Reminder to RSVP for Fall Opening Meeting and Convocation

Please register now for this year’s Fall Opening Meeting, on Thursday, August 22 in the Retriever Activities Center. This is a wonderful chance for faculty and staff to reunite, learn about upcoming campus initiatives, and hear from new students about their journeys to UMBC. Please RSVP today.

We also hope to see you at the 2024 Convocation ceremony, which will be held Tuesday, August 27 at the Chesapeake Employers Insurance Arena at 3:30 p.m. We look forward to welcoming our incoming students and introducing them to UMBC’s traditions. We hope you will march in the procession, where some of our new students will see academic regalia for the first time. Although the deadline for ordering regalia has passed, you may wear your own. 

Those registered for Convocation may also join us for a Welcome Reception for Provost Manfred H. M. van Dulmen, hosted by President Sheares Ashby at 2:30 p.m. in the arena just before the ceremony. Those planning to march in the procession should arrive no later than 3 p.m. The ceremony will begin at 3:30 p.m. 

We look forward to your participation in these community traditions!