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Photo montage of Drazek Award Winners
UMGC Faculty Honored for Teaching Excellence
Profiles
August 17, 2020
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...
UMGC Faculty at their dinner table working online.
UMGC Faculty Help Students Cope with Challenges, Solve Problems During Pandemic
Profiles
August 11, 2020
In many homes, a kitchen table is a place where families gather to eat, celebrate and sometimes work out solutions to problems.
UMGC to Launch Digital Marketing Certificate Program
August 10, 2020
The UMGC is launching a certificate program this fall to prepare students to work in the hottest segment of the marketing industry—digital marketing.
A photo montage of various students in front of their computers with the phrase 'keeping PACE online'
UMGC Sets the 'PACE' for Lockdown Living and Learning
August 06, 2020
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.
Ken Burns and Marvin Kalb
The Kalb Report: Ken Burns on Saving America in 2020
Events Profiles
August 04, 2020
In the first-ever virtual “Kalb Report” on July 27, documentary filmmaker Ken Burns told moderator Marvin Kalb that the United States in 2020 is in the midst of one of the four great crises in this nation’s history.
UMGC CSS Scholars Say Communication, Security, Access Are Key to Safe School Opening and Course Delivery
Profiles Cybersecurity
July 29, 2020
The three students recently awarded scholarships by the Center for Security Studies (CSS) at University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC) through the Department of Defense (DoD) Cybersecurity Scholarship Program have been giving much thought to the novel coronavirus’s impact on schools and how best to provide a quality education through mainly digital means. CSS scholars...
UMGC Joins Papa John’s Dough & Degrees Affordable Education Tuition Assistance Program
Press Releases
July 27, 2020
UMGC announced today it has teamed up with Papa John’s International. Inc., in a new education alliance with the company’s best-in-class “Dough & Degrees” tuition assistance program.
Bob Ludwig
A montage of Pillars of Strength Award Winners.
A Record Nine Caregivers of Wounded Warriors Awarded 2020 Pillars of Strength Scholarships
Events Press Releases
July 20, 2020
The Pillars of Strength Scholarship Program has selected a record nine volunteer caregivers of severely injured service members to receive full scholarships to attend UMGC.
UMGC and Goodwin House logos
UMGC and Goodwin House Incorporated Establish Education Alliance
Press Releases
July 20, 2020
UMGC and Goodwin House Incorporated (GHI) announced today a new education alliance that expands the affordability of college degrees for nearly 1,000 senior living and health care employees in Northern Virginia.
Bob Ludwig
A Photo collage of various families
Student Wins Essay Contest with Close-to-home Topic
Events
July 16, 2020
The judges who awarded Briana Benson the top prize in a social science essay contest at UMGC praised her beautiful writing, strong argument and solid references to research.
Filmmaker Ken Burns in front of an American Flag
The Kalb Report: One for the History Books, A Conversation with Ken Burns on a Turbulent 2020
Press Releases
July 16, 2020
Award-winning Documentary Filmmaker Joins Journalist Marvin Kalb to Offer Context and Perspective on the Pandemic, Protests and Politics in America at National Press Club Livestream Event.
Bob Ludwig
An astronaut in space.
UMGC Students Helping NASA Astronauts Complete "To Do" Lists in Space
June 25, 2020
On NASA spacewalks next year, astronauts could be guided on their step-by-step tasks by a software program built by UMGC students.
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