This campus update is from Enrollment Management. Receive regular updates by following their myUMBC page. 

On January 5, 2022, UMBC will launch its enhanced online enrollment tools and interface to support students’ academic planning.  The enhanced tools and interface, powered by HighPoint Technology Solutions, provides critical infrastructure needed to support a more improved student enrollment experience for both students and advisors, including degree planning, class search, registration and schedule adjustments.  This improved enrollment experience further supports and promotes the goals and objectives of the Strategic Enrollment Plan (SEP) with respect to the defined Student Success Strategy.  Specifically, students and advisors will benefit from:

An Updated Look and Feel:  The new interface offers a fresh, modernized look and a more intuitive experience. Students and advisors serving as early test-drivers of the enhanced tools and interface report overall positive user experience.  

A More Integrated Experience:  Because the new enrollment solution sits inside PeopleSoft SA (our student information system), enrollment transactions will be facilitated more seamlessly from beginning to end.  For example, students can build courses into their degree planner and schedule builder, place the courses into their shopping cart, and register for the courses within the same platform. Students no longer have to move from one tool to another to complete an enrollment transaction.

More Real-Time Transactions and Updates: The unified experience and approach will allow the scheduler builder tools, that includes class enrollments, open seats and waitlist totals to be almost real-time - providing both students and faculty with timely and accurate information for academic planning purposes.  

More Robust Class Search Options:  The enhanced tools respond to feedback from students and advisors about the need for more robust search options.  Now, students and advisors can leverage more search options including the ability to search courses that meet GEP requirements without having to select additional search criteria.  Additionally, search results are displayed in an easily readable format without the need to drill down for more course detail.

For more information about the enhanced enrollment tools and interface, we invite you to review the online FAQs or contact the Registrar’s Office.

The enhanced online enrollment tools and interface represent the beginning of a series of planned enrollment enhancements to support student success.  Other planned enhancements include an improved new student onboarding (confirmation/deposit) experience and more robust degree planning  tools.

Thank you to the Registrar’s Office and the Division of Information Technology (DoIT) teams for leading, planning and facilitating these important enhancements.  Thanks, too, to our SA Academic Advisory Committee - represented by our Colleges, Office of Academic and Pre-professional Advising, Division of Undergraduate Academic Affairs, and the Student Government Association - for providing critical insight and feedback about the student and advisor enrollment experience to help inform this project.

Happy New Year!

SDS will operate remotely this week (January 3rd through 7th) during regular business hours (8:30am through 4:30pm) and, in general, staff will not be available on campus to proctor in-person tests.  Any concerns regarding SDS testing this week should be emailed to disability@umbc.edu. 

As you know, UMBC has asked that students, staff, and faculty delay their return to campus, if at all possible, due to the surge in COVID-19 cases.  Anyone who wishes to return to campus must have a recent negative COVID test on file as well as meeting additional requirements.  See https://covid19.umbc.edu/

Most winter session courses are being taught online, and those courses with tests will be administered online as well.  If you would like to utilize your approved testing accommodations for a Winter 2022 course, you still must submit a Semester Request so that we can send your Letter of Accommodations to your instructor.  Instructions for submitting a Semester Request can be found at https://sds.umbc.edu/accommodate-semester-request/

We will update our operations and availability for next week as more information becomes available.

Stay safe and stay healthy!

SDS Staff

Dear UMBC Community,

Due to community demand, we are hosting new COVID-19 Booster and Flu Clinics in the New Year.

Clinics are January 6 and 20 and are by appointment only.

Reserve your appointment today!

These slots may fill. If no times appear when you click on January 2022, our clinics are filled. We will continue to host throughout the new year.

Thank you for helping to keep our community healthy.

Vic Madrid

Medical Director, Retriever Integrated Health

The Chesapeake Bay Foundation is seeking candidates for two Spring 2022 internships:

MD Farm Stewardship Assistant (Spring 2022) - UMBCworks 9333973
MD Restoration Assistant (Spring 2022) - UMBCworks 9331638

Log into your UMBCworks account for full details and application instructions!

THE CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION

Established over 50 years ago, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) is the nation’s leading conservation organization dedicated solely to restoring and protecting the Chesapeake Bay, our nation’s largest estuary. With 300,000 members, an annual operating budget of $26 million, and a $55 million endowment, CBF’s 190 full time staff work in offices in Annapolis and Easton, MD; Richmond and Virginia Beach, VA; Harrisburg, PA; Washington, DC; and in 15 field education program locations across the Bay watershed.

CBF's headquarters - the Philip Merrill Environmental Center – in Annapolis is the world’s first USGBC LEED platinum building. In 2014, CBF opened the Brock Environmental Center in Virginia Beach; the Brock Center is the tenth certified Living Building and one of the most energy efficient, environmentally smart buildings in the world.

The Chesapeake Bay Foundation is a member of the UMBC Career Center Partner Program. Their partnership status shows their dedication and commitment to recruiting UMBC talent.