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I’m asking some of the people you might encounter on the UMBC campus, including students, faculty and staff, to answer a few questions about themselves and their experiences. These are their...

Delana Gregg and I teach a course each fall called Civic Imagination and Social Entrepreneurship (cross-listed as POLI 209, AMST 280, SOCY 298, and EDUC 209), in which students explore and develop...

I’m asking some of the people you might encounter on the UMBC campus, including students, faculty and staff, to answer a few questions about themselves and their experiences. These are their...

Here’s a brief update on a few UMBC-related happenings since mid-December: Thirteen teams of students submitted detailed proposals for improving the campus as a part of SGA’s Prove It!...

The Student Activity Fee paid to UMBC by every undergraduate funds student organization events and operations, the Student Events Board, SGA and The Retriever Weekly.  The total amount collected...

President Hrabowski and Provost Hirshman sent out a message today outlining the likely consequences for the UMBC community of Governor O'Malley's proposed budget for 2010-2011.  The big news for...

I entered college as a freshman in fall 1984.  My declared major was Political Science; my orientation was careerist; my worldview embarrassingly narrow.  Over the years my horizons broadened.  I...

Full Title: Massachusetts Senate Outcome Driven Partly by Youth Non-Voters As you've undoubtedly heard, Republican Scott Brown defeated Democrat Martha Coakley, by winning 51.9% of the vote to...

I remember how it felt to be a college student in the mid-1980s, when the memory of the Civil Rights Movement was more immediate and fresh in the minds of my elders.  Students like me who hoped to...