If more than 100,000 certified teachers joined the labor force tomorrow, it still would not be enough to meet the shortfall in schools across the country. University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC) is addressing that workplace gap through an accelerated online program that not only carries participants through to a master’s degree but saves them time and money along the way.Continue Reading
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University of Maryland Global Campus Announces Partnership with Online Learning Platform Study.com
Partnership provides affordable and accessible transfer pathways for students to earn a degree
Adelphi, Md., and Mountain View, Calif., Jan. 27, 2021 – University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC), the nation’s largest online public university, has announced a new partnership with Study.com, LLC, a leading online and mobile learning platform. The partnership provides an affordable transfer pathway for students to earn a college degree through courses taken through Study.com’s College Accelerator solution and UMGC. Continue Reading
New Collaboration with Amazon Web Services Preps Service Members for Post-military IT Careers
Under a new corporate collaboration with University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC) and Amazon Web Services (AWS), a group of service members has been going through the Amazon Apprenticeship program since early November. The apprenticeship is a U.S. Department of Labor-certified program that offers a combination of paid immersive learning and on-the-job training with Amazon.Continue Reading
UMGC’s New Certificate Program Preps Public Safety Workforce for Executive Leadership Roles
You’re a police officer, firefighter, EMT or emergency manager who wants to advance to an administrative position. Here is your dilemma: You need advanced training to qualify for the promotion, but employers often do not provide advanced training until you have the job.
That is a niche University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC) is filling with its new Public Safety Executive Leadership certificate program launching in January.Continue Reading
UMGC Alumna Takes Leadership Role in NYC Pandemic Response
While powering through 17 hours of labor leading up to the birth of her daughter, Syra Madad was also on her cell phone, sending email messages, monitoring incoming public health reports, and keeping in touch with the leadership team at her workplace.
That is what happens when you are managing COVID-19 strategy at the U.S. epicenter of the pandemic.Continue Reading
UMGC MOOCs Help Entrepreneurs Around the World Grow
You have started your own business and consider yourself an up-and-coming entrepreneur. But you have hit some snags. Your business is not growing, and you have questions about finance and logistics.
Where do you turn for answers?
University of Maryland Global Campus has MOOCs for that.Continue Reading
University of Maryland Global Campus Among Region’s “Most Innovative Schools” in U.S. News “Best Colleges” Rankings
Ranking Based on Survey of Peers at Other Institutions in the Region
Adelphi, Md. (Sept. 18, 2020)—University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC) ranks in the top 10 of “Most Innovative Schools” among Regional Universities—North, in the popular U.S. News “Best Colleges” issue released this week. UMGC, the nation’s largest online public university, was #9 in the ranking, which is based on a survey of leaders at other institutions in the region.Continue Reading
UMGC Faculty Help Students Cope with Challenges, Solve Problems During Pandemic
In many homes, a kitchen table is a place where families gather to eat, celebrate and sometimes work out solutions to problems.
“A kitchen table is a strong symbol of comfort and a place where you don’t have to be anyone but yourself,” said Edwin Sapp, a 25-year UMGC adjunct professor and past winner of the Stanley J. Drazek Teaching Excellence Award. That is why, during his spring business Decision-Making course, he created a virtual kitchen table—a safe place where students could share their concerns and support one another during the global pandemic.Continue Reading
UMGC to Launch Digital Marketing Certificate Program
The University of Maryland Global Campus is launching a certificate program this fall to prepare students to work in the hottest segment of the marketing industry—digital marketing.
“It’s the fastest-growing area of marketing, and where the jobs are,” said Sandeep Patnaik, UMGC’s marketing program director.Continue Reading
UMGC Sets the ‘PACE’ for Lockdown Living and Learning
Around the world, since the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic, people are merging their home and work environments while scrambling to keep focused, to establish schedules and routines, to be productive and to keep distractions at bay.
It is a landscape that many University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC) students already know how to navigate, thanks to a required undergraduate course introduced in the fall 2019 semester.Continue Reading