Finding Community
The Terp experience extends beyond classrooms, labs and studios; encompassing residence halls, clubs and sports, fraternities and sororities, campus events and performances, 800-plus student organizations, dozens of living and learning communities, and countless other ways to get involved. Students here can create a unique identity and grow as individuals, even as they become part of a close-knit and diverse community.
Campus advocate: Cori Carfagno | Assistant Director | cori@umd.edu | 301.405.3058
The Adele H. Stamp Student Union, known as the Stamp, is the campus student activity center. Its mission is to provide a safe and inviting campus center where all UMD students, alumni, faculty, staff and community members cultivate lifelong relationships founded on engagement, learning, multiculturalism and citizenship.
Campus advocate: Cori Carfagno | Assistant Director | cori@umd.edu | 301.405.3058
Transfer and Off-Campus Student Life (TOCSL) connects and engages transfer and off-campus UMD students. It aims to equip transfer and off-campus students with the resources to thrive as individuals and to serve as leaders to the off-campus student population; empower transfer and off-campus students to overcome barriers to success; and ease the transition for transfer and off-campus students.
Campus advocate: Brandon Dula | Assistant Director |bdula@umd.edu | 301.314.7167
Campus advocate: Erica Simpkins | Programming Specialist | esimpkin@umd.edu | 301.314.3174
The Office of Multicultural Involvement & Community Advocacy (MICA) works to empower students through education on issues of race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, religion and their intersections. MICA provides student-centered advising, advocacy and programs, resulting in positive student outcomes in learning, identity development, involvement and leadership. MICA areas of advocacy include:
- Asian American & Pacific Islander Student Involvement
- Black Student Involvement
- Latinx Student Involvement
- LGBTQ Student Involvement
- Multicultural and Multiracial Student Involvement
- Native American Indian Student Involvement
Campus advocate: TBD
The LGBT Equity Center works to establish and maintain a safe, inclusive and welcoming campus environment for people of all sexual orientations and gender identities or expressions. The LGBT Equity Center serves University of Maryland students, staff, faculty and alumni of all gender identities and sexual orientations. The center builds community and networks, provides support and resources, fosters leadership, educates and promotes academic excellence, and advocates for equity.
Campus advocate: TBD
The Office of Multi-Ethnic Student Education (OMSE) is an academic support unit that offers services and programs to enhance the academic experience of undergraduate students of various underrepresented ethnic backgrounds at the University of Maryland. It strives to identify and meet changing needs that affect the success of undergraduate students and works to build a positive and sensitive community of learners.
Campus advocate: TBD
The Office of Diversity & Inclusion (ODI) encourages and supports the efforts of units throughout the university to achieve their diversity and inclusion goals; brings together students from various social identity groups with a history of tension or conflict to confront those tensions and build bridges through dialogue; and offers trainings that strengthen understandings of inclusion, equity and justice. The ODI Hate-Bias Response Program responds, educates and reports to the campus about hate-bias incidents. The program manager for hate-bias response oversees hate-bias reporting and response, the coordination of campus support services to individuals affected by hate-bias incidents, and prevention programming and efforts.
Campus advocate: TBD
Nyumburu is the word for "freedom house" from the Swahili words "nyumba"(house) and "uhuru" (freedom). The Nyumburu Cultural Center has served the UMD community since 1971 and continues to build on its foundation as the center for black social, cultural and intellectual interaction. Nyumburu's productions and activities include lectures and seminars, art exhibits, workshops in the dramatic arts, dance and music. Academic courses in blues, jazz, gospel music performance and creative writing are also offered.
