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Miyares cited for recognizing power of big data, leveraging analytics, and unwavering focus on accessibility and affordability Javier Miyares, who fled Castro’s Cuba as a child and found his American dream in Maryland higher education, has announced his retirement after a 45-year career that has culminated in his transformative eight-year tenure as president of University...

Dwayne Burbridge always knew what he would do when he retired from the military: teach high school chemistry and physics.

UMGC recently conferred its highest faculty teaching honor—the Stanley J. Drazek Teaching Excellence Award—on seven of its most outstanding faculty members in Asia, Europe and the U.S., and recognized eight others for their noteworthy contributions to the scholarship and art of teaching. Each year, UMGC issues the award recognizing effective...

In many homes, a kitchen table is a place where families gather to eat, celebrate and sometimes work out solutions to problems.

The UMGC is launching a certificate program this fall to prepare students to work in the hottest segment of the marketing industry—digital marketing.

Around the world, since the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic, people are merging their home and work environments while scrambling to keep focused, to establish schedules and routines, to be productive and to keep distractions at bay.