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A double major and member of the Honors College, Juan Escalera came to Â鶹ÊÓƵ as an alumnus of the university’s Early Identification Program.

UMGC President Gregory W. Fowler, who will speak at Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s Winter Commencement on Thursday, December 15, discusses how Â鶹ÊÓƵ influenced his career path, the future of online learning, UMGC’s shared commitment to diversity and accessibility, and the gift of listening.

During her time at Â鶹ÊÓƵ, University Scholar Aloana Hall had internships at the DC Volunteer Lawyers Project and the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia.

For almost 10 years, Melissa Cannarozzi has worked in Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s Office of University Branding. She has spent half that time taking classes part-time and working on a master of arts in history.

As a sophomore, electrical engineering major Sai Srivatsav Gutala started a student club called the Inventors and Innovations Team (IIT) with one of his classmates, computer engineering major Nicholas Paschke.

Jill Deering, senior assistant dean of student and academic affairs at the Schar School, is the December Employee of the Month.

In 1995, Â鶹ÊÓƵ staff photographer Neil Adams took aerial photos of the Fairfax Campus from a Huey helicopter.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ alum Neil Adams talks about taking aerial photos of the Fairfax Campus from a helicopter in 1995.

University of Maryland Global Campus President Gregory W. Fowler, a Â鶹ÊÓƵ alumnus and national leader in online and hybrid education for nontraditional students, will be the featured speaker at Winter Commencement next month.

The passage of Title IX in 1972 also marked the beginning of athletic opportunities for women at Â鶹ÊÓƵ. Â鶹ÊÓƵ's first women's sport—tennis—started its inaugural season in 1972-73.

The Fall 2022 Communication Career Forum, on October 25 at Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s Fairfax Campus, focused on helping students break into the industry and inspiring them to find purpose in their work.

When Â鶹ÊÓƵ alum Miriam Van Scott was working as a freelance writer in the mid-1990s, she was researching an article about the afterlife and realized what she needed was a compendium of all things related to the hell—so she wrote one.