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UMGC and Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA) signed a transfer agreement that will guarantee admission to UMGC for NOVA students.

UMGC’s cybersecurity competition team advanced to the final round of Hack the Building 2.0, a virtual competition sponsored by MISI. UMGC will compete in the Hack the Building 2.0: Hospital Edition, which will be held at the DreamPort technology facility in Columbia, Maryland, from Sept. 18-22.

Nigerian immigrant Adisa Ayegbajeje, who earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree from UMGC, never envisioned a career in healthcare. For most of his adult life in Nigeria, Ayegbajeje worked as a fashion designer. He was doing well until a series of events, notably an economic downturn, impelled him to emigrate to the U.S. in 2002.

Jessica Campbell works as a attendant at a psychiatric hospital in New Jersey. She aspires to make an even greater contribution to people’s lives as a clinical psychologist one day and is closer to that goal now that she has earned a degree in psychology from UMGC.

Chad Mayfield had just finished his first semester at UMGC and four days before Christmas in 2018 he was on the job as a junior traffic technician when he was hit by a car. While recovering from his injuries, Mayfield kept his eye on a degree and this month he is among the UMGC graduates receiving diplomas.

When Sophia Thompson was a child in Jamaica, her family was so destitute that she and her sister sometimes missed school because they had no shoes. Today she marvels at the life she has built in the United States—and how her new B.S. in Cybersecurity Management and Policy from UMGC will continue her upward journey.