Celebrating our May 2021 Returning Women Student Scholar + Affiliate Graduates!

This May the Women's Center has 8 RWS Scholars + Affiliates graduating! Let's celebrate them! #UMBCGrad #UMBCProud

Celebrating our December 2020 Returning Women Student Scholar + Affiliate Graduates!

This December the Women's Center has 7 RWS Scholars + Affiliates graduating! Let's celebrate them!

Celebrating our May 2020 Returning Women Student Scholar Graduates!

A post curated by Women's Center director, Jess Myers. Last week, the Women's Center celebrated our Returning Women Student Scholars + Affiliates graduating this semester at our pinning ceremony. While distance learning in a pandemic has disrupted and cancelled many things over the past semester, we weren't going to let this tradition get cancelled! So,…

Celebrating our December 2019 Returning Women Student Scholar Graduates!

We're excited to have 3 Returning Women Student Scholars graduating this December! Learn more about their journey in this graduation blog! #UMBC #UMBCgrad #UMBCproud

Celebrating our May 2019 Returning Women Student Scholar Graduates!

A post curated by Women's Center director, Jess Myers. Last week, the Women's Center celebrated our Returning Women Student Scholars graduating this semester at our pinning ceremony. This event has become a tradition in the Women’s Center as a means to celebrate our continuing and graduating returning women students who are UMBC students 25 years…

Celebrating our Returning Women Student Scholar Graduates!

A post curated by Women's Center director, Jess Myers. Last week, the Women's Center celebrated our Returning Women Student Scholars graduating this semester at our pinning ceremony. This event has become a tradition in the Women’s Center as a means to celebrate our continuing and graduating returning women students who are UMBC students 25 years…

Who You Came to Be Along the Way: Celebrating Our Returning Women Student Graduates

“As you journey through life, choose your destinations well, but do not hurry there. You will arrive soon enough. Wander the back roads and forgotten paths, keeping your destination in your heart like the fixed point of a compass. Seek out new voices, strange sights, and ideas foreign to your own. Such things are riches…

(No Longer) Returning Women Students: The Final Chapter – Graduation!

On the eve of UMBC’s undergraduate commencement, we are thinking of all the graduating seniors out there who finally made it the finish line. Congrats! We’re especially proud of the graduating students we work with through the Returning Women Students Scholars + Affiliates Program and want to shout your success from the rooftops! Since the…

Graduation: A Decade-Long Journey

A final reflection from Carrie Cleveland as a undergraduate and Women's Center staff member In the fall of 1996, I started my college journey at Douglass College at Rutgers University.  I spent a brief three semesters at Rutgers, mostly floundering around and hating my choice of major (pre-business).  In December of 1997, I left college…

Working Mom: A New Adventure

A blog reflection written by Women's Center student staff member, Carrie Cleveland For the past ten years I have not had a paying job.  For the past ten years I have been home raising children.  For the past ten years my boss (or bosses) were little people who required me to tend to their every need. That is not…