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UMGC Celebrates Record-Breaking Class of 2025, Looks Ahead to Winter Grad Walk
University News Press Releases
December 05, 2025
UMGC announced its largest graduating class in history.
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UMGC Celebrates U.S. Marine Student’s Promotion in Korea
Military and Veteran Community Student
October 30, 2025
The Camp Hansen team celebrated student Xavier Jones’s promotion to Staff Sergeant, honoring his leadership and commitment as a military learner.
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New Initiatives at UMGC Expand Learner Access and Sense of Belonging
Student
September 04, 2025
From engaging near-completers to helping fulfill learner’s basic needs and supporting military caregivers, UMGC is putting its mission into action. Three recent initiatives highlight how the university is opening doors, removing barriers, and helping more learners transform their lives through education.
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How a Movie Moment Launched the Career of RSA Scholar Jean Menard
Cybersecurity Scholarships
June 17, 2025
For RSA Scholar Jean Menard, scenes in a movie were the catalyst for launching a lifelong journey. As a high school student in his native Haiti, he watched Die Hard II—but it wasn’t the action or explosions that caught his attention. That moment of curiosity became the first steppingstone in the path toward a career in cybersecurity.
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Student Wins Langenberg Fellowship for Eco-Awareness Project at UMGC Asia
UMGC in Asia Scholarships
July 25, 2024
Because of Alexander Abel’s three-pronged “Sprouting Sustainability” project, he has become the first UMGC student named a Langenberg Legacy Fellow by the University System of Maryland.
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Coaching Success
Student
July 17, 2024
UMGC learners face a wide variety of challenges, from the demands of jobs and families to unscheduled military deployments, geopolitical conflicts, and natural disasters. Now, a new, flexible model of learner support is helping more students succeed.
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RSA Scholar Exemplifies the Benefits of Lifelong Learning
Cybersecurity Student
July 10, 2024
Ehsan Mahmood has a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, but he enrolled at UMGC after he found he couldn’t shake his childhood fascination with cybersecurity. UMGC faculty selected him as an RSA Scholar based on the abilities he demonstrated in the graduate cybersecurity program.
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UMGC Launches Student Coaching Initiative to Scale High-Touch Support for Learners
Student Press Releases
February 23, 2024
In collaboration with coaching innovator InsideTrack, UMGC to expand its in-house corps of success coaches and provide one-on-one coaching for first-time college-goers.
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