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

Over Coffee – Fall 2010

It’s no surprise that an Honors University in Maryland has a chapter of America’s longest-lived and most prestigious academic honor society. But hosting a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa (PBK), founded...

Posted: September 24, 2010, 12:48 PM

How to be a Pottery Detective

With Esther Read, Field Archaeologist So you’re digging a garden in your backyard, and all of a sudden the point of your trowel hits something hard. You poke around a little more, brush the soil...

Posted: September 21, 2010, 8:22 PM

Discovery – Fall 2010

PLAYING WITH TYRE As the lights dim to signal the commencement of the UMBC Theatre Department’s production of William Shakespeare’s Pericles, Prince of Tyre, the audience doesn’t quite know what...

Posted: September 21, 2010, 8:19 PM

At Play – Fall 2010

MAKING THE GRADE Points on the scoreboard aren’t the only ones that UMBC’s women’s basketball team is scoring. Team members are also racking up the grade points. The team was recognized by the...

Posted: September 21, 2010, 8:16 PM

An Elemental Education

Spend a semester inside UMBC’s pioneering Chemistry Discovery Center and you’ll find that its successes are rooted in teamwork – and two hours a week without Twitter and Twinkies. By Ann...

Posted: September 21, 2010, 8:10 PM

Renaissance Man

Renaissance Man James Grubb, professor of history, has been named the Lipitz Professor of the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences for the 2010-2011 academic year. Grubb is an expert on...

Posted: September 15, 2010, 4:00 AM

Video: How to be a Pottery Detective

[Video] From UMBC Magazine Fall 2010, How to be a Pottery Detective, featuring Ester Read. Video by Jenny O’Grady.

Posted: September 13, 2010, 6:30 PM

Video: How to Tell the Difference…

[Video] From UMBC Magazine Summer 2011: How to Tell the Difference Between Alumna/us/ae/i. Video by Jenny O’Grady.

Posted: September 13, 2010, 6:27 PM

In Demand

Shriver 2010 Interns Learn how some UMBC students spent their summer engaged in applied learning. Kola Bakre Intern Erickson Retirement Communities – Charlestown, Catonsville,...

Posted: September 8, 2010, 4:00 AM

Winning Season

Winning Season After competing in three international Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) events this year, UMBC finished in second place for the 2010 season. The UMBC Baja team is the number...

Posted: August 31, 2010, 4:00 AM