Repost: Election 2022: Ballot Box Arrives, UMBC #6 in Nation Register & Pledge Online, Cast Your Vote in The Commons
The Maryland Board of Elections has placed an official ballot dropoff box in The Commons, meaning members of the UMBC community who are Maryland voters can cast their votes on campus. You will need to be registered and request a mail-in ballot, which you can place in the box after you have completed it.

As of this posting, UMBC is #6 in the United States in the number of pledges to vote made by students through ALL IN to Vote’s Pledge to Vote competition. Take the pledge and spread the word.
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Dear Graduate Students, Pursuant to the recent increase in transit demand by graduate students, the Graduate Assistants Advisory Committee (GAAC) is conducting a survey to understand the transit demands of graduate students, specifically graduate assistants, who need to be on campus multiple days a week and primarily rely on the UMBC transit service to commute to campus. Filling out the survey will help us identify gaps in transit schedules and routes, if any. The information collected through this survey will be shared with the Transit office to meet the transit needs of UMBC's graduate students.

Here's the link to the survey:  https://forms.gle/P4zZ4uiDfrxxhUYc7

In case of queries, matters of special assistance or in emergency situations, you can always reach out to the Transit office directly through following mediums:
UMBC Transit has also worked with the Off-Campus Student Service (OCSS) to provide discounted travel to UMBC students on MTA buses through the CharmPass App. For further details, please email the Transit office.

Regards, Graduate Assistants Advisory Committee

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The Latinx/Hispanic Faculty Association (LHFA) invites you to meet Latinx/Hispanic students and professors at UMBC. 

Celebrate Latinx/Hispanic Heritage Month with us!

We will have a poster session, a raffle, UMBC swag, food and drinks! 

During this event we will also announce the winners of the first LHFA awards and recognize the trajectory of Dr. Ana María Schwartz Caballero at UMBC. Come join us! 

This event will feature a poster session to share our research and ongoing projects with students and other faculty. If you are already have a poster, please share it with all of us, since students are invited, it would be a great opportunity to showcase the work we do.  

*Masks encouraged

If you are not on campus, and with accessibility in mind, we can also showcase your work in the following PPT, which will be part of the poster session: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1la97xpcEqTEqYNC9Dkkz-DqdGQt0YcMHB-KqBfzLCR0/edit#slide=id.p

Please email us at LHFA@umbc.edu if you have any questions or would like to participate with a poster. We will also be discussing this event on our first meeting of the semester this coming Friday, Sept. 30th at 12pm online:

https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/lhfa/events/110083 

*This event was discussed during the last meeting of LHFA (in May). We are happy we can finally make it happen. 

Please download the flyer, post it around campus, and share it with your students and colleagues. 

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Sign up here.

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We hope your Octobers are off to a great start! Our staff would like to provide some updates of our hours for two of our three spaces. These changes have taken effect due to full-time and student staff availability, as well as adjusting hours for higher traffic times to maximize our resources to our community members. As of today the hours for our spaces are as follows:

The Mosaic: Center for Cultural Diversity
Monday: 10:00am-6:00pm
Tuesday: 10:00am-6:00pm
Wednesday: Noon - 8:00pm
Thursday: 10:00am-6:00pm
Friday: 10:00am-6:00pm
Weekends: Closed

The Pride Center 
Monday: 11:00am-9:30pm
Tuesday: 11:00am-9:30pm
Wednesday: 11:00am-9:300pm
Thursday: 11:00am-9:30pm
Friday: 11:00am-5:00pm
Weekends: Closed

Please note that the hours for The Gathering Space for Spiritual Well-Being have not changed. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at i3b@umbc.edu. 


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September 15th to October 15th is National Hispanic Heritage Month. Throughout this time, i3b, UMBC and country celebrates the important contributions, heritage, and culture of all Hispanic and Latinos in the United States. 


Honoring our Hispanic/Latin(e/x) community and their influence on our country, we recognize culture and traditions that have shaped all of our communities. Hispanic Heritage Month further celebrates the traditions, cultures, families, love, and service all Hispanic and Latin(e/x) folks. 


