The Counseling Center and Hillel invite our Jewish UMD students to join us for a virtual discussion focused on the impact of physical distancing on mental health, community, and faith and explore ways to reconnect and cope with stress in the current climate. 

In its fourth year, the fair is an interactive event that strives to raise awareness about mental health, promote healthy self-care strategies, reduce stigma surrounding mental illness and help-seeking, and connect participants to the wider community of support available to them.

In this webinar, we will give an overview of the six areas that have the greatest impact on making your online content more accessible.

Join Salvadoran American journalist Roberto Lovato, author of the new book Unforgetting: A memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas for a virtual book talk. 

A live conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates and the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC)

Join Ta-Nehisi Coates of NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute and NLIHC for a conversation on “Racial Equity and Housing Justice during and after COVID-19” on October 6, at 1 pm ET. Be sure to submit questions for Ta-Nehisi through the registration page or via social media using #RacialEquityandCOVID.

The Counseling Center and MICA invite UMD students from the AAPI (Asian-American and Pacific Islander) community to join us for a virtual conversation about coping with stress brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic while facing anti-Asian rhetoric.

Hosted by the Smith School of Business, presented by the LGBT Equity Center, open to all UMD staff, faculty, and students. International Pronouns Day is coming up on October 21, and what an opportunity this is to continue our learning around respecting pronouns in our daily, personal, and professional lives. Shige Sakurai (they/them) will give us a brief overview, a short activity, and an opportunity to ask questions.

This colloquium from the ARHU Dean’s Colloquium Series on Race, Equity and Justice features Marisa Parham, professor of English and director for the African American Digital Humanities initiative (AADHUM), who will discuss African American texts and technologies in her talk, “Purpose, Frivolity, Futures: What, really, is inclusion?”

Join us on October 5th to hear your classmates share their personal experiences with overcoming adversity or discrimination, accepting part of their identity, and the impact that identity has had on their personal or professional lives. It is a safe space where you can share your experience of overcoming hardship. In essence, it’s a ‘coming out’ story but not limited to that. As humans, we learn from each other and this is the perfect way to inspire someone who may feel empowered to make a change in their lives based on a powerful story.

The Counseling Center and Black Student Union invite UMD students from the Black community to a virtual conversation on the various impacts of continued racial injustices towards Black lives in the midst of a pandemic. This event will serve as a space to understand the impact of racial trauma on mental health and to learn ways to cope with race-related stress and daily stressors.