UMGC Global Media Center

Graduates who signed up for UMGC’s signature in-person commencement activities May 9-12 in Adelphi, Maryland, are among the nearly 14,000 new UMGC graduates around the world, and they are celebrating more than their new academic degrees. They are showing the world that they pushed forward—despite births and illnesses, despite relocations and demanding jobs, despite life’s other unexpected challenges—to pursue their dreams.

UMGC grad sees ways to help the deaf with their finances, especially taxes, and would especially like to boost financial knowledge of deaf high school students.

The graphic design major will be easy to spot at UMGC’s Spring 2024 Grad Walk. She is the B.A. candidate with a mortarboard bearing two hand-drawn caricatures, one of herself and the other of her father, who did not live to see his youngest child complete her academic journey.

Military veteran was only one year into his master’s program in software engineering at UMGC when he landed his dream job in Silicon Valley.

Annie O’Connell of the Chesapeake Bay Conservation and Climate Corps discussed natural plant and animal migration how invasive species overwhelm the natural environment, killing off other plants without providing any benefit to the ecosystem.

The HyperCare program builds on the Success Coach model and provides an additional layer of support for certain students who may be struggling to complete their educational goals.