History of Hispanic Heritage Month

Beginning on September 15th, Hispanic Heritage Month celebrates the anniversary of independence of the Latin American countries: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua, dating back to 1968. Additionally, Mexico, Chile, and Belize also celebrate their independence days during this period with Día de la Raza on October 12th.


The term Hispanic, referring to the racial and ethnic groups of folks from hisphanophone (Spanish Speaking) countries, that were historically colonized by Spain. This term is inclusive to those of Spanish origin. The term Latino, excludes Spain, but includes non-Spanish speaking Latin American countries such as Belize, Brazil, Guyana, and Haiti. Some folks may have ethnic roots from Latin America, and may use either, neither, or both Hispanic and/or Latino.


Want to learn more about Latine and Latinx? Click here.


Interested in learning more history? Click here.


For more information on Mosaic Hispanic/Latin(e/x) resources and other cultural diversity based resources, please email Angelina Jenkins, Assistant Director of The Mosaic, Center for Cultural Diversity at arjenkins@umbc.edu. 

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NDAM's roots go back to 1945, when Congress enacted a law declaring the first week in October each year "National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week." In 1962, the word "physically" was removed to acknowledge the employment needs and contributions of individuals with various types of disabilities. In 1988, Congress expanded the week to a month and changed the name to "National Disability Awareness Month" to address inclusion more broadly.

Americans with disabilities make up almost one-fifth of our population, which brings more celebration to this month, underneath the umbrella of the  Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)  celebrating its 31st anniversary. This month includes:

and given the beauty and complexity of being human, we respectfully nod to disability-related health conditions that are highlighted at other times.  We see you.  You matter.

Accessibility and Disability Services, remains committed to building on past progress and creating inclusive change as we work in partnership with the entire UMBC community, including Facilities Management, Human Resources and Instructional Technology. Student Disability Services provides support for students with disabilities, as education is a path toward progress.   While huge strides have been made with accessibility and inclusion (which can happen via accommodation), people with disabilities still face discrimination and lack of understanding. and has many events planned - the fight for full inclusion remains (Judy Heumann Ted Talk link). 

Accessibility and Disability Services

Student Disability Services
Retriever Integrated Health includes The Counseling Center as counseling (of course) as well as events and group meetings

Retriever Integrated Health also has a range of health services that support campus members of all abilities in the new, very-accessible Center for Wellbeing  across from Erickson Field (D7 on the map).

Student Organizations:
Faculty Group:  Disability Studies Working Group


A sampling of Disability Awareness Events:

Oct 7: Campus Accessibility Project Update and Discussion
Accessible Tech Wednesdays: October 12, October 19, October 26
Oct 14: Demystifying Disability: Student Recruitment, Hiring and UMBC's Workforce Recruitment Program (students and recent grads)
Oct 20-23: Superfest Virtual Film Festival
Oct 28:  Accessible Route Trick-or-Treat Walk


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With AOK Library's Virtual Study Room (VSR), you can find community among your fellow Retrievers in an engaging and supportive study environment.

The VSR is a Discord server that is available 24/7. For access, join Discord's UMBC Student Hub and find our server under the "Social & Study" section.

What to Expect

The "group study" Channels
Our main channel is the "group study room" text channel- the place where you can do homework alongside your peers and hold yourself accountable with updates on your progress. Complain or totally nerd out about what you're working on. Share study tips. The works! It is a text channel that has the following corresponding features:
  • "group study, beats"- a voice channel for conversation and music listening. You can add songs to the queue for a collaborative music listening experience, or just listen to the music while you study!
  • "beats requests"- you guessed it. A text channel for adding your songs to the “group study, beats” queue.
  • "group study, no beats"- a conversation-only voice channel for those who don’t want music in the mix.
Other Channels
In addition to the group study channels, we’re especially fond of these guys:
  • "lobby"- a text channel for hanging out, meeting your friends, and chatting with other students and library staff.
  • "research help desk"- a text channel for asking library staff questions that you might have for your assignments and the resources available to you at the library.
Staff members will pop in every now and then to answer questions and build community. We hope to see you there!


This virtual study room is set up as a shared community that is welcoming and respectful of all. Those who engage in inappropriate behavior will be immediately removed from the room. Offensive, obscene, threatening, discriminatory, or otherwise inappropriate language or content sharing is strictly prohibited.

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