USM braces for $500 million COVID-19 budget cut, potential layoffs
The system acknowledged that “nearly every source” of its revenue will fall in the coming year.
We need to center the school reopening argument on faculty and staff, not students
Faculty and staff lives are more important than students’ convenience.
Nyumburu, Black faculty host town hall to discuss racism at UMD and police brutality
Tuesday's town hall was meant to foster a “cathartic and therapeutic medium.”
UMD to offer leave Monday to employees who wish to take time to mourn George Floyd
George Floyd was remembered Thursday at a Minneapolis memorial service.
Dozens gather at UMD vigil for beloved African American Studies professor Jonathan England
Students remembered England as a mentor and devoted ally.
Academics deserve financial and institutional security. Here’s what they need.
The academic job market can be saved — but faculty need funding and power.
UMD orders hiring freeze to offset losses from coronavirus closures
The school will lose millions as a result of pandemic.
“Trying to make lemonade out of lemons”: UMD professors prepare to move classes online
Faculty say some classes are easier to adapt than others.
Here’s what Darryll Pines could do to make me only write positive columns about him
He should prioritize getting more money from the state government, and making shared governance a reality.
At emotional forum, black students and staff criticize UMD’s diversity and inclusion VP
The vice president has made changes to the Nyumburu Cultural Center, a hub of black student life.