UMD to fill Bias Incident Support Services program director position amid hiring freeze
Neijma Celestine-Donnor left the position July 31.
UMD director of Bias Incident Support Services to leave position Friday
Neijma Celestine-Donnor will be starting a new job at the University of Maryland, Baltimore next month.
UMD released its first report on hate bias incidents, but it includes little new data
The report covers the 2018 academic year.
UMD student arrested on hate crime charges after allegedly sending anti-Semitic texts
The incident occurred in December, according to campus police.
Second part of UMD Black History Month talk focuses on self-advocacy, intersectionality
MICA and this university’s diversity and inclusion office ran the event series.
Tension persists between Nyumburu Cultural Center and UMD’s diversity VP
Diversity VP Georgina Dodge promised last semester to create an advisory board for the center, but hasn't yet.
Advocacy among black women at center of UMD Black History Month talk
Students listened to black activists discuss their experiences in the first of two talks.
One person manages most of UMD’s hate bias response, but another staffer is on the way
They're expected to begin "sometime during the spring."
The American Indian Student Union wants UMD to acknowledge it is built on tribal land
UMD is one of several Big Ten universities to be built on native land.
UMD students, staff have reported 11 hate bias incidents so far this semester
Seven of these incidents involved offensive language targeting race and national origin, according to the university's hate bias log.