants are asked to purchase their own books in whatever form they prefer (paperback, kindle, audiobook, etc.). If you are interested...
Part of our "Get to Know" series for Tutor Appreciation Week
Good Morning Retrievers! It's National Tutor Appreciation Week and we want to take time to let our tutors, SI PASS leaders, and peer mentors know how much we appreciate who they are and what...
This week were able to not only recover food from the usual dining locations, we also recovered some fresh fried chicken! Read our summary below: What We Recovered: Fried Chicken, Mac n...
I graduated from UMBC one and half years ago, and I don't want to settle for 9-to-5 job. I wonder if anyone had the same feeling as I do that you guys ever have a thought to launch a Youtube...