Category: Campus

UMD residents cannot bring personal electric scooters to campus this fall

Effective Aug. 1, resident students will not be able to register their electric micromobility vehicles with DOTS. Vehicles that aren't registered could be booted or impounded.

Lillian Glaros
July 2, 2025

USM partners with Google to offer career certificates, AI courses

UMD is one of the university system’s 12 public universities and two regional higher education centers to be provided these resources beginning this fall.

Keira Hardesty
June 30, 2025

UMD announces Patrick O’Shea as next research vice president

O’Shea will manage research initiatives at the University of Maryland and University of Maryland, Baltimore in collaboration with both universities’ presidents.

Amelia Twyman
June 30, 2025

UMD joins 10 research universities in lawsuit against defense department research cuts

The Defense Department intends to implement a 15 percent indirect cost rate cap on financial assistance to higher education institutions, according to a May 14 memo.

Sanya Wason
June 19, 2025

Here’s how UMD community members can be impacted by the university’s new budget plan

Tuition for undergraduate and graduate students is set to increase. This university will no longer offer merit increases for non-bargaining employees next year.

Sam Gauntt
June 16, 2025

UMD to have first traffic signal in campus core

The traffic signal was originally scheduled to be operational on or about June 6, but completion has now been delayed for multiple weeks.

Keira Hardesty
June 16, 2025

UMD tuition, mandatory fees to increase after USM budget passes

This university sought the tuition increase after it learned of funding cuts during the budget preparation process.

Katherine Schutzman
June 13, 2025

Gustavo Flores-Macías selected as next public policy school dean

The University of Maryland has named Gustavo Flores-Macías as the next public policy school dean, effective Sept. 1. Flores-Macías is a…

Natalie Weger
June 12, 2025

US-China trade deal to let Chinese students remain at US colleges, universities

This deal comes two weeks after U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the nation would begin to “aggressively revoke” the visas of Chinese students.

Sanya Wason
June 12, 2025

UMD issues international students guidance on visa revocations, pauses

The Trump administration announced on Wednesday it would begin to “aggressively revoke” the visas of Chinese international students across the country.

Sanya Wason
May 30, 2025