The Diamondback’s Spring 2025 Grad Student Guide
If you're a current or prospective graduate student at the University of Maryland, click HERE to read the Diamondback's Spring 2025 Grad Student Guide.
UMD will not implement proposed health center fee for 2026 academic year
Under the proposal, full-time students at this university would pay $136 and part-time students would pay $68 for the 2026 academic year.
UMD graduate school dean Stephen Roth reflects on first year, future goals
Roth said his priorities include improving retention and graduation rates for underrepresented populations and increasing graduate student diversity.
UMD revises English requirements for international teaching, graduate assistants
The current system, a two-year pilot program, now allows students to submit their TOEFL scores to this university for English proficiency requirements.
UMD GSG event allows graduate students to present research
This university’s Graduate Student Government hosts Graduate Research Appreciation Day annually.
UMD graduate students, administrators testify on state collective bargaining bill
The bill comes as part of a push over the past several years from graduate workers at this university to secure collective bargaining rights.
UMD Graduate school dean discusses collective bargaining, food insecurity at GSG meeting
Stephen Roth spoke with Graduate Student Government representatives on issues including collective bargaining rights, food insecurity and mental health.
More than 300 international students take advantage of GSG airport shuttle in August
The shuttle took students from Washington-Dulles International Airport to various stops in College Park.
UMD journalism and information science colleges offer new master’s degree
The program structure is geared towards teaching students how to navigate open data, public records requests and scraped or automatically accumulated data.
Tamara Allard, psychology graduate student, will be the next UMD GSG president
Allard has been a representative on the GSG since 2020.