Community

UMD offers a variety of global opportunities to the Washington, DC metropolitan area community:

• Learn Chinese and about Chinese culture at the Confucius Institute at Maryland.
• Attend public lectures, or participate in other campus international events and activities, which are offered by a variety of units.
• Subscribe to the online newsletter from the Office of International Affairs, Global UMD.
• Sharpen your existing language skills:
  • The Language Partner Program pairs UMD language majors with campus international students, or language partners, who are native speakers of those languages.
  • The Language House Coffee Conversations provide you with a chance to practice, improve, or maintain your language skills in an informal, relaxed setting.
• Learn more about the the Maryland International Incubator (MI2), a collaboration between UMD’s Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute (MTech) and the Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development (DBED), that connects Maryland and International companies for joint ventures.

Support a UMD global initiative.

• Alternative Breaks
• Engineers Without Borders
• Global Communities
• Global Studies Minor Programs
• Language House
• International Program for Creative Collaboration & Research (Theatre, Dance, & Performance Studies)
• Maryland English Institute
• Peace Corps
• Student Cultural Organizations