UMBC Dining is continually striving to enhance and improve our services on campus. One of the best ways to do this is to hear directly from you! By attending a focus group you can share your opinions, suggestions, and likes so that we can ensure your experience in our dining locations is positive. 

Our focus groups are informal, fun, and informative. If you’ve wondered why something is a particular way, this is a great opportunity to find out, though we always look forward to your feedback. And we enjoy hearing from the community, even if you do not visit the campus dining locations often (we want to know why!) 

Each participant gets $50 Free UMBC Reward Dollars added to their UMBC Red Card! We will be hosting several targeted focus group sessions for resident students, commuters, graduates, and faculty & staff Tuesday 4/4, Wednesday 4/5 and Thursday 4/6.  The session will last approximately 60-75 minutes.  The discussion is for research purposes only to better learn how we can meet your dining needs in both the short and long term.  At no time will anyone try to sell you anything. Spaces are limited, so can we count on your participation?  Upon completing the screening questionnaire, we will send you a confirmation email with the exact date and time and give you a reminder call closer to the focus group date.  

If you are interested in joining a Focus Group, complete this Survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/umbcdining

Questions? Contact Mark Tarkanick, Marketing Director for UMBC Dining, at mjtark34@umbc.edu. 

Please call 410-455-8888 or visit our myUMBC (Recreation at the RAC) or recreation website (recreation.umbc.edu) for further updates.

What if there was a new and exciting student-run place on campus where you could get a cup of coffee with a someone or two- and have a place to sit, work, collaborate, discuss politics, or listen to music? 

What if we made that space?

To make this happen, SGA is seeking any interested student to join us in conversations to reimagine how we use our campus spaces. And when we say “any student,” we really mean “every student.” This space should benefit all of us - regardless of what our background is, our major, or our favorite hobbies.

We need artists who can help make this space a sight to behold. We need environmentalists who can help make this space environmentally-friendly and sustainable. We need technologists who can help make this space a reflection of what 21st-century students need to succeed. We need economists and entrepreneurial students who can help make this space fiscally sound and who can manage books, finances, and costs. We need event planners who can help this space be lively and determine what stories this space can tell through occasionally planned events. We need engineering students who can contribute to this space by designing it. We need innovators who can make this space completely different from anywhere else on campus. We need coffee-lovers to keep us fueled and remind us what this space could be for. 

We need you. 

If you’re interested, we would love to welcome you as a part of our team. Fill out this Google Form by Friday, March 10, 2017 and we will be in touch with further details!

If you have any questions about this initiative, please feel free to email Collin Sullivan at csulli1@umbc.edu or Sarah Lilly at slilly1@umbc.edu. 

This new service is priced at $4.50 per book. 

Questions? Email us at commonvision.umbc.edu!