Welcome to the Center for Global Engagement
Empowering global connections at UMBC.
Explore opportunities and resources for students, faculty, and partners.
For Students
We offer a variety of programs and services to aid students and scholars in these endeavors:
For Faculty & Staff
We are dedicated to facilitating global academic initiatives through collaboration with faculty and staff:
For Partners
We help partners connect with UMBC through robust collaborations and mutually beneficial programs.
English Language Institute
Develop your English skills with specialized programs and resources.
From UMBC News and Magazine
Nothing but beauty: Noor Zaidi leads an international interfaith team digitizing the history of one of the few shrines to a woman in Islam
The Sayyida Zainab shrine, near Damascus, Syria, is capped by a gold leaf dome atop a building wrapped in interlocking glazed tiles. The aquamarine, gold, amethyst, and brown tiles create...
Posted: July 29, 2026, 9:43 AM
UMBC’s student Fulbright recipients pursue community-driven research on a global stage
UMBC’s 2026 – 2027 recipients of the prestigious Fulbright U.S. Student Program are joining the ranks of UMBC’s distinguished Fulbright alumni, who have made UMBC a three-time Fulbright Top...
Posted: July 27, 2026, 5:10 PM
A global perspective on aging: Alfred Boakye’s gerontology journey from Ghana to Japan and the U.S.
Alfred Boakye first began thinking deeply about the care and well-being of elders and their families while caring for his centenarian grandmother, Margaret Nyarko, in his home city of Tema, on the...
Posted: June 24, 2026, 12:31 PM
A global perspective on aging: Alfred Boakye’s gerontology journey from Ghana to Japan and the U.S.
Alfred Boakye first began thinking deeply about the care and well-being of elders and their families while caring for his centenarian grandmother, Margaret Nyarko, in his home city of Tema, on the...
Posted: June 24, 2026, 12:31 PM
From Baltimore City to Bergen, Norway: Fulbrighter Shanika Freeman ’24 researches the reentry process of women in one of the world’s most humane systems
After Shanika Freeman ’24 walked across the stage, she had something on her mind—basic human rights. For the past four years, Freeman’s research has focused on the reentry experiences of formerly...
Posted: June 4, 2026, 3:16 PM
Zareen Taj earns her Ph.D., publishing the first autoethnography by a Hazara Afghan woman about the ongoing genocide of Hazara women under Taliban rule
This spring on Thursday evenings, students filled room 424 in the Fine Arts building for their Asian Diaspora in Motion: Media, Culture, Identity, and Activism class. At the head of the classroom...
Posted: May 5, 2026, 3:29 PM
UMBC’s Global Learning Lab receives Innovative Excellence in Internationalization Award
The Association of International Education Administrators (AIEA) has awarded UMBC’s Global Learning Lab one of two Innovative Excellence in Internationalization Awards. This award honors creative,...
Posted: March 12, 2026, 10:10 AM
Retrievers gone global: 5 ways UMBC fosters international engagement
As International Education Week 2025 comes to a close, we’ve rounded up a few of the many ways Retrievers engage globally through their work and studies. Even though it has been a particularly...
Posted: November 25, 2025, 1:03 PM
Celebrating the history, evolution, and impact of K-pop culture as represented in ‘KPop Demon Hunters’
Abbie Fakoya is at the front of the room, smiling and encouraging over 40 UMBC faculty, staff, and students to follow her dance steps. Many of the attentive dancers were either new to the...
Posted: November 20, 2025, 9:42 AM
Who is “Fulbright material”? UMBC’s six 2025 – 2026 Fulbright U.S. Student Program recipients share their not-so-secret recipe for success
Alyssa Thomas is more of an “and” person than an “or” person. Growing up in a military family stationed in Florida, Thomas learned flexibility, a sense of curiosity, and a “Why not?” approach to...
Posted: October 7, 2025, 9:08 AM
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