UMBC’s Division of University Communications and Marketing

Mission

Through strategic, innovative, inclusive, and creative communications and marketing, UCM serves as the central strategic voice of UMBC. Our work elevates UMBC’s brand and reputation, drives enrollment, engages alumni and donors, and positions UMBC as a driver of economic growth in our region and beyond. We ensure our public mission remains visible, valued, and supported.

Our teams use creative strategies, storytelling, and campaigns to help achieve the university’s strategic goals. Contact us to learn how we can help you get the visibility and results you want.

Vision

UCM will be seen as the central trusted resource that sets the UMBC standard for innovative and strategic marketing and communications practice. Through our bold and collaborative work, by 2030, UMBC will be a nationally recognized, distinct leader in public higher education excellence and community impact.

Commitments

  • We build and promote a strong brand
  • We are a digital-first team
  • We enhance reputation and visibility across all audiences and stakeholders
  • We amplify university strategic goals
  • We drive innovation in marketing and communications
  • We impact enrollment

Recently Published


From UMBC News and Magazine

Alumnae Selected for NSF Innovation Corps

Lily Bengfort, Karuna Joshi & Yelena Yesha The team of UMBC computer science professor Yelena Yesha and alumnae Karuna Joshi M.S. ’99, Ph.D. ’12, computer science, and Lily Bengfort ’93,...

Posted: April 8, 2013, 8:30 AM

The Hilltop Institute in the Baltimore Business Journal

The Baltimore Business Journal reports that Maryland is pushing back the launch of its small business health exchange by at least three months to allow more time for leaders to prepare the complex...

Posted: April 5, 2013, 8:29 PM

Nicole Else-Quest, Psychology, in the News

Nicole Else-Quest, assistant professor of psychology, is in the news for a forthcoming paper in the journal Psychology of Women Quarterly.  The study shows that male and female students earn...

Posted: April 5, 2013, 7:28 PM

MFA Alumni on Display at CADVC Through April 20

UMBC’s Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture opened its annual MFA thesis exhibition this week, featuring five new MFA graduates, including two previous UMBC alumnae. The show will be open to...

Posted: April 5, 2013, 1:33 PM

Tresys Technology Announces Scholarship for UMBC Students

Tresys CEO Gary Latham Tresys Technology, a provider of technology and engineering services for customers with high-security requirements, announced this week it has established and awarded the...

Posted: April 5, 2013, 1:06 PM

David Lansing, GES, Awarded Ashby Prize

“Performing Carbon’s Materiality: the production of carbon offsets and the framing of exchange,” an article by David Lansing, assistant professor of geography and environmental systems, has been...

Posted: April 4, 2013, 8:03 PM

Robert Deluty, Graduate School, in The Faculty Voice

Robert Deluty, associate dean of the graduate school, has published three poems in the March 2013 issue of The Faculty Voice. The poems – “Thinking Ahead,” “English Department,” and “Unhappy...

Posted: April 4, 2013, 4:28 PM

Alumna Teresa Foster Awarded Fellowship

Teresa Foster ’09, gender and women’s studies and history, ’11 M.A. historical studies, and a LLC Ph.D. candidate, is the winner of the 2013-2014 Wing Graduate Fellowship in Colonial Chesapeake...

Posted: April 4, 2013, 4:13 PM