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

Charmed City by John Strausbaugh ’74

My twin brother, Richard, and I were born in Baltimore on Halloween, 1951. He was the treat, I was the trick. I went to Loyola High School and UMBC, and lived in and around Baltimore until 1990,...

Posted: November 11, 2010, 4:05 PM

Eight UMBC Graduates Make Baltimore List of Top Doctors

To come up with this year’s list of the city’s top doctors, Baltimore magazine asked 5,500 physicians who they would choose to send their family members to see in each of 86 specialties. The...

Posted: November 10, 2010, 8:53 PM

Fighting Fistula: Jeffery Wilkinson '91

Jeffery Wilkinson ’91, interdisciplinary studies, takes his medical talents to Tanzania to fight a debilitating condition Read more in the Summer 2009 issue of UMBC Magazine…

Posted: November 10, 2010, 8:46 PM

Fighting Fistula: Jeffery Wilkinson ’91

Jeffery Wilkinson ’91, interdisciplinary studies, takes his medical talents to Tanzania to fight a debilitating condition Read more in the Summer 2009 issue of UMBC Magazine…

Posted: November 10, 2010, 8:46 PM

Plotting Pedagogy: Scott Jeffrey '81

Scott Jeffrey ’81, geography and environmental systems, named Maryland’s 2008 professor of the year. Read more in the Summer 2009 issue of UMBC Magazine…

Posted: November 10, 2010, 8:45 PM

Plotting Pedagogy: Scott Jeffrey ’81

Scott Jeffrey ’81, geography and environmental systems, named Maryland’s 2008 professor of the year. Read more in the Summer 2009 issue of UMBC Magazine…

Posted: November 10, 2010, 8:45 PM

Double Threat: Donna Lewis '86

Donna Lewis ’86, English, leads a double life. She earned her law degree at the University of Maryland School of Law in Baltimore and is currently an attorney with the Department of Homeland...

Posted: November 10, 2010, 8:30 PM

Double Threat: Donna Lewis ’86

Donna Lewis ’86, English, leads a double life. She earned her law degree at the University of Maryland School of Law in Baltimore and is currently an attorney with the Department of Homeland...

Posted: November 10, 2010, 8:30 PM

Soldiering On: Michael Graham '84

Last year, after two decades of service, Michael Graham ’84, M.P.S., was thinking about retirement as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Naval Reserves. The Navy, however, had other ideas. Read...

Posted: November 10, 2010, 8:23 PM

Soldiering On: Michael Graham ’84

Last year, after two decades of service, Michael Graham ’84, M.P.S., was thinking about retirement as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Naval Reserves. The Navy, however, had other ideas. Read...

Posted: November 10, 2010, 8:23 PM