Join the Counseling Center on a ride through this year’s virtual Self-Care Drive-Thru! Start your weekend fun early by checking out our self-care breakout rooms. Whether you want to check out the relaxation station, get up and dance, or play some games, there’s something for everyone!

UMD's Center for Literary and Comparative Studies is welcoming the graphic novelist Victor LaValle and 2019 English Honors BA Kian Kelley-Chung for a conversation about storytelling and Black Lives Matter. Professor Rion Amilcar Scott will moderate. This is part of the center's antiracism series.

In this virtual depression screening event, you will meet one-on-one with a counselor to take a brief online depression assessment and talk through the results. Stop by to learn more about your mental health, find ways to help a friend, or get some information about the Counseling Center.

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. 

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.

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.

Once you’ve decided on your site’s target audience(s), it’s time to design the site with their needs in mind. We’ll explore infusing your company’s site with your unique company brand personality through content and design to guarantee positive user experience. We’ll also look at the nuances of a mobile site/app design to assure a frictionless interaction.

Join campus experts to discuss critical race theory and how is it used as a tool of resistance in higher education.