• Tuition and fee rates are frozen at FY 2020 levels.
  
  
• Enrollment for Fall 2020 is lower than in Fall 2019.
  
  
• Auxiliary units have been hit very hard. The University returned over $18 million in room, board, and other fees to students for a portion of the spring semester and waived most fees in the fall. The Fall 2020 losses are estimated at $28 million.
  
  
• In order to reduce density for health and safety, residence halls are operating at 34 percent of normal capacity, decreasing not only housing revenues but also dining services revenues.
  
  
• All external events have been cancelled for the foreseeable future, impacting revenues at the UMBC Event Center and Conference Services, with estimated losses through December of nearly $1 million.

• Identifiying expenses ﹘ such as dining services, travel, and utilities ﹘ that will naturally drop due to the lower volume of people on campus.
  
  
• Scouring non-personnel costs to determine where cuts can be made without affecting the quality of instruction.
  
  
• Deferring or canceling non-critical infrastructure projects.
  
  
• Continually reviewing business processes to ensure utmost efficiency.
  

• Eliminating a portion of budgeted vacant positions, and implementing a hiring freeze to achieve savings from remaining vacant budgeted positions.
  
  
• Implementing a temporary salary reduction (TSR) plan for those staff and faculty earning $100,000 and above. The reductions will be spread across the remaining available pay periods of the fiscal year and range from 1.5 percent at the lower end of that salary range up to 15 percent for the President. This TSR will offset the State-funds shortfall by almost 6 percent and the total funds shortfall by approximately 2.5 percent. For more detailed information on the TSR plan, please visit the Human Resources website.

Save-A-Swipe creates a pool of meals that become available to UMBC students who have been identified by trained staff as food insecure.

This semester, students can sign up to donate 5 or 10 meals through our online form. 

Sign up here to donate meals: http://tinyurl.com/saveaswipe
The last day to donate meals is Sept 10th, 2020.

If you are in need of meals, email retrieveressentials@umbc.edu to be assisted.

Ready to make some easy money?

Your journey to financial wellness begins now with our interactive (and entertaining) online FinancialSmarts CASHCourse! This multi-module, self-paced course ensures that you are as well-prepared to manage your budgets, bank accounts, assets and debt as you are to master your academic and career interests. To enroll in the online FinancialSmarts CASHCourse click here. 

Here’s where FinancialSmarts start to pay off... By September 15, 2020:

● If you complete the pre-assessment and one module, your name will be entered in our $100 cash prize drawing.

● If you complete the pre-assessment and two or more modules, your name will be entered in our $300 cash prize drawing.

● If you complete the pre-assessment and all modules, your name will be entered in our $500 cash prize drawing.

Big return for little effort – It only takes approximately 5 hours to complete the CASHCourse!

Be sure to complete modules by September 15, 2020 to be entered into the drawings! All drawings will take place on September 16, 2020 at 12:30pm via Instagram Live. 

So don’t wait...get started now! 

If you have questions about the online FinancialSmarts CASHCourse, please feel free to contact us at financialsmarts@umbc.edu. 

Your journey to financial wellness begins now with our interactive (and entertaining) online FinancialSmarts CASHCourse! This multi-module, self-paced course ensures that you are as well-prepared to manage your budgets, bank accounts, assets and debt as you are to master your academic and career interests. To enroll in the online FinancialSmarts CASHCourse click here. 

Once you have enrolled in the course, you are welcome to complete as many modules as you would like, whenever you choose to do so. However, here’s where FinancialSmarts start to pay off... By September 15, 2020:

● If you complete the pre-assessment and one module, your name will be entered in our $100 cash prize drawing.

● If you complete the pre-assessment and two or more modules, your name will be entered in our $300 cash prize drawing.

● If you complete the pre-assessment and all modules, your name will be entered in our $500 cash prize drawing.

Be sure to complete modules by September 15, 2020 to be entered into the drawings! All drawings will take place on September 16, 2020 at 12:30pm via Instagram Live. 

So don’t wait...get started now! 

If you have questions about the online FinancialSmarts CASHCourse, please feel free to contact us at financialsmarts@umbc.edu. 

• Alignment of Economic Decisions and Values
• Bias and Microaggression
• Communications
• Conflict Resolution and Restorative Practices
• Curriculum
• Faculty and Staff Diversity, Recruitment, Retention, Belonging
• Intersectionality and Engagement
• Land Acknowledgment and Education
• Policies and Procedures
  
• Policing and Safety
• Sexual Misconduct and Harassment
• Student Recruitment and Enrollment
• Student Retention and Belonging
• Training and Education

COVID-19 Health & Safety

Labor Day Weekend Safety Reminders

Enhanced Enrollment Management Resources

Campus Access

New Mailroom Hours

UMBC Together

• Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA)
  
  
• UMBC’s Sexual Misconduct, Sexual Harassment, and Gender Discrimination Policy
  
  
• COVID-19 Faculty Support Policy: Plans will be developed during the Fall semester and implemented in Spring 2021.
  
  
• UMBCWorks: Faculty/staff can advertise caregiving needs to UMBC students.
  
  
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP): Work-life specialists can research and provide referrals and customized resources for childcare and eldercare.
  
  
• EAP Coronavirus Resources
  
  
• myUMBC Moms and Parents Group
  
  
• Office of Equity and Inclusion Resources for Pregnancy and Parenting
  
  
• Women’s Center Caregiver Resource page (coming soon)
  
  
• Mental Health Resources: EAP Confidential Counseling Resources for Employees, including free short-term counseling services for employees and their dependents. Counseling Center Resources for Students, including free online counseling appointments and after-hours support for students in crisis.

• Invite faculty and staff of all genders who have caregiving responsibilities to meet individually with you to discuss ways in which their workload might be reduced or redistributed within existing University policies.
  
  
• Review how you might reduce the frequency and duration of, and increase the effectiveness of, department, committee, and staff meetings.
  
  
• Identify non-essential work, including periodic and other types of reports, that could be discontinued or deferred.
  
  
• Talk about how you will work with employees to develop backup support plans for all responsibilities in case of illness or urgent caregiving challenges.