UMD employees push for alert system to include extreme heat warnings
In College Park, across June, July and August, there were 14 days where the maximum temperature was 90 degrees or above.
September heat wave leaves UMD students without AC uncomfortable
Resident Life offered alternative sleeping arrangements by setting up mattresses for students in communal areas with air conditioning.
Climate change sentences incarcerated people to death. Air conditioning is the easy fix.
Heat on its own isn’t why people are dying — it’s the refusal to do anything to mitigate it that’s indefensible.
UMD residential facilities department plans to renovate Ellicott Community
Facilities Management is also prepared to consult architects and engineers to finish a design to replace the South Hill Community’s underground infrastructure.
UMD reverses plan to remove air conditioning from Cumberland Hall
Air conditioning units will be installed in the dorm this summer.
All dorms should have air conditioning. We shouldn’t remove it from Cumberland Hall.
The university must finally prioritize the wishes of its students and make plans to install air conditioning in all on-campus dorm rooms.
UMD’s Cumberland Hall to lose its air conditioning starting summer 2023
The work will begin in the summer of 2023.
UMD workers are essential. The campus community must fight for them.
UMD can’t keep treating its service and maintenance staff as disposable